Metaphysician Undercover

It appears like you desire to replace terms like "good", "correct", and "right", which appear to clearly have an opposing term, with a term like "trut...

I think it comes down to a question of what the dialectician is supposed to do (as in the sense of ought), within the discipline of dialectics (if we ...

I'll try to unpack it succinctly, and leave it here as a sideline opinion, for reference, so as not to derail the thread. What is common to both princ...

This I consider to be the principal defect of the current conventional conception of spacetime, that time is reduced to being spatial, rather than con...

The existence of dialectics in general, i.e. the fact that dialectics is a valid philosophical tool and it is actively taught and employed, indicates ...

You keep insisting that the thing and what is said about the thing, are the same. Here: What something does, is always what we say of the thing. It's ...

Now that gives meaning to "car park" --- duel.

The point is that the thing, and what is said about the thing, or, what the thing is said to do, cannot be the same. this is evident in your example. ...

But this is not the same as the other. To say "the universe is the universe" is to repeat the same thing, as a statement of idenity, and this says not...

I explained why possibility is taken for granted, rather than demonstrated logically. To demonstrate it logically would make it necessary, and this wo...

That humans can run at 30mph remains a possibility. Libertarian free will remains a possibility. What's your point?

Even making this statement is an act of demonstrating the separation. You have the thing you are talking about, the subject, named as "the universe", ...

Well that's not true at all. Any stated proposition has the possibility of being true. Stating requirements only limits the possibilities. So, for ins...

Chance is not properly a cause, it is simply a descriptive term. Therefore "chance" in the context of quantum indeterminacy cannot cause actions, and ...

As I said, this is incoherent to me as a category error which result in equivocation. The subject (actor in your terms), and the predicate (what the a...

OK, this would be acceptable. but this leads to a further problem in defining "libertarian free will". You now have two conditions stated here: #1 inc...

You are making a category mistake. You state that change is a property. but then you make change the thing, the actor. At one point change is the pred...

How bout a duel? Real resolution.

Hey! Yourself. You're done like dinner. Has the parking lot method ever actually resolved anything? We might ask the same question of TPF, in general....

This is a misleading statement, because if it "might be", means it is still possible. So "it might be impossible" means that it is possible. To say th...

Refined indicates highest purity. it also indicates high culture, unlike those foolishly brash boys who want to take everything to the parking.

Actually "refine' is a better word, because "fine", though it indicates a very high quality, does not quite bring you to that even higher level of "re...

Why not? I think that if free will is inconsistent with determinism, then the demonstration that determinism is false is exactly what is required to d...

If I'd never played pool before, I could read some books, and learn how the balls ought to behave through geometrical principles, and physics, then ap...

I don't see any consistency between these two statements. If, following the laws of nature is a requirement for determinism, and "stochastic" refers t...

Well sure one cannot derive causation from thinking alone. That would be rather nonsensical because something has to stand in, within the thinking, as...

Ouch! I'm hoping for your sake, there's at least a jock. Or stay away from Fred.

And that's relevant? Consider this. The fact that reasoning cannot provide us with an absolutely perfect and omniscient capacity of prediction, does n...

Are women exempt from the parking lot rule?

I'd say there's a reason why Hanover hates the cold, and a probability of about nine out of ten that he's got nothing on under the wool coat.

What if what these two agree to, is contrary to what everyone else is claiming? For example, if two parties conclude by their own experience that the ...

I'm criticizing both, your interpretation, and Hume himself. Your interpretation is bad because you interpret Hume's argument to be demonstrating that...

Hmm, agreement between two or more subjects produces truth and objectivity? That sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.

I explained quite clearly already, why such a conclusion is self-defeating. Notice that even this statement is self-contradicting. The word "inference...

Dress code. You know, like no white after Labor Day.

Them's not shoes, them's boots. If it aint pool weather, it aint shoes weather.

What could this possibly mean? Are use suggesting that context "drives" the sentence like a person would "drive" a car, a team of horses, or a herd of...

We ought to take that time to get this thread back on track. I like this proposal, there is something which is hidden, and that is what we call "nothi...

I remember once, you described to me what you thought qualified as inductive reasoning carried out by other animals, and it did not appear to be anyth...

That's right, but inductive reasoning is still a form of reasoning, so we cannot deny, as Jacques does, that causation is based in reason. We just hav...

Yes, it has become very evident that your understanding of Hume is quite sorrowful. I mean you provided the clinching quote from Hume himself, and you...

Another thing to recognize here is the difference between "custom" and "habit". What I explained in the other post is that we can take actions which a...

Yes, and this is why Jacques' claim is a strawman representation of "Hume's argument" when he describes Hume's view of causality as "based neither on ...

OK, but "that the course of nature is sufficiently uniform so that the future will be conformable to the past" is a principle derived from inductive r...

To say that custom or habit is the cause of something, is just to avoid the question of what is the the real cause of that thing. "Real cause" here re...

I think, as explained in my post, that you have this backward Jacques. All causation is causation by reason, and any other form of "causation" is fund...

I cannot disagree with that portrayal. Physical laziness inspired mental ambition. So that person, if it was just one, found oneself some mental purpo...

That does not address the issue of prediction, possibilities, and probabilities, which I described. An issue which is very real to science, regardless...

That's called 'leaving the work for someone else" better known as laziness. Average has already confessed to being very ambitious. The problem I find ...

How would someone who takes this proposition as a true premise, understand future possibilities as a real part of the world? We know that future possi...