Metaphysician Undercover

According to Wikipedia, this is the "gluon field". It is actually eight different fields, one for each "colour charge". Each of the eight fields has a...

Of course anyone might disagree, there is no cadence or time signature given, and no specific temporal value assigned to the individual syllables expr...

I would say, that your example shows the existence of ambiguity rather than metaphor. Although metaphor often makes use of ambiguity, the two are not ...

So Banno and MU on the same thread are double trouble?

I would think that a theory such as morphic resonance would require some sort of hierarchy of fields. Massive particles, protons, and neutrons for exa...

That's one canoe you'd want to stand up in.

This is a similar issue which I went over with Banno already, concerning Kripke's premise that if the table is not made of ice it is necessarily not m...

This is "good" as a noun, "the good", the thing desired, or the objective. Taking "good" from being an adjective, or even adverb, and making it a noun...

Scientific American has an article about the resonance theory of consciousness which came up in my search, titled "The Hippies Were Right: It's All ab...

That objects placed near each other tend to synchronize their vibrations is a well known scientific fact, observed with pendulums for hundreds of year...

Would you agree that how Kripke should have defined "rigid designator" is as the same subject (logical subject) in all possible worlds? So we could sa...

A quick search tells me that one of the recurring themes in the various vibration theories, is that things such as living beings somehow adjust their ...

This field of study (pun intended) is very problematic. Physicists understand the transmission of energy in electromagnetic fields as waves. They also...

Not contra MU, you mean exactly as I said. We "relate numbers to the physical world", and come up with what you say here, "average velocity". Temperat...

Thanks Banno, but that doesn't really solve the problems. The way I see it, Kripke has no respect for the difference between a logical subject and a p...

I think Aristotle says something on this issue in The Physics, after a discussion of the four common senses of "cause". He asks whether chance and luc...

Maybe it's off topic for this thread, but how would you say that "100?" refers to a thing called "the temperature" if not by invoking Platonism? In yo...

This is where Platonic idealism misleads us into nonsense. Temperature scales relate numbers to the physical world. That there are numerous different ...

It is an a priori principle called "the law of identity". The law of identity implies that a thing is necessarily what it is, and not something else. ...

Read my last two posts. That the lectern is made of wood, and not made of ice is given empirically. But the empirical observations do not provide the ...

Seems like years.

Like I explained, there are two premises stated by Kripke, #1 "given that it is not made of ice it is necessarily not made of ice", and #2, through "e...

The first premise expressed at 180 ("given that it is not made of ice it is necessarily not made of ice") is a priori. It is directly derived from the...

As used in that post, any statement which claims to reference the identity of an object. Our only access to an object's identity is through the object...

The real issue is where exactly does the failure lie. Is the failure in the deductive logic, or in the induction? So, the cosmological argument for ex...

So it's very clear now, each mathematician lives in one's own private multiverse.

By the law of identity, a thing's identity is the thing itself. To say that a thing's identity is a description, definition, or even a name, is to mak...

Good advise. So you'll always find me where they want me to be. But the happy thoughts...?

The identity is within the object itself (as the law of identity states, it is the same as itself). The object's identity appears to any one of us as ...

I identify as the greatest metaphysician of all time. It is problematic for me, because I need to keep this fact undercover so that I do not end up li...

That might be a better way of putting it, but it really means the same thing due to the way that "contingent" is being used. The contingent statement ...

That, I would say, is the subjective nature of "value". It appears tp me like we are always seeking to objectify our systems for evaluation, but we ca...

The point I was making, is that in this situation, the predicate "exists", is predicated as a possibility, therefore a possible predication, as is the...

That's what I would call a category mistake.

Again, you're failing to grasp the issue. The separation between the logical subject and the physical object provides the force for Aristotle's refuta...

I think it's you who needs to read more carefully, I asked "why" do you feel that this personal preference of yours constitutes a higher quality? I di...

So this is a specific type of form which you believe to be of a higher quality than others. Can I ask why you believe that this type of writing, rathe...

It seems you misunderstand the situation. I have no problem with you using the modal language mentioned here. Sure, "there is a possible world..." mea...

Regardless of what you "actually hold", it is what you actually said. That's the problem, what you say is not consistent with what you actually believ...

As is the case in the world in general, in regards to most everything, we're always hoping for high quality, but never expecting to find it, because i...

The concept of "counterfactuals" has ontological assumptions intrinsic to it. By designating something as counter to fact, you assume to know the fact...

Sure, this is what you say now, but both you and Banno were making ontological claims. Banno said that in every logically possible world, mww is still...

OK, I understand what you are saying here. Now the problem is that when someone like Banno says that X,Y, or Z refers to "an individual" this is an on...

Here's an example for those of you having difficulty understanding. In possible world #1, X is red. In possible world #2, X is not red. Clearly it can...

Family starts arriving today, celebrations start tomorrow. Happy Holidays! Cheese embargo? WTF!

Well I haven't a clue what forracious means but the picture melts my heart, and now I can't help but take back anything bad I said about you.

Carry on with your terribly misguided philosophy (if one can call it that) then. Trying to get through to Banno is like banging your head on a brick w...

Yes, that's exactly the point, "an individual" speaks of something in a completely different ontological category from what a "logical hypothesis" spe...

Banno is operating on a very false idea of what an "individual" is. A name which picks out an individual designates an object in the world. If we repr...

Face it Banno, you're wrong. An individual cannot exist in numerous possible worlds. If the designator picks out something which is common to numerous...