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So, we always attend to every aspect of sensation and never prescind from some aspects to focus on others? We do not find them, we find them. Consult ...

I spent some years studying pure mathematics, so I am unlikely to forget about it. Being "pure" does not give mathematics any more existence than bein...

Nothing is not determinate, for if it had determinations, it would be something determinate -- something with properties. X in your example is indeter...

Yet, to find the numbers, we have to measure nature, not intuit them mystically, as Plato believed. So, Aristotle's theory is far superior. There are ...

The problem is confusing this kind of "existence," which has no ability to do anything, with metaphysical existence, which invariably can do something...

The problem with this is that potential being is not actual or operational being, and so it cannot do anything -- like limit how we think. If you want...

Yes, now it is. When it was made, the sexist connotation escaped notice.

That is why I defined it for you. Then you are talking about something else, not responding to what I said. This is confused. We do not "designate" sp...

I translate, "All humans naturally desire to know." Still, Aristotle was a racist and a sexist. He opposed Alexander's liberal policy of granting citi...

The species or genus members are The individual instances of the species or genus. Abstraction is not inductive reasoning. Abstraction is a subtractiv...

Again, we must agree to disagree.

The problem of change, the source of universal knowledge, the nature of time, the reality of mathematical objects, etc., etc.

Who is "we"? Aristotle solved a number of the problems, and others have been resolved since.

Yes. Still, we can abstract aspects that are common to a species or genus, and these aspects are grounded in the form of the species or genus members....

I would not say "mediator," as if it stood between the subject and object. Rather, it unites the subject and object, for the object informing the subj...

I hold none of these positions. I think accidents inhere in substances, as aspects of their actuality or form. I think that potentials, such as that o...

I think the way to avoid this is to stand beside Aristotle, look at what he is looking at, and try to see what he sees. This can never get us into Ari...

I also think that the mystical strain in Greek philosophy is under-explored.

I have no problem with your elaboration. My central point is that abstractions leave data on the table.

There is no point in continuing to respond to you.

They have to be united in the act of knowing.

First, this line of thought does not preclude intentional realities from acting on physical reality. Second, it does not show that purely physical ope...

No, I respect the human person, so, I am socially liberal except for abortion, where the problem is complex. I see a distinction between being alive a...

That is because we were not discussing entropy, or even order per se.

Exactly.

Aquinas says that we cannot know essences (including our own) directly, but infer them from the actions flowing from them. Nietzsche (or maybe his sis...

I think you two are defining "order" differently. Metaphysician Undercover means determinate form, and you are referring to the number of ways macrosc...

I do not reject the FA. It has led, inter alia, to the science of physics. I only reject its adequacy in studying mind. You continue to be confused. F...

This seems reasonable. I think Aristotle's idea of form is more applicable to organisms than the inorganic world.

I made no such claim.

Asked and answered. That it is not reducible to a physical process.

I agree that neither Aristotle nor the Scholastics focused on issues of personal identity, and that I am concerned with them. So, to that extent, I am...

I think I have some answers. If answers were not attainable, there would be no point in inquiry. Philosophy is not a game. I have not misrepresented i...

Yes, an Aristotelian approach is more than assuming an Aristotelian conceptual space. An introduction cannot exhaust intentions that take a full artic...

I did not understand that claim either.

Only potentially. The intelligibility of a must include notes that elicit the concept <b>, as I explained in my paper. It is because of need to elicit...

No, it is based on understanding, from experience, how we judge -- for categorization is a judgement, <a is an instance of b>. As Paul Churchland poin...

That is my point. Categorization cannot be a sensory function, and mind cannot categorize without first knowing, so Kant's theory is incoherent. That ...

Thank you for taking the time to read and comment upon my article. That is not my premise. I agree with your observations in one way, and disagree in ...

They are available online and some are quite long. Sensation cannot impose abstract categories. It can only modify of our prior neural state. To categ...

According to Kant's totally unnecessary theory. In reality, ideas such as Humean causality are empirical generalizations. I have Windows 10 and can op...

Aristotle already said much of this. https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=POLANR&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FPOLANR.DOC

According to Copleston, Aquinas is a moderate realist. So, Yes, and no. I am a moderate realist, and see God as having exemplar ideas in the sense of ...

Not "according to the categories," as I understand him, but by imposing the categories. For example, Hume rightly found causality as he defined it lac...

That is its context, though I agree with Hume's observations on the lack of necessity in "causality" as he defines it. If you read De Anima, you will ...

I am writing an article for publication in a Thomist journal rebutting this idea. I laid some foundations in my two articles on the evolution in Studi...

There are certainly many who have been confused by Kant. I am not one. I reject it, and I do not find myself alone in doing so. I see Kant's thesis as...

So, you see life as teleological? Seeking the goal of being self-sustaining. By definition, chemistry seeking non-chemical outcomes transcends the phy...

As I said, it is the different senses of "consciousness" that are analogous. That does not mean that there is no physical aspect. If you read the whol...

I am not writing a commentary on De Anima. I am discussing the Hard Problem. In one sense (its genesis) it does not emerge in interaction. In another ...