It is an internal activity of the thing which is sensing. Therefore the thing which is doing the sensing, the sensing being, is necessarily active. Ho...
This where you're wrong, sensing is not passive. There is an enormous quantity of activity occurring within the human body which constitutes sensing. ...
Yes I agree, that is the nature of a representation. Where we seem to disagree, is on whether or not something can be a representation, i.e. exist as ...
We are not talking about meaning though, we are talking about representations. A representation is a relationship between things. Relationships betwee...
To express the general form is not to express the "perfect form". That is a mistake. It is to express what each and every one of the particulars has i...
OK, so I assume that without a person to name the stuff, there is nothing there, no "objective stuff"? Or, do I assume that the objective stuff is the...
OK, let's start with this premise, there is just one concrete thing, the world. Now, in your last repy to me, you said "all truths are equal, dependin...
By that logic, then there's no drywall, or 90 degree angles, or anything nameable without someone there naming it. But surely these things are there, ...
This appears to be a problem. Do you recognize the fundamental distinction between a correspondence theory of truth, and a coherence theory of truth. ...
Why would you say that? A spark can only cause a fire if there is fuel. Cold temperatures can only cause ice if there is water. Sensing only causes th...
Why not? Explain yourself. Do you think that if something was "made to be" a house, it doesn't exist as a house without someone thinking of it as a ho...
Here's where your problem lies. There is a distinct difference between the "truth" concerning the mathematics of prediction, and the "truth" concernin...
Can't you read? I'm not positioning the seen cat within the sensing being. I am positioning the sensation of the cat within the being, and saying that...
When a person draws something as a representation, it was intended by that person to be a representation, and so it exists as a representation, accord...
So what? Isn't a real maple leaf just a particular instance of the generalized form of the maple leaf? What is the difference between you drawing a re...
What the hell is a potential child? If we made every potential child become an actual, existent child, wouldn't the earth be so overrun with children ...
As I said, these crude visualizations cannot provide one with an understanding of the concepts. These are simply symbols. A depiction of symbols is in...
I didn't say that the act of sensing is the cause of the cat. You claimed that the cat is the cause of the sensation of the cat ("the present cat is t...
Try this jkop. Say "I am sensing". This means that the subject "I" is engaged in the activity of sensing. This act produces sensation, perhaps the see...
This is the issue with morality in general. It's debatable whether we are forced into acting morally, or we choose to do so. I don't think anyone woul...
Yes, the living being causes the existence of the sense organs, and sense organs cause the perception. So the perception has a "cause", to this extent...
The problem is, that these images don't adequately represent concepts which cannot be represented by images, so all they're doing is making an appeal ...
, do you recognize that the drawing of the maple leaf you have presented to me is a particular? You have presented it to me as a representation of the...
As I said, it would be something you discuss, and choose together, as husband and wife. It is not your choice, it is not her choice, that's how that t...
Why do you see a matter of choice as oppression and abuse? Yeah, you go ahead and force your genes upon your wife in a non-consensual way, after all, ...
So you've rendered all forms of thought as intuitive. There is no distinction for you between things known intuitively and things known by reason? Whe...
If such genetic manipulation was the norm in our society, and something you and your spouse could choose as an option, it would just be one more thing...
If the fault is hereditary then so be it, a fact is a fact. Face up to the facts instead of being insulted. You might be a good lay, and good at other...
I don't see this point. When your wife points out a fault which you have, which is truly, in her eyes a fault, in other words she truly believes that ...
As I said, I really don't know what you mean by intuitive. My dictionary defines intuition as "immediate apprehension by the mind without reasoning". ...
I don't see how such a claim is tenable. We understand many things through the means of logic, and logic is not intuitive. But the point was, the demo...
So what are you saying, that the ordering of numbers, and mathematical formulae in general, are intelligible, but because they are not spatial, they c...
Right, so this is contrary to your claim: "abstract forms are intelligible only insofar as they can be converted into visualizable forms". The fact is...
As I said earlier, I really don't know what you mean by "logical space". Anyway, as I explained earlier, number is intelligible as order, and not nece...
We are talking about intelligible objects, ideas and concepts. A form in the way that you use "form" is an intelligible object. But it appears like yo...
What about those chemical washes though? Is it not true that we can substantially alter these chemicals washes by choice? And if we take those drugs w...
No. that's the thing, you are not allowing the form to exist separately from the material object which it is the form of. We know that the form of the...
My dog patrols my property. I own the property, but that is an arrangement made with other human beings. My dog knows, with a very high degree of cert...
I don't see your point. When the engineer creates something in thought, sense data is used. When my mind creates my experience sense data is used. Whe...
Being non-material, these forms are understood to be non-spatial. And as I explained, being prior to material objects, implies a temporal relation. I ...
Right, just like human beings merely structure the elements around us, they don't actually create any trains or cars or computers. Your answer is a fa...
I believe all forms of priority are reducible to temporal priority. If logic proves that X is necessary for Y, and therefore prior to Y, then Y cannot...
But what determines optimal characteristics of the species? The characteristics of the species seem to be defined by a sort of average, what is normal...
This capacity in birds is utterly amazing; so much so, that I think there must be more to it than simple triangulation. Bird watchers have cell-phone ...
The theory is described well in Plato's Theaetetus, if I remember correctly. At that time in history, the nature of light, and how we see, was not at ...
You imply that there is such a thing as the perfect body. You also speak of our capacities. I assume that the perfect body would in some way have perf...
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