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Ron Cram

['Member']Joined: May 10, 2018 at 22:06Last active: January 17, 2021 at 13:524 discussions176 comments

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Isaac Newton, Aristotle, Augustine, Wesley Salmon, Dallas Willard

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"Reality is what you run into when you are wrong." - Dallas Willard

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In: I'm looking for Hume followers to read and comment on a paper I've written...  — view comment
Regarding your question on Berkeley, I have not really looked at his work. But I can disprove Hume's view of the external world when he is in his more...
January 17, 2021 at 13:56
In: I'm looking for Hume followers to read and comment on a paper I've written...  — view comment
Thank you for the reference. Yes, I cite Schliesser's work. I noticed Hume's anti-newtonian outlook before I knew of Schliesser's work. I had just rea...
January 16, 2021 at 01:44
In: I'm looking for Hume followers to read and comment on a paper I've written...  — view comment
Yes, my thoughts on that earlier thread grew into this paper.
January 15, 2021 at 20:51
In: I'm looking for Hume followers to read and comment on a paper I've written...  — view comment
I'm sorry. It's a long paper.
January 15, 2021 at 20:50
In: I'm looking for Hume followers to read and comment on a paper I've written...  — view comment
It's long. Just over 50 pages double spaced.
January 15, 2021 at 20:49
In: Atheism is untenable in the 21st Century  — view comment
That's not true. Richard Dawkins has said that evolution has made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. It is possible for someone to...
October 18, 2019 at 14:26
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
I'm not sure what you are looking for exactly. But here's a website that will explain the basic equation which can be applied in different ways. https...
October 18, 2019 at 03:11
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
There you are going all anti-science again. You don't know how science works and so your criticisms of it are useless.
October 18, 2019 at 03:08
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Yes, it does. The energy is conserved and transferred from one ball to the other. Forget that for a minute. How does denying that kinetic energy is tr...
October 18, 2019 at 03:07
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
The ball isn't kinetic energy. The moving ball is kinetic energy. When the ball is moving, the ball and the kinetic energy are inextricable. Correct. ...
October 18, 2019 at 00:45
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
I've found another interesting paper. This one is by Erica Shumener. Her article is forthcoming in Synthese and is titled "Humeans Are Out of This Wor...
October 17, 2019 at 22:28
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
We don't have to talk about you. If you want to take up the challenge of refuting me, I've given you the four propositions you have to defend. Go to w...
October 17, 2019 at 22:25
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
I just found an interesting article by John Hawthorne. It's titled "Why Humeans Are Out of Their Minds." Published in Nous in 2004. Quote According to...
October 17, 2019 at 22:18
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
When the first ball strikes the other, you can hear the click. Your senses confirm one another because the external world is real. Hume was anti-scien...
October 17, 2019 at 22:14
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Why are you so emotional?
October 17, 2019 at 22:13
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
If you want to take on the assignment of proving me wrong, go for it!
October 17, 2019 at 20:56
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
The little google search I provided for you demonstrates that I did not come up with the idea on my own. It is too bad that Google retrieves a bunch o...
October 17, 2019 at 20:55
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Hume believed in the Principle of Sufficient Reason. Constantly throughout the Treatise he is inquiring after the cause of certain mental events. It's...
October 17, 2019 at 20:53
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
I have provided this answer more than once, but will do so again. Let's take the four examples I've cited. 1. One billiard ball moves, strikes a secon...
October 17, 2019 at 20:48
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
If an apple drops from a tree, it still falls to the ground. It does not go into orbit following a curved spacetime. Attraction exists. The warping of...
October 17, 2019 at 13:17
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Objects in motion possess (or are) kinetic energy. Gravity is not a kinetic energy. Gravity is one of the four fundamental forces in nature. The other...
October 17, 2019 at 13:11
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
I have. And I have asked you to refute me. You have not. It is the physical necessity that points to the laws, not the other way round. Are you doubti...
October 17, 2019 at 12:46
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
No. Leibniz did not invent the term "kinetic energy." The term was not coined until the mid-1800s. And this really has nothing to do with the vis viva...
October 17, 2019 at 11:26
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
No, you turned around my example to no point at all. If you want to refute my point, then you would have to explain how the body could continue to fun...
October 17, 2019 at 11:18
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
