You said Kant said we don’t actually perceive reality, and I give three examples where he says we do. Assertion properly denied....until something is ...
OK. Understood. Logic and reason don’t fail, but rather the thinking subject misuses them. We are all subjective, but not entirely so. Any conclusion ...
Duality is nothing but a name given to the intrinsic relational nature of the human cognitive system. Whether the world of things is itself of a dual ...
Well, shucks. That’s easy. Smashee and smasher are in the same reference frame, smashee is obviously not in a gravity well, smasher’s smashing device ...
The A, B, and C, in the comment were in response to your request for what I thought, in general. I took that to mean over and above whatever is includ...
No. I would only say they are different if I cognize them as different. We do not think simultaneous thoughts. Instantaneous in succession, yes, simul...
I’m saying I don’t even need the word “different” to understand relational dissimilarities; it’s just an instance where language mitigates confusion. ...
I’m not sure it has a meaning. Or at least a cogent one. Different is a relational condition. We never describe “different”; we describe a relational ...
.......yes, although I’m more agreeing with Rank saying it than saying it myself. A.) because you believe that some form of supernatural being or enti...
You know as well as I, that illogical arguments are still manifestations of logic, just as unreasonable thinking is still reason. Reason is way too su...
What is not a scientific fact, and is being acknowledged as true, is the existence in the Universe, or acts as the cause of the Universe, of the thing...
Threw me for a loop, no doubt. When I read “belief not in conflict with fact”, many years of cognitive prejudice comes to the fore and I wanna say.......
Oh hell no....I’m not arguing for or against anything I haven’t convinced myself I know something about. I guess I see where you coming from here. Not...
I bet you’re gonna get in a bunch of trouble by stipulating “not in conflict with fact”. Not in conflict with reason, sure, no problem; you had to rea...
When I compare a brick to a cinder block, I’m not sure I’m inferring anything. Why can’t I just be observing a difference, without having to logically...
As one of the (plural) you’s in attendance.....not me. Logic is just a set of rules for descriptions of true statements; it doesn’t determine anything...
Oh, yeah. Sorry. Title of the thread is sort of a clue, huh? Part. 6 does include some thoughts on maybe not publishing right away. He doesn’t mention...
So what’s the difference between this and any other dialogue with opposing views? Do you see you’re working from a location in space where a point can...
Part 6 of what? Meditations? I don’t know Galileo’s works well enough to comment on their respective similarities. Holland before 1638, at least, I th...
What....can’t a point be thought of as located on any one axis of a Cartesian system? Only a geometric figure requires two dimensions; lines and point...
Honestly.....hell no I can’t grasp the fact of one dimension. But I don’t have any problem grasping the concept of one; the problem comes with assigni...
Isn’t the prospect? No, because the math justifies the prospect of the one and has nothing to say at all about the other, and the human experience wit...
Oh, I dunno.....anybody putting opinion into print usually feels sufficient reason justifying it. In the case at hand......or was til he quit.....I pe...
Yeah....there have been metaphysical antinomies for centuries.....whatever can be thought under one set of conditions can be counter-thought under a d...
If you’re gonna pick a fight, at least come to the battlefield as well prepared as those you pick a fight with. Showing up and saying Hey, I’m here, n...
Even if by chance he was necessary, that says nothing about whether he was sufficient. Logically speaking then, he has no more power for the causation...
TO THE VERY SAGE AND ILLUSTRIOUS THE DEAN AND DOCTORS OF THE SACRED FACULTY OF THEOLOGY OF PARIS. This is the greeting Descartes used in his “Meditati...
Crap. Forgot the EPR spooky action. OK....I’ll grant your counterpoint. You know that’s up to 14 miles now, last I read about anyway. Chinese did it a...
(Chuckles to self) Wasn’t it Feynman that said, “shut up and calculate!!!”? Maybe Wheeler. I can’t remember. One of those theoretical eggheads. You kn...
Roger that. But I’m a metaphysical kinda guy, so it’s fine with me. Still, there was a time when mathematics wasn’t associated with off-planet possibi...
Hey....you asked me if there was a theory; common decorum mandates that I answer. Yeah, odd isn’t it? GR points to a sub-Planck dynamic but falls apar...
Yes, I think it’s called the Big Bang Theory, which has its roots in.....can you believe it? A Catholic priest’s?......essay on “the hypothesis of the...
Consider this, if you please: the Universe can account for its own existence, but cannot be supposed as the cause of its own existence. The former car...
No, my friend, I have not been given anything except that which appears to me as nothing but blanket, catch-all generalizations. And I don’t cop out b...
OK, guess you better talk to a real atheist, or at least somebody who actually gives a crap about stuff outside time and space, cuz you’re not giving ...
Then I am missing something as well, because I don’t agree that an atheist is forced to think the Universe exists just because. Only the rationally de...
Is that what an atheist rests his belief on? The Universe exists just because the Universe exists? If that’s true, I’m sure as hell not sending him an...
I choose to speak for myself alone, so when I say it is a tautologically true statement that the Universe either accounts for its own existence or som...
Hmmm...... How can an atheist be accused of magical thinking if he happens to accord with a theist’s belief, re: the Universe either accounts for its ...
Not interested in helping anybody out......usually on lending a helping hand, one comes away missing some fingers. My view.....because you did ask.......
To be clear, it was inquired that, given an dedicated understanding of a predicate of a logical proposition (matter of fact), could it be argued that ...
A thing is or a thing is not is a matter of fact. A thing is a matter of fact. A thing is not a matter of fact. In the first proposition, the subject ...
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