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Nothing except Senator Feinstein's honor and virtue in following the request of Doc. Ford that her name not be disclosed. In order to have an investig...

It is simple. We are aware of the action of objects on us in experience. This awareness guarantees that the object can act to inform us as it is actin...

1. You have not said what you mean by "permanent" in this context. 2. In claiming that time is not a measure, you show an inadequate grasp of the rele...

It is amazing how the virtue of Senator Feinstein is being used against her cause. Let us review the facts: 1. After consulting with her friends, Dr. ...

If he is willing to sacrifice a determination of the truth to the expedient end of being on the court a few days earlier, he does not have the tempera...

I do not see how this follows from the premises. First, what does "permanent" mean in this context? Second, time is a measure. For it to actually exis...

Yes, but that does not mean that the cause must exist in time. For example, the laws of nature operate to bring about various physical changes, but th...

Ford invites a detailed FBI investigation of her claim. Kavanaugh refuses to do so. That makes it clear who seeks the truth and who is willing to use ...

Question begging. This shows a total lack of understanding of what it is to be eternal. Eternity is not unending time. It is being at once. Hence anyt...

No, valuing is the recognition of the worth of the object to the subject -- just as knowing is the recognition of object's notes of intelligibility. B...

Thank you for the reference.

I am not assuming necessity. I'm asking about relevance. As science tells us none of these things, this is a hypothesis contrary to fact. As one train...

Really? Surely you jest! Science is going to tell me if I should be a Moron, a Jew, a Moselim, a Catholic or a Buddhist? Philosophy is?? Science does ...

There is no need to make a commitment when the data are conclusive. Then the only need is for honest acceptance. The commitment is made because framew...

It seems to me that you are making an error in assuming that acts of will, such as the choice of religion, are based solely on the perception of truth...

I think neither that philosophical theories are unique, nor that they can be derived in a few paragraphs. I do think that all sound philosophical theo...

No, I think you can derive any sound philosophical conclusion a posteriori by reflecting on judgements adequately based on human experience. I see no ...

It is amazing how taste can trump analysis.

It means every actuality entails the correlative potentiality. So, unless something is operational (proximately able to act), it cannot act/operate. I...

Creating the universe is not the critical point. The critical point is being the end of the line of explanation. Since everything has an adequate expl...

Do you agree that every line (regress) of concurrent causality must terminate in a self-explaining cause? If you do, then God has an unlimited capacit...

It is not inconsistent in se or with principles of logic. It is inconsistent with the metaphysically certain proposition "Nothing can act that is not ...

I favor sound logic over naturalist belief.

It depends on what kind of infinity you are thinking of. Actual numbers are the result of counting operations, which take time and so are necessarily ...

Reflections on the world are open to new experiences. Formal systems, which I take to be systems with fixed axioms, are not. The PSR is a insight for ...

To me the attraction of Aristotelian metaphysics is its conformability to the data of experience -- whether that be sensory, subjective or mystical..

I do not see these questions as doing more than rephrasing what I said in interrogatory form. I suggested definitions and do not intend to engage in a...

Yes, but it is an error we can come to avoid.

It seems to me that the role of philosophy is to develop a consistent framework for understanding all human experience: physical and intentional, effa...

It seems to me that "fact" has two senses. One is an intelligible state of affairs. The other is a known intelligible state of affairs. That a known f...

Of course. The PSR is an observation about the nature of contingent reality -- not an arbitrary posit. We see that changes happen. We ask how can this...

What we know about reality is not a closed, axiomatic system. One may formulate some subset of what we know into an axiomatic system, but reality is a...

Logical consistency. How can something essentially inadequate to a task perform the task?

Whatever explains something explains it in light what it is -- it is the kind of thing that can effect what needs an explanation. So, if something is ...

Unfortunately, all my mail comes to the real world.

Yes, I do. I was suggesting an alternate conceptual framework. Yes. Stace found that there were two classes of mystical experience that were reported ...

I wrote Plantiga to that effect, but he declined to respond.

Logical priority is does not relate to epistic value. It is about the flow of information. In a sound syllogism, the conclusion has as much epistic va...

I do not see why this has to be an either-or situation. As Aristotle pointed out there are many modes of explanation. Just because Wittgenstein focuse...

I have said that real objects can act, and some act to inform knowers. I have contrasted this with hypothetical systems which are informed by those po...

I'm really not picking on him. I am merely looking for the foundation in reality, if any, for naming imagined objects. Kripke's or Evan's view may wor...

We may be reaching an impasse. I do not see how proper names can function in the way Kripke thinks they must. Either a proper name can be assigned to ...

It means signifies. You are confusing two movements of thought. First, you judge <Rain is falling>. This signifies/intends the physical state outside ...

Pardon my mistyping "copula." I think you misread my claim. I am not speaking of the "is" of identity. I am saying the copula "is" of "The apple is gr...

Yes. My point is that judging is not an attitude. It intends a real state in a way that the attitudes you enumerate need not.

But that is all that a soul is. Aristotle define a soul as the actuality of a potentially living body, and Aquinas seconded him. To have a soul is sim...

I think here we come to the heart of the matter. On my model, which I think reflects the insights of Aristotle, Peirce and Frege, words mean the conce...

I am glad to hear that, but it seems to me you did: In this account p, the hope that p, the fear that P, etc. are all equally in the category of attit...

No problem some of these matters have waited decades or even millennia. A few days doesn't matter. Good point. So, we can agree that the real world is...

OK. That is quite sensible. I am not sure it is applicable here. I would say that, in normal intercourse, the contingent meaning is the literal meanin...