Metaphysician Undercover

I don't see this. Right from wrong is a judgement made by reason. If reason is fallible so is that judgement.

If you happen to stumble into the swamp, beware of the lurking alligator who has no desire to leave the swamp.

The expansion of the universe cannot be discussed in terms of "speed", or as you say "relative speed", because this is not considered to be a motion a...

Intentionality isn't cyclical. That's the problem with the materialist/physicalist representation of it, it ends up being cyclical, when in reality th...

I think that the existence of intentionality is the pivotal issue to both philosophy and religion. Religion takes intentionality for granted, and sets...

Don't act surprised! The man with thousands of lawsuits under his belt. who lived his life engaging the legal system against others, with the greatest...

Fair enough, I'll qualify my statement: "a certain type of philosopher seeks the truth". The one's who do not seek the truth, but seek some useful pri...

I believe a solution is possible, not that I have a solution. You'd probably have to reread a bunch of my posts to really understand. If we start with...

But I'm arguing the fallibility of science in general, because of its reliance on sense data, so this is just circular. I agree with Hume's criticism ...

Where doubt enters this scenario, is with the question of what does it mean to be "reading this". Then we may consider the statement of the op: That m...

That's the part I like. It seems oddly similar to TPF. Strange, some of us like looking ridiculous ... bring on The Flying Circus.

That is the difference between pragmatics and truth as providing the guiding principle. For reasons unknown, the philosopher seeks the truth. Some peo...

This is exactly why it's correct to say that the senses deceive. When the sensible "cues" are missing, we draw the wrong conclusion. You say: "The sun...

Why do you think that the sun appears to come up and go down, when this has been proven to be false? And why does it look like we see the full range o...

i see things in the opposite way to this. You say the truth is mundane. I believe that the truth is not mundane at all, and is way more complicated th...

It really doesn't matter how you say it, spell it, or hatch them if that's how you describe uncovering them, I still like your boobies.

In the first passage, I describe how my understanding of what we get from sensation differs from Hume's. There is a problem though with my perspective...

And thanks for uncovering them.

There is nothing to prove that a myth must be false. Some of us maintain faith in the human power of discovery, to uncover what we always knew was the...

Yes, this I believe is the root of the problem. Hume described the experience of sensing as a series of static states which may change as time passes....

They found the unicorn? Whoopee!! I always knew they would.

Life at the university, conform or be cast out. Option number three, pretend until you're tenured. But how are the deceptive bastards who get in throu...

What I have noticed in the past, is that I can pick an imaginary time in the future, say tomorrow morning for example, and say something about it, lik...

I think this depends on what counts as justification; justification meaning the reasons given for the claim about the future. And, we have different s...

Do you see that "necessary" is a judgement, a claim, or assertion? And, this type of judgement is one which requires justification or else it is meani...

How do you account for the reality of abstractions? You say that every real concrete phenomenon is physical. Then you say that "concrete" means "not a...

Actually, the uncertainty principle, to begin with, is an obvious demonstration, of the reality of this need. Producing a metaphysics which incorporat...

[quo The reason why it "doesn't make sense" is not that it is counterintuitive, or contrary to commonsense notions, the reason is that it is logically...

This is how I understand "necessity" in the context of cause and effect. The cause is said to necessitate the effect, so we can say that when the caus...

The point is not whether our predictions are guaranteed, or one hundred percent certain, but that we can have success in a consistent way. We can pred...

The point is that when such a theory is applied, incoherencies inevitably arise. We can start with the one most obvious in physics, the so-called wave...

This is simply a cop out by Hume. Reasoning is association of ideas, it is habit, and it is custom. And reasoning is the process of understanding. So ...

I disagree with this. I don't see how "matter" could ever be defined in a way to reconcile the two distinct categories. There would be too much contra...

More than this, the means for communicating is often chosen on the grounds of simplicity. Communication in general is a tool formed for the purpose of...

The key here to what I was saying, is to see language development as a freely willed activity of individuals, which is a bottom-up form of causation. ...

I agree, the truly "hard problems" are the ones which get put aside and neglected for the longest periods of time, hundreds or even thousands of years...

I don't think you can draw this conclusion so readily, because it's very unclear as to what Hume means by "uniform experience". And, Hume tends to be ...

Talk about muddled blathering. Intention, will, is proper to the individual, the particular, while "form" as the formula is general. But finality is k...

Until they find out that it was really an asteroid, or a bombing from the alien mothership.

I've seen your Aristotelian influence. you conflate formal cause with final cause. That's why you have no principles to separate the downward causatio...

There's a few reasons why this doesn't work. First, human beings like other animals are active, so they can't be told to do nothing, which one might b...

We develop "work-arounds", such as the idea of entropy, and then the problem gets hidden behind these strange terms. In this way, the problem will be ...

That's right. I see significant flaws in systems theory. The "system" when used as a theoretical tool, is an artificial structure, a human constructio...

We must assume superiority in order to give ourselves the right to do what we do to the other living beings. And we must give ourselves this right in ...

The "thick moment", or what I call the breadth of the present, is what I've been arguing for for years, as what is necessary for an adequate understan...

I think that since intention is personal, the immaterial final cause acts in a bottom-up freedom fashion.

Human nature is neither good nor bad. We can look at the human being as having capacities, which provide for the reality of power. And as Plato explai...

If English was your first, or only language, you might have first hand experience with this type of self-confidence, to go anywhere in the world, and ...

I don't think you have this quite right. The point Hume makes is that the assumption that the future will be similar to the past cannot be justified b...

Right, you are just demonstrating the difference I am talking about. Even the name of the thing is distinct from the thing itself. And that's why we c...