Metaphysician Undercover

There are distinct types of types. For example, there are types of qualities, colours, tastes, etc., and there are also types of objects, houses, cars...

I don't think that this is a correct portrayal. We do not utilize "resemblance", when judging distinct things as having the same quality. I think this...

There's an infinite number of numbers which no human has ever thought of. What's the point in trying to name a random one of these? Here's one for you...

It seems Marchesk prefers to use the word "gray". Do you think that the use of the word "grey", and the use of the word "gray" have something in commo...

This looks more like justification than truth, to me, demonstrating that my perspective is compatible with yours. How does truth enter this picture?

On what principles would you decide how to count all the dark matter?

I take this to be saying that there is no such thing as "objective truth". So how are you using "true" and "truth" here? You've denied any objective t...

Well Joshs, I don't understand this post at all. I don't see how truth could be a masking. I think it is more the opposite, an unmasking. So I think y...

This is the attempt at measurement, referred to by above. Wage, is fundamentally a method for assigning a quantitative value to a good deed. Next, in ...

Is this when you make half a hole?

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So, where do we find truth then?

What about that floor? Is that real red oak? How wide are those planks?

I don't think there is such a thing as dialectics for beginners.

True, but the shame is Streetlight's only, for the absence of restraint required to restrict oneself "to those types of discussions".

By the terms of that post, Aristotle would be a nominalist, not a realist, because ideas would only potentially exist, prior to being actualized by th...

Somewhere along the way, Streetlight turned from philosophy to politics, and it was all downhill from there. Let that be a lesson to all good philosop...

I don't think that Aristotle's metaphysics is consistent with what is today referred to as platonic realism. It is commonly said that Aristotle refute...

What you seem to be missing is the advancements which Aristotle and Aquinas have made, the division between the non-physical Forms which are independe...

Conspiracy does not require cunning foresight. There's a lot of inept conspirators.

This is not true at all. The model could be completely fictious. Architects make models of things which are only in their minds. There is no need at a...

Not only is it a "dead universe", but if we assume a universe, independent of observers, then proceed to introduce an observer to this model, we must ...

Such an idealism, one which says that there is no matter, is an extreme form of idealism which is very difficult to understand. I can only understand ...

I do not think that idealism establishes any specific type of spiritual world as real, per se. What it does though is give us the principles required ...

In case you didn't notice, it was a response to Banno's expressed fear of having to face the reality of the spiritual world. Banno will not read an ar...

You don't seem to have apprehended what I said in the other post Michael. The apples are things. What separates them is not a thing. The point I am ma...

There could not be two distinct things without separation between them, otherwise they'd be only one thing. And, if there is separation between them, ...

I think you misunderstand. It's obviously not "some C" which separates A from B. What is the case is that A is different from, or other than B. C coul...

If there is multiple minds, then isn't it necessary that there is something which separates one mind from another? Isn't this what matter is?

I guess you missed all those Tragically Hip tours. Try downtown Ottawa on the evening of July 1, you shouldn't be disappointed.

Well, you seem to be ill-informed. Theologians and metaphysicians are the "experts in that field" of "the means by which potential states become actua...

The answer to this question depends on how one understands the nature of time. Obviously, the future consists of possibilities, that's why we delibera...

You have your priorities reversed, and this is probably why you perceive an interaction problem with dualism. You place your own desire to act, "what ...

That problem was solved long ago by Plato. Moderners who like to try and reintroduce it simply haven't studied enough to understand the resolution.

It looks like forgetting something.

If a metal detector finds metal in itself, then unless the metal detector is wrong, metal is inherent in the detector. Sure, but metal inheres within ...

Are you serious? Isn't reflection a form of thinking? So if you say that it requires reflection to find meaning in thought, then all you are really sa...

What is not understood, is what constitutes "mass".

The Michelson-Morley experiments would show the presence of the aether if the aether was a separate substance from the massive object. What quantum ph...

How would I know? Do you know what matter's made of?

When Kant starts using "noumena" in the CPR, there is extensive footnotes. In the footnotes, he describes the noumena as intelligible objects. If we i...

Well, I think the actual movement of material objects is something more than the juggling play of our concepts. But, we all see things differently, an...

Matter, is essentially temporal, but it does not change. It is the aspect of physical existence which does not change as time passes, hence 'inertia',...

I guess it's true what they say, 'rules are meant to be broken'. Maybe that's a new rule we ought to apply more often. So you say, the laws of physics...

This is right, an idealist would claim "that there cannot even be a way that things are without mind". But this is easy to understand, and accept. The...

I agree with you, in placing individuality, and creativity, as highest priority, but I do not agree with the method you proposed for justifying that p...

It isn't absurd to think that there might be something there which you do not perceive. The senses are very specific, and only sense the specific type...

Not really, because the capacity to, or possibility of affecting your senses is not the same as actually affecting your senses. And, we need to acknow...

Thanks for the encouragement Dr Katz. But I am afraid there are way too many issues of morality in our current society, to even know where to begin in...

I wouldn't deny that it was a material thing. The matter in it is what gives it the capacity to break your finger, which is also material. I don't agr...