I don't get why the Portuguese even exist on the planet. They are not Spanish, nor are they French. Their existence seems to be rooted in a desire for...
The problem though, is that "continuity of objects", and "they change all the time", is inherently self-contradictory. So the proposition that "we str...
OK, my mistake then, but I tend to think that "perceive" and "perception" are most often used to refer to what the mind apprehends through the medium ...
Humiliation from them is acceptable for the sake of the higher purpose. They don't know that the real reason for slipping out the back door is to move...
The critique is that this way of looking at things posits sensory experience as the cause of all mental ideas. Thinking, mind, ideas, and mental activ...
I think the Irish know how to get it done properly, just slip out the backdoor. It's much better that way, because big drawn out goodbyes really kill ...
I don't think Hume is correct in these points. We can pull from the imagination, a completely imaginary conception of what it means to exist, or a com...
Yeah, let's see if the two-year-olds can validate the reality of an inertial frame of reference. Doesn't this require the reality of a straight line? ...
It does sound poetic, but true. The most beautiful things are the most ephemeral. I think that it fills us with awe to see so much complexity packed i...
I look at death as having been pushed into the past. To live, to be, to exist, is to be present in time. And at the present, the future is a massive f...
I believe the "agent" is anything you want it to be in game theory, so long as it is acting. This is why game theory has a very wide range of applicab...
We could say that natural selection is a process whereby different structures of order are selected for, but it doesn't account for the cause of the o...
In traditional Christian theology, I believe the will is considered to be independent from the rational part of the intellect. It does not necessarily...
[ Creative and I seem to be on completely different planes of understanding. So I really don't understand why Creative engaged me after the thread had...
Yes, every person exceeds one's innate capabilities, that's what learning is. We learn how to do more, and to know more than what we are born with. Th...
I didn't bother because I thought Mww gave a satisfactory answer. But I really didn't understand your use of "tool". Why do you think that the intelle...
Since "evidence" is empirical, this statement is a fallacious argument called "begging the question", which does not qualify as valid justification. Y...
That's right, we ought not limit our investigation of such problems just to "science or religion". The majority of "conceptual confusions" which we te...
Again, we were not talking about mapping. Your analogy was stated explicitly as "To be across from something means to be reflected in a line, point, o...
I have not presumed God, I just gave you the logic. A sensing body is an organized body. This means that it requires ordered parts. The only thing whi...
That's right. Show up at confession and feel the guilt for your sins. But you know you will be forgiven. There is nothing about the definitions of "ad...
Why bring up things which are not comparable? Well, I've never seen "negation" defined as " zero minus a number". Care to share where you got that one...
The point is that this cannot be called a "negation". If the thing, zero, is the very same prior to, and after, the proposed "negation" then there has...
For Plato it is not an unattainable criterion, it is a description of reality, what is the case. The soul necessarily precedes the body as the cause o...
There's a lot written there. Let me know what you think needs to be supported, and I'll address it. Do you not believe that a reflection is light rebo...
The analogy really does not work Real Gone Cat. A reflection is light rebounding back off a reflective surface, which you represent as a plane. If the...
That doesn't resolve the problem, which relates to zero being a number, as having a place on the line. Is zero across from zero? I suggest that these ...
Isn't the now of a few hours ago the same now as the present time? Or do you have the capacity to divide time into a multitude of distinct, particular...
It's only getting worse. How can this ever be rectified? Even amongst Ukrainians I imagine there is division. Or are pro-Russian Ukrainians not even U...
This was the point I was making in the first place. Additive inverse is different from multiplicative inverse, because neither represents a true inver...
Then how would you even begin to talk about sensations like hearing, seeing, etc., if there is not something doing the sensing? If you have an aversio...
Right, that's the point. We consider whether or not the thing being measured (through sensation) is real, and we naturally conclude that if we are mea...
That's an irrational, infinite regress, which we already discussed when you said that an object is a collection of objects. The problem is that you've...
That's not a definition of opposite, just a use of "opposite" which clearly demonstrates what I said. Your definition of "inverse", as "additive inver...
I really don't think you've provided any "mathematical definition of opposite". But if the mathematical definition of "opposite" allows that a thing i...
I believe Wayfarer had gotten to a point where he needed to progress further in his understanding of the reality of the immaterial, to find further re...
As I said, that's a fictional, imaginary, representation of what an object is. And if you look back at where I first engaged you in this thread, you'l...
If reality only makes sense in relation to human sensations, then why wouldn't you be concerned with the sensations themselves, hearing, feeling, tast...
But mathematics doesn't give us a true representation of what an object is. Math is composed of axioms which are produced from the imagination. That's...
As I explained, this is an incorrect description because zero is a part of the number line. If zero was not a part of the line, we could say there is ...
An object is much more than a collection of parts. Each different object has its parts ordered in a particular way. It is the order of the parts which...
OED: invert: reverse the position, order or place of. Thank you. Obviously, negatives are not treated as the direct inverse of positives, because two ...
Litewave, a collection is not an object. Therefore an empty collection is not a non-composite object. They have no location, that's the issue with qua...
That's the "additive inverse". It does not mean that negative numbers are the inverse of positive numbers in a general sense, only in the operation of...
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