1. The occurrence of my personal thinking along with the simultaneous occurrence of my personal existing are open to the possibility of complete cessa...
1, Semantic distinctions are tangential to the core issue. 2. As a human being, the only kind of thinking I can have both an idea of, and a direct per...
The point being that your argument is false precisely because you do not recognize that it must depend upon that experience in order to be true. The b...
Technically you're correct. But the whole point of my argument, which you are missing or ignoring, is that your type of exceedingly abstract argument,...
I think the following article, although lengthy, constitutes a direct response to your OP. Hope you enjoy it. CRITIQUE OF DESCARTES’ ONTOLOGICAL ARGUM...
I believe Einstein is stressing the importance of the role of creative imagination in scientific discovery. However, he did not mean this to exclude t...
I subscribe only to the ongoing development of better, more comprehensive, empirically testable scientific theories about the physical universe in whi...
A "perfect" circle never existed, does not now exist, and will never exist. It is inherently impossible for humans to experience a "perfect" circle. A...
Charles Darwin argued that forms are not divine, eternal, Platonic ideas but natural biological species that originate and gradually develop, one from...
Precisely because contingency is an essential characteristic exhibited by the human Cogito Sum that is equal in importance to its indubitable certaint...
In other words, for any human who performs the Cogito Sum in the first person, present tense mode, be it performed either in this world or in any poss...
Descartes' use of hyperbolic doubt and, in particular, the constant deception caused by the "evil genius," postulated conditions under which it would ...
Absolutely it has a bearing. It's simply dead wrong to assert that Einstein relied wholly and solely on reason. He also relied on the experimental res...
I believe there was a time when it was thought that someone would be "crossing the line" if they asked the "foolish" question as to whether, or not, i...
I don't mean to be facetious, but has anyone actually verified that arithmetical proofs are true in all possible worlds? Have they visited any of thes...
I did not claim that there are no necessary truths or that the contingent Cogito can't grasp them. What I am claiming is that there is nothing "divine...
The first principle Descartes discovered was the Cogito Sum. But, unfortunately, it was an indubitably certain principle that was inherently contingen...
It seems to me that the major opponent to the so-called "perennial" truth of the Aristotelian/Thomistic notion of static, eternal, divinely created, s...
If some entity or activity is closed to, not vulnerable to, not subject to, or not susceptible to the possibility of complete cessation, then I consid...
Nowhere in what I have written and posted here, and elsewhere, on this Forum have I ever claimed that the truth of Descartes' Cogito Sum was not an in...
Words that perform something in being said, or expressed. Words that create something in being said, or expressed. OK GOT IT! So, then, man is like th...
Unfortunately, yes! Unless, of course, someone who fully understands and respects the argument can demonstrate that there is a serious error, or omiss...
Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion. Too bad you're incapable of understanding what I wrote. Perhaps your "verbal gymnastics" are better ...
I respect your critical position regarding the problem of Descartes' solipsism, but I do not really see what it has to do with any of the specific con...
If we are simulated beings, then, by definition, our existence and the existence of our universe is CONTINGENT in the sense that both would be open to...
The following explains why I think the Ontological Argument is false. CRITIQUE OF DESCARTES’ ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD That the ex...
No, Descartes was not aware of Hinduism. European thinkers only began to translate Sanskrit works during the late 18th and early19th century. As far a...
Perhaps, in this world or in the next, I am existing in, or as, someone else's dream; and when that someone else awakens, I cease to be. To put a diff...
It seems to me that the question of an afterlife is a curious one because, on the one hand, if I do continue to live after I die, then by definition I...
According to Nietzsche, Schopenhauer was an atheistic nihilist because he advocated for the Denial, rather than for the Affirmation, of the Will to Li...
The Cogito ergo Sum is not, inherently, an inferential argument. It is, instead, a performative argument. It must be executed by each person, in the f...
Being aware of the lessons of history does not depend upon, or require, first being indoctrinated by the extreme leftists, or the extreme rightists. M...
So an exaggeratedly expensive education about "cloud, cuckoo land" which is, for the most part, economically worthless will, nevertheless, provide me ...
There is a significant difference between those persons who take courses solely because they delight in learning and those persons who take courses be...
According to Sartre, there is a Pre-Reflective Thinking activity (Thinking in the First Degree) which is the ontological condition for Descartes' Refl...
[reply="Philosopher19;47694 Unfortunately, I still can't take away anything truly meaningful from your repeated assertions that "Existence exists," or...
You state that "if something is meaningful, then by definition it exists." But descriptions of certain forms of mental illness clearly demonstrate tha...
If my consciousness is a thing, then, certainly, it is a very unique and peculiar thing. My consciousness does not exist in one place. In fact, it doe...
The activity of thinking (my thinking, your thinking) is not a something with essence (a what), it is not an essential entity; in fact, thinking is, i...
Hello Nyma: The paradox you cite is, to me, not a paradox. I am not claiming that "things" can go in and out of existence. Along with Descartes, I am ...
\ Please reference my article on this Forum entitled "Why I Think Descartes' Ontological Argument is False" and the associated thread comments and ans...
Phenomena are entities and activities encountered by the human brain that exhibit both transcendental and empirical characteristics. Transcendental ch...
If I may. Two different subjects: Subject 1. Einstein said he just discovered the possibility of making the abstract Special Theory of Relativity conc...
Abstract ideas are neither found, nor made; they are thought. Please explain with greater precision what your statement means which begins with "... b...
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