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I like how you said what the difference between "substantial being" and "matter" is supposed to be. (And especially with respect to claims I'm suppose...

How about answering the question instead of posturing? (And will you believe me when I say I'm surprised if you never answer the question?)

The problem with that is that I wouldn't say that anything is "founded on matter." Everything simply is matter/dynamic relations of matter. That just ...

Okay. But I don't see the fact that physicalism doesn't seem intuitively right to you as a good reason to reject it.

First I'm not even using the term "substantial being" am I? And I wouldn't. What in the world is that term saying that "matter" doesn't say? So if I'm...

Yeah, i would say that's just determinism, then. I don't see it as a semantic issue, really. I don't think it matters what we call anything. I just do...

As I said, I'm skeptical that "the usual folk metaphysics" would clearly refer to a single view, rather than many different views. I was simply asking...

And the contradictory positions are?

Wait a minute--let's clarify this first: "the usual folk metaphysics" is physicalism re the mind-body issue?

Where do those saying anything like "Here's my argument," or in any way suggest that I'm presenting an argument, or say anything resembling "naive rea...

So then my view isn't "the folk position." I couldn't care less if it is or isn't "the folk position," assuming that even clearly refers to some singl...

If It's "the usual folk metaphysics" and there's supposedly a problem with it, there would need to be a good argument for whatever the problem is supp...

Naive realism is a view re philosophy of perception. "all ideas are composed of matter is what a realist would say" doesn't have anything to do with p...

I'm not using the term in an unusual way. Yes, of course. That too. Why would they be matter but not be compromised of matter, or be compromised of ma...

Again, there's a standard definition a few posts up. Or you can just google "matter definition." Why would it have anything to do with a microscopic/m...

No. I was responding to someone who seemed to think that matter referred to something only microscopic. I basically said, "it's not as if 'a if F whil...

Wait--why would we be saying that either the particles or combinations of them are not matter?

Citation? I mean if you're going to either be that thick or dishonest, whichever it is . . . Aside from that, you're seriously arguing from a subservi...

It's not that the difference in how they're moving the pieces is subjective. It's that one set of moves versus another counting as "good at chess" is ...

I see you don't understand how discussions work.

Lol, could you be any more transparent about not being able to defend your view?

Excuse me?

Saying "rubbish" and then listing subjective criteria doesn't really work as an argument.

What makes a good or bad anything is subjective.

There's a definition above, but it's certainly not only microscopic. It's not as if quarks and leptons and protons and neutrons etc. are matter, but w...

"no alternative decision could have been made" was in quotation marks because I'm quoting Relativist.

Why in the world would you be thinking that matter is only microscopic?

Okay, but that's what khaled keeps asking for. A refutation under the auspices of negative utilitarianism.

Not if "no alternative decision could have been made."

Again this is incorrect. We directly perceive matter all the time.

So you literally have no idea what the difference is between thinking that there can be matter that's not just an idea and thinking that there can be ...

It's like asking how a shoe is different from a jellyfish. What would require an explanation is not being able to see any differences. Ideas are not t...

I find initial posts like this one frustrating, because you're really bringing up at least seven different topics. The topic I find most interesting i...

For it to be naive realism, though, it has to not just be ideas that you're observing or that you believe exists.

You don't have multiple options if it's the case that "no alternative decision could have been made."

What is the basis for that claim, though? I'd need an empirical reason to believe that people dancing alone isn't common. https://www.youtube.com/watc...

That was the point I'm making. Grammatically, "impairment of theory of mind in schizophrenic patients" suggests that we're talking about the theories ...

You're the source of your feelings, your dispositions. You don't buy them from a kiosk in the mall and then plug them in. We don't justify/rationalize...

If you don't understand that "good x" is subjective and not a fact, you're in no position to be judging anyone.

I've been studying philosophy for 45 years now, and I have a "formal" background in it. So no. Idealism isn't actually rampant in the field at large. ...

Chairs and tables are matter.

Then it's not actually a choice and not compatibilist. There's no actual (ontological) freedom involved. The argumentum ad populum comment was in resp...

Why would we be claiming that schizophrenic patients tend to have theories of mind?

A "proper philosophical argument" requires that (a) you actually present an argument, not just a set of claims, and (b) you don't just give up when ob...

You don't have anything like "total free will." You don't have the ability to behave in ways that are physically impossible, for example. You also don...

Aside from that, I've never been convinced that the personal/subpersonal distinction makes much sense.

Impairment of theory of mind? Are you suggesting that schizophrenic patients have theories of mind, and those theories are impaired by their schizophr...

I think it's a problem--and I consider it dishonest--when we pretend that we don't think something is stupid when we do think that. That's one way we ...

You've got to continue on to the next sentence: The reason that sentence followed the first was to stave off the confusion you're heading towards. The...

The same old idiotic confusion from poster after poster here: You observe their mind-independence. You don't non-consciously observe anything. If you'...