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We already had this discussion. Did you forget because you did not like the answer or did you close your eyes and pretend it didn't happen? You choose...

Have you forgotten what is being discussed? You said: Since you see no contradiction you are not able to address what is contradictory in the claim of...

The issue is whether it can be formulated it in a way that makes it acceptable to philosophy. Since you see no contradiction it follows that it is not...

You said: Was I wrong to assume that you were saying that you could do it? Was it someone else who tried to do so in your post? https://thephilosophyf...

I have compiled the separate commentary posts in order that it may be read together: 1. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/10914/platos-phaedo/...

In a few quick posts you have gone from claiming you can formulate the Trinity in a way that is acceptable to philosophy in general to throwing a tant...

But you have failed to do this. What you call "facts" are just assertions. But those assertions do not provide a logical explanations of the Trinity. ...

A mechanical system, a clockwork for example, does not need guidance. It is all just a matter of the shape of extended things in motion.

I don't think particulars as substances is compatible with Descartes' mechanistic view. Descartes does not deal with such things as prime matter and s...

Aquinas' physics is Aristotelian. It includes formal and final causes. In addition, his use of the term substance is different from Descartes. For Aqu...

Some thoughts: Descartes also did work in natural philosophy, optics, mechanics, physics, medicine, and so on. By regarding the physical world as mech...

The sayings of Jesus, New Testament and the doctrine of the Trinity are three different things. Jesus would have been appalled to find that he was dei...

I wanted to follow up on my comment about Euclid. Cartesian coordinates lined Euclidean geometry and algebra. Descartes sees it as a method for solvin...

@"Valentinus" I edited my original response but did not know if you saw it. Just thought of another also on Theaetetus the Sophist and the Statesman. ...

There is an important distinction to be made. Determining that it came from a lab still does not tell us if it is natural or synthetic in origin. It m...

I encourage you to continue the discussion. It is directly related to the text. Perhaps not what you had in mind but one meaning of from the gut is so...

I think there is some truth to this, but first an objection. How a term is meant to be understood is by definition a definition. He does make a distin...

Plato's criticism of Protagoras must be carefully read in context in order to see what he is and is not rejecting. The Forms are presented as if they ...

From the Meditations: One thing I find odd about the Principles is that he says it is not necessary to define terms (10) but he says this right after ...

I answered this yesterday but I should have made the problem clearer. According to Socrates "safe" answer it is Life that brings life to the body. Acc...

The statement in question is from "Discourse on The Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences". In Part 1 he says: D...

I know you did. I was drawing out the point. I agree. I think he himself says as much. Right, and the myths are intended to strengthen that faith. Do ...

@"Banno" A few more thoughts: Wittgenstein's concept of language is far more restrictive than Plato's. Plato addresses the psychology or character of ...

I think it is Socrates mind ordering things according to kind. It is the kind of thing Mind does. I don't think this is meant to be the intelligible o...

One that comes to mind is, "How Philosophy Became Socratic: A Study of