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The explanation is in the earlier exchange with you, in my response to your claim that one cannot be deceived by one's own feelings. The gist of what ...
April 05, 2023 at 12:45
These particles are what Nick called activities. I need an explanation as to how an activity is "matter". I would say that "matter" refers to whatever...
April 04, 2023 at 12:16
The position of truth would depend on how you would define "truth". If truth is correspondence, then truth is possible, but the problem is in knowing ...
April 04, 2023 at 11:44
I think this is the idea behind confession, confess to one's mistakes, be forgiven, and move forward, released from guilt and shame.
April 04, 2023 at 02:02
I think I provided an initial answer, here: Right, there's no "matter" there, in those "particles", just activity. "'Particle' part of matter"? What d...
April 04, 2023 at 01:33
I explained in detail why it is necessary to conclude that there is some form of "judgement" occurring at a subconscious level. You said: "This is tan...
April 04, 2023 at 01:17
Not really, we observe activity, and assume that there is particles involved in this activity. The "matter" which is supposed to substantiate the exis...
April 03, 2023 at 11:49
Doesn't this answer the question of the op then: "How does matter arise from consciousness?". "Matter" is an assumption which the conscious mind makes...
April 03, 2023 at 11:32
Anyone can search the internet for material to back up one's biased opinions. Your referenced "academic material" was off topic and not interesting to...
April 03, 2023 at 11:26
OMG! What's the world coming to, if we have to include emojis in our writing or else we'll be misunderstood. Is the emoji the written form of inflecti...
April 03, 2023 at 11:10
As I said in the first post we assume "matter" as the reason for the observed temporal continuity, consistency, in those observed properties and measu...
April 03, 2023 at 11:01
No, I see that you are extremely biased and opinionated, you pay no attention to reason, therefore I have no inclination to give you what you beg for....
April 03, 2023 at 10:57
Isn't all we know, at all levels, "physical properties, observed an measured"? So, what more are you asking for? Why do you say that these are propert...
April 03, 2023 at 10:49
Beg all you want, it just doesn't move me.
April 03, 2023 at 10:36
Matter is purely conceptual. Traditionally it's the concept Aristotle used to account for what was observed as the temporal continuity of sameness. As...
April 03, 2023 at 02:05
You actually made an even more preposterous reduction Mww. I explained very clearly why there must be some form of "judgement" inherent within sensibi...
April 03, 2023 at 01:40
So, do you think we should all throw away the calculators and go back to long division, and figuring square roots, and things like that, because borin...
April 02, 2023 at 11:38
Yes, and what a mess the human being is. We're torn apart by the difference between rational thought and bodily desires, such that we are sometimes ov...
April 02, 2023 at 11:26
I'm a little bit worried about all the sophisticated AI software seeping down into the hands of the general public. Eventually TPF could be infiltrate...
April 01, 2023 at 11:53
That your "lexicon" describes two distinct, but similar experiences as one shared experience indicates that it is not logically rigorous. If you do no...
April 01, 2023 at 10:58
No, it means that we are each having the same kind of experience. Two distinct experiences which are both of the same kind does not justify the claim ...
April 01, 2023 at 01:50
I do not see how "infinite" could be anything other than quantitative. I don't see how to conceive of an infinite quality. What would that even mean? ...
April 01, 2023 at 01:46
Instead of using Einstein's relativity as an example of how science is tainted, you ought to simply realize that this theory is unscientific. The prin...
April 01, 2023 at 00:58
I don't see how you come to the conclusion that God must be altered. To take away, or subtract from the infinite leaves it no less infinite. So if the...
March 31, 2023 at 23:23
Intuition itself maybe be mistaken. Perhaps, faulty intuition ought not be called false judgement, if we should restrict the definition of "judgement'...
March 31, 2023 at 19:20
If God is necessarily one, then He cannot divide Himself. If He is capable of dividing Himself, you cannot describe Him as necessarily one. This is an...
March 31, 2023 at 11:54
How does "shared experience" even make sense to you? From all that I can glean from my own experience, it appears very obvious that my personal experi...
March 31, 2023 at 11:27
I don't see how you derive what you call "D" here. If God is One, and was active prior to His creation, what prevents Him from being active currently?...
March 30, 2023 at 11:29
You might start with the simplified question of how any sort of interaction is possible.
March 30, 2023 at 01:39
I guess that depends on how how you define "accurate information". Are you saying that since we nourish ourselves, reproduce, and manage a little ente...
March 30, 2023 at 01:35
Our perceptions of the world need not resemble the world in any way, in order for us to develop some sort of understanding. All that is required is co...
March 29, 2023 at 11:51
Oh thanks, that makes more sense. I couldn't figure out what you were asking, now I can answer the question. Physical interactions do not produce free...
March 29, 2023 at 10:32
This doesn't work, because what is behind the appearance of the rock could be all sorts of strange interactions, meaning, information, which is not in...
March 29, 2023 at 01:35
I believe that intentional effects are fundamentally incompatible with Newton's first law. A force acting from within a body, to alter the motion of t...
March 29, 2023 at 01:07
The problem with this is that we could not even call this "attributes", because "attribute" refers to an apprehended order. That's the reason for sepa...
March 28, 2023 at 11:23
Where else are you going to turn to get principles for understanding the reasons for these flaws?
March 28, 2023 at 10:49
Chicken, chicken, you can't roost to high for me. Chicken, chicken, come on outta that tree... - The words of a man who loves to eat chicken, Mississi...
March 27, 2023 at 11:14
I'd say, that's much better. When you understand that indirect realism undermines itself, as proposed in the op, and the problems of direct realism pe...
March 27, 2023 at 10:52
Right, that's the way ontology works, we make definitions which accord with the way that we understand reality, and we proceed from those principles. ...
March 27, 2023 at 10:36
The representation in the op is incorrect. it is inherently biased, direct realist, by showing the external as the same as the image which the direct ...
March 26, 2023 at 11:38
Ever fall asleep in the middle of a sentence? If so, you know how to say the strangest, most random things. The speaking does not end at the point of ...
March 26, 2023 at 11:12
I believe that ideological conformity requires effort because evolution is a fundamental, essential feature, of the living organism. Intensified socie...
March 26, 2023 at 11:02
I didn't see that either of us was trying to distinguish 'perspective' from 'point of view'. What would be the point of making such a distinction? The...
March 25, 2023 at 21:32
That's not accurate, because they are grounded in before and after, which is a specific feature of change. Your definition was "according to before an...
March 25, 2023 at 12:27
I really think you need to reread that section, you might come to a better understanding. He clearly talks about time as being measured and he describ...
March 25, 2023 at 01:01
That would be "Physics" Bk 4, Ch 11-14. I don't think you've read the section of the "Physics" which I refer to, if this is what you think. 219b: "Tim...
March 24, 2023 at 11:08
He also says, that in another sense "time" is what is measured. "Time" as that which is measured, is completely different from "time" as "the measure ...
March 23, 2023 at 11:33
In your question you asked about describing "parts of the world". This implies particular stop signs. So it just means that your example was not relev...
March 22, 2023 at 11:03
To describe a type of thing, a stop sign for example, is not the same as describing a particular thing, like a particular stop sign. It's not that the...
March 22, 2023 at 02:37
Describing something requires paying attention to it. How do you think that someone could describe a part of the world which has no one paying attenti...
March 21, 2023 at 11:27