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In yor mid, what is the "matter hypothesis"?
February 03, 2025 at 00:15
No wonder I didn't understand. There was no contradictory claim. Both. I have no idea how your example is supposed to demonstrate the point you claim....
February 02, 2025 at 15:56
The Shoutbox is where I come when I'm to drunk to know what's goin on. Thanks for the empathy.
February 02, 2025 at 03:32
I don't think so. I think time passing is what causes things to move. I'm talking about time as the thing which is measured. A clock for example, cons...
February 01, 2025 at 22:52
Yes, I think that is the endeavour of skepticism, to call into question the very foundation of science. And, the skeptic will reveal that science does...
February 01, 2025 at 14:49
Well, if you want to get fussy, a brain itself is a material thing, so by that premise alone, it doesn't make sense to think of a brain in a nonmateri...
January 31, 2025 at 23:02
That's true, but I think the issue of skepticism is better represented as questioning whether things are as they seem to be. The conception of "matter...
January 31, 2025 at 13:16
To be more specific, it is Einstein's principle of the "relativity of simultaneity", which allows time to be the fourth dimension of space. This provi...
January 31, 2025 at 12:57
My spidey sense is tingling, something evil is underway here. Your senses don't tell you "I'm picking up a cat", that is a form of interpretation, don...
January 30, 2025 at 13:28
This is why we do scientific experiments. We poke and prod the thing and see how it responds. But this raises the following question. If it is true th...
January 30, 2025 at 11:47
Spatial movements are what make 'the concept' of time necessary. But don't you believe that there is something real which the concept represents? This...
January 30, 2025 at 03:03
I didn't say that he lays out a new theory. I said that by adhering to the Aristotelian (traditional) principles, for understanding "matter", he shows...
January 29, 2025 at 13:10
The quote you provided seems to agree with me. Berkeley was criticizing the 'new' conception of matter. And he did this by falling back onto a more Ar...
January 29, 2025 at 03:31
This is an interesting perspective. But I tend to apprehend spatial features of a body as formal rather than material. Spatial features tend to be the...
January 29, 2025 at 01:57
That's why begging the question is known as an "informal fallacy".
January 28, 2025 at 14:25
To understand this "what difference would it make...", we need to get a good grasp of the philosophical concept itself, "matter"; that being the conce...
January 28, 2025 at 14:19
No word games on my part. As I said, both, past and future are present to the mind as "the present". That is the reason for the need for a two dimensi...
January 28, 2025 at 04:12
To me, thinking that such a premise is true, just demonstrates a lack of understanding of Berkeley, as Wayfarer has already (very competently, I might...
January 27, 2025 at 14:29
I told you, the future is present to the mind as desire, anticipation, and such emotions which influence us in relation to the future. It is not prese...
January 27, 2025 at 03:30
You are neglecting a key point, the need to have truthful premises, in order for the conclusion to be sound. The desire for truth of the premises must...
January 27, 2025 at 01:18
Why not? The motive of refutation is obvious, even explicit, "I refute it thus". And the premise you stated "1. If Berkeley were right, *this* would n...
January 26, 2025 at 14:43
We already discussed this. The "now" of the present cannot be an extensionless point in time, for the reasons we discussed. Therefore it must be a dur...
January 26, 2025 at 14:29
I think the issue is that premise #1 is wrong, false for the reason explained by Wayfarer. Since that premise is false, and obviously just intentional...
January 25, 2025 at 13:41
Jesus became "truly" known as Son of God after Saul/Paul had the epiphany on the road to Damascus, which led him to realize that he could quell the di...
January 25, 2025 at 12:38
Oh, I missed this. I did answer this question already. The evidence of the nonphysical is the existence of activities which are contrary to, or cannot...
January 25, 2025 at 03:01
This is not true. I also recognized, and have explained, why we "wake up" in the non-empirical present, just as much as we "wake up" in the empirical ...
January 25, 2025 at 02:26
I think we already went through this. If by "empirically" you mean through sense observation, then "no", because everything observed through sensation...
January 23, 2025 at 02:03
No, I was describing the two dimensions of the present. Since future and past are distinct dimensions of time, and they overlap at the present, the pr...
January 22, 2025 at 15:11
Hooray for the Dickens!
January 21, 2025 at 18:08
This is intriguing. The phone is so easily lost, and you cannot have a find my phone app on the phone, because you would need the phone to use it. How...
January 21, 2025 at 12:02
This doesn't really answer the question. Finding out that there was a being with intention involved in the creation of a thing doesn't provide "the in...
January 21, 2025 at 11:50
Paralysis is a physical condition. I've never heard of, or seen. anyone actually paralyzed by doubt. I know that indecision can lead to emotional dist...
January 21, 2025 at 01:29
Pretty much "yes" to everything here, but some of the questions aren't really clear enough to answer with confidence. Edit: I say that passing time is...
January 20, 2025 at 22:45
You haven't stated this quite right. We have to say at T1 the photon is at position X, and at T2 the photon is at position Y. What is at issue, is tha...
January 20, 2025 at 14:16
But self-indulgence requires actually indulging oneself doesn't it? This is how art gets really weird, when the supposed self-indulgence is not an ind...
January 20, 2025 at 02:31
Not necessarily. Think of something produced mechanically in a factory for example. We trace the composition of the thing, and the closest we get to t...
January 20, 2025 at 02:10
We will act, and do act, regardless of the knowledge we have. Therefore the primary criteria for wisdom is not the capacity to enable acts with truth ...
January 20, 2025 at 01:44
How could two quarks collide in the time between T1 and T2 because the change form quark to quark, anti-quark pair, already takes up all that time, an...
January 20, 2025 at 00:58
Notice here, that you describe the skeptic as having two conflicting intentions. One is to tear down, and the other to construct. Since these two are ...
January 19, 2025 at 14:31
So, how is imposing massive tariffs on imports supposed to make prices go down?
January 19, 2025 at 13:31
That sort of absurdism, making a show out of how rich you are, showing off with freakish displays of extravagance is really disgusting. I may never be...
January 19, 2025 at 13:23
Self-indulgence is the essence of art and creativity in general. If art is simply self-indulgence, then "getting away with it" is the matter of tastef...
January 19, 2025 at 03:05
You asked a question concerning the psychology of committing oneself to a belief in determinism. And I answered that question the best I could, explai...
January 19, 2025 at 01:56
What about the "hate" though? Didn't you agree that this is what it is all about? And isn't this a feeling? Aren't the form of those cool guitar riffs...
January 18, 2025 at 16:39
Often, the purpose of an object, and even sometimes, that it was created for a purpose, does not become evident until after the object has existed for...
January 18, 2025 at 16:11
I'd put the first paragraph last. Start right into your project at the outset, so he can decide if he's interested or not, then provide the boring int...
January 18, 2025 at 12:37
Well, isn't that what heavy metal is all about? If you can define the key features, "the essence" of heavy metal, then we could judge the material as ...
January 18, 2025 at 12:12
You seem to have neglected a very important aspect of causation ("why a state of reality is the way it is"), and that is "intention". Why does a baseb...
January 18, 2025 at 11:46
You ask me a psychological question, concerning the difference between believing in freewill, and believing in determinism, and how this might affect ...
January 17, 2025 at 23:00
Generally speaking, people live under the illusion that they have control over their phones, and the paranoia that if they install it into their brain...
January 17, 2025 at 12:56