I really do not understand what you are up to. Do you think we need to restrict what can be communicated and (consciously) experienced like in "Who ha...
My gut tells me you are switching the order of qualitative and quantitative differences . The diamond is a a real "thing": It stays in form if left al...
The model describes existence, the way something is. It does not describe how it is to be a duck. Is that a blind spot? I don't think so - I am not a ...
When thinking the global development a strict(er) block-building course might be the way to go. My parent's generation had the cold war scenario which...
This sounds problematic as what else could set a moral end if not that, which makes moral decisions possible in first place? What happened? Did we jus...
The question that you should be asking then is "How is moral conscience even possible?" Simple logic gives this: The ability to distinguish between ri...
An "end" would be something of unquestionable value. Happiness is good and hence worthwhile. "Maximizing" it.... seems formal. This seems to give it p...
May be, but I was not speculating about metaphysics. The declaration of will of an individual must be assumed as free expression. It makes no sense ot...
No. It is a synthetic judgement. If "will" is not (perceived) as free then it isn't "will" at all. This has a meaning in the subjective dimension. You...
Define? I don't think so. Mediate? May be. We could also point to examples what is bad and leave the conclusion open. "The good" is that what can be w...
From a deontic point of view the moral end is "the good" which deserves unconditional preference over "the bad" or "the evil". This is not a state of ...
The situation often is that, for example, given the choices A and B, B is chosen. If you put up another choice C, so that there are A, B and C and the...
Which is just half-as-bad as if I just start to count. What is it that I am counting there? From your description I would actualize some potential. I ...
To me this seems like an outright contradiction. You create a space of number potentials waiting to be turned into numbers. This is a bad speculation....
I see no difference between the claim that a number-potential is guaranteed to exist and the claim that a number is guaranteed to exist. Where are tho...
Could it be true? The most impactful philosophers in modern history had either to flee their countries or decided to leave for good. Is the paycheck a...
But why would it _need_ to be selected to be present? This is why the follow-up is not a straw-man in your case. Say evolution wants fire for the warm...
Which is where you should stop - here the speculation over "potential existing numbers" is completely absent. That is what sends you right to the plat...
But you are contradiction yourself. Try to tell me what it _is_(contradiction number one) that is "potentially available" (we can predicate those pote...
Taking a position to argue from pure reason, the transcendental ego or the res cogitans, I'd say. He says that the choice made is the choice for the c...
I see those nilly-willy argumentations all over the place This is not how evolution works. We can say that advantageous properties have a tendency to ...
I get the metaphorical idea but think it is not logically sound (at least, as presented). What I understand of the philosophy of mathematics is, that ...
I simply do not understand. There are so many stars in the sky, so many corns of sand on the beach.... Mind you, when you have 7 things, you have 6,5,...
Sorry, I still do no understand what you mean by thinking a number. We have explored a few different directions and approaches already. I am afraid I ...
We are able to do what you said for every number that can be written and we know that we can do it. How then are there numbers that do not exist? PS: ...
I'm confused. Does the number 10^1000 exist or not? It is written there, but you won't find or be able to think that many things. "Thinking the count"...
Well, not being able to judge the quality of such translations I am limited to saying I find his remarks interesting. Let me summarize and elaborate a...
Which - in history - got apparent especially when a concretized potential invalidated the whole underlying concept. Yet one could say that the mode of...
I am sorry, I got carried away by the course of arguments. I haven't studied Plato or Aristotle in original, but I find the explanation of causes and ...
Sorry, I have to counter this with an out-of-context Hegel quote I take this to say: in the moment you actually choose a number X for a "natural numbe...
When I say "For every natural number X there exists a number X+1", does such a number exist for every natural number of your choice? It is widely acce...
It does not seem to make sense to argue about this. One can make the argument that there is something like a space of all possible concepts. Like the ...
Having to choose from given alternatives means you did not decide to choose, nor did you decide which alternatives there are to pick from. Where is fr...
Cannot see that - truly free will is not concerned with worldly affairs or affect. The formulation of a "need to decide" already makes clear that the ...
Must be quite an A**hole to create humans that way just to make them suffer. In that way Descartes seemed to have a valid concern: It leads to way les...
I tend to question what could be meant with that. We say a reflection on thought is one of our selves but do not overcome the distinction of the obser...
Aren't you doing now what you accused logics of, namely sacrificing meaning and sense to form? Now we are doing "language games" - Chips are dealt, we...
I do not really see the point of this discussion. Positive statements have to follow some rules to not be just wrong. And being able to refer to an id...
It might seem that the statements 2*a = b b = 4 follow each other but they "happen" at the same time. There is only one "b" - it denotes one and the s...
Mathematics do not know time. For example the law of the excluded middle states that any sentence must be either wrong or true. It doesn't matter if o...
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