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It is often difficult to determine whether it is worth it. Although where someone has entrenched beliefs and views they are not likely to change them,...

Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat might be of interest. If this person tried to eat a hat and we asked him why, we would know a mis...

I have read Hadot and found it instructive. If I remember correctly, he had an early interest in mysticism but later moved away from Plotinus’ Neoplat...

Experience of what? Does reasoning discover the truth of first things? Why doesn't he teach it to us? He does say that the sign of knowledge or ignora...

So when of comes to deep causes you disagree with the first premise?

What follows from this tautology? We covered that pages ago. I don't know. I would say that that this raises a problem. Wouldn't we say that if someon...

I agree but I think we disagree as to how high we can ascend. I think we also agree that is not something we should argue about since neither of us kn...

No, not at all. I simply do not make what has become a common assumption, that Aristotle rejects Plato. We should give some thought to the significanc...

Is the problem simply that we cannot say it or that we do not know? If as you say there is: then it is not simply the latter but the former. If, along...

If you do not understand that Aristotle's art of writing requires an art of reading Aristotle, then we will not get very far. In large part that requi...

I think it is rather the case that this goes against your own opinion and what might be regarded as the standard interpretation. The problem of what c...

"Faith based" is misdirection. Aristotle certainly did use theological premises. But as I interpret him these are not premises he holds to be true. Fr...

If I mistake X for Y my mental image of X is a picture of Y. Yes, but even though it changes, my mental picture of Zeus is still my mental picture of ...

There is a difference between God as a denied premise that claims to be a conclusion and a rejection of that premise. For Aristotle not all causes fal...

It is not that it does not warrant response but that you choose not to respond. You begin where you hope to convince others to end, that is, with your...

According to the time stamp, I read this 4 minutes after you posted it. It should not come as a surprise that he has not already done so.

Mincing words. God is a premise that underlies your claim, which is not an argument, that: You can develop an argument which leads to the conclusion t...

The sketch or description is not the mental picture. It is a representation of it. The mental picture may or may not stay relatively stable, but there...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82309-x https://phys.org/news/2021-02-dogs-body-awareness-consequences-actions.html You said: We do. The qu...

Again, this means one thing if the laws of nature are prescriptive and another if they are descriptive. A clear definition of self-organization: If th...

Non sequitur. Nature does not "apply" its laws. It seems as though you want to hang on Cartesian categories in order to refute them. Material does not...

@"Luke":

That is your supposition not a fact. It ignores the work being done on self-organization. It is understandable that you want to put it aside. Human be...

The development of self-organizing matter gives rise to the development of organisms. No dualism. This is still misleading. What you said was: That ou...

Contemporary philosophers of science, or at least the ones I think are worth reading, are much more likely to talk about self-organizing matter and sy...

I have said this more than once. The interlocutor uses it as a physical picture. Because he contrasts the mental picture to the picture. We still have...

Having recently read Aristotle's Rhetoric I have been persuaded of the importance of rhetoric in service of the truth. You said you did not want to pu...

The picture or description is what is imagined. The former, but to answer the question I could draw a picture or describe that content. Suppose I draw...

Some interpret it to mean that we can transcend the cave, but others that we remain in it. Some despise Plato because no matter how deep they go they ...

A vase remains the same.

No. It is the condition under which the story unfolds. No, we are left with an acknowledgement of the irreconcilability of viewpoints. The question th...

If, as you say: how can that image be the same a physical picture which remains relatively unchanged?

As I understand it, there is a gap between competing rational arguments, neither of which can resolve the issue, and what motivates an individual to c...

I am reminded of the following: I agree that in general if wish to be understood we we should strive for transparency, but things are not always as cl...

I don't see any inconsistency. This shows how a picture hanging on the wall differs from a mental picture. How do you reconcile this with PI 389? They...

Be careful what you wish for! In response to your comment: I gave an example where an object that exists the environment need not play a role. The ima...

It seemed wrong that what is first and primary should be some proposition or rule. What is first is being and beings not something someone, even someo...

Something has always bothered me ever since I first read Metaphysics. The term translated as principle. In his recent translation of Metaphysics, Joe ...

Suppose neuroscientists were able to give you access to my mental picture and render a public physical picture so that everyone can see what the conte...

Not necessarily. As I imagine something can change. One is physical and can be made public, the other cannot. One remains relatively stable and unchan...

Paine. Thanks for quoting this: What says you @"Luke"?

An important point! Despite what Wittgenstein says about the ordinary it is often an overlooked aspect of his philosophy. All the focus remains on the...

The content of the experience of imagining is what is imagined. The experience itself is a picture or description that occurs in the mind. In order to...

There are several things at issue here. The opinions we hold about the wise man (982a) refers, on the one hand, to those who desire to be wise and on ...

I wish to inquire what he may be up to. I take it that if he doesn't he has good reason why he doesn't. I don't think that not wanting to artificially...

If Aristotle is wise then why artificially stipulate a definition of wisdom? If knowledge differs from opinion then why not start by telling us what t...

I should have noted earlier that '10' is from part 2 of PI, or in the 4th edition "Philosophy of Psychology A Fragment". How else could the question b...

At PI 10 he says: Right, we cannot appeal to a mental image of red. This is discussed at PI 50 and the use of samples and paradigms. At PI 388 he asks...

Does the ordinary user make this claim about aliens and Trump? There is nothing ordinary about that claim.

When the interlocutor says at the start of 2: "For ..." the claim is that because a picture may be a picture of something else, the mental image is mo...