I believe we have come to have a much better understanding of our differences, at least I think I understand your perspective much better. The biggest...
I've told you already, this is a division which cannot be made. And we discussed what your use of "intrinsic properties" refers to. You agreed that it...
"Error within experience" does not imply that the person did not experience what was experienced, it implies that mistake is inherent within the exper...
I cannot understand sensation without memory, this is incoherent to me. Sensation is the activity of a thinking being with a brain and a nervous syste...
It's all descriptive. There's no way around it. That's why it becomes "the hard problem" for those who do not accept the reality that there's an unbri...
We already went through this Fooloso4. those quotes come from a small part of the beginning of Bk 1, ch2, we he is stating some principles, theories p...
What I said in the quoted passage is that the idea that there is a present state of the universe, is shown to be unsound by special relativity, as a p...
Your categories are very confused Df. We were not talking about falsity, we were talking about identity. Your claim is that the form in the knower is ...
I read that. It in no way indicates that there is not intent behind measurement in quantum physics. The article suggests replacing "measurement" with ...
You quoted only one premise of the argument, the other stated the actuality. If X then Y. (Possibility). X (Actuality). Therefore Y (conclusion). Ok, ...
You didn't address the post. I'll consider what you say anyway. Ok, I have, and it's completely untruthful accusations. Thanks for the opinion. The et...
You seem to have inverted the conditional. My argument is that if it is possible that we err in our knowledge, then our knowledge is not of the proper...
This is completely consistent with what I've been arguing. There is something, (immaterial substance), which is beyond the bodies that are about us on...
My translation is Stocks, but it is within a compilation, "The Basic Works of Aristotle", edited by Richard McKeon, Random House, 1941. Most the title...
That little section from which you take those quotes has been omitted from my translation. For whatever reason I do not know, because I haven't resear...
I don't think that this follows. This is because error, and mistake may be relative to some pragmatic principle of success. So to recognize an error i...
It seems to me, that you base your claim that my interpretation does not fit with Aristotle's Astronomy on that one book of the Metaphysics. Clearly t...
I don't see that you have a point Paine. And I'm having a hard time to understand what you are trying to say. Perhaps you could explain yourself bette...
Ha, ha, "street definition", that's funny. Is that the definition of "measurement" which the cop with the radar gun uses to prosecute in court? "I cal...
I don't understand this. I discussed primary and secondary substance earlier in the thread. What do you mean by "a division between kinds". That doesn...
My apologies. I truly attempt to avoid hostile language. Sometimes I instinctively reflect it back, but that is not the case here. I think that when t...
You obviously have not been paying attention to what I said Fooloso4, so let me repeat it very succinctly. In On The Heavens Bk 1, Aristotle attends t...
Since you've just deferred the issue into a question of what it means to be "objective", an effective evasion, instead of addressing the question head...
Consider the old saying, "you see what you want to see". There are principles of interpretation inherent within, built into, and therefore affecting t...
I don't really care how you want to say it. We could use "designate", "stipulate", "appoint", or whatever similar word, they're all very similar and a...
No, I'm asking how you conceive of diversity of appearance between individual human beings, under Aristotelian conceptual space, as anything other tha...
It's not meaningless to point out the intent which is inherent within observation, measurement, etc.. And the intent is much more evident with the wor...
So let me ask you, are properties part of a thing's form? If so, then how is it that different men have different properties yet they have the same "f...
Physics Bk 2, where he discusses causes. After describing the four senses of "cause" he says: "Such then is the number and nature of the kinds of caus...
This makes no sense to me "Truly free will creates it's only choice by it's decision". Choice is the cause, decision the effect. Are you saying that t...
I suggest that this is an illusion created by the terms of the example. If each individual molecule of compartment A is marked as A, and each individu...
"Abstraction" is an extremely broad, and vague term, covering a wide variety of mental processes. I see no point to restricting "abstraction" to a sub...
Basically it's the reason why Aristotelianism is not Platonism. I believe Aristotle gave us an improvement, some do not think so. The problem with thi...
I think I would disagree with this. When we abstract what is common to a species, this is grounded in the individual instances. That is inductive reas...
This is the issue which Plato approached in The Timaeus. It appears that when individual things come to be through a natural process, the universal fo...
All this does is show the deficiency of systems theory as a means for modeling the world. The reality of these "boundary crossings" implies that there...
But what is the form 'man' other than the essential properties require for being a man? This is the species, man. How could Socrates, as one individua...
There must be a form for each and every individual. That is the point of the law of identity, which states that a thing is the same as itself. This is...
Sorry, you need to explain yourself better, I don't see your point. The early part of "On the Heavens" is spent discussing the opinions of others. It ...
Newton's first law explicitly says that the motion of a body will remain constant unless acted on by a force. I think "acted on by a force" implies ca...
I believe this is similar to the issue which dfpolis and I disagreed on in an earlier thread. It is I think, best covered in Metaphysics BK 7, althoug...
Not really, because acceleration can be caused by things other than gravity. So for example, a rocket blasts off and it accelerates in breaking away f...
You never provided any such definition, but if you think you can provide me with a definition of motion which does not require observation, be my gues...
That\s right, because there is more than one sense of "form" for Aristotle, therefore more than one type of actuality. So a material object is a combi...
Here's another thing to add to what jgill said. I think that jumping, or more correctly pushing off, in a gravity-free space, actually would cause acc...
Can you elaborate these three, Andrew? What would be the act of a weak measurement? And, how could the probabilities involved with a specific system b...
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