False. What is true on classical scales does not have to be true on quantum scales. Also, Sean Carroll didn't mention this, but Einstein was correct w...
October 17, 2019 at 11:10
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
You keep making that claim. I've already given you four examples where we can see cause and effect. Please explain to me what we are seeing in these f...
October 17, 2019 at 11:01
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Every physicist in the world has been taught that Newton's third law of motion is also called Newton's Law of Cause and Effect. How can you verify my ...
October 17, 2019 at 10:59
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
You are thinking about this wrong. We observe cause and effect directly. We come to understand the physical necessity involves. This leads us to under...
October 17, 2019 at 04:32
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
You are asking the wrong questions. Why not try to find an argument that will refute the examples I've given instead of trying to change the subject?
October 17, 2019 at 04:26
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Everyone knows that Newton uses the term "force" to mean "kinetic energy" and "impulse" to mean "transfer of kinetic energy."
October 17, 2019 at 04:25
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Hume has no idea what the world does. He admits that he doesn't understand motion. He's the opposite of a scientist.
October 17, 2019 at 04:19
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
What does that even mean? We make bread. If we use the ingredients to make bread, then we know it will provide nourishment.
October 17, 2019 at 04:18
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
It is irrational to argue that science will not continue to work. You have no evidence to support that view.
October 17, 2019 at 04:13
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Not true. Hume is arguing against the possibility of science. He is saying that we cannot possibly learn the things about the essence and nature of ma...
October 16, 2019 at 23:52
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
My first paper on Hume is not published yet, but it is not possible that the world is a consistent illusion. My paper demonstrates my point.
October 16, 2019 at 23:48
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
One. However, we don't have any cavemen to test the question on. When I say that you can observe cause and effect in a decapitation, it assumes you kn...
October 16, 2019 at 23:47
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
I don't buy the yang and yin analogy. The two ideas are mutually exclusive. Newton is the most important philosopher in the history of philosophy. The...
October 16, 2019 at 23:43
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
No, I'm not. The veracity of the senses can be tested. Testing is the whole point of experimental philosophy. Hume's argument is based on his skeptica...
October 16, 2019 at 23:40
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Hume says a lot of things, most of which is nonsense. If you wanted to know the nature or essence of a bar of metal, would you go to a philosopher or ...
October 16, 2019 at 23:31
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
I've already quoted Newton's Principia. I've already proven what Newton said.
October 16, 2019 at 23:26
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
I understand what Hume is saying. I'm simply pointing out that he's wrong. We have discovered the power behind the transfer of kinetic energy, we do k...
October 16, 2019 at 23:25
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
The words "fundamental level" refer to quantum scales. Hume was not aware of quantum mechanics so don't try to force him to take a position he never t...
October 16, 2019 at 23:22
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
It is not the poison that is toxic, but the quantity. Yes, it is possible to know that everyone who takes a certain quantity of a given poison will di...
October 16, 2019 at 20:38
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Yes, that would be weird and not what I'm doing at all. It is a logical fallacy to think that because separating a head from a living body would cause...
October 16, 2019 at 20:35
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
I can agree that you can think of causation and necessity as metaphysical concepts, but they have value because they accurately describe the real worl...
October 16, 2019 at 17:28
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Hume says it is just our habit of seeing these two events happen close to each other that we begin to think that one causes the other. Hume thinks thi...
October 16, 2019 at 15:14
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
It sounds like the Spiritism movement is trying to re-define Newton's Law of Cause and Effect. Newton's third law of motion was given that name long b...
October 16, 2019 at 15:09
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
Don't take this wrong, but you are a very odd person.
October 16, 2019 at 13:20
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
In the Principia, Newton tells us how we can learn causes and effects by studying the motions of bodies. After discussing motions, he then demonstrate...
October 16, 2019 at 13:20
In: Hume's Failed Attack on Newton's Law of Cause and Effect  — view comment
No, Hume is wrong. When we watch a match burn, we are seeing cause and effect. The flame is the cause of the match being consumed. We understand the p...
October 16, 2019 at 02:57
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