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It was just a metaphor or a literary expression. I hope you didn't misunderstand the expression was a statement against you. Well, I was just suggesti...

Why is it irrelevant?

:up: I find this an interesting topic. Chora is a new concept to me. It sounds abstract and daunting to understand the concept due to all the backgrou...

So what is the part of the proof you didn't understand? Please explain your points on which point of the proof was not making sense to you providing s...

I disagree with all of your points, but I am not going to try to change your views. It would be futile and fruitless endeavor trying to do so, because...

This sounds circular. You are deciding something through reason but you also deploy principle reason? It sounds ambiguous and tautology. Many believe ...

Law means it works 100% as laid out without fail. If there was 1 fail out of billions of events, then it is not a law. It then is a rule. Is any law t...

Good brings happiness. Bad and evil brings unhappiness. Doing good feels good and makes one happy. If happiness is the purpose of life, doing good mak...

In the Christian bible, God is also depicted as "Almighty" in various parts. It proves the concept of God has been linked with the property of omnipot...

I am not sure if reality works from a law. There are certainly observable and provable regularities in reality. However, there are also huge part of i...

It sounds like a court or legal document rather than philosophical argument. I am not sure why anyone needs to read ad hominem filled with the groundl...

Here again, you fail to explain why the examples don't support my point, but just keep repeating yourself that it doesn't support, and the onus isn't ...

Well, you are forgiven for going into Ad Hominem before even beginning your counter argument. I don't feel it is necessary in any decent philosophical...

What are they? Exactly where do you mean? The OP and many of my posts are exploratory on the topic i.e. trying to learn about the topic and concepts, ...

There are many passages in the Bible suggesting the God is the word, which seem to be paralleling and echoing to my proof. John 1:1: "In the beginning...

I presume the OP is not talking about the Kantian transcendental law. Then transcendent law seems to imply the laws from Gods or divine law, which sou...

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I am not sure what you mean by a transcendent law. What do you mean by transcendent reality?

They are the products of the human reasoning.

They are the beliefs and facts. They are not laws. There seem to be a big confusion here.

The wordings of the OP title "the existence of transcendent laws" sounds ambiguous and unintelligible. All laws are from human reasoning be it inducti...

Energy is from the motions or changes of matter e.g. flying baseball carries energy to break window when it hit the window, heat generates from burnin...

I wasn't saying anything is problem. I was just suggesting if you say some point is wrong in philosophical discussion, you need to supply good argumen...

ChatGPT seems to suggest that Kant, Hegel and Schopenhauer were all inspired by Plato's theory of Forms and mysticism in their philosophical systems. ...

An interesting point. But I am not sure if matter and space are the same. Matter can only exist in space. And mind can only exist in the biological bo...

Free will is unknown, therefore Free will is unknown. (A tautology, but true statement.)

Some things in nature is unknown e.g. the origin of the universe. Therefore the premise is unsound.

So it sounds like Plato had the sceptic and mystic elements in his thoughts on the world, human life and the gods.

A great thread. Thanks for the link. The OP offers an interesting classic material for read.

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Need more elaboration with the reference on this point.

Have you read the other Plato such as Timaeus? It is filled with cosmogony and the Gods.

Of course they do, but what I meant was the others from the philosophers, not from the mystics.

You seem to be confused with God and the word God. They are not the same. God is the god, and his residence is in the word "God". You are not able to ...

Whose direct, unmediated apprehension? Are we able to apprehend them via direct unmediated apprehension, or the Gods? If we can apprehend them, then i...

Is the gap between the knowledge of the Forms and everyday life bridgeable by any actions or methods? Or are they two distinct entities which are inac...

What do you mean by "such knowledge"? Why is it reserved for the gods? Which gods do you mean here?

But from non religious philosophical point of view on religion, we could still study the different religions on their definition of Gods, principles, ...

This is not making sense either. Religion is not something that you take up, and fantasise about the God. If you decided to take up a religion, then y...

Your claim here is ambiguous. You seem to be saying if something was invented by humans recently, then it is not something. Is it correct? Could you j...

I didn't know it was Descartes. I used to think it was some bloke on a bank note of some country. It seems then, images alone cannot become knowledge....

It was a possible scenario post when you chose the definition of God with omnipotence. It was not my own definition of God. Remember my definition of ...

Descartes was right in saying the most self evident reality is"cogito" or "Ich denke" in Kant. All other reality is based on it. Indeed one cannot dou...

You were quite correct to point out the unsound premise, and rejected it. Even if the argument was valid, it is unsound. The conclusion is self-defeat...

Cogito

Mysticism is about the hidden knowledge. In Plato, truth is supposed to be hidden until it is disclosed (alethia). Does it mean truth is mysticism in ...

When you are using the definition of real as existing, you must supply what is real after the real. For example, "Socrates was a real person." This so...

Why is it the case? How potent are they? or are they potent at all?

The point was just to demonstrate how the valid logical arguments can have unsound conclusion, and not useful in practicality. Validity in logic doesn...

Again, your replies are just your personal claims saying my points are wrong, or you think it is not supporting my points. I am not seeing any philoso...