The point though, is that the PSR (sorry, I said PoR in the last post, but I meant PSR) is only circumvented by assuming the reality of randomness. An...
There is no such thing as blind striving. Striving must be directed or else whatever it is that is occurring cannot be called "striving". That's what ...
First, they get filled with micro-organism, which probably happens during the time between when they get produced and when they get used. Silver on th...
It appears like you are mixing things up here. The natural tendencies which I am born with, form the basis of my intuitions, the innate features which...
I thought you said cognition doesn't involve things, it's only a matter of relating conceptions. I'm going to go back and reread that post. OK, I see ...
It is not an absolutist statement, it is a deductive conclusion derived from two premises, the PoR, along with an inductive conclusion derived from em...
Of course, isn't that obvious to you? We didn't need the experiment to demonstrate that. We have certain deep seated tendencies which some people call...
I never made a switch. You said a long time ago that cognition does not involve things. I've been talking about considering possibilities, and making ...
I would say that the independent Forms are of God's Will, and the phenomenal representations of them are of the human will, as basic idealism, though ...
Ahh, I see. The real self-interest, or greed factor does display itself, but in the actions of the receiver rather than in the actions of the one who ...
Interesting, basic and to the point. It may be, that reality is far different from the way that it is conceived by scientists. I believe the key to un...
Yes, it's turning out that we're not really very far apart in our opinions. Nor were we really, at the beginning of this exchange, it was just a matte...
This is very consistent with the Christian (theological) view of the temporal continuity of objects, commonly represented as inertia. Newton stated th...
That's right, monetary value systems are based in equity, fairness. If someone else gets nine to my one, it is in my "self-interest" to reject the ent...
As I see it is, there is really no question about the reality of thoughts, ideas, concepts and abstractions. Very few people would deny the reality of...
You need to recognize a person's attention to probability, odds. If the person offers $0 they know the odds of acceptance are zero or close to it. As ...
I don't agree with this at all. I see a clear difference between relating concepts to each other, and making judgements. As I explained, when I am pla...
Here's a simplification, KD21, which may or may not help you to understand. When I look into my internal self, in introspection, I notice that the rep...
That's the exact definition I copied above: I think, "uniform existence" and "unchanging presence" are adequate descriptions. Notice that "uniform" is...
Don't we relate conceptions to each other, without necessarily making a judgement, as in the case of considering possibilities? We relate possibilitie...
"History" is the faulty perspective in looking at ancient ideas. So you only replaced the better perspective with the worse, when you allowed history ...
I wouldn't know the answer to that question, nor would anyone else, I believe. The point though is that we can represent space in two fundamentally di...
You ought to read Kant and Berkeley. That there are objects of perception is intuitive, what an object of perception is, is not. Why do you think that...
If I understand you, you are saying that feeling is a property of the whole subject, while thinking is a property of a part, the intellect. So thinkin...
Hmm, there seems to be an incommensurability between the lattice representation, and the continuum representation. Here's from Wikki' entry on lattice...
I'm not familiar with Richard Swinburne, but I will check your reference. Neither am I familiar with "the three horses", and I'm a bit thrown off by y...
The issue is that you get dimensionless points (no volume of space occupied by the points), in space, which have properties, as point particles. Tradi...
I don't see the point. That "sacrifice" exists doesn't mean that sacrifice is good. In fact, an examination of most instances of sacrifices will proba...
You can't beat hockey, developed from the activity of chasing a frozen horse turd around on a frozen pond with a stick, all the while trying to find a...
As I said, this would require proving that there is something better than happiness, to show that one ought to sacrifice happiness for this better goo...
That's part of the reason why I disagree with Aristotle on that point. However, the argument is not as simple as Banno makes it look. To prove that po...
The basic principle of the vector remains the same, but the vector space described is more complicated. The complexity of these vector spaces is what ...
I disagree with it as well, but the reasons are given in the Nichomacean Ethics. Basically there is the appearance of infinite regress, as you describ...
But would you class judgement as part of the reasoning process? Suppose reasoning is the feeling which causes a volition. Then, if we say that the min...
To use all five senses to know an object requires that your mind unifies the information from each of the five. This would be a form of synthesis. The...
But the issue is, what do these mathematical representations represent in the real material world? Or do we simply deny that there is a real material ...
I can't agree with what you are saying. You are classing hearing and smelling as distinct from seeing and touching. But it seems to me that hearing an...
As I explained, those are not true boundaries, they are just what appears to be a boundary through that particular sense. And, since sounds and smells...
I don't know about this. If what Protagoras says is false, then we cannot conclude that what Socrates says is true either. So it's just a vicious circ...
But isn't what you describe here really just an instance of willing? Judgement according to an arbitrary feeling, or according to logical reasoning, e...
This is addressed in the Theaetetus, discussed above. Some men, the followers of Parmenides, have standards which are completely incommensurable with ...
I don't see your point. To see something does not require seeing the totality of it. I look at my car, and I see it. Having a motor, transmission and ...
I think this is a very difficult, deep and twisted subject. If I could make it intelligible to you you'd have to change my name to "the unmuddler". Au...
Yes it is wordplay, but it's based in denial that there is such a thing as "the universe". Under conventional definition, the universe is a collection...
Actually the problem with justification is laid out in the discussion of the relationship between the parts and the whole. Justification is said to be...
But the French speakers, at least in Québec, pass laws in a further (vain) attempt to preserve that tortured history. Consequently, you can't buy a ho...
The Aristotelian solution is to affirm that ideas, i.e. abstract objects, have potential existence prior to being "discovered". Discovery of abstract ...
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