Perhaps a distinction can be made between the active intellect at work and the active intellect when there is nothing for it to act on, that is, at de...
On the Heavens, Book 1, part 2: Your argument, based on perishable matter, fails to account for this divine substance. Metaphysics 1026a: The primary ...
Right, the universal and the particular are not the same, but the universal is not a concept. The form man, and not simply a particular man who is tal...
The concept 'dog' does not bark and wag its tail. His concern with ousia is not a concern about a concept but the living being that barks and wags its...
Perhaps. But perhaps he is using a different rhetorical strategy. His audience was most likely to have been familiar with Plato's likely stories. In m...
Herein lies the problem. Being convinced that you are right there is nothing you can be shown to make you think you are wrong. Aristotle himself would...
In the Phaedo Socrates calls the hypothesis of the Forms "safe and ignorant". In addition to the forms he adds natural causes such as fire. (105b-c) T...
What you deny is that potentiality and actuality do not exist apart from those things that they are the potentiality and actuality of. If we cannot ag...
What is generally assumed is not necessarily what is true. Aristotle’s method is to begin with opinions. At this point he neither affirms or denies th...
That is the point of the quote above: You take part of the argument and argue against it as it it were the whole: Potentiality and actuality does not ...
In the Physics he argues that it is. The potentiality and actuality of what? There can be no potentiality and actuality of something that is not. Pote...
I thought that was what you had in mind. No problem interrupting the chain of interruptions. Here's a mathematical question: how many posts does it ta...
Thanks for pointing that out. I corrected it. Not the wise man's opinions but opinions about the wise man. Not lost. Jut a typo. The question about wh...
Having grasped hold of a life raft you are unaware of how problematic all of this is. You overlook the problems because you believe Aristotle has give...
The Senate Intelligence Committee findings, led by eight Republicans and seven Democrats. are not my "propaganda". The fact that the Trump Organizatio...
I agree with those who keep Aristotle and Thomas separate. One reason for this is that Aquinas' Latin distorts Aristotle's Greek. As it has been put: ...
If you are referring to this: I do not agree with him. I don't think Descartes plays a significant role in the work being done in cognitive science, b...
Spoken like a true Trumpster. Dear Leader would be pleased by your loyalty. Despite Trump's claim that there was no collusion and Barr's attempt to sw...
I think you overstate the case. It is not simply a matter of style but of philology and context. We need to be aware of how key terms were used and ho...
Isn't Kahn's point that existence is not an adequate translation of einia because to "step out" is to step out from something? Given Parmenides denial...
He did not disagree with them. Fox News knowingly peddles lies about the election. Is there any evidence that he attempted to stop them? Now you may n...
Murdoch saying he doubted their conclusions does not mean he cannot control his own employees. The news hosts themselves doubt the truth of what they ...
Time to change your username to Metaphysician Uncovered or much better suited Theologian Uncovered. Where exactly in Metaphysics does he say that mate...
Lacking extraordinary will power I am going to respond. The fact that you find it repugnant to think that order could emerge from disorder, tells us n...
As @"Paine" rightly points out, it is not just a problem for reductionists. How is it that there are conscious beings? After all, not all beings are c...
Asked and evaded. At best you have pointed to Aristotle's idea of the active intellect, which he says is immaterial. It is not a process because it is...
By leaving out an essential feature you are misrepresenting it. If you use Aristotle's term but do not indicate that you mean by it something differen...
No, I am not a Kantian. As I said I was correcting your misunderstanding and misrepresentation of him. Here's the difference: I regard philosophy as i...
So you've said. As if that settles the matter. The category 'b' must exist in order for 'a' to be an instance of it. First, a statement of Kant's posi...
That is an opinion stated as a matter of fact. According to Kant there cannot be knowing without the mind's categories. There is nothing incoherent in...
It doesn't, the mind does. According to Kant the categories of the understanding are a priori. You are confusing the attempt to understand Kant and my...
I think it would be more useful to copy and paste or at least summarize the article so that it could be part of this discussion. , The basis for categ...
The categories are the architecture of mind. They are not imposed in the sense that one can either impose them or not. They are the way the mind makes...
According to Kant, it is not that the mind organizes or categories facts, it organizes and categorizes the manifold of sensory intuitions according to...
Aristotle begins with living beings that have certain capacities, including consciousness. If one starts here there is no answer to a question that is...
'Active or agent intellect' is a term of art for Aristotle. An adequate discussion of it does not require a commentary on De Anima, but if you claimin...
When you talk about "laws of nature", "biological species", and "logical principles essential to science", despite your denial, there is an obvious lo...
Have you forgotten your own claims? I posted some above and here: While none of these claims were made in the paper but not because there is no connec...
A conclusion aimed at supporting his assumptions. What is not particularly relevant, whether he chooses to call it an conclusion or whether God is rel...
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