Evolution by natural selection is a good example of a teleological explanation that is indeterministic at every scale. It is teleological because evol...
How does it help if these connections are only in our head and have nothing to do with the environment in which we live? How could we even exist in an...
What said. Also, consider that the paradigmatic cases of teleological explanations are those where human (or animal) agency is involved, and these are...
Just to make it clear where we stand, we have rules about self-promotion and SPAM: Now, you didn't include a link, but that doesn't change the fact th...
You know, there was not so long ago another cr..., er, thinker on this forum who challenged all comers to refute his theories. He made his (also self-...
Perhaps you didn't mean it that way, but the way this quote reads is that "a world in which we are: unable to have peace, unable to eradicate poverty ...
I have never had discussions over PM. I don't feel obliged to respond to, or even read crap posts from crap posters, so, filtering is not much of an i...
Generative AIs are trained on huge volumes of text from print and electronic media, and designed to generate similar texts. Since their training mater...
If this is going somewhere, please dispense with Socratic questions and get to the point. On the other hand, if you have no clue, as you seem to imply...
There are many things without which you cannot perform logic - breathable atmosphere, for example. What's the point of this and the rest of your quest...
Your precis on causality is well taken, but I don't think it is very relevant to the present discussion. Causation was not thought to be a law of logi...
I was only disputing the idea that logic is about the world, which is to say, that there is some kind of inherent correspondence between logical state...
P.S. Meh, I should read all responses before adding mine. But I'll add one thing: What question the OP is asking? It is never entirely clear. Is it ab...
Well, what would any of us be talking about absent intelligibility? If there is an object of discussion, it is perforce intelligible. As for what acco...
Yes, I get your point. Although the intuitiveness of Newtonian physics shouldn't be overestimated either. It only seems commonsense because the basics...
So, do you think that this implication has never occurred to any materialists, or that there have never been any materialists to begin with? Because I...
Right, and even that term is fraught and uncertain, as the article that you referenced shows. I have a hunch, though I cannot back it up with a litera...
So, it's just about physics being different? I don't think it makes sense to identify philosophical materialism with physics at a particular place and...
"Ionian materialists"? I thought you were addressing present-day materialism? For my part, I wouldn't venture to speculate about the psychological mot...
Can you expand on what you mean by materialism, beyond these caricatures: If materialism is, as you assert, a popular and intuitively attractive view,...
To be fair, it is often difficult to understand what you are saying. Perhaps a language issue. For example, I am not sure that I understand what you a...
There is a sense in which the motion of a body depends on other bodies in both senses: If there was only one body in the world, then the very idea of ...
You seem to be equivocating between "dependence" as being a function of something else and being grounded in something else. And your conclusion doesn...
The orthodox thinking in Western philosophy used to maintain that what we now call inertial motion (such as that of a billiard ball rolling on a flat ...
Conceptually, change only depends on time. And time depends on change - it's a mutual dependence. What neither concept requires is a magic man pulling...
Our intuitions are not universal and unchanging. They are influenced by experience, exposure to ideas (from science, but also from history, philosophy...
Well, that's a far broader question than the original topic. You won't make much headway on the question of magic if, in order to answer it, you first...
Your idea of an explanation as nothing more than giving a name for what you want to explain is not even deflationary - it is patently silly. To wit: T...
From what you have written, I cannot tell what distinction you make between a phenomenological and a fundamental theory. The contraposition of "descri...
You could leave the rest of the sentence as a wildcard, since what you wrote up to that point is a truism (or at least that is what it is meant to be)...
Libertarian free will requires agency, causal control, and most importantly, "genuine" alternative possibilities. The devil, as always, is in exactly ...
I am going to take back what I said. While not everyone frames libertarianism as a species of incompatibilism, some do, and that includes some promine...
This is a well-known objection to libertarian free will. It even has a name in the literature - the Luck Objection. Naturally, libertarians are well a...
Oh, I am not being pessimistic, just saying that the situation there is a lot more complicated and uncertain than the domino metaphor would suggest. E...
Your argument is not a truism, but its crucial premise stands without support. I don't know why it is so controversial to insist that in order to make...
It's all too tempting to reach for a recent precedent, but Georgia is nothing like Syria. Without an understanding of its specifics, it is useless to ...
I thought there was some major development in Georgia in the past few days that I hadn't heard about. But no, the ruling party is still in control and...
I was addressing the argument - not the thesis about what is sine qua non for intelligence, but that it is out of reach for AI by its "very nature." N...
No one said they were, so I am not sure whose fallacy you are attacking. I was just pointing out the emptiness of critique that, when stripped of its ...
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