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I can't believe that you cannot grasp what I am telling you, and you just instinctively want to dispute everything I say. Energy is the capacity to do...
November 15, 2022 at 01:42
What is the point of assuming to be true, a principle which is demonstrably false? Anything which follows from this discussion will be irrelevant to t...
November 14, 2022 at 13:38
The issue is whether there is a real discrete unit within the continuum of space-time, independent from human existence. Neither yards, nor inches exi...
November 14, 2022 at 12:18
The aesthetically beautiful can only be accounted for in terms of numeral. This why we have numerology.
November 13, 2022 at 12:45
I think that predicting the solar eclipse earned him the reputation of sage, but I have a feeling that he did the magic trick with the olive presses b...
November 13, 2022 at 12:34
Actually, energy is not something measured. Measurements are made, and the energy level is determined through the application of mathematics. So energ...
November 13, 2022 at 12:09
"infinite" is a curious case. What we cannot express with words, mathematics has proven to have the ways and means for understanding. So the ineffable...
November 13, 2022 at 03:37
Thales is also famous for being the first to monopolize. I think he bought up the rights of usage for many of the olive presses, for the time period w...
November 13, 2022 at 00:32
I already told you, it's been proven by many, many scientific experiments. Never has all the energy been accounted for, in any experiment. So the conc...
November 12, 2022 at 23:12
Comfort of one sort brings suffering of another sort. So we often do not really understand when it's time to discontinue the comfort, as a bad habit, ...
November 12, 2022 at 22:21
That is just a completely unproven assumption. In fact, it has been proven to be false. You assume that the lost energy actually exists somewhere else...
November 12, 2022 at 12:38
If you say so... But I really can't decipher this. Doesn't a movie exist as a succession of distinct still-frames? I tend to agree with this, but in p...
November 12, 2022 at 12:12
The truth is, 'conservation of energy' is not true. In reality all transactions of energy lose some energy and this is why 'perpetual motion' is unobt...
November 12, 2022 at 11:37
Isn't any talk of a transfer of energy a matter of reifying energy? That's the problem. When energy is reified we have to disclose the means by which ...
November 12, 2022 at 03:26
The problem I see here is that we are not really imprisoned, or held captive in Plato's cave. We are simply very comfortable there, and so have no des...
November 12, 2022 at 02:33
I believe the situation is sort of like this. A has a specific quantity of kinetic energy, as a property of its activity. Relative to C, that kinetic ...
November 12, 2022 at 02:08
I don't see how anything could be understood independently of time. I think we could presume to understand something independent of time, but that wou...
November 12, 2022 at 01:53
But what is measured by the clock, as time, is decisively not the "progression of physical matter". It is something which applicable to all the progre...
November 11, 2022 at 12:37
Yes, that's what I am saying. Baking a cake is an activity. And, we cannot say that activities exist. You would say that activities necessarily involv...
November 11, 2022 at 12:10
I think it's pointless to discuss interpretation of a Wikipedia article, because I do not accept Wikipedia as a valid authority in philosophy, to begi...
November 10, 2022 at 12:35
Sure, but in measurement there is a duality of the thing measured, and the measurement. These two are distinct. What the clock says, is the measuremen...
November 10, 2022 at 11:36
It's not really true this, because a physicist can be dualist, and believe that God created the universe, and also believe that physics is only applic...
November 10, 2022 at 11:23
The problem though is that the dog is not the complete perception. The dog is only a part of the perception, so it is not very accurate to say that ea...
November 10, 2022 at 01:20
I can't see how you can conceive of a small volume with unlimited application. That seems incoherent. As a matter of fact, i can't see how you would c...
November 09, 2022 at 22:45
You think trial and error is convoluted, it's actually extremely simple compared to trying to explain how we learn from others.
November 09, 2022 at 12:29
I've given it considerable thought, and I just cannot understand Hume's description of perception as a succession of individual perceptions, related t...
November 09, 2022 at 12:08
Predetermination is not existence. You might like to claim some sort of principle like, only something existing could predetermine, but I think the pr...
November 08, 2022 at 22:55
This is Banno's patented bullshit story, which Banno knows is bullshit, yet will continue to defend until the very end of Banno's time. Simply put, yo...
November 08, 2022 at 12:37
Your approach to 'what should I do?' is far too complex and convoluted. You are asking, after I've done what I choose, how will I know whether I've do...
November 08, 2022 at 12:20
Not really. When a thing comes into existence it must be already predetermined what it will be, or else there would just be randomness, consequently n...
November 08, 2022 at 11:46
Yeah, these are tiny fictions which are used to resolve mathematical problems. I have a more accurate description for them "white lies".
November 07, 2022 at 22:56
Yeah, sometimes it's deficient actions... The Inquisition! Obviously, they're too busy speaking freely.
November 07, 2022 at 22:47
The rest of the section, 213-218, is pretty much a rehash of what has been already stated, with little new material. He states a challenge at the begi...
November 07, 2022 at 14:00
Yes, I'd say it's specualtion, and it would require a long discussion to get through all the reasons for that speculative assertion, but I did provide...
November 06, 2022 at 22:31
Where I have a problem is with the idea of a distinct sense perception. I do not believe there is such a thing, and therefore I think this idea is a m...
November 06, 2022 at 12:53
The subject of duration in relation to sensation is very intriguing, and actually quite difficult. Suppose we take your example, the chamber, and you ...
November 06, 2022 at 03:18
If you are willing, I will proceed further with the reading of the presented section. I believe I broke off at page 208 where he is in the midst of su...
November 05, 2022 at 12:32
Thanks for the added information. However, what you've provided, I think, only confuses the issue more. It's been a long time since I picked up that b...
November 05, 2022 at 01:41
Fucking roasted dough! I've cracked three or four teeth in my lifetime, each and every one being the result of chewing roasted dough. Everyone's a bak...
November 04, 2022 at 11:40
I think it's a fair word, because he states in the very first sentence of the section, that the skeptic concerning the existence of body, "cannot defe...
November 04, 2022 at 11:24
I think I am beginning to see things your way, more and more. Hume seems to rely here on two important premises, or principles. The first one is state...
November 04, 2022 at 02:11
It was a time when human beings were stepping away from God as an explanation for what is natural. This was opening up the field of natural philosophy...
November 03, 2022 at 12:33
Sure, that's what Hume has explicitly said is the subject of this section of the book. The section is not really concerned with the vulgar beliefs the...
November 02, 2022 at 22:09
The conclusion that continued existence is an erroneous assumption is not completely inconsistent with the assumption of body. It just means that body...
November 02, 2022 at 11:09
Yes, "far weaker" indeed. He explicitly describes the reasons for our belief in continued existence as an error, and deception. You can rationalize th...
November 02, 2022 at 02:07
Let me assure you, Hume is using "fiction" in a way which is very customary to us. It means something created solely by the mind, and not representati...
November 01, 2022 at 11:18
Here are what I consider the key points. First, the "broken perceptions". Sensation is often interrupted, (for whatever reason is unimportant), so tha...
October 31, 2022 at 11:44
Actually things are the opposite of what you say here, he explicitly does care about this matter. He is asking about "distinct existence", and this re...
October 31, 2022 at 11:29
It appears you correctly interpreted what was meant, even affording me the best. How perceptive of you. Most people completely misunderstand me, assig...
October 31, 2022 at 00:58
Well, The Ship of Theseus is usually presented as an example of how complex and difficult the subject of identity really is, not as evidence that iden...
October 31, 2022 at 00:43