Yes, and inescapably so, because we have two orthogonal (non-overlapping) concepts. Such concepts cannot both indicate the same aspect of reality -- t...
This does not tell me that, or why, Shannon's definition of information does not apply. What specific difference in meaning do you see? Please remembe...
Yes, I agree that Shannon was concerned with data transmission. That does not mean that, having abstracted a concept of information, that definition e...
What I am arguing is that Descartes's doubts leave what he actually knows (that he is in his chamber) unaffected. What is being questioned is his beli...
I have not addressed it, but there are two kinds of knowledge we have been talking about. Aristotle's account of ideogenesis as the actualization of p...
The question is: are more than half of Nixon's statements about Watergate false? One of Nixon's statements that is supposedly about Watergate is his c...
How can you say if a claim is adequate to reality or not, if it says nothing about reality? You're right, of course. Truth values are assigned. Truth ...
Sometimes we have no idea of a potential use. We just encounter being. We may take joy in it -- or we may not. I understand your extension of "use," b...
I appreciate you rounding out and balancing what I said. I think this may be seeing more in Descartes than is there. I sympathize with his goal -- sil...
Yes, because after Descartes, philosophers confuse distinction (which means independent concepts) with separation (which means ontological independenc...
Before Descartes philosophers were focused on reality. On being as such in metaphysics, on changeable being in physics and the philosophy of nature, a...
One reading is far superior to total ignorance. Yes, but in all, the knower knowing the known is identically the known being known by the knower. Not ...
The debate is about what Descartes called into question. The background for that is the philosophical understanding of knowledge at the time he wrote....
Let's begin with a semiotic reflection. "Knowing" names a human activity. "Believing" names another. In common usage, the meanings of these terms term...
At the beginning of natural science, we make what i call the fundamental abstraction of natural science. Even though all knowing involves both a knowi...
Descartes was on a quest for certitude. In this quest, he employed methodological doubt -- doubting everything he could reasonably doubt and ending at...
Yes, that is why it is annoying to have to repeat it multiple times. Once, in my first post, should have been enough. Once you get the point, the next...
"" <Self> and <other> are concepts elicited by different notes of intelligibility in our experience. Expressing these concepts with different words (f...
After my previous experience with you, and reading this response, I have decided that you are either arguing in bad faith or are constitutionally inca...
Yes, art my be redolent of emotional events that are very meaningful to the person. But, that meaning comes from within. It is not latent in the art. ...
Let me begin by saying that I've never had much interest in post-Kantian European philosophy, so you can't count on me to know the detailed positions ...
I'd say that if something is not involved in actual operations, it is entirely potential. So, the fact that the threeness of H2O is not doing anything...
Actually, I am only defining what I mean by "independent of matter" -- not making an existence claim. Examples could be Platonic Ideas, the "intellige...
i took the following as granting subjectivity: If Existence is not limited by essence, it can do any logically possible thing, including knowing itsel...
If you go to a university library, you can look at the journals and see which ones have similar articles. Then look up the submission and format guide...
You will have to do better. The claim of absurdity is not showing logical impossibility. If existence is a subject, it can only be such in relationshi...
Thank you for your comment. I am not suggesting the primacy of will. We can't will eftectively unless we know the existential situation. I would sugge...
I've been thinking about your perceived connection between Freud and Nietzsche. If this is your personal discovery, and you can back it up with textua...
Does that also mean that Freud is about Thomas Aqunias? How does Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which is empirical, come out of these speculations? Dial...
Speak of unbelievable! You asked about about correct thinking, which is singular. I replied in the singular. You, in the plural, speaking of "them." A...
The form of a vase is not physically separated and brought into the mind, What we do in abstraction is mentally distinguish the form of the vase from ...
We need to think about the potential being actualized by each operation. For any potential to be actualized, there needs to an actual being with that ...
Matter is the foundation in reality for the concept <matter> (an abstraction), which is expressed by the word "matter." While the thought <matter> is ...
i am ceaselessly amazed how I can explain my position repeatedly, and spark no glimmer of understanding. You asked "What defines correct thinking?" I ...
Because his distinction between formal and instrumental signs clears up a number of confusions found the philosophy of mind (e.g. in representational ...
No, I have not. I'm not responsible for you extrapolating beyond what i have said. You are confusing being material with the laws being dependent on m...
If we can be aware of realities essentially independent of matter, then awareness need not be contingent on matter. I think mystical experience shows ...
I disposed of. Which I have already said. Let me be more precise: forms of thought that are salve veritate, not accidentally, but essentially. Not qui...
I don't think your realistic interpretation of three is necessary to make the sentence true. The referents in the sentence are the molecule and its at...
"Thinking in relation to others" is the inescapable foundation of successful communication. If you have not already, you will find that I'm quite able...
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