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A priori

May 28, 2018 at 06:30 27 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

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Heidegger made in my view metaphysics. He suggested that only Germanic people are humans due to they construct their existential project (consisting f...
November 16, 2018 at 10:05
Thank for the comments. In my view, it is "semantic" matter, or linguistic one in general. Kant would not be agree that philosophy is contradictions f...
November 15, 2018 at 16:11
Obviously, the "crossing out" rule only works for certain premises and notations. My claim is that there are other "rules" with the same consequence f...
October 18, 2018 at 07:47
The point is that the crossing out is other logic than "classic" modus ponens, but it is a formal way that leds to a valid conclusion (necessarily tru...
October 17, 2018 at 08:14
In my view, Kant's examples of synthetic a priori are not theorems, as I said wrongly in the first commentary. The synthetic a priori fits for example...
October 11, 2018 at 06:58
The Goldbach conjecture, for example, is true a priori, and synthetic. If someone proves it, the conjecture will become into a theorem, and so it will...
October 11, 2018 at 06:52
When a the truth-value of a premise is relative to other premises, it is not called "premise" but "conclusion".
October 11, 2018 at 06:34
The assertion (1) "There are no a priori synthetic truths" can be tested by showing a example of a priori and synthetic truth, as Kant showed. Mathema...
October 11, 2018 at 06:28
Logic is an instrument of justification. The logical systems have or not consistency, completeness, etc. They are some of properties of some logical s...
August 08, 2018 at 10:47
Metaphysics assertions led to contradictions, as Kant showed. We can prove that the world is created and not-created, and so. The metaphysics is not a...
July 12, 2018 at 10:18
I am agree. My view is that Goodness and Simulation arguments are very close, so by definition God would be able to occult us.
June 16, 2018 at 05:54
I want to say that mental states fit brain functions, and mental states also have functions (to predict movement, differentiate objects, etc.), but th...
June 15, 2018 at 08:04
Since I do not endorse that mental states have not a function, but they are a function, of brain states, this argument about the identity does not wor...
June 15, 2018 at 07:33
I try to show that your 1) premise is not true, so your argument is lack (or it is a vacuous tautology).
June 15, 2018 at 07:11
I think, as I posted at beginning, that there are 1) individuals (sociological level), which 2) use its brain (biological level) 3) to think (psycholo...
June 15, 2018 at 07:04
I think that mental states are not defined by their functional roles, but brain states. That is, in 1) you must change "mental" for "brain". Then 1) a...
June 15, 2018 at 06:54
And they can also mean the same, such as the context of my previous answer. I am explained my view in previous post, so I will not repeat it. Basicall...
June 15, 2018 at 06:40
I do not understand what do you mean by "system of abstract facts itself".
June 15, 2018 at 05:49
Sorry for my expression, I try to be the clearest as I can. My claim is that Singularity is by definition unknown, such as God in religions, the playe...
June 15, 2018 at 05:33
I am an instrumentalist, functionalist, pragmatist, etc.: brain is the evolutionary solution to the advantage that think has. Individual is which thin...
June 15, 2018 at 05:21
Sorry, I am editing the post.
June 14, 2018 at 16:00
I think it is a very interesting question. Consciousness can be the "vividness" (number of pixels), but also the "integrity" (i.e., not superposition ...
June 14, 2018 at 14:38
Computer is a mathematical concept. Alan Turing defined it (the Turing machine) and also its limits (the halting problem). Human is the biological spe...
June 14, 2018 at 14:22
It is another abstract example. I do not understand what want you say with this. In my view, a rational skepticism would question the validity of the ...
June 14, 2018 at 14:03
You said that rejecting IQ tests shows low IQ, and to question its validity shows high IQ. Because you are questioning them, but you do not cite anyon...
June 14, 2018 at 08:26
Scientific theories are supported by empirical data. You have not data (I suppose) of your claim. It is possible, but again you do not show any eviden...
June 13, 2018 at 16:17
Your theory about IQ (predictable by people's belief about IQ tests) is not plausible. I said that dismissed IQ tests shows low IQ ironically. IQ is p...
June 13, 2018 at 10:38
If you think that IQ tests are bad designed, so they are not scientifically valid, you should show some kind of evidence. If your argument is that emp...
June 13, 2018 at 10:30
Social, linguistic and musical features of intelligence are also measured in the IQ test. People only show the limitations of empirical science for ps...
June 12, 2018 at 09:35
In my opinion, this rules for all psychological (and scientific in general) concepts. Only logical and math concepts are "universally well defined".
June 12, 2018 at 09:23
You can be sure. I work in a very related domain. People often do not know what is an IQ test.
June 12, 2018 at 07:28
This the wrong point. Why IQ tests are different to other psychological ones? The questioning of IQ validity is an evidence of low IQ.
June 12, 2018 at 07:11
Consciousness could be the temporal synchronization of several different and specialized brain areas (brain channels or "senses"). When this happen, t...
June 11, 2018 at 09:50
In previous responses I said that you can see objective and subjective red objects. You seem to want misunderstanding me. Anyway, even when you imagin...
June 11, 2018 at 06:00
Red is how individuals see certain objects when they are lighted. This is a psychological fact. You are which must prove that the scientific view of c...
June 10, 2018 at 13:56
I summarize as I understand the relations between brain, mind a conscience. We start with brain, which is an object of nature (the phenomena to explai...
June 09, 2018 at 17:55
Another way of accounting conscience is the following: conscience is the vividness or "resolution" of mental states. It would be a property of mental ...
June 08, 2018 at 19:24
The property of redness is said to all that we call "red", both if it is real or fictional light. I follow the semantic rule of predicating a property...
June 08, 2018 at 19:11
So, you can say "What is that I am viewing?" "A red tomato"; "How are you viewed it?" "Very vividly". "With that are you viewing it?" "With my visual ...
June 08, 2018 at 16:55
There are several problems with Hard Problem. Another more is that we do not experience the Red as red (the Redness) but something as red. An object (...
June 08, 2018 at 16:49
I will try another way. How do you know that 1) "Red is a Conscious experience that exists in the Conscious Mind" is true; but 2) "a Conscious experie...
June 08, 2018 at 16:03
I'm agree. Basically, free will could be viewed in an operative sense as the ability of 1) wanting to do something and 2) multiple possibilities. 1) r...
June 08, 2018 at 10:05
It is relevant in my view to emphasize the difference between individual and specie in the TOE. Sometimes, there are genetic mutations in individuals,...
June 08, 2018 at 08:16
I think that you are in a kind of conceptual vortex. "Red" is a color...
June 08, 2018 at 05:00
You continue assuming that brain and mind are like two effects, that can "correlate" such as the increasing of educative and economical level. If you ...
June 07, 2018 at 17:43
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"Logic" are these systems and by definition no other thing. "Reality" has not a logical structure but physical. You seem to be a rationalist like Hege...
June 07, 2018 at 06:31
I think that a constructive analysis of Hard Problem could be the following. It is not possible to differentiate a priori, for a given subject, if he ...
June 06, 2018 at 16:27
You are which is seeing the PC, but not the opposite. It seem to me very trivial. That is, camera in the example is like human glasses: you extend, in...
June 06, 2018 at 16:10
I think that the book permit us to know a lot of not evident features of mind. The synchronicity in groups, circuits, etc., of specialized neurons whe...
June 06, 2018 at 15:57
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How it is possible to prove logical properties in something that is not a logic (a formal language constructed by humans)? I view it as a complete non...
June 06, 2018 at 11:53