Right, judge for yourself. Am I an honest voter, or a troll? Why didn't you vote idealist then? Model-dependent realism, as a manifestation of Platoni...
No, if the gravitational field is the cause of the tides, it predate the tides, not necessarily the oceans. No, that is illogical, cause and effect ar...
As I explained already, this does not give a true representation of "final cause" because it provides no real basis for a distinction between conseque...
Let me try again. As I explained earlier in the thread, the conventional conception of time bases the passing of time in physical (material) activity....
Yes, I went through this logic already. We know through observation and induction that each and every material thing has a cause. The cause of a mater...
I sometimes (but more often not) enjoyed interaction with Agent Smith. I completely agree that flagrantly causing extra work for the moderators is int...
If this is true, it's proof that there is no formalized definition of "cause". And, since there are two distinct principal types of causation, efficie...
No, not at all. A cause, as I painstakingly explained, cannot be outside of time. No, not at all. As I explained, the idea that time is physical is wh...
No, that's what I describe as incoherent. "Cause" implies temporality, it is a temporal concept where a cause is understood to be prior in time to the...
I think that's right, that "Revolution" came along with the rejection of Aristotelian philosophy. It started when Galileo and others demonstrated faul...
Right, and I think that is actually quite important. The reason I said Marx is so insightful, is the same reason why his materialism is so similar to ...
Look at it this way. The "variable" in the model described is a freely chosen act. But from the perspective of the agent, the chosen act is not a vari...
I'll see if I can state succinctly what I believe to be the important point. The difference between Hegel and Marx is the difference between idealism ...
I believe that Marx provided a very unique and informative approach (in the form of basic assumptions) toward the interactions between things, both an...
When Aristotle addressed being qua being, in his Metaphysics, this he said was the fundamental question, why is a thing what it is, rather than someth...
I don't know, I can't imagine the possibility of anything uncaused, so probably. But God is noy well understood by me so I can't make any firm judgeme...
I agree, and I see a problem with the determinist attitude. Describing activity in the physical world in terms of efficient causation has been a very ...
A material object consists of matter and form. And, material objects are also said to be substance. So it cannot be correct to say that substance is m...
It is not directly perceived though, that's the point. I do not sense space, it's conceptual. But if you're quite sure that you are sensing space I se...
Ok, I'm stuck on this point because you seem to be incredibly wrong to me. I see some stars very far away. There is obviously an intermediary between ...
We might combine these two questions, to ask what does it mean to say that potential is real. The best way to look at this, in my opinion, is in respe...
You seem to be stuck on this point, which is incorrect. We hear things which are far away, therefore there is an intermediary. We see things which are...
Why have you replaced my word, "matter" with "substance"? There is nothing to prevent the conception of substance without matter, such as the concepti...
I think I explained this. I guess not satisfactorily. Let me try again, in a different way. What is conceptualized is a bunch of relations between con...
The real problem here is with the notion of "the present universe". What Einstein reveals with the relativity of simultaneity is that "the present" is...
This where I think you have it backward. The form of the sensed object inheres within the thing itself, as indicated by Aristotle's law of identity. W...
The mind would abstract from the information received through sensation. Remember, I am portraying the senses as tools of the mind in its creations. Y...
A quick reply in response to reading the first couple lines. The particular is never conceptualized. That is why there is a distinction between the th...
But "God" is one of the greatest mysteries of human existence. So if a philosopher seeks wisdom, then knowing about God would be a high priority. It's...
That itself is a matter in need of interpretation. What quantum mechanics predicts is probabilities, not what is actually the case. That's exactly the...
Try this: Sorry noAxioms, but we're just too far apart in terminology to carry on any meaningful discussion. I spend all my time just having to show y...
That might be true, but under the Aristotelian conceptual structure matter has no existence without form. Matter without form is an unintelligible and...
Thanks Mww. It's difficult to do. It's easy to take what another says and disagree with it because it's somehow counterintuitive, so it doesn't make s...
The base of the problem is found in Zeno's paradoxes, and manifests in the way that calculus resolves the issue with the concept of approaching the li...
The problem though, is that mathematics really does not give a "clear-cut account of what is going on". The uncertainty principle is produced by the a...
Every material object has a cause. The cause is prior in time to the object. Therefore the cause of the first material object is not material. This im...
I don't quite understand this, so let me put an example to you. Suppose I look around me. What I perceive with my eyes is a bunch of different colours...
That's the way poetry rolls. There's no need to follow any particular rules. And if certain styles become conventional, often it's stretching the boun...
This is the problem with telling people it is "a game". Then the psychology of game play, competition and all sorts of things, enters the picture. And...
Tell that Chat bot poetry composer that "how" and "know" do not rhyme. Neither do "stars" and "ours" for that matter. Where does that thing get its se...
OK, so this is how you lost me. "Cognition" for you, does not include imagination, judgement, or relating concepts. But isn't "cognition" generally us...
Some people don't respect the claims that others make. That does not mean that the person is wrong. So if the slaver does not respect the claim of the...
This is an incorrect representation of "rights". A right is an equality, therefore a balance. You portray it as something which is completely dependen...
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