Metaphysician Undercover

"Spin" is a highly deficient concept. It is an attempt to represent non-dimensional, non-spatial activity which is understood to occur within the inte...

Yes, "understanding" requires consistency with grammatical conventions. And obviously, we cannot change reality to conform to our conventions, therefo...

I think that this principle can only be upheld by making an unjustifiable assumption about the nature of observers. You are saying that if X is indisc...

I think that is just an illusion. He demonstrated bullying tactics throughout his life, and with every country that he dealt with as president. You ca...

Is that an open invitation?

We are fundamentally in agreement then. But, when you say, "activity does not require ‘materiality’ in the sense of a qualitative three-dimensionality...

Movements are categorically distinct from objects, and one cannot be reduced to the other. They are fundamentally incompatible in nature. Aristotle de...

But why would you assume that reality, or some aspects of reality are unintelligible? That seems to be a counterproductive, self-defeating assumption....

That thing is cool. I actually see a difference in the white between inside and outside the triangle, as if there's a line marking the edge of the tri...

I did not write the following I got a bagful of boogie, pocketful of rhythm and blues I got a bagful of?boogie,?pocketful of rhythm?and blues Been wal...

Consider the way that you read. Do you read words as sounds? What's that all about, seeing things as sounds? Did the brain get so confused that it can...

It has nothing to do with Newton, but Barad clearly was talking about "distinct agencies" which emerge through intra-action. So even by your definitio...

Again, you are hiding (obscuring) the issue through ambiguity and sloppy use of terms. "Agency" refers to the actions of an agent. So this part of wha...

The point is, that to be two beings there must be something which distinguishes them as one different from the other. If what distinguishes them one f...

Isn't it contrary to the law of identity to speak of "two" physical occurrences which are in every way alike. If they are in every way alike, they are...

The worst moment of his life - for a second time. I'd say that's gotta hurt. Another case of Fulton County Blues.

Look what your quote from Barad said though: Notice that the distinct agencies are said to emerge through "their" intra-action. This is what is incohe...

No, I think my ideas are very plausible. I also believe that mainstream ideas like abiogenesis are on the fringes of plausibility, and much convention...

I believe that any form of self-movement requires a selection from possibilities, and this qualifies as "deciding". A "clear long-range view" does not...

I don't buy this argument, because that claim, what you call "the premise" is a claim of ignorance, not a claim of knowledge. I shouted the assertion ...

All creatures have the capacity to change the world. Bees make honey, beavers make dams. The folly which humans fall to is that they believe they know...

We have not stewardship of this planet. That's folly. The reason why our stories must align, is so that we can communicate with each other, understand...

"Pernicious", now that's a fancy word. Sounds like something you'd read from Shakespeare. He wielded many words. Maybe, but the effect of what is call...

What would these goals be? I assume top priority might be to free us from the consequences of original sin. How could that be achieved without turning...

I am now fully convinced that trying to explain anything to you will always be a hopeless effort.

The explanation of intra-action provided for me, by you from Barad, was incoherent by self-contradiction, as I explained. If agents emerge from their ...

And the last week or so of discussion was not absorbed by you at all? The childishness never ceases to amaze me.

"Serious" is a very strange word. Every time I hear David Bowie sing "under the moonlight, this serious moonlight", I think what kind of fucking word ...

Chemistry? You can't be serious.

Yes, that's quite obvious and I don't see why you can't agree. The word has meaning, the definition of the word (the phrase) has meaning, the words us...

Your childish behaviour is very frustrating Luke. I definitely differentiated between the definition of the word, which is the meaning of the word, an...

I think that Newton's claim is supposed to state something independent of measurement. It is what is supposed to be given, without any measurement. To...

[ You could draw a line to represent the concept of line. And, I suppose one could have a mental picture of a line. But how does that drawn picture, o...

Thanks for recognizing and admitting the fault of your previous reply. However, I believe there is still a fault here. The concept of a line, does not...

I've always said that the meaning of the word is the definition of the word. And, I've also maintained that there is a difference between the meaning ...

Sorry, I can't make sense of your statement.

Read your own definition PR, it says relating to "or" occupying space. Obviously, in the context above, "spatial concepts" means "relating to" rather ...

Curved and straight lines are spatial concepts. they do not have any particular "location in space". So if a point is "an exact location in space", th...

Ok, by your analogy, the location of "the handle" is what distinguishes whether it is on a door, or on a window. Now the problem is to justify calling...

Luke, please inform yourself of what I've been saying, and quit with the straw men. All you are demonstrating is a lack of understanding which at time...

Luke, the definition of a word is the meaning of the word defined. The definition itself , also has meaning. Therefore, there is a difference between ...

Yes, I made a distinction between the meaning of a word, (its definition), and the meaning of the definition. If there was not a difference between th...

Look Luke, I was talking about the difference between the stated meaning of the defined word, which is "the definition" (also represented by me as "wh...

Those guys were banned six years ago, I wonder what aliases they had between then and now, and how many other times they were banned.

Straw man, as usual.

You asked for definitions. Then you asked what do the words within the definition mean. In other words you asked me to define the words which were use...

in the way that I explained, with the use of "might", and the example of "sound", through extrapolation. I don't know. That is perhaps the greatest pr...

What I mean by pre-exist is to exist before, prior in time. So, for instance, two objects can exist without interacting if there is the required spati...

Pig on a stick? What happened to the good old corn dog? The fat cats have taken over the fairground.

Phenomena are a product of the human experiencing agent. Therefore the human agent is implied necessarily by "phenomenon", and "human agent" is includ...