But convention does not make truth, it makes "right". It may turn out later that the convention needs to be changed, like in the case of the planet na...
I'm not arguing a "first cause", I am arguing a cause of material existence. This is an actuality which is prior to material existence, as cause of ma...
I never intended to argue against nature providing support for our conceptualizations. The point was that distance is not the type of thing which has ...
Right, (2) is an ontological principle while (1) is epistemological. (2) is not derived from (1), and you might question whether (1) provides "any" su...
Essentially yes, I am saying that it's not measured until it's measured. But the important thing is the meaning here, and the implication it has on th...
The infinite regress is the result of the materialist/monist perspective which requires that a material form is always the cause of another material f...
Sure the form is not fixed. The point is that the form comes from a prior form. And if each is a material form, then there is an infinite regress of m...
But the issue is, that the form is always "somewhere else", prior to being in the material object which bears it. So if we postulate a chain of materi...
So you say, but where are the premises which prove this? The distance between here and the moon is indeterminate until it's measured. This means that ...
Well, then what did you mean when you said you don't buy that idea. Obviously you accept as a reality, that the form comes from somewhere else, prior ...
You seem to be wrong here jorndoe. Miles, km, etc., all those terms you used to express the distance refer to something invented, not discovered. It s...
What Aristotle shows is that there necessarily is a form (actuality) which is prior to the potential (matter) of the acorn. This would be the prior oa...
I told you, Metaphysics Bk 7, Ch 7. I even gave a brief quote. The form of the artificial thing comes from within the artist. This is not a reproducti...
The source of activity in "actual existence" is a deep ontological question. We can get a glimpse of it through introspection, and understanding the w...
As I said, in Aristotle there are two senses of "form". Someone might say one or the other is "first and foremost" but what would one base that judgem...
The issue I tried to point to was the difference between an object and a property. We tend to differentiate between a thing and a property of the thin...
I think the central issue here is in how we separate objects from their environment. Understanding things as existing separate from their surroundings...
As I said, I don't see much point in quoting passages. Read carefully Metaphysics Bk 7, though, that might help you. You ought to find that in Ch 7 he...
If you won't take my word for it, I think it's best if you do your own reading. Otherwise I might just use Fooloso4's technique of taking quotes out o...
But space is conceptual. We do not sense space we think it. It might be the way that we make sense of, or understand our sensations as sensations of o...
There are two senses of "form" in Aristotle, one is the formula, abstract pattern or design, the other is the form of the individual, particular objec...
So you describe two distinct categories, the physical/mental and the independent, then you conclude monism. That doesn't make any sense. How can you c...
As having "extension in space" is simply how we represent objects, conceptually. "Space" is conceptual, or intuitive, as a tool of representation, it ...
Right, I still do not understand, because as I've told you, your attempts to explain are incoherent. Unlike a child though, I am quite able to demonst...
"Shape", or as having a "shape", or being "shaped", is how we represent things. The "shape", in appearance, as an image, or phenomenon, is itself a re...
This is a false distinction. All values are derived from subjects, therefore fundamentally subjective. There is no base difference here, that's why th...
This is exactly why dualism is called for. All is not one mind. My mind is separate from yours, as your ideas are separate from mine. So we need to as...
This is similar to the problem which I see with Christoffer's approach to bias. Christoffer sees that critical thinking can be very effective for dete...
To understand that angels must move faster, you need to consider the relative nature of motions in relation to your premise that time is slower at the...
So the short answer is that in the levels close to God, the beings move faster, or time moves slower. These angel beings are sort of like computers th...
Clearly it's you who's acting stupid. Gravity is not "a rock falling". We might say gravity is the cause of the rock falling, but since it always caus...
That's what I was telling Christoffer, they are what we enter the logical process with, the premises. I suppose that's a fairly accurate description o...
You are not getting it Christoffer. You recognize that bias is a natural, inherent and essential part of any thinking, yet you insist that there is a ...
I believe that you approach a very significant and important ontological subject here. If gnosticism turns one inward in a spiritual quest, this activ...
If you say that biases are bad for rational thinking, you are saying that biases are bad in that respect. I used that premise, that there are bad bias...
As I explained, it was your premise that biases are bad, undesirable, or whatever words you used in your anti-bias rhetoric. From this premise I produ...
I think this opinion is wrong. The desire to believe, to know, and understand, is not based in what is needed to survive. Simple single-celled organis...
Yes, this is exactly the issue, how are we to determine good biases from bad. You were talking as if all biases are bad, but now you appear to accept ...
So the answer to @"Andrew4Handel" 's question is more like one of the "or" options, such as social control, rather than an answer of whether or not th...
Now the point is that gravitating towards what is comfortable is not necessarily gravitating toward what is good. But people can be trained through go...
I think you ought to distance yourself from this concept of "preferable", and take a look at the way you use it. The word is a relative term, so it on...
The Pythagoreans, also known as the Divine Brotherhood of Pythagoras, are another good example of a secret society. Plato drew a lot of material from ...
This capacity, to create, to construct, through the application of mathematics and geometry is what gave the Freemasons a unique position in relation ...
To openly speak against the Creed, or any firmly held dogma for that matter, can be compared to suicide (Socrates, Jesus for example). In the case of ...
Intuition is a feature of the subject, and I think it is the basis for one's ontology. Isn't statistics and probability the science of accidents? Or w...
The important concept here, which is often overlooked, is the "gap". In order to understand objects as individuals, or to understand activities which ...
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