Idk why you keep giving me your definition of free will in bits and pieces. Can you just define free will for me? Not everyone assumes that free will ...
The issue is that you think free will exists outside of activations of nerve cells. That since I did something because of said nerve cells that must m...
Why must it have a point? Why must it be special? I generally don't get these kinds of questions. Like do people seriously wake up and think "Damn, I ...
Ok? With the definition of "uncoerced will" me typing this reply is an example of me exercising my free will, since no one is coercing me into typing ...
Unrelated to OP but :up: :up: . Though I'm not sure it's patterns of activity in JUST the brain, that is the stuff of thoughts. Perhaps then your conc...
The wording of this implies that "we" are something outside this causal chain trying desperately to violate conservation of energy and interfere with ...
In my case, I’m not satisfied with that. “Boiling point” clearly doesn’t refer to the word “boiling point” and it clearly has SOME referent. It’s not ...
Yes, that occurred before you showed up: Afterwards, you proceeded to deny B, without ever clarifying that you disagree with my initial definition. Li...
No it doesn't. In this case it's not an adjective, it's a value. In the same way that "the boiling point of water is 100C". But "condition" instead of...
I thought of perhaps a better way to put it. "decapitation" can exist abstractly even if it was impossible for things with heads to have their heads c...
That there exists a "pattern" or "arrangement" that "decapitations" is pointing to. It doesn't prove it but it also doesn't deny it, so I'm not sure o...
Quote when I did this. No what happened was I said "A is B" (A is boiling point, B is "temperature at which something boils") before you even posted o...
Wouldn't it be "therefore decapitations exist" if we're keeping the same form? I don't find that ridiculous, for "decaptiations" to exist in the abstr...
Note: When I say "boiling point of water" I mean under normal conditions. I think the boiling point can exist even if things don't really boil. If we ...
I don't think so. Because if there are multiple ways to derive something that doesn't lead to it not existing, but you seem to have been working with ...
What problems arise if we consider values to be real in the same way that boiling point is real? I think there is a problem with saying values are fic...
First off, I want to ask what you're trying to do here exactly. Because I don't see a critique of the OP so much as proof that I cannot say what I'm s...
The one that says that "mental stuff" is patterns in the op. If scientists find it to be some sort of matter I'll have to change that. Nor did I claim...
Considering I defined them to be the same I would say my intent is pretty clear: That you then proceed to argue against what you mistakenly thought I ...
"Ah but you see all the words we use are X so what I said makes sense". Regardless of what X is (in this case metaphor) I can't see this as anything o...
Yes. But any dualist you find will insist that there is mental stuff on top of this set of things as a whole seperate set of things. That's what's rul...
The value of the gravitational force depends on gravitational constant, the masses of the object, and the distance between them. Which for some reason...
Well, this seems to be a critique to basically every ontological system, and one that's easily fixable by including "absence" in whatever ontological ...
No it isn't. I was referring specifically to the value that represents the strength of gravitational pull, but sure, let's say they're the same. So th...
Yes, my claim was that the boiling point exists. That a "temperature at which something boils" exists. You said it doesn't because that temperature va...
And yet taxes exist.... I don't see what this has to do with anything. My point is simple. The amount you have to pay in tax varies a lot. And yet tax...
It wasn't just me that used said possessive laguage: But yes, the liquid possesses a condition. The liquid. Why would it be the condition? A condition...
Ok. So the state of the liquid is entirely a product of the mind yes? (as long as we're not talking about a particular liquid) We also know that when ...
Well I wouldn't say "absence of matter" is a "thing that exists" so I didn't include it in the system, but that's not to say I don't believe there are...
"Sir, there is a sum of money you must pay to the government called taxes" "Aha! But this sum of money changes for different people at different times...
Ok. And what is a "state"? Is it a physical thing, a mental thing, or some sort of quirk in language? Because your language certainly makes it seem li...
Right, but then are the fundamental forces themselves physical? What physical properties do they have? Do they have a mass or a velocity? What about "...
That is a non-sequitor. Just because it varies with another value doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Gravitational pull varies with distance. That does no...
The obvious question would then be why you are so sure those two categories are all there is. As for a lack of need for it: If things are either menta...
You seem confident it doesn't exist, so what exactly do you mean by "exist" in the first place. What would it look like if distance existed vs didn't ...
Yes. Not intentionally. I thought when we speak of "boiling point" we speak of it in the abstract. Not a specific instance of it. So the boiling point...
Yes, the boiling point of water is not a property. In the same way that the height of the empire state building is not a property. But height is a pro...
I have since then also said: The Cambridge Dictionary defines arrangement as "a particular way in which things are put together or placed". No mention...
What? How did you make that inference? No, everything that exists has a pattern/arrangement. No judgement is needed. To think a judgement is needed fo...
Do you agree that arguments of this form are valid: A is B B exists Therefore A exists If so, replace A with "boiling point" and B with "the temperatu...
Or that the pattern is simply irregular. ABABABABAB is a pattern. ABABBABBAABA is also a pattern. The second being irregular. It is our judgement that...
If so, then what is the explanation for all of us largely attributing redness to the same things? It sounds as though there is something in common bet...
By disagreeing with you there. A realist thinks they are necessary to explain some phenomena for example: It seems highly unlikely for me that all our...
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