The majority of your thread I apprehend as an irrelevant rant, so I'll skip it and get right to the point. The moon exists, and the earth exists, so s...
Infinite density of time. What could that possibly mean? "Density" implies two distinct substances, as a ratio (weight per volume for example). Are yo...
Why do you want to turn this into a discussion about the shortcomings of language, rather than sticking to the subject? Everyone knows that language h...
Do you think that "relation" requires communication? if one thing affects another, for example, there is a relation between them. Communication is not...
I don't understand this. My OED defines "relation" as what a thing has to do with another. If you believe that a thing is not just an idea (don't you?...
This is not an issue of the validity of the logic, it is an issue of the truth or falsity of the premise. The premise year is a description, and any e...
I think that the is a very good approach, the differences, and similarities, of "purpose" and "meaning". Both are closely related to intention, but in...
The law of identity in its historical form is ontological, not mathematical. Mathematics might have its own "law of identity", based in what you call ...
Blah, blah, blah., so much hot air. Show us your evidence. Fishfry showed me years that there is no necessary order to the elements of a set. That's d...
Newton described his first law of motion as dependent on the Will of God. What this law describes is the continuity of existence, as time passes, iner...
Tones, I argued that the axiom of extensionality does not indicate identity in a way which is consistent with the law of identity, because the identit...
Yes I've said this for a number of posts now, purpose is in the relation. In this example, the purpose of the part (the screw) is in its relation to t...
If this is addressed to me, please clarify what you are asking.. By the way, I never said that a set has an inherent order. I acknowledge that a set d...
Yes it surely does have bearing on "the principle of division". If, the principle of division indicates that when we divide a 6 kg item into two equal...
As Plato demonstrated in the Theaetetus, some words are best left undefined until after the appropriate meaning is worked out through the dialectical ...
It seems you're the one playing word games, attempting to put an unnecessary restriction on the use of "purpose". Do you agree that "purpose" means "t...
I don't understand this at all. The problem is, that when we divide a material object such as a pie, in half, it is never a perfect division with two ...
That which produces an effect, where "effect" is the result or consequence of a cause. In other words, when something occurs as the result of, or cons...
Of course going north was causal. It caused them to be in those conditions. The conditions you describe as required to be "either adopted or died". Yo...
Oh, I misunderstood. You are painting the pipe without dividing the pipe. I guess we don't mean the same thing with "divide". I think of "divide" as "...
I've learned from past experience that you get annoyed when I do not answer your banal questions. So I'll give it a go. Teleology is a way of studying...
Why do you say that the two gutters are not distinct objects. A gutter is an object. Or do you not think so? Even if we call them halfpipes, the two a...
@"TonesInDeepFreeze" This is the issue which Ludwig and I have been discussing. "One half" in practise does not have the same meaning as "1/2" in theo...
The pie is cut in half and placed in two different wrappings, as two different things, going to two different places. That these two different things ...
If we want to understand our own existence, it is necessary. The trend, when Darwinist evolutionists separated themselves from Lamarckian evolutionist...
Smaller numbers are not needed. This idea simply produces unnecessary complications. When you divide one thing into two, you get two things, not two h...
Why do you say this? Doesn't science proceed through the falsification of theories? You don't go as far as me then. I say that infinite divisibility i...
I would say that this is acceptable as a proposal worth reviewing; i.e., the proposition that there is a valid distinction between conscious intention...
Isn't that surface itself an edge, a discontinuity? And isn't it true, that what you see (sense) is actually a discontinuity, and you think it to be a...
The physical evidence, is that we cannot just keep dividing something forever. There is nothing which provides us with the capacity to keep dividing i...
I would not call that "imagining". Like the "round square" it's simply a case of saying without imagining. An author can say that the space ship moves...
My most memorable trip was with amanita muscaria, the fly agaric. I did much research into this mushroom before trying it, but probably took a little ...
Dr. Albert Hofmann invented LSD25 in 1938. He was studying organic isolates, especially those from rye ergot. Ingestion of rye, contaminated with the ...
Do you think perhaps you might have inverted this? It was about the drugs, then peace, love, and political activism was the result of the drug taking....
I believe this involves the distinction between imagining and saying. We can say contradictory things like "square circle", but can we imagine such th...
Having pride in one's work is a feeling which is difficult to qualify. It's what provides one with a sense of belonging, and it really doesn't matter ...
I wouldn't really say that this is a separate topic, it's a subtopic, and a very relevant one at that. The issue is the motivation to work, to be prod...
As Fire Olo pointed out, if they are placed, you never get finished placing them, if it were the case that you could carry out what is prescribed. So ...
Obviously, a sensor cannot be infinitely small. It consists of components. That is not necessarily the case. A sensor is a material object, space and ...
To avoid the problem , you just assume the impossible. There is a limit to the number of sensors which can exist in that space, depending on the size ...
To answer this the way that Plato does, the natural way of apprehending reality is not the best way, because the natural human body with its senses mi...
I think we have to distinguish between the means and the end. The end is the goal itself, and that is final cause. What happens with the plans, is tha...
The distinction is between a logical subject, and a material object. A material object necessarily exists, as an essential aspect of what it means to ...
Now now, you cannot use the singular and the plural, to refer to the object (objects) in the very same sentence. Why don't you just say you're wearing...
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