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Remember that I don't even think that talking about "nonphysical" things makes any sense, but I'm trying to pretend that it could make sense. If it ma...
July 10, 2019 at 17:26
"Timeless change" is a simple contradiction on my view. Time simply is motion or change. If you're saying that God is timeless, then god can't formula...
July 10, 2019 at 17:20
How do we know that? You're stating it as if it's just a given, or as if it's a logical principle--and it does need to be stated that way if it's goin...
July 10, 2019 at 17:14
Being "outside of time" wouldn't imply anything about creation or destruction. It would only imply something that can't move/change at all as long as ...
July 10, 2019 at 17:08
Cool. I was just wondering. I know sometimes when Dennett talks about this stuff he also sounds as if he never makes "random" decisions, but that coul...
July 10, 2019 at 16:38
I think it's because he has the aim of arriving at a particular conclusion (a religious conclusion), and the arguments are basically ad hoc means of g...
July 10, 2019 at 16:35
If you think that works for everything, then it's necessary for you to have things always existing.
July 10, 2019 at 16:33
That's the claim you're supposed to be supporting. It's not at all a given. To use the arboreal example that's so popular, let's say you see a tree. P...
July 10, 2019 at 16:23
As always, by the way, you either have something existing forever or you have something spontaneously appearing "out of nothing" so to speak. Neither ...
July 10, 2019 at 13:02
Well, just in the sense that if there's not a prior state of x, there can't be a subsequent state of x, sure. That's because of what "prior" and "subs...
July 10, 2019 at 12:55
Who is "everyone else"? If you're referring to Hacker and the reddit stuff, those don't make any sense either. (As I noted in my post above.) Or are y...
July 10, 2019 at 12:41
I don't think that we can just assume determinism though. At least not in a "proof."
July 10, 2019 at 12:34
Why would you say that we have to be determinists?
July 10, 2019 at 11:15
I'm not talking about things that are hidden or unknown/not conscious. Are you telling me that all of your conscious thoughts, imaginings, feelings, e...
July 10, 2019 at 10:58
Yeah, although I wouldn't say that regularly asking oneself, "Is this correct? Why is the author claiming this? Is it well-supported? Is the author cl...
July 10, 2019 at 10:55
That sneaky bastard!
July 10, 2019 at 10:52
The whole reason that I wrote "seem random" and "where we're assuming that dice-rolling gives us random results" is so that we wouldn't go off on a ta...
July 10, 2019 at 10:51
You completely ignored this part: "Consider thoughts you have, things you imagine, ways you feel, etc. Aren't they sometimes vague/uncertain for you?"
July 09, 2019 at 21:59
That's not a tenet of solipsism and it doesn't follow from anything. Consider thoughts you have, things you imagine, ways you feel, etc. Aren't they s...
July 09, 2019 at 21:52
The object is entirely unknowable based on what? What is the support for that claim?
July 09, 2019 at 21:14
I was just interested in whether from a phenomenal perspective Relativist doesn't make some choices that seem random rather than always thinking about...
July 09, 2019 at 21:13
Sure you can, because it's not different independent of looking at it, at least from the point of reference in question, and there are always points o...
July 09, 2019 at 20:44
Don't you make any decisions that seem random, where you have two or more options you like equally, so you do the mental equivalent of "rolling dice" ...
July 09, 2019 at 20:36
So you're not positing nonphysical properties of some nonphysical substance, but nonphysical properties of physical substance? (Remember that I'm aski...
July 09, 2019 at 20:30
It would have to be some sort of substance, object, etc., no? Even if you're positing nonphysical objects, substances--whatever that would be. Otherwi...
July 09, 2019 at 20:24
How about this part: "properties have to be properties of something. Do you agree with that?" (This is why I usually try to not type more than one thi...
July 09, 2019 at 20:13
Yeah, a philosophy text.
July 09, 2019 at 20:12
Get lost with that. That's not philosophy.
July 09, 2019 at 18:45
You asked how I'd feel if strong determinism were true. I told you how I'd feel. I'd feel no differently, because I could just choose to ignore it. I'...
July 09, 2019 at 18:11
You're confusing different ideas, seemingly based on a weird "literal" reading of "seeing things as they are." No one is saying that we see "everythin...
July 09, 2019 at 18:07
That's what it would mean for strong determinism to be true. What I'm pointing out is that it's irrelevant, because phenomenally, it seems like I can ...
July 09, 2019 at 17:55
Ontological solipsists are saying that they definitely know something. They're not saying that knowledge isn't possible. What ontological solipsists k...
July 09, 2019 at 17:53
There must be someone who can write clearly, in a way that makes sense, that has some sort of logical flow to it, and that doesn't seem ridiculously m...
July 09, 2019 at 17:46
I'm not a fan of a lot of the moral tenets of the major religions. I don't have a problem with every tenet, but I disagree with a lot of it. The relig...
July 09, 2019 at 17:42
Yet another "Huh?" response from me. A lot of what you wrote seems bewildering to me. The first question, I suppose, is why are you conflating solipsi...
July 09, 2019 at 17:40
I was partially joking, partially making a serious point. Whether strong determinism is true or not, things are just as they are now. As things are no...
July 09, 2019 at 17:34
What definition of "information" are you using?
July 09, 2019 at 17:30
"Logic" is the smaller circle inside larger "Thinking" circle in a Venn diagram, not the other way around.
July 09, 2019 at 17:28
Like I could choose to ignore it. So what would it really amount to?
July 09, 2019 at 17:25
This doesn't make any sense to me. If any gods exist, their existence didn't hinge on whether we were aware of this. It's just like Pluto existed long...
July 09, 2019 at 17:24
Huh? I'm not following you, really. The point I was making is that properties have to be properties of something. Do you agree with that? Sometimes I ...
July 09, 2019 at 17:08
That wouldn't be the answer to where anything is located or what substance it's a phenomenon of, because it's not a location, and it's rather itself a...
July 09, 2019 at 14:58
So is imagination an example of nonphysical substance on your view?
July 08, 2019 at 17:26
Again, I was just trying to clarify something before moving on. Next, I'd want to clarify that you agree that consciousness would have to be propertie...
July 08, 2019 at 12:56
Sure, depending on your aims. All I was saying is that the dividing line simply tells you about how people formulate their concepts, how they use word...
July 08, 2019 at 12:47
Right. At the moment I'm just trying to clarify whether you agree that all physical things "have" various properties. Because it wasn't clear to me on...
July 08, 2019 at 12:37
Wait, let's say that there are no people, just to make sure that we're taking perception, mentality, etc. out of the picture. Don't you believe that a...
July 08, 2019 at 12:30
Why, though? Why would you start talking about language when it comes up? You could just as well talk about the factory where the oven is made, the tr...
July 08, 2019 at 12:21
But you're not addressing this: wouldn't consciousness have to be a property of something? Some sort of existent?
July 08, 2019 at 12:13
Obviously consciousness is a property of something, no? Why would you think of it as being "magic"?
July 08, 2019 at 00:16