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As I said, I do not use numbers that aren't counts or measurements to describe reality. So, I would not use subjective "probability." It is only a mat...

Are you disputing the precept "Do good and avoid evil"? What is hateful to a person need not be evil. The Nazis found the just treatment of Jews hatef...

We will have to agree to disagree on. I see neither reality nor correctness as being in question, only the adequacy of characterization and interpreta...

That is a totally different question than asking if the meter reading was real. The question of reality is ontological, that of what suffices for publ...

Not by my definition of "real." If your meter read 17, for whatever reason, you really observed 17. Of course you do. Unless you have a sensory, neura...

And its interpretation. Perhaps you observed x because your electronics failed, not because of what you believed was the experimental arrangement. Per...

First, if I observe x, that is presumptive evidence that x happened. There is no a priori reason to suppose that x did not happen. Second, the purpose...

In the Sophist, Plato suggests that anything that can act or be acted upon has being. I do not think that "can be acted upon" increases the extension ...

About abstractions as actualizizing the potential to be known.

It would be unresponsive to what I said.

Not quite. Abstractions are not "made-up." Objects are intelligible, they can be understood. They are also are conplex, having many aspects, many note...

I just encountered your post, and began your paper. I found it well written and open to most of the problems you face. You write, "what do I mean by t...

You are welcome. I forgot to respond to the rest of your question. I suppose that one reason is that I try to be philosophical on this forum, rather t...

I am not well versed in George Fox's teachings or the practices of the Society of Friends. I am familiar with mystical experience as a transcultural p...

Thank you for the clarification. While I am a Christian, Aristotle was not. It seems to me that we should not pin the discussion of a goal to the pers...

Aquinas accompanies the Synderesis Principle (Do good and avoid evil) by an analysis of the nature of good and evil. If he had defined "good" as "that...

Aristotle starts his Metaphysics by sayng "All humans by nature desire to know." It is not the role of philosophy to sow confusion, but to truly satis...

St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that there is only one unchanging moral principle: "Do good and avoid evil." While good and evil are objective properties o...

Relativity (and quantum observtion) is fully compatible with Aristotle's understanding of reality. He tells us that continuous quantity is measurable....

I never said any such thing. In fact, I have said that Newton's theory, being adequate in the classical domain is true in that domain. No. I am using ...

How was Aristotle wrong in your view?

Don't concern yourself with Kenosha. He knows virtually nothing about how advanced physics works.

Those of quantum field theory, e.g. the Dirac and Klein-Gordon equations. I am truly unimpressed. I already said you are confusing the laws of nature ...

No. Quantum fields are subject to the laws of nature. The laws themselves have no extension that can be measured, while quantum fields do. To have ext...

If you think about it, the idea that physics is materialistic is nonsense. physics has a menagerie of particles, but it also has immaterial laws. They...

Of course, you can not believe what you are experiencing, for example, look at Descartes. He knew he was in his chamber, but chose to doubt it. The pr...

"I am not in pain now" is not the same as "I have stopped being in pain now." The first is compatible with never having been in pain, the second is no...

Thanks to you as well. Just because we can use our ability to count to describe a situation does not mean that those in it must be able to count. All ...

Yes, counting requires that we have developed the idea of number, but that is not difficult. All we need is for our mate to be happier when we bring h...

Yes, but moved on does not mean rightly moved on.

It's been around since Aristotle.

What counts as a thing, is an ostensible reality with intrinsic unity, i.e. an Aristotelian substance. The unity of an organism is not a mental constr...

Fundamental means that we are at the absolute starting point. The consequences of chess rules can't be a starting point, because the rules themselves ...

I said quite a bit about these topics in my immediately preceding comment. The basic act of knowing is awareness of present intelligibility. Intelligi...

It is because sets are not things, but mental constructs (ways of grouping elements in our minds). Primitive shepherds counted sheep by tying knots in...

Let me suggest that there is a difference between having a sensation, and being aware of it. We get uncomfortable sitting a certain way, and change ou...

I hope I'm responding to the point you are interested in. We each have what I call a "conceptual space," a set of concepts that we know and use to und...

Then, the rule is incomplete, because it does not state its condition. Further, since it is conditional, it is not fundamental. The problem is that "s...

Abstraction from the sensory representation, aka the phantasm. Baloney!. I already explained that, by attending to various notes of intelligiblity, we...

I read the SEP article on Sellars' section on epistemology. "(1) There must be cognitive states that are basic in the sense that they possess some pos...

"Perilously close" means "different from." I'll look at Sellars' argument, but I am pretty sure it doesn't work against my position.

This isn't my conclusion. What I'm saying is that knowing only how reality relates to us (and not exhaustively as it is) is not a problem, because we ...

Choosing what to do is a moral decision -- based not on absolute certitude, but on moral certitude, i.e. on what is generally true, given what we know...

If you're visually impaired, I could record the OP and send it to you privately. Otherwise, you'll need a text reading app.

Perhaps the title was confusing, but in the body I only said humans are fallible. If one violated the unspoken condition that one is playing standard ...

You seemed to be arguing that the knowing self is a construct, not an experienced reality. If so, then yes, it is different. Of course. And, it takes ...

I just looked up Stove's Gem, as I had not heard of it before you mentioned it. From the little I could learn in a short time, I agree with Stove that...

Classical theism, as represented by Aquinas, sees God as entirely simple and immutable. So, God does not elaborate positions over time, nor does He de...

What is experienced, here the knowing self, is neither constructed nor assumed. Acts of knowledge are self-reflective. Every act of vision informs us ...

OK, but chess is not foundational to reality. The purpose of philosophy is not to understand chess, but reality.