Metaphysician Undercover

This is sort of like Aristotle's law of identity. Whatever exists must be what it is, and not something else. This is expressed as the following neces...

One thing to keep in mind is that the ancients did not have the separation between living and inanimate, which has since been developed and is fundame...

That something is better known as alcohol, and the reason for feeling "very wrong" is the irrational ratio between time and quantity consumed.

And, they say that on St. Patrick's Day everyone is Irish, so...

Well, continue in the context. He then says: "Now, if this were true, even now there would be nothing in existence, because that which does not exist ...

The problem I am pointing to is that we cannot designate this, judging good and bad, as something "artificial". This is because artificial is contrast...

I liked this part. I can't understand the moods of other human beings, or even mine for that matter. So it made me feel so good to see that at least s...

I'm quite sure that this is what he is talking about. If you read his expression of the third way you'll see that he says that what begins to exist on...

The problem is that all such "facts" require symbols, or signs. The symbol is essential, as necessary to the existence of an individuated fact. And th...

I'm on the tread mill, but can we switch to gerbils instead? I think you'll find that they run a little faster. Please, allow all the running to be ab...

I think that the issue which arises from your op, is that ultimately it is the mind which decides what is good or bad, needed or not needed, morally o...

I don't see how you can maintain this distinction between natural and artificial, if you insist that human beings are natural. Don't human beings actu...

I don't see the problem. The time referred to as "now" is in the midst of the contingents, that is described as what we observe, contingent beings. Bu...

I would say that's a pretty simple, yet a fair representation. I think you are correct in your assumption that Aquinas rejects the possibility that th...

So I assume that you are saying that "artificial" is just a special type of "natural". Then I suggest to @"ENOAH" that the "fictional" is a subdivisio...

It's a matter of keeping the descriptive categories most accurately representative. When we use natural/artificial we are referring to types of things...

I think a properly formed dichotomy would oppose "artificial" (instead of "fictional") with "natural". So you're mixing up categories here. This becom...

As far as I know there are no roads connecting Columbia and Panama. So anyone traveling through there would be on foot, and have one hell of a journey...

What we observe through empirical evidence, sensation, is activity, actual being. This proves that not all being is "possible being". So there is some...

Where do you find all these supermodels you are acquainted with? What the hell even is a "supermodel"? Is it anything like a metamodel?

All I can say is now that the building is HQ of the Bank, they'd better not squirrel away all their gold on one branch of that tree.

That a thing, time in this case, does not occupy space, does not imply that it is not related to space. So if time does not occupy space, as stated, t...

Check out "Voice and Phenomena". We did a reading group on it here at TPF, a few years ago. It is a critique of some work by Husserl. https://thephilo...

What you refer to as the "3" of Heidegger's description of artist, art, and relation between these, can be found in Aquinas' description of the Holy T...

Do you think the AI would be capable of reading volumes of a particular philosopher, and provide an accurate interpretation? For instance, if you fed ...

That makes me feel better.

The point though, is that there is often no time for critical thinking. Decisions made on the fly in a rapidly evolving situation, such as the middle ...

Everything looks so spotlessly clean. There's hardly even people on the street.

Superstition is related to the unpredictable, so it has a real place in our being in the moment, living the passing of time. The huge, massive aspects...

It's also been said that the robots are going to eliminate the humans. Once they convince the humans to breed with them, because by sense appearance t...

Thanks for showing me that

Actually the concept of "matter" was constructed by Aristotle to account for the reality of temporal continuity. What persists unchanged, as time pass...

I think you're wasting your time with these people. They think that "a fact" is a statable state of affairs which is not necessarily stated. But you r...

That's some wild architecture. Show us some Tbilisi when you get a chance.

Who would determine that the situation meets the criteria for being described with those words, if no one knows that the cows are over there? Are you ...

Stumped me.

How, unless the boxes overlap?

I believe they already have AI companions which you can buy if you're lonely. It will chat with you anytime you want, get to know you, and become very...

Ok, this makes more sense. That is known as two dimensional time, I call it the breadth of the present. There is no need to call it a backward flow th...

I'll give you something simple, but a highfalutin physics know it all type is likely to tell you how wrong I am. I believe the formula applies to a bo...

"e=mc2 ? = ? ? 2" is false. This fact is demonstrated by the need for what is called "relativistic mass".

That would be tough, to set the rule as to what qualifies as a punishable offence. What it I told you your mother wears army boots? Or what if I told ...

I don't think Perl portrays this very well, and he seems to oversimplify a very complex issue. The temporal continuity of material substance, which is...

In Aristotle form is prior to matter in everything. The "what-it-is", or "whatness" of a thing constitutes the thing's identity. The layering, or leve...

What I meant, is that skepticism (best represented by the Socratic and Platonic methods) is itself beneficial. It is good and useful to any philosophe...

I believe the priority is flipped due to a switching from ontology to epistemology. When ontology (metaphysics) is the priority, being and existence, ...

I returned to this post from a few days ago, because it seems to provide the substance of the thread. Do you agree that the a priori pure intuitions o...

Got the word. It's so cliché. Or is that hackneyed? Whatever.

"Hush Puppies", I think that's Jimmy's subliminal message to the Doc Marten scene. Like BC says, "nice song". I remember it well, haven't heard it in ...

So what's the point? What does that mean, we can only say it if it's true? That's obviously false, as we make false statements quite often. What I am ...