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...
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...
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...
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...
Actually, energy is not something measured. Measurements are made, and the energy level is determined through the application of mathematics. So energ...
"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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I've given it considerable thought, and I just cannot understand Hume's description of perception as a succession of individual perceptions, related t...
Predetermination is not existence. You might like to claim some sort of principle like, only something existing could predetermine, but I think the pr...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The subject of duration in relation to sensation is very intriguing, and actually quite difficult. Suppose we take your example, the chamber, and you ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The conclusion that continued existence is an erroneous assumption is not completely inconsistent with the assumption of body. It just means that body...
Yes, "far weaker" indeed. He explicitly describes the reasons for our belief in continued existence as an error, and deception. You can rationalize th...
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...
Here are what I consider the key points. First, the "broken perceptions". Sensation is often interrupted, (for whatever reason is unimportant), so tha...
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...
It appears you correctly interpreted what was meant, even affording me the best. How perceptive of you. Most people completely misunderstand me, assig...
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...
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