Relativist

Remember that I never set out to convince you physicalism is true. My objectives were to help you understand it, and to provide my justification for b...

Why does it matter, if it's a category that maps to an empty set? That's an ontological claim: you seem to agree there are no spiritual objects, but h...

An hominem would be an irrational judgement that your reasoning was rooted in something about you that has little or no logical relation to the matter...

So you're just making the modest claim that the argument convinces you of god's existence. You are not claiming that it constitutes undeniable proof t...

On the contary. You assumed the burden of proof when you said: An "irrefutable proof" can't simply establish that the conclusion is possibly true; it ...

You responded to one of my posts with a set of unsupported assertions that were contrary to things I had said. Now you expect me to prove you wrong. I...

See the part in bold, above. My assertion was modest: an initial state of affairs is possible. Your claim required it to be impossible: it was inducti...

The fact that the language of mathematics treats abstractions as "existing" does not entail that they do. A physicist making a claim about the ontolog...

There a great many problems with your claims, but they boil down to you (and possibly some) physicists making metaphysical claims. The actual science ...

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I brought up the "spiritual/supernatural" because there are common beliefs about it, and my purpose was to explain what it means to be physical. So yo...

You answer that, in light of your support for the Trump Administration's threats to ABC. Personally, I do not think those in power should wield that p...

I don't want censorship, but I have a more nuanced view of free speech than you. And I'm not a hypocrite - like you. I do not, and have not, advocated...

US attorney resigns amid pressure from Trump after sources say he refused to charge NY AG Letitia James Trump and his Congressional sycophants accused...

Fascinating analysis! I'm also not sure exactly what to make of it, other than that this seems to be a promising methodology and that her general obse...

(Your first sentence is correct.) Mathematical realism is less specific: a dualist could be a mathematical realist. The metaphysical system "physicali...

So the free speech absolutist makes an exception, when it entails retaliation by his side; a retaliation that's an order of magnitude worse because it...

I googled the definition of Transcend: "to rise above or go beyond the limits of" Each of the postulates of physicalism goes beyond what physics can p...

The judgement is between 2 or more competing hypotheses, for the sole purpose of selecting one. And remember I have replaced my term "good reason" wit...

Lots of philosophical issues can be discussed without first establishing a common ontology. This includes discussions of epistemology and science. Yes...

Remember when the GOP was up in arms about Dems supposed assault of free speech - simply because they were asking social media companies to combat mis...

Because physics is not ontology/metaphysics. Physics tells many things about the natural world - all of which are best guesses - very GOOD guesses, th...

First of all, I have never claimed knowledge is impossible. I said it is rare. Is this sufficient for uncertain "knowledge"* to make sense, on your te...

In your prior response, you said: Who are you showing this to? Yourself? Me? If it's me, then it's only worth my time if you are trying to convince me...

That's correct, but I don't claim that most such inferences are rigorous. It's often just what seems most likely to the person making the judgement at...

My impression is that the things you have said are "left out" by physicalism are category error. Physicalism is an ontological grounding thesis, not a...

Correct- I don't have a level of certainty for every judgement. Modest Bayesian epistemology doesn't assume that I do: "Let me begin the sketch with M...

Before I respond again, please answer the question I asked: What is your objective? --Are you just explaining why you reject physicalism? -Are you try...

We disagree about how the word "belief" should be used. The problem with saying "physicalism might be the best ontology" is that it fails to communica...

You simply haven't been paying attention. I explicitly stated: "Degrees of certainty" are key to the "modest Bayesian epistemology*" that I advocate. ...

I have never said such a thing - you just assumed it. Multiple times I've said that I judge physicalism to be the metaphysical theory that is "inferen...

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You persist in treating all beliefs as categorical, despite my repeated efforts to describe it to you. Answer this: when you say "I believe X", does t...

I saw no reason to state the obvious. You figured out exactly what I had in mind (your stated example), as I expected you would. Acknowledging there a...

In Armstrong's ontology: -Everything that exists (every object) is a state of affairs, whose constituents are: the bare particular, a set of propertie...

There are good reasons to believe JFK was killed by a single person, acting alone. There are good reasons to believe more than one person was involved...

So you embrace a the platonic principle that (at least some) abstractions have objective existence that is independent of the objects that exhibit the...

I agree with everything you said, which is why I embrace naturalism/physicalism. But the one thing that gives me pause are qualia. Consistent with phy...

I made up the term. My focus is an effort at seeking truth that is of practical use. This entails things like: 1) setting a practical epistemic bar fo...

Here's where I stated my position on knowledge: That answered your question about whether there is anything other than IBEs. A deduction from other be...

It's not parallel. Your example entails a contradiction, mine does not. I don't think you understand IBE. An IBE is unreasonable only if there overloo...

You're conflating the mental act of counting with four-ness. A group of 4 geese has a property in common with a group of 4 pebbles, whereas a group of...

I'm being consistent, and pragmatic. Remember I'm making an inference to best explanation (IBE), and that requires taking all information into account...

There are 2 related and relevant aspects of mathematics: 1. The portion that is grounded in the actual world. This includes things like numericity: tw...

I do not take the objections of extreme skeptics seriously. If one considers there to be no uncontroversial facts, then one has no basis for selecting...

I addressed your issue in a reply to Janus: The "good reasons" are not established facts that falsify physicalism, as you seem to be implying. Rather ...

I accurately described what is meant by reductionism. It is a hypothesis in philosophy of science that an idealized, 100% correct, fundamental physics...

By "outside the domain of physics", I was referring to Physics as a discipline, with a scope of study and research. As I've mentioned several times, C...

Sorry I overlooked your question. This was the issue that Wayfarer and I were discussing, so I (erroneously) took it for granted. The "good reason" to...