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I accept that that is your faith position. Thanks for sharing.

Scattering light and attracting bodies gravitationally are actions.

Anything not composed of material constituents. Either consciousness is made of matter or it is immaterial. If consciousness is made of matter, then i...

There is no problem with my definition. I am not denying that "logic" can have many meanings. I'm specifying the meaning I'm using. I defined what I a...

I am sorry, but no. To actually signify a sign must actualize meaning in a mind. If it does not do this, it is only a potential sign. We can recognize...

I have a problem with this, because if awareness were one and communal I would be aware of every other persons experience and they of mine. I am not. ...

If you are talking about God, I agree that the cosmos is utterly dependent on Him. Still, I don't think that God's existence is so easy to see that at...

Yes, there are three atoms independently of anyone counting them, but there is no actual number independently of an agent thinking it.

Have I denied that the intentionality of the laws can be traced to God, or that God wills freely? No, I am saying that applying the laws of physics ou...

My, my. A little charity, please. Working backward: 1. I am a determinist when physics is an adequate abstraction. 2. I am not a determinist with resp...

If there was nothing (no one) to acknowledge the abstraction <rock> there would be no abstraction to acknowledge. There might still be actual rocks, a...

Yes. Aquinas would say that the human mind is ordered to the understanding of material being.

Thank you for the explanation and reference. I would agree that this is a presupposition of the physical sciences, but I have argued that they have a ...

First, I think that we can agree that "representation" has many analogous meanings, and while there are good reasons to prefer your usage, if we are c...

Of course "logic" can be defined in many ways, so it is not one thing, but many related things. That is why I defined what I meant by logic: the scien...

No, rocks scatter light, gravitate, resist imposed forces, etc., so thy exist.

I think "being as such" (being qua being) is not the same as what you're calling "pure being." When I say being qua being, I am thinking of any instan...

I have shown you the texts and the logic of the case. There is nothing more I can do.

There is noting to "adhere" to. The analogy only explains the naming convention, not a prescriptive rule. Of course not. Analogical predication is par...

But the question is on what physical basis can we draw the distinction?

There is survival value in generating an "appropriate response." Whether you're moving in the right way in response to data on your internal state or ...

Of course, it is metaphysically impossible for nature to "just be" without a concomitant cause.. Why? Because an infallible sign of existence is the a...

I like to project reality into different conceptual spaces -- to think about the same thing from different perspectives. I think doing so, and compari...

i have no problem with your formulation. Mine attempts to accommodate a neuroscientific approach to mind as much as possible.

I see no point in continuing to beat the poor, dead equine.

I think of being in terms of what i call "Dynamic Ontology" in the hope of reducing confusion by being more explicit in the meaning of my terms. I was...

Because "reality" and "nature" are so general no one would know which aspects we are referring to. Actually, the primary use of "law" in this context,...

Thanks

That is arguable. What impressed the Greeks the most about nature (physis) is that it changes. Still, Aristotle might argue that change is only possib...

Yes. Aristotle calls First Science "theology." We only call it "metaphysics" because the book appears after the Physics in the corpus. First Science o...

Hyle is a principle of physical continuity. Arguments for the immortality of the soul point out that there are human operations that do not depend on ...

That is the argument of Parmenides that Aristotle answers with the concept of dynamic potency in hyle. Matter is never either the old or new form. It ...

If you are describing "what is," your description is based on reality. I am calling that reality, the one being described, a "law of nature." If I am ...

Who claims his?

Only a discontinuity in form, not in all relevant aspects of being. There is a continuity in the underlying dynamics (dynamis = hyle),

If you are describing "what is," your description is based on reality. I am calling that reality, the one being described, a "law of nature." If I am ...

Not unless I also denied that the universals we think have a foundation in reality. I do not. I have said that universals result from the actualizatio...

Do you have an actual argument? Can you point to an error of fact or reason here? Or does your entire critique rest on the claim that my position is "...

I am not sure why agreement is unfortunate. I don't think i'd call mind an "attribute," but i know I wouldn't call it a "substance." I'd prefer to cal...

The old definition of logic, as "the science of correct thinking" still works for me. We might be a little more explicit and say it is the science of ...

I have done my best to understand your position and arguments. My present conjecture is that by "measure" you do not mean an operation that produces a...

You are quite welcome.

By "substantial change" Aristotle means generation (in which a new form comes to be), and corruption (in which a form ceases to be), as opposed to acc...

Yes, I mean that subjective awareness (as distinct from medical consciousness), is outside of the competence of physics because the Fundamental Abstra...

Effectively, you are saying that, regardless of their misguided philosophical beliefs, they practice physics as if there are laws operative in nature....

Animals have what we might call "medical consciousness" -- an objectively observable state of responsiveness. We have no evidence that other animals h...

I have also studied neuroscience and modern psychology, and found nothing in them to suggest that introspection was dispensable. So, being open to rea...

Really? I assume that the unstated premise here is that dogs, horses and cows know as we know, If not, your claim makes little sense. I think that the...

I have looked up "IBE" and still have no idea what you are referring to. Which shows that there are rational approaches to reality other than the hypo...

No, Aristotle is claiming that. I'm merely agreeing. No, Aristotle considers this possibility in Physics i, 9 and rejects it, because the form of a th...