Metaphysician Undercover

This work explores, and expands Aristotelian concepts such as matter, form, potential, actual, the four types of causation. Without a prior understand...

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I don't see the logic here at all. Why does being an object entail being more than an object? Why must a thing be more than what it is? Since a subjec...

Wait, you're making objects into subjects, or vise versa, which is the case? A subject is an aspect of your experience, how an object appears within y...

So the point now, is that physical change requires a Planck time duration, but we can still conceive of a time period shorter than this. In this time ...

Well, time is just duration, so every change requires a duration of time which is appropriate to that change. Now, imagine a period of time which is a...

So why do you say "time itself" makes no sense then? Can't we conceive of the backdrop without the events in the foreground?

Well, you haven't answered the question, how does it get up to speed, so that it can start slowing down? A wind up toy accelerates rapidly until it re...

But doesn't morality deal with attempting to control such instincts? Don't we determine that some instincts are not good, so we attempt to curb them, ...

Well, I would say then, that time is passing incredibly slow right now, if the temperature is only 2.725 degrees above absolute zero, because when tim...

What do you mean by "intuition"?

That's a damn cold universe! If this is the current temperature, and the passing of time is the universe cooling, and the temperature limit is absolut...

That's the whole point though, what we see as "the sun rising" is not a true external reality. You keep insisting that it is, refusing to face the rea...

Change in the rate of change is observed empirically, it is known as acceleration. You may be right, it may not make sense logically, and that's why p...

What if it's jumping around in a totally inconsistent manner, one moment here, the next moment over there, then somewhere else, etc.. How could this t...

Very strange.

I don't think it is important, or productive, to attempt to class philosophers in this way, idealist, materialist, and such, because this is to place ...

I think that the point here is to outline what exactly expression could be. It seems to be imagination, a sort of fiction, so it takes the form of the...

The chapter begins with a renewed examination of the distinction between indication and expression. Derrida refers to a double reduction. First the re...

I know, I've read it twice already before really apprehending anything. But a few things are now actually starting to come through. I'll go back and t...

Your brain in a vat example does not cast doubt on whether or not there is an external world. There is still the need for your "powerful scientist" fe...

I suppose it's my turn to do the summarization, so unless anyone else has a strong desire to do that, I'll volunteer.

OK, I'll follow you lead then, and start with the assumption that all words refer to the same thing.

Mine's not unsupported, they are different words, therefore there is no indication that they refer to the same thing. Unless there is some indication ...

I like this representation. That's the continuity which appears to be so important to Husserl. And I think Husserl conceives of a similar continuity b...

One is "matter + its dynamic situatedness with respect to other matter". The other is "the world". I see that these are two distinct titles. You someh...

OK Matter, and "the world". Two things, necessity of dualism.

This is what you did say. I take the word "since" to imply "by reason of". Therefore the logical argument is implied that if something supervenes it i...

OK, so you're making everything into a "system", a whole, things and interactions between things, and saying that the "system", or whole is physical. ...

If "supervenes" is meant to suggest that the relation follows the physical things, as a result, or effect of their existence, this is a false premise....

Correct, and what carries out this act of relating other than a human mind? You know, A and B cannot be related to each other unless something actual ...

The thread questions "objectivity". You seem to think that consistency in observation is synonymous with "objective". I've demonstrated that consisten...

Right, and I don't believe that these things, relationships between individual things, are properties of the things themselves. How could they be? A r...

What is time then? I didn't mean "absolute energy", what I meant is the absolute which is called "energy". According to the principles of special rela...

It can be argued, that whatever is perceived, sensed, is necessarily in the past, by the time the perception of it has occurred. So there is a clear r...

I know, I'm just joking around. Take a famous line literally and see where you can go with it... I think that this is self-contradictory. The "quantum...

Right, we cannot measure good, because we don't know exactly what it is, but that doesn't mean there is no such thing. If entropy is a way of measurin...

Not necessarily, because as I pointed out in my post, to some, that there is an ideal, or absolute purpose, is an incoherent idea. So for these indivi...

Well, I think there is a problem here, because "good" is qualitative, and we cannot measure any quality unless we know what it actually is that we are...

But is entropification a real regularity, or is it just a function of the way that human beings interpret the properties of a given object. In other w...

There are a number of different ways in which "good" is used, related but not the same. Here, the thing which has worked, in the past, is called good,...

I'm just stating the reality as I've observed it. So the point in suggesting that there is intention, motivation, or purpose, in these non-human, yet ...

Well it would be quite odd to think of entropy as an intentional act. It seems like the opposite of intentional to me, what happens when intention doe...

This is a problem. If intention is not something natural then it must transcend nature. This makes the good, as the thing which is intended, into some...

It could be considered, that what we have here is two distinct conceptions of "the present", playing against each other. First we have the punctual "n...

I think it is the difference, or relation between this non-presence, and the present itself which is supposed to be responsible for the flow of time.

I got up to ch2 free then I had to buy it.

The discussion appears to have stagnated, so I'll share some thoughts. Please feel free to question any of these ideas. In ch4, Derrida presented "sig...

Exactly, that's why I said it's a dead end, and earlier, that it's somewhat naïve. The rejection you refer to is just that, a rejection, it is not an ...

This is the dead end of immanence, that the "field of immanence" must be attributed to a self. It is quite obvious that such a "field" goes far beyond...