Metaphysician Undercover

I don't think so AS. Cream is fat, oil, and that floats. Therefore the cream rises to the top.

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I think the consciousness does act causally, with the measured physical system, necessarily so. This is done through the measuring tool. The tool is c...

That is the case according to the precepts of relativity theory, as a result of Einstein's principle known as the relativity of simultaneity. If we re...

The problem though is that cosmological physics uses a conception of time based in relativity theory, i.e. relative time. This means that there must b...

That's right, it's exactly what I said. We don't see time flowing, nor do we sense it in any way, we infer it logically. Then from visible evidence we...

The will of a "faction" is a "general will". It is not a "particular will". So in one sentence after the other, you have granted what you explicitly d...

We know that time 'flows' absent of human awareness, because we see evidence of it. We see evidence that things were changing (therefore time was flow...

I'm not interested in knowing the author, only in reading the material. However, if it was someone recruited through The Philosophy Forum, who has bee...

I guess so too, because I know that if I did something like that I'd be considered a criminal. I mean, you sign for something criminal, then later cla...

I didn't say anything about an "Unrelated thing". I find that idea incomprehensible.

That's not really true. English is technically Germanic, as being rooted that way historically, but the Latin influence over time is so significant th...

The revolt of the states has already been underway for quite some time. The capacity for individual states to decide their own laws on most issues, is...

Five percent, that must have been a minor influence. Are you publishing the solution, so the rest of us can see where we were barking up the wrong tre...

This idea is easily refuted, therefore you ought to be able to reject it without difficulty. Through observation, the reality of time manifests as mot...

I'm afraid it doesn't really work that way, there's too many glitches. At the north pole for example, every direction is south. Adding dimensions into...

Where there's smoke, there's bacon. Is that a fire by the pig's rump?

I believe the problem is that there is no difference between future and the past in the B-series, while the A-series presupposes a difference between ...

Are you suggesting cave-swine?

I think that what says in this post, is that the truth of the B-series would render the A-series impossible, and vise versa. This means that the two a...

Sure, but the question is which of the two is used to speak the truth. And if it's neither the A-series nor the B-series, then it's time for a new lan...

Nothing, because it was not an allowable expense. That's why it's fraud, he recorded it as "legal expenses", when it was a personal payment. For examp...

I think you need to differentiate between primary substance and secondary substance. A particular, individual thing, as a material object, is an insta...

It's probably the first time in history that anyone has recorded hush money as legal fees. Fraudsters are known to be very creative in their efforts t...

Fraud, black and white. Many would go to jail for such a crime.

I see no mention of maple syrup. Where is the sweetness of your make believe family?

That's the inverse of my understanding of a soap opera, showing extraordinary stuff with bad actors.

Of course there is something to be gained here, because if we assume a boundary, then knowledge would be gained by understanding the nature of that bo...

The issue is with the proposed analogous term, "window". The term characterizes the senses in a descriptive way. So we can ask, is the description acc...

The pun guyz are still tripping.

The point though, is that if this is the case, then the Kantian distinction cannot be maintained. If the senses are affected by the things sensed, the...

Can I ask, what defines this difference for you, that is the difference between a difference in kind and a difference of degree. I would say, for exam...

That's a simple difference of opinion. But it's actually very significant in metaphysical implications.

I don't know. It's information not available to us by our current models of time. It's simply written off as a part of reality which is unintelligible...

I don't strictly adhere to Kantian principles, so I left Kant on the last post or two. I grant to appearance, more content. I referred to Kant more as...

The principal point of my last post was to demonstrate that these two are not linked. There is what I called a gap of information between them. This i...

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What? You would actually judge some of Trumps actions on a scale of evil rather than on a scale of greatness? Isn't everything a negotiating tactic fo...

I don't quite understand this. The arrow of time, in this representation, moves from ontological possibility (future) to ontological actuality (past)....

The issue, is that we tend to extend "the world" beyond the limits of our interactions. That is what makes us want to say "I am in the world", in stea...

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"War on Drugs", Nixon. Been there, done that. We now know, without a doubt. that the real way to address drug abuse is from the demand side, not the s...

How about a pig snorting coke?

Why would you make "reality can be truly known" a condition of the preferred attitude? What principles would support this?

I believe this is what Hume does as well, so it must have been a trend at that time. Hume seems to reduce ideas, to sense impressions as the fundament...

So, what's the plan, the drug traffickers will be discouraged by the prospect of tariffs?

There is a number of different senses of "possibility" recognized by philosophers, the principle distinction being between logical and ontological (me...

I think you misunderstand, "the world" is as interpreted. Therefore the world of the happy person is a completely different world from from the world ...

Didn't Trump say that the tariffs were imposed in an effort to cut down the flow of fentanyl?

Here's a couple things to consider. I don't understand your use of "logical possibility". I would not say it is best represented this way. That was ju...