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You are a being, (an ostensible unity). Your parts are potential, not actual unities. Further, Greek atomism is long dead. There are no immutable atom...

Assuming there is one, if it is timelessly, it is necessarily. This necessity is either intrinsic (in which case it is self-explaining), or it is deri...

Believers do not need proofs. They are quite content without them. Thinkers need to examine beliefs rationally because, as Aristotle says at the begin...

No, it rests on a proof, (not an assumption) that a finite being cannot explain its own existence. If you want to reject my argument, show why that pr...

I suggest you look at F. Th. Stcherbatskv, Buddhist Logic.

While belief is not evidence, granting that the universe has an infinite extent, does not mean that it has infinite being, viz. the ability to do any ...

I gave more arguments for this in my previous post to Echarmion. There I argued, inter alia, that if we allow exceptions to the universality of this p...

OK, an explanation in this sense is an agency that effects what is to be explained. Knowing the explanation is nice. Having an explanation is necessar...

Yes, but since contradictions cannot be instantiated, (by the ontological principle of contradiction) they are not possible. So, the formulations mean...

It means that God's existence is not contingent on anything extrinsic. The argument is a proof of God's existence I've posted elsewhere. I'll post it ...

That is fine as long as we agree that it is not a actual number, only a measurable. If by "time" you mean the age of the universe, Aquinas disagrees a...

How does that show the measure number to pre-exist the measurement operation? There is no way to prefer one frame of reference to another, and so no w...

I agree that logical necessity is not physical necessity. Still, I think that physical necessity can be explicated by appealing to logical necessity. ...

I think everything I've said in the thread, including the existence of God and the nature of the good, can be established by reason alone.

One needs to look at the issue in context. What is locally good, may be evil in a larger context. Using a good poison to murder is morally evil. Why? ...

I agree that most of our practical thought is based on reasoning by analogy. I discuss analogy at some length in considering the rules of evidence in ...

Before a quantity is measured, It does not have a well-defined value to be affected. That is why the measure number of length, for example, depends th...

Well, I do think there is an objective basis for ethics, but that is a topic quite different from modality. I hinted at the basis I see above, in touc...

He is saying that change has the potential to yield time, and that when we measure change according to before and after, we actualize that potential. ...

Not quite. Typically one says that the existential situation (A) necessitates B. What is really meant is that A and some basis implies B. That makes n...

Quite possibly. I can easily envision a conflict between a claim of physical impossibility made by determinist and one of moral necessity made by a mo...

Thank you. Of course it is, nor was I suggesting the contrary. The point is that anything we actually know, we know from experiencing the one real wor...

Aristotle and we share a common purpose -- to understand reality. By standing beside him and looking at what he was looking at, there is every chance ...

My approach is to try to stand next to the author and see what he or she saw.

We are discussing Aristotle's consistency, so we have to use his definitions. Aristotle defined time as the measure of motion according to before and ...

I think we agree. When I study a text I also read a number of translations and commentaries. I wasn't suggesting that there is no need for grammar. I'...

I think that in virtue of his discussion of quantity in the Metaphysics, Aristotle would say that infinity is a property of numbers, and unmeasured ch...

Yes, translations of Aristotle usually have some degree of interpretive spin. The Loeb Classical Library Edition is useful because it has the Greek an...

I think that Aristotle is the greatest mind known to history, and that most of the errors in contemporary philosophy can be corrected by one familiar ...

"Transtemporal symmetry" is my term, but it is based on the formulation of the exchange principle in Dirac's many-time formulation of relativistic qua...

No, I am denying spooky action at a distance. Instead, I'm saying all detectors, anywhere in the universe, are constrained by transtemporal symmetry. ...

When we change the macroscopic setting of a detector, the microscopic details of its multi-electron wave function (our ignorance of which we call "ran...

The Social Justice Movement is not a movement against free speech or free expression -- unless it is expression as part of criminal action. In charact...

The "control" you object to is to prevent the unjust from violating the just rights of others.

The best to you.

That does not mean that hopes, beliefs, and desires are information, only that they are intelligible -- part of the state of the world we can be infor...

Of course, knowledge is informative, limiting the possibility of contrary states, but hopes, believes and desires are not informative, as they assume ...

The citation for the actual experiment is: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05080

As bulk matter (such as cats and quantum detectors) is held together by nonlinear electron-electron interactions, the superposition principle does not...

Thanks to calling my attention to this thread. I note that the cited article does not fully describe the experiment, and says in one paragraph that th...

It meant in my example that the reception is not yet complete and has little to do with the choices of those communicating. Logic is not a convention,...

The fact that the law of conservation of energy is empirically verified makes it (the conservation of mass-energy) a phenomenon to be explained. If, a...

No, we don't. If you had read either of the proofs I suggested, you would know this.

Recall that I asked you to define "coincidence," and you replied that "Coincidence means an absence of causality." So, we're discussing what "coincide...

Yes, I have. We do not have mere statistical correlation between initial and final states in physics. They are completely determined (caused) by the l...

As physical determinism requires that all purely physical events be caused, by this definition, there are no coincidences.

What has this to do with what we are discussing? Nothing! You continue to wander in the wilderness of self-imposed confusion. My meta-law argument is ...

This is a very confused claim. First, physics uses the hypothetico-deductive method, not strict deduction. So, physics never knows with the kind of ce...

That is possible. What would a charitable reading be? I was being charitable -- assuming you did not read Andrea Falcon's rebuttal of Rovelli's claim....

I am not ignoring coincidence. I agree that there are coincidences in nature. The question is, what constitutes a coincidence? If we are to apply the ...