Metaphysician Undercover

The point it that the cases are irrelevant to the question at hand.

What counts as cognition, is being aware of, and this leads us to perception, sensation, and the external objects. That is what I've argued for the en...

There's no shortage of prejudice in the wold. And you demonstrate it well. Unless another's belief feels right to you, you deem it absurd nonsense. Te...

Language is required to recognize other people? My cat recognizes me. My dog recognizes me. What does language have to do with recognition? Language i...

So back to the other question then, is there change, or motion, without human beings? If change, or motion is real, and independent of human beings, h...

Still skeptical, and you cannot say that feeding a child, and providing the necessities of life is not "significant interaction with others". That is ...

Do you think that the philosophy taught in universities is just "personal opinions"? If so, couldn't we say that the science taught in universities is...

I think that Mormons believe Jesus came back from heaven and settled in North America with his followers. Perhaps they know where his remains are.

This doesn't make sense to me, there can't be any time passing unless there is someone making off instants. How would someone act to mark off instants...

Do you have any respect for philosophy whatsoever Terrapin?

Do you think the idea that concepts are nonphysical existents, is incoherent? Why then is this idea taught to us in university, in philosophy classes?...

So I take it that instants are irrelevant to the passing of time then, time passes regardless of whether human beings mark off instants. Then the foll...

I'm very skeptical about any such experimentation. Wouldn't that be harsh cruelty, punishable by law, to keep a child locked away, and only show up wi...

I didn't say that we don't take "seems to me" as a preliminary, I said we don't take it as justification. Now it seems to me, like you haven't produce...

You can't just dismiss the possibility of a soul, by saying it seems to be highly unlikely. You may be one who lives your life making decisions based ...

Let me see if I understand what you say here. Movement is made up of instants. The passing of time is a type of movement, occurring across instants. T...

Yes, you can do this. You can put all existing things together in one category, and call this "existence". But don't you see that this is a conception...

How does the flower transcend the seed? Isn't it more likely that the seed actually transcends the flower?

Why would you say this? It appears like very little is known about the actual process whereby Jesus was resurrected. Much that is said about this appe...

I can understand why you say that the series of nows is incorrect. The now is an assumed point which we use to mark the beginning and end of a period ...

This would not be too accurate, because rather than the mental state of the speaker, the sign indicates what the speaker wants, or more precisely, wha...

Is there a third option? Jesus' resurrection is a true story which doesn't transcend the laws of nature? In this case, a misunderstanding of either th...

Sorry Marty, if I've confused you. I didn't mean "categorical error", I meant "category mistake". The PSR says that for every existing thing, there is...

That's the difficulty I have. If the present is conceived of as specific moments, how does this become eternal? If we define "the present" in relation...

I am not too comfortable with this position, as it creates the complete disunity within the concept of "sign", which was briefly alluded to. This, is/...

Are you saying that Derrida misrepresents Husserl when he says things like this: "Let us pursue our reading. Every expression would therefore be gripp...

I don't see your point. We sense differences around us. We single out one thing as separate from its surrounding, and say that this individuated thing...

Do you mean Derrida wants to argue this?

This is what I see as the principal issue, and the answer depends on how clearly, or ambiguously, one defines these terms, expression, indication, sig...

That's a good question, but it is only by assuming the reality of free will, or at least giving it the status of being a logical possibility, that we ...

I assume you realize that it would be impossible to observe , or prove, empirically, such a violation of causal closure. It would just appear like an ...

Hi Punshhh, Do you mean the past and future are there also?

Right, but if the moment of the present is to be truly eternal, it cannot partake in either of the two parts of time, future or past. See, we can cons...

We use "existence" as a noun, to refer to an individual's existence, as if it were a thing separate from the individual, saying that the person has a ...

Yes, this is good reason why we should "argue with science". Spacetime is a synthetic concept, produced through the synthesis of the previously separa...

Things have existence, it's an attribute, a property of things, they exist. When we abstract the property from the thing, to talk about the property i...

Ok, so prior to symmetry-breaking there must be symmetry? Now which is the method, and which is the world? If symmetry is the maths and modeling of th...

My apologies Wayfarer, for any misrepresentation, it was kind of an over-simplification. But I still don't see any real support for the claim that the...

I am only proceeding now according to your assumptions. You claimed that time, and change are emergent. "Emergent" implies that they emerged from some...

So how would change emerge then? Doesn't emergence imply change, such that if something was emerging, change was already occurring? If time and change...

Michael, how is saying that there must be a fundamental thing from which macroscopic objects are composed, therefore I assume the existence of such a ...

I've told you this before, to say time is emergent is oxymoronic. To emerge requires time, so things only emerge if there already is time. This means ...

That is why we are better off to refer to this as a first cause, rather than an uncaused cause, because of these semantic nuances. I do not like to re...

Yeah sure, we're on opposing sides of the issue, because I'm convinced, and you're stubborn. Look, you place "final cause", as the end of change. But ...

When you define the fist cause as eternal, and mean by "eternal" a beginningless, or unending time, then the first cause becomes beginningless and unc...

Yes, I agree, that was Aristotle's solution to the issue raised by the refutation of Pythagorean idealism, i.e., the cosmological argument. Aristotle ...

What do you mean by "seamlessly variant"? Perhaps that's an oxymoron? Anyway, the way that we understand such a reality, is descriptions which apply a...

Why must God be beginningless and uncaused? What we have, is a cause which is not within the realm of physical existence, because it is the cause of p...

As I explained to apokrisis, if you take a process perspective, the same problem arises with respect to change in motion, acceleration. If at one mome...

I don't see the issue, it's straight deductive reasoning, based on inductive premises. First, things which have a beginning have a cause. To dispute t...