You are viewing the historical archive of The Philosophy Forum.
For current discussions, visit the live forum.
Go to live forum

Metaphysician Undercover

Comments

According to extensive Google research, the difference between the two is that the dove is a friendly country bird, and the symbol of many good things...
December 09, 2023 at 00:53
I don't know if you can accurately say that is "the world". Isn't it more like two distinct perpendicular worlds, the world of real numbers and the wo...
December 09, 2023 at 00:27
I don't think respect for the so-called law is relevant. What is at issue is respect for enforcement. I don't know what those spying pigeons see throu...
December 08, 2023 at 14:12
I rented a beautiful farm, way out in the country where I did not see any pigeons, as they are city birds. The principal beauty of that farm was that ...
December 08, 2023 at 13:25
The principal problem expressed in Zeno's paradoxes, involves an issue with the way that we relate space and time, and this problem manifests today in...
December 08, 2023 at 12:47
Just so that you understand where I'm at JZ, I pretty much lost all my interest in discussion with you when you wrote the following, what I consider t...
December 07, 2023 at 23:23
I already went through this. I called it "learning". But if every idea of "triangle" comes from learning, this produces the infinite regress I describ...
December 07, 2023 at 22:44
Yes, I already knew that you held this opinion. You like to portray the issue as a debate between nominalism and realism, and through that approach I'...
December 07, 2023 at 13:20
What I am saying is that there is no such difference, it is all psychological. You are merely insisting on a difference to support your ontological po...
December 07, 2023 at 03:03
I think that the issue here is a lot more complex than one might think. To begin with, we now have one word, "emotion" which may be used to refer to e...
December 07, 2023 at 01:39
The field we are working in here is philosophy. We are discussing the reality, and objectivity of geometrical objects, that is philosophy. You have as...
December 05, 2023 at 14:18
So you're argument amounts to "I stipulate that these fields are different", and you think that this validates your perspective. That's called begging...
December 05, 2023 at 01:12
I still don't know what you are trying to say JuanZu. My point was that one is prior to the other, as the cause of the other. Minds are prior to ideas...
December 04, 2023 at 13:38
We look back in time to see how the problems which exist today developed over time. And when we look back we see others who have looked back, and we l...
December 04, 2023 at 12:27
Sorry Bella, I just can't make out the principle of reversibility which you are proposing. It cannot be true that it isn't problematic because you've ...
December 04, 2023 at 03:01
I do not reduce the psyche to synaptic processes, so I do not see how this reply is relevant at all. You have in no way addressed the points I made. F...
December 04, 2023 at 01:47
Another possibility you have not considered, the black thing you saw is not a swan. This is a real possibility, and it is the bigger problem with "see...
December 03, 2023 at 14:26
This is "The Lounge", rudeness is accepted and expected. I understand that it's all good hearted and meant for improvement, self and other, and I hope...
December 02, 2023 at 15:44
This is what i disagree with. I think that any instance of the conception of a triangle actually does reduce to a purely psychological act. If you ass...
December 02, 2023 at 13:53
This is not true. The issue is the way that the specific is related to the generalization, and whether the relationship assumed is logical or illogica...
December 02, 2023 at 13:24
In my opinion you have this inverted. The value of the square root of the sum of the legs is something indeterminate, a number which cannot be express...
December 01, 2023 at 01:41
I know, and that's why it's incoherent to say that the sense-datum is what is seen, because seeing necessarily involves what you call "assumptions". W...
December 01, 2023 at 01:19
That is the proposed equality. When the two legs are proposed as equal, the problem of incommensurability arises. Therefore I propose that we ought to...
November 30, 2023 at 12:53
It makes no sense to ask that question. Memories and anticipations inhere within, and are necessary to, the act of seeing. Therefore differences in wh...
November 30, 2023 at 12:35
I did not deny that the Pythagorean theorem tells us anything about right angle triangles. What I clearly said is that it demonstrates to us is that t...
November 30, 2023 at 03:31
You're missing the point. You are assuming "a picture". But if some of the different interpretations of the supposed "same thing", do include "a pictu...
November 30, 2023 at 03:07
The Pythagorean theorem makes the two perpendicular lines of a square as in commensurable. This is known as the fact that the square root of two is ir...
November 29, 2023 at 13:11
I think this is very good, and it is an important aspect of the "sense-data" perspective. We need to look at all acts of sensing as acts of interpreti...
November 29, 2023 at 13:04
No, the skeptic's doubt is the way toward truth. This is because we tend to accept statements propositions, etc., as true without proper scrutiny. We ...
November 29, 2023 at 12:28
I am ready for a descriptive explanation, if you care to give it a go. So we agree on this, except maybe terminology, you say "concept", I say "theory...
November 29, 2023 at 01:59
Correct, cost is cursed, but I think "cuss" is a better word here than "curse".
November 29, 2023 at 01:37
No, a lab is not natural, it is artificial, and "natural" is defined as not artificial. There are energy loses, therefore the system is not truly clos...
November 29, 2023 at 01:23
With reference to the title of this thread, "science" in its modern form creates, rather than discovers reality. With this context in mind, we ought t...
November 28, 2023 at 12:48
You keep referring to "probability waves", but you give absolutely no explanation as to what a probability wave is. So you claim to have a grand theor...
November 28, 2023 at 12:22
All the particles created in labs are just that, particles created in labs. There is no necessity that anything like these particles might actually ex...
November 27, 2023 at 12:35
Mist is what you do to house plants who like high humidity but don't get it in the natural setting of a heated house. I don't know about "costed" javi...
November 27, 2023 at 12:19
In: Free Will  — view comment
This is exactly the point Aristotle made. We can can ask about whether or not the truth about a chosen act precedes the act itself, as if whatever hap...
November 25, 2023 at 22:45
@"Corvus" Check this reading group: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/13614/reading-group-humes-of-skepticism-with-regard-to-the-senses
November 25, 2023 at 13:11
What do you want me to do, quote all the places where Hume is wrong? Look at his Treatise of Human Understanding Bk 1, Sec 4, part 2 where he discusse...
November 25, 2023 at 13:07
If you mean the proverbial bear, I don't see how you could poke any proverbial thing. If you really mean "perverted bear", it seems immune to my attem...
November 24, 2023 at 13:05
Please, please, be gentle in the application of your pointed descriptions. Words penetrate. That's some Thanksgiving.
November 24, 2023 at 12:29
Hume displays a slightly faulty way of understanding sensation. He thought that we sense the world to be in a specific condition (like a state of exis...
November 24, 2023 at 12:16
What I\m talking about is better understood through principles of calculus. The "t=0" represents the limit, and the problem is in approaching the limi...
November 24, 2023 at 03:32
That's a well tried principle. Generally, if you get an invoice with charges mark as % you know that's where bullshit prevails.
November 24, 2023 at 02:42
In: Free Will  — view comment
Of course you recognize that there is an agent involved in such understanding and reasoning. All logic is an activity carried out by an agent. General...
November 24, 2023 at 02:04
Incorrigible! I thought you'd never notice. I happen to have a strong aversion to certain words, and some names can be even worse for me.
November 23, 2023 at 02:40
In: Free Will  — view comment
I explained why what's "in the box" is insufficient to account for the complete reality of human experience, and why it is logically necessary to conc...
November 22, 2023 at 13:48
No, I think that believing in the existence of the world, during deep sleep, is what turns pleasant dreams into nightmares. And believing in the world...
November 22, 2023 at 01:31
The Forms are prior to what you call "the ordinary world", and it is this priority which makes them more real. The "priority" in this sense, is the se...
November 22, 2023 at 00:33
In: Free Will  — view comment
I'll put my reply to the last part of your post first punos, just so you can have a better understanding of my position before reading the rest. I thi...
November 21, 2023 at 13:38