Walter Pound

That does not follow at all; please google nominalism if you are confused about other possibilities. Modern physics goes on fine without dubious metap...

Again, what matter does is not what matter is. Suppose that there is a Hydrogen atom and that the hydrogen atom combines with another Hydrogen atom so...

The difference is that a substance is a composite of matter and form instead of reality being composed of just matter. https://plato.stanford.edu/entr...

Science is a methodology. It accepts methodological naturalism and scientists go on and study the universe and try to develop parsimonious and natural...

These words are only names for whatever is observed. They are all names of what matter is or does. You want to suggest that "arrangement," "regularity...

And I said that the arrangement of matter can be explained with matter and gave an example of charge attraction. Forms seem superfluous. For example, ...

Laws are descriptions of the regularities of nature; they are not prescriptive. They are not entities in themselves.

The particles arrangement is determined by the particles inherent physical nature. A particle with an electric charge will head towards a particle wit...

Aristotle thought that matter was eternal and that there was a prime mover that made matter change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity_of_the_worl...

In fact, since Aristotle assigned potentiality to matter that forms actualize, it is worth examining whether there is good empirical data to support t...

Is matter eternal in the sense that it is timeless or is matter eternal in the sense that matter has always existed in the infinite past? Isn't the "w...

Form makes matter behave a certain way. Atomic number is just a linguistic label for the number of protons in an atom, but are physical and so both sh...

I don't think so since forms make matter what it is. In modern science, matter is not impotent and matter itself determines its behavior. Consider whe...

I am having a hard time following Aristotle's philosophy so I would be grateful if you could help see where I go wrong in here. I decided to reply sen...

Is MU an Aristotelian die hard or fanboy? Why should matter have anything to do with whether a kitten has the potential to become a cat? Sure, matter ...

Yes, I understand that Aristotle would say that an oak tree is a composite of form and matter and, while I think I have an understanding of what a for...

Suppose that a sculptor uses his tools and creates a statue of himself. The formal cause is the statue. The final cause is whatever the sculptor had i...

I agree that we shouldn't waste time wondering why Aristotle's metaphysics seems empirically false, but I am still curious to know how Aristotle would...

I don't see how this helps libertarian free will. God knows, changelessly and eternally, the actual state of affairs. God knows, changelessly and eter...

I don't think your analogy really works. Unlike physics (which can be explained with mathematical precision) libertarian free will thoughts cant be. I...

The thing is that whatever theory of the mind you want, dualist or idealist, does not necessarily make libertarian free will more plausible. What will...

https://www.amazon.com/Source-Book-Chinese-Philosophy/dp/0691019649 This book is pretty good if you want to read about chinese philosophy. I also reco...

From what you write, it sounds too close to indeterminacy. Can you explain what you mean again?

Agent-causal theories sound indistinguishable from indeterminacy. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_(metaphysics): "Most events can be...

"Philosophy’s second line of argument is based on a simple view of the highest good. She begins to put it forward in III.10, a turning-point in the di...

I thought these videos were interesting so I linking them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VptVYd7zENs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu2XbLPl_SY The...

Height is a sex difference if no other variable but biology can explain why height differences between sexes occurs. Your question is flawed; there is...

Google sexual dimorphism in the human species if you are serious.

believing that there are no sex differences and that apparent differences are due to socialization alone.

honestly, your hypothesis is unparisomious. The alternative hypothesis that I presented is far more parsimonious and is able to explain why even trans...

I think the denial of biology is sparked by a fear that if there are biological forces at play in shaping human behavior that those behaviors are as g...

Okay, so you are saying that while there may be average sex differences between men and women that individual men and women are not necessarily in lin...

I agree that some women are taller than some men, but I don't see how it follows that there can be no sexual dimorphic differences in the human specie...

All that is necessary for there to be sex differences is for the human species to display average differences in sexually dimorphic traits. Men are, o...

I think this conflates genetics with brain structure. One hypothesis for why there are transgenders is that there was something in the prenatal enviro...

Money was on the extreme end of the blank slate theory; he truly thought that one's sense of being male or female was the product of social forces and...

This seems to equivocate how one knows X with what X actually is. Suppose that I am categorized one way or other, and we agree that the "categorizing"...

Interesting comment. I think I have heard Bertrand Rusell make a similar point, but I can't remember where.

Yeah, I know he thinks God is changeless.

If something came into existence uncaused, then it wouldn't be an "effect."

I am not insisting that something can come about uncaused; I am only accepting that that is at least logically possible.

If there are things that can come into being uncaused, then this would undermine Aquinas' argument further. I guess one response is that even quantum ...

Okay, but premise 1 and 2 do not allow for change to be just an illusion. If Aquinas went into that direction, then he would have refuted his own argu...

The issue is if eternalism is compatible with premise 1 of Aquinas' argument. I don't think he could argue for eternalism and that change truly occurs...

I once watched a debate between Arif Ahmed and William lane Craig and Arif Ahmed said, in response to Craig's argument for a finite time, something ak...

I see. Craig wants to say that God is Plato's Good and that God's nature is X,Y,Z. However, you say that Would you agree that simply stating that God ...

"Another response—given by Aristotle himself—is to point out that as we divide the distances run, we should also divide the total time taken: there is...

I think there is an even greater problem with Zeno's (and Parmenides) argument against change. The arguments that they give are supposed to be deducti...

Imagine if in our scenario we used an infinitely small thing instead of a finitely small space ship. The size of X distance and the time it takes to t...

Okay, consider this scenario: 1. So the distance between Mars and Earth is a finite distance of X feet. 2. The ship that we use to go there is a finit...