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No, I'm not sure I answered your question, "You are different from the physical object observed, so... why should anyone assume you got something to d...

It is not a tautology as the intention is mental and the working is often physical, so they are not identical. Will is a power, not a thing. Humans ar...

Because: 1. The intelligibility of the object and the capacity of the subject to be informed are both actualized by the identical act, viz. the subjec...

Yes. Intentionality is revealed by time-development -- whether that intentionality be human or merely physical.

I provided a positive case for my position. I am prepared to rebut any counter argument. (I have reviewed all that I could find.) That is the best I c...

Falsifiability is a criterion applicable only to the hypothetico-deductive or scientific method. One cannot apply that method to a hypothesis that is ...

Really? I've studied the question of brain modelling, and discuss in the last chapter of my book. Given our present state of knowledge, such modeling ...

Because if you read what I write, you can decide if I know what I am talking about. You certainly can't rationally decide a priori. I do not need to k...

You could, but as it is a definition, that would buy you little. It would merely mean that we use words in different ways. You can believe what you wi...

I think it is both the individual act and the series that is in question. So, you raise an interesting point. Yes, he does seem to be conflating a num...

I think this is close to the mark, except that ideas are not like other symbols. In the case of words and physical signs we first have to grasp the fo...

While I agree with what you say about confusing the forms of perception with the thing perceived, I don't think that the difference between sensation ...

This seems confused to me. The qualia of colors, sounds, smells and so on are the forms of conscious perception. The fact that your perception has suc...

i agree on the pain. As I said, I don't see God as the author of moral evil, but moral agents who can choose evil acts. As for physical evils, yes, it...

You might be interested in The Idea of the Holy by Rudolf Otto. He discusses the kind of feelings I think you have in mind.

I have explained in detail why it is not an equivocation. Repeating your claims does not help. You need to show why the arguments I have made are unso...

Yes. I think we can be more charitable if we try to stand beside our dialogue partner and try to see what he or she is seeing, rather than taking thei...

We are concerned with reality, not with what may or may not have been anyone's historical position per se. I am only citing these authors to credit th...

As I argue in my hyle paper, in Aristotle "form" refers to what a thing is now, while hyle refers to its tendency to be something else. Classically, "...

Thank you for your appreciative comment on behalf of myself and my dialogue partners. If you have questions, you should feel free to ask them. It is n...

Yes, I think you are right. I think that is what Augustine was expressing in defining theology as "faith seeking understanding" (fide quaerens intelle...

Thank you. Right. Certainly not something measurable. I am not sure exactly what you are driving at in this paragraph. I think what is of interest var...

I think we need to reflect on what is meant by "spiritual." Despite B-movies and the scoffing of naturalists, I don't think that most people mean some...

No apologies are required. If you believe in some form of eternal bliss. I have never understood how reincarnation makes sense. How can one be the sam...

I think you're confused here. Forms are not material objects that can be different because they are in different places. They are what informs matter....

I am sorry that you don't feel this discussion is worth the investment of your time. Given that you are unwilling to commit time to the discussion, th...

By referring you to the arguments in my paper. What advantage is there to my retyping the arguments here when you can click on the link? (https://www....

As I pointed out, there are a number of questions to be considered successively. This is evidence of teleology. The arguments for intentionality are g...

I am sorry, did I not provide you with evidence on some point? I thought I did: determinate final states in physics; grains of wheat growing into whea...

It is different in the sense that the part is different from the whole.is different from the part. It is not different in the sense of having a separa...

Right! As I have said many times, it is a projection of the object's form in two senses: (!) it is a projection in the sense of an existential penetra...

No. There are three related issues. 1. Are there observable instances of teleology: a. Do natural processes tend to determinate ends? b. Are there mea...

I don't think this is the thread to discuss the soundness of proofs for the existence of God, which is a huge question. I will simply say that in my c...

Thank you for the kind words.

Not giving the details of an argument does not mean that there is no argument. Clearly, I was asserting there are arguments, and referenced my paper i...

We had best stop as we do not have a common understanding of the nature of evidence and the role of logic.

Thank you.

Obviously, the arguments are based on empirical evidence. Also, evidence without reasoned analysis can teach us nothing.

No, I am assuming nothing. Read my paper. I give detailed arguments for the origin of the operative laws of nature and their intentional character. If...

Yes. You might want to read my paper: "Mind or Randomness in Evolution (https://www.academia.edu/27797943/Mind_or_Randomness_in_Evolution).

Abstraction is a subtractive process. It adds nothing to sense data but awareness. So, the universal, abstracted form in the mind is just the individu...

As I said before, there is the fact of processes tending to determinate ends, and there is the conclusion that tending to a determinate implies a mind...

This is an argument from authority, and does not respond to the arguments I gave rebutting the notion of an epistic gap, This is not at all like Arist...

If you mean we do not know the object exhaustively, I agree completely. Of course.

Thanks for the reference.

Oh. I see. I use "separation" to mean physical distance and "distinction" to mean logical difference. What you are calling "separation" I would call "...

I don't see this. There is no reason we can't have two different objects with identical properties, say two atoms or two molecules. Of course. Yes, bu...

Good.

Yes. They are abstractions with a wide range of application.

I only "jump" to the metaphysically certain knowledge that whatever the cause actually does, it is capable of doing. Since it informs me in the way I ...