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I thought I dispensed with that misunderstanding. I pointed to multiple motivating factors from which action stems. Still, given multiple conceptual p...

Thank you for commenting. I do not see will as the beginning of action. Physical action can be traced back to the Big Bang, and if multiverse theories...

To make a commitment is to will. In choosing, we are not merely more motivated toward one alternative than another, we commit to a line of action. We ...

Donald Trump in his claims that he had the largest crowd at his inauguration and that he won the 2020 election. Also, all who chose to believe him, kn...

Yes, time exists, but as a measure number, a being of reason. No, they are grounded in the reality of change. Yes, Aristotle was a student of Plato. H...

Belief is an act of will: committing to the truth of some proposition. Sadly, what we know does not always elicit belief. There are many examples of p...

The discussion of time begins in ch. 10. There he notes that "no part of it is" (218a6). So, we need to be aware that while it is convenient to speak ...

Of course. No, I have not read it. You might take a look at this review: https://www.academia.edu/31170852/Mind_and_Cosmos_Why_the_Materialist_Neo_Dar...

An effect (order) is distinct from its cause (the operation of the laws). Looked at differently, order is evidence for a source of order.

I agree with you for the most part. Order is a result of the laws of nature, which are not the same as our descriptions of them, because they act to d...

Where? In Aristotle's definition, the territory is the changing world. Time is a coordinate we place on its map. Yes. We do this in light of the echos...

It has actual existence as what it is, say an apple, but is potential with respect to our perception (sensibility) and comprehension (intelligibility)...

You are welcome.

Philosophically, I can only say that what the agent intellect does cannot be deduced from physical considerations. So, it is ontologically emergent. W...

I regret that I cannot continue this exchange. Responding to you is very time-consuming, and not enlightening as we go over the same points repeatedly...

You are conflating sense experience, which is how we know intrinsic properties, with the experience of mental processes, such as judging. It is not th...

Thank you

No, Aristotle does not think in terms of representations. They appeared in the Muslim commentators and then in Aquinas (that is part of the paper I am...

I think part of the problem with theories of intellection is confusing presentations, which are direct acts of the intelligible object, with re-presen...

This is what I have been saying. One event actualized two potentials: that of the sensible to be perceived (of the sounding to be heard) and of the or...

That is not an error. Being unable to "distinguish what" means we did not sense enough to elicit a prior concept. It does not mean that we did not exp...

I have no problem with figures of speech that are recognized to such.

We are not talking about memory, but sensation. The "recognition" that is subject to error is judgement. You have provided no example of an error in e...

We need to define time in order to avoid confusion. Aristotle's defines time as "the measure of change according to before and after." If we accept th...

I like Reeve's translation of the passage. It presents the line of thought clearly. Yes, the Aristotelian tradition reflects order in nature. That is ...

I have said that our knowledge is as much subjective as objective. In my model, the subjective side is depends on (1) what we select to attend to, and...

Let me remind you of your argument. It did not involve the identity issue directly. I said that in classification, we compared intrinsic properties to...

This is modal nonsense. Possible errors do not imply actual falsity. No. First, there is knowing by acquaintance. It is not judgement, but an inchoate...

If that is your argument, you need to rethink it. Possibilities do not imply actualities. No, you are not. Judging makes description possible, but it ...

Your response does not support your original point, which was that we could not know intrinsic properties because of the possibility of error. Only er...

Yes.

Still, our concept <man>, while founded on reality, is also based on the properties we choose to attend to.

As I said, eidos has two meanings: actuality (De Anima II, 1, 412a10) and the essential idea. e.g. <human>.

No more need be said. :) "To err is human." Still, the fact that we can recognize errors, means that we can grasp the truth. That is why science has a...

Don't you realize that this kind of hostile language, with the implication of bad faith, is what discourages dialog with you? You have insights to sha...

To give you the courtesy of an answer, possibility may always exist, potentials do not. There seems to have been a point early in the evolution of the...

So, you think a potential statue is no different from an actual statue? A block of marble and the Pieta carved from it are the same? I cannot believe ...

Without judging the claim, a lack of data does not falsify a hypothesis. It may make it unnecessary and unparsimonious.

Sure, easily. A set of 7 sheep has the potential to yield a 7 count, and so actualize the concept <7> in a person counting them. Still, the set of she...

I agree. I got thrown off the Aquinas list some years ago for making exactly that point, and refusing to retract it.

Don't you find abandoning logic irrational? There is no need to ditch excluded middle if we recognize that numbers are concepts and their "existence" ...

None are forms of judgement. They are all acts of will, not intellect. To judge is to see the truth of some connection, not to make an arbitrary decis...

Yes, but it is not the number that you can think of that is actual. It is the number you do think of. The point is that numbers are not things. They a...

You know the difference between thinking of 7, as when you are thinking of the seven dwarfs or the seven days of the week, and not thinking of 7. That...

I am sure that some make this claim. A claim is not an observation or an experience. Again, consider how we apply conclusions to concrete cases. In or...

"Being able" means that we have the potential to do so. Numbers are actual only while being thought, because they are abstractions and so instruments ...

The argument about token replicability is intended to meet the objection that first person observations (aka introspection) is not properly scientific...

It does not exist in virtue of being written. The string "10^1000" exists. It is not a number, but a symbol capable of eliciting a number concept, spe...

Yes, that is mathematical Platonism. There is a related kind of extreme realism, which holds that measured values pre-exist measurement. This was prom...

Yes. It depends on how we are thinking of it. If we are considering a few objects, it would be thinking the count of the objects. If we are considerin...