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Here. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/#PriPosPhy Now answer my question. How is that you believe there is no formal method for justific...

I find it odd that you claim to be a physicalist yet insist there is no formal logic to support your position.

You are silly if you think there is no formal logic that justifies the position of physicalism ontology. I have laid out the deductive reason why phys...

When physics predicts results that have not been empirically verified it is because these predictions exist as a result of the formal logic. This was ...

I will be honest, I have no interest in why you believe that what you said is valid. It is irrelevant to any point I have made on this thread.

You said physicalism has nothing to do with formal logic. That is demonstrably false. The physical world is described with maths. Hence formal logic h...

Where it is not logically possible to doubt then there is an effective procedure to account.

Now now. Be nice. I don't give an example because it is not necessary to do so. Physics is described with math (formal logics). This is readily availa...

Yes but if Chalmers is certain he has mental phenomena, then this can be reduced to an effective procedure for ac count on my view. If red is undecida...

Nonsense.

Well this is just silly because...yes it does.

Not just physics. Again I pointed out that there are good deductive reasons for rejecting solipsism.

We have to draw a line somewhere. If these things are decidable then there is a method for describing them mechanically. So decidability is a great li...

Except that physicalism explains reality with formal logic.

Really I don't want to spend my time refuting solipsism. You can conjectured that is the case if you want. But of course you cannot logically found th...

No I am saying it is not possible to abstract anything from elusive subjective access. This would lead to an infinite regress from ill definition. If ...

If you are not then you have no well formed logical method to define self. You would not be able to distinguish self from not self.

Actually you have it backwards. Subjectivity is abstracted from a necessary objectively existent dichotomy. There is the self, and the not self. Were ...

Yes being logically certain entails and effective procedure. If there is no logical room for doubt there is method such that you can decide without er...

All these arguments are undermined by any claim that there is certainty beyond logical doubt that mental phenomena exist. If there is such a certainty...

That is the point. When we claim there is no logical grounds for doubt this entails an effective procedure. Descartes showed that to doubt existence w...

If I am certain that you exist, it is because there is an effective procedure such that it is not logically possible to doubt that you exist. If there...

I guess philosophy is just silly that way! 8-)

Again how do you know you are having them? How can you be sure? Descartes has already demonstrated that there is a logical method for being sure you e...

Yes having no full and complete account is very different from having no account. I agree physicalism does not have a full and complete account of men...

Yes that does not address the issue of your knowledge of mental phenomena that simply are. How to you know they simply are? If you can't not know they...

Seems like a topic for another thread maybe.

Then you cannot actually claim you are logically certain you are having them. If you are sure then you must appeal to some other method, and the burde...

I don't follow sorry.

So you don't use logic to know if you have experiences or not? So there is no logical method for deciding if you do or do not have mental phenomena? O...

No, I mean there is no logical method if it is undecidable. To say you are definitively aware of experiencing your thoughts, to physicalist, is no dif...

oops, I did not read the last bit of your post carefully enough...sorry

Physicalism assumes that all mental phenomena is strictly mechanical, if intentionality is a mental phenomena then it is also, by default, a physical ...

I have been following this exchange for two weeks now and I have no idea what you two are in disagreement about. At first I thought that disagreement ...

off topic but what is your avatar pic of?

Well it's not just ruthlessness, greed, and ambition. There are plenty with these traits that don't make it to the top. So I think there has to be som...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i36ys4X-GgA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roHje14-K44&list=PLNJ4HelF6jHYIxjEj4GfgIQeeG7Q1wweo&index=5

I think so yeah. In the west you don't have to be born wealthy or powerful to attain wealth or power. And in the west they tend to value upward mobili...

I would not say it is the liberal view to "revile anyone who has self-love and to teach that the proper mode is to be poor, helpless, and full of self...

What brand of morality decrees this?

What do you think--would I be saying that?

I said Rand too.

I think turn about is fair play.

I was just busting your balls a bit. Relax. I thought it would be funny to give you a taste of your own medicine.

I'll answer this question when you answer mine in a way that I would consider an answer.

Are you saying there are objective truths about you regardless of subjective judgement?

Now this I have no trouble believing.

Oh, I was just going by the animated show. I have never read the comic and did not realize that he was portrayed as being psychologically invulnerable...

That is true I guess, he has not really been exploited emotionally or psychologically yet. Or at least I can't remember anything like that. I think th...

Yeah that is what he says that it is just for fun but.. He joined the hero organization for some reason. He also cares about his rank in that organiza...