You seem to have missed a key point Sapientia: "we assume that there is something which was meant". Minds are the things which make assumptions, so "w...
The appearance of a thing charging me is the appearance of a thing charging me. It could kill me. This thing affects me, how does that produce the log...
Ever heard of God? Human judgements are fallible, God's are not. What your example here demonstrates, is that there is no truth without God. There may...
Your understanding of categorical separation is incompatible with mine. To me, if things are separated categorically, there is no crossing over or in ...
The point was, that this "the world" is something which is produced, and assumed by us. We assume that there is something out there which exists indep...
I don't think that it is the case that "interpretation" implies necessarily that there is a truth to that which is interpreted. Since we live in a wor...
Don't you think that we mostly assume that there is some kind of "truth" which is beyond our interpretations? So despite the way we interpret things, ...
Where I live, using the phone is involved in more fatal accidents than alcohol. The statistic for alcohol is far less than 80%. Is this supposed to be...
Here's the difficulty right here. Let's say that the author intended to write all the symbols exactly as they appear on the paper. That is exactly wha...
Now my point, Andrew M. Appeals to identity do not support the real existence of the apple. "Identity" claims, asserts, or presupposes existence, but ...
I don't agree with this. A categorical separation is not a distinction of co-dependency or complementary limits. The opposing terms, which describe th...
That's not their meaning though, that the writer wrote the symbols in a certain way. The meaning is not the "way" that they are written, because this ...
Isn't that switching categories though? If we put a thing into a context of other things, to validate its existence, isn't it a category error to atte...
The "existence" of the particle is validated by its context, within the apparatus. The "existence" of the apparatus is validated by placing it within ...
Fair enough. If you read my earlier posts, I suggested we could question the existence of the "particle", just like we can question the existence of o...
Complementarity applies to the attributes of an object. To say, as you did, 'there is no particle travelling through the apparatus" is to say that the...
Ok. so let's assume that there is no particle, I'm cool with that. Isn't that what you say here, "there is no particle"? Wait a minute, I thought the ...
When one refers to "the apple", that individual is referring to a particular instance of temporal continuity in which the similitude of an apple is of...
My time spent working, earning a living, is a significant part of my life. If that hugely significant portion of my life was not somehow making a cont...
Your claim though, is that to not choose, which is actually to exercise the will power, (and this is often necessary to resist the temptation of makin...
A fictitious explanation is even easier than a fictitious description, because empirical evidence relates directly to the description, not the explana...
You don't seem to understand Agustino, that to resist the temptation to choose is just as much an act of willing as it is to choose freely. This we ca...
If you read my posts, what I contest is the assumption that the particle, or any object in general exists. To talk about any paths of the object is po...
It is an either-or, you're just in denial. You're claiming that the only possible starting point for meaningful discussion, is the premise that things...
I think the issues with QM, especially the MWI, indicate quite clearly that things do not exist in the same way "that most reasonable people" think th...
Great, thanks B.C., I like that one, think I'll use it on regular basis to attack all the mediocrity in the world. Because you are lukewarm I will spi...
I don't think this is true. Our memories are often inaccurate, especially concerning things distant in time. It's as if we tend to remember things the...
Let me explain very slowly and carefully then. There's a bunch of symbols written on a piece of paper. These symbols could mean absolutely anything. F...
You're sick, and so is Kierkegaard if he really believed that is better to take bad action than to take no action at all. Don't you think that an evil...
Clearly spite does not necessitate that one seeks to harm another. However, it is to wish that the other does meet harm, and that's why it's called an...
Unless the described action is actually good, it makes no sense to refer to it as "infinitely better". Since "spite" is not good, you could have claim...
But in my post, I questioned the existence of all objects, so referring to molecules doesn't change anything. It is likely that the appearance of an o...
By being one of them? He would have accused them of rigging the election. Actually, he already asserted that the election was rigged, so what does tha...
OK, I gave you my explanation, concerning the nature of statements and symbols. What more do you want? One meaning of the word "statement" is to use i...
When one of the members of the discussion is claiming that the only important thing about the things being discussed is that which is not obvious, par...
You asked me to answer the question, that I did. I also gave you the reasons for my answer. if you wanted an argument you should have asked for it. Th...
OK, so let's take imaginary numbers for example. I think that this is a convention which is disputable. You seem to think otherwise. Therefore it woul...
OK, let's assume that you've created a proper equivalency here. Let's say that conventions which are universally agreed upon are necessarily of one ca...
You forgot one important option. Is the photon real? The option is not that QM is necessarily false, the option is that the interpretation of the phot...
That's true, but what I was pointing to was the importance of sameness, as the basis of equality, as a moral principle. Sameness is an assumed absolut...
So are you saying that things which we take for granted are insignificant and trivial? I think the opposite is the case. The things we take for grante...
All material existence can be reduced to potential. The concept of energy does this. If this is reality, that all material existence is simply potenti...
I don't think that's the case, as I don't think that difference and similarity can be properly opposed such as to have co-dependent or reciprocal rela...
Yes, it depended on a mind to be produced, written on the paper, and without a mind to read and interpret it in the future, it is just symbols on the ...
I don't imply that the difference is unimportant, what I imply is that the similarity is more important than the difference. Therefore I thought Wayfa...
We know that mathematical conventions come into existence. There was a time when there was no zero, no algebra, no calculus. So it's not true to say t...
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