Science and Metaphysics are the subjects which pursue truth. If the absolute presuppositions has nothing to do with truth and drawing the borders of t...
The absolute presuppositions listed in the OP are all metaphysical statements deeply contentious in nature, nothing to do with or provable by Science ...
I feel that Metaphysics must investigate the presuppositions for their truth, falsity, unknowns and borders with knowable, and then present them to Sc...
Good point. I suppose ideas could have their properties, hence idea of gold would be heavier than idea of paper for the same mass and size. However, i...
I think I agree with Colingwood on his concept of Metaphysics. Then there emerges questions. Is Metaphysics a part of Science? Or Is Science a part of...
To sum up my points, it is illogical to recommend suicide or commit suicide, when killing oneself is not the answer to the problems whatever problem i...
If Science is based on the presuppositions which can be either true or false, then it is unable to provide useful knowledge. It then relegates to supe...
Isn't "I" a necessary existence? I think, therefore I exist. That statement seems not quite logical. I exist, therefore I think. This is logically cor...
Great explanation on the point. Thank you. My thought on the point is still idea is building blocks of propositions (which can be true or false), and ...
Sure. Cool. I wasn't saying your idea is wrong. I was just looking at the issue from a different angle. Looking at the ideas and concepts from differe...
They are propositions. Propositions are either true or false. Ideas can be building block of propositions. Ideas are mental image. On their own it has...
In Hume, ideas are copies of impressions, and is totally mental in nature. But it is interesting that Hume was talking about vivacity and strength in ...
Interesting, that you find my points are poetics. Poetics are supposed to be beautiful written expressions of thoughts on the nature or mind. What par...
If you read his posts, he talks in the ordinary street folks manner on the hot philosophical terms, and then tells you are wrong with no backing argum...
Every time I listen to my favorite deceased musicians' performances when they were alive, they reincarnate in my mind as if they were alive at present...
Birth is a part of life. There is no life without birth. Death is the end of a life. But it is not just an event. It is also a fact, a case and memory...
Do every objects and events in the universe have causes? Some clearly yes, and some are unknown. On the later case, modern science falls apart like a ...
They are not just events. They are also extension into the being and transformation of the being. That is exactly what I was pointing out. But you can...
I wonder if you are reading posts at all before replying. I have never said that you will die multiple times. No, never said that. I said that death c...
That's just an ordinary folk's view on death. Death continues eternally. It is an event for transformation from a physical being to immaterial being. ...
I think this is an interesting topic. But I wondered if beauty should be confined to visual images only. Music or poetry can be beauty. Are they not a...
Death continues eternally. The moment of death is only the mode of existence transformation. One exists as a living, and one keeps existing as a dead ...
A visual image itself cannot be beautiful, until you have perceived it, and came to a true judgement that it is beautiful. Hence the true judgement i....
Isn't beauty in the eyes of beholder? An old cliche, but an undeniable truth. Isn't truth more beautiful than some visual images? What eyes see might ...
It is just emotional response rather than logical thought process. There is no logical entailment from. X is suffering, therefore X must end life. No ...
If your own son or daughter was suffering of some illness, then would you let them end their lives? Is it a logically coherent thought process? I find...
Yes, I agree. It is neither my interest of topic nor my specialties in philosophy, so I don't have much to add on the concept itself. However, it seem...
I was not saying that you cannot understand any words in all situations. That seems what you are trying to make out here. No, I was not saying that. M...
Whatever you wish. :) But whatever you say and write in public reflect your own integrity and shows up your educational background and mental states t...
I was just explaining on the origin of the word. The word didn't exist. The people who changed their genders started to show up in the society, and th...
This is a more of logical thinking rather than anything to do with pacifist or whatever nonsense. X is suffering, doesn't logically entail X must end ...
If you said, "UP" to me, I wouldn't have a clue what you are meaning. I would have then asked you "What do you mean by "up"?, and if you said "Up is f...
Just because some one said he/she is suffering, you think it is right to end their life? It seemed those who financially benefits when someone dies se...
There were no such words as "transmale" or "transfemale" in ancient times. But in modern times there are people who changed their gender, and the word...
The people who are supposed to have been suffering and decided to end their life could have been actually claims of the relatives who want to speed up...
It just goes to show how misunderstanding and misusing language can lead you to come to total misrepresentation of the objects in the real world. You ...
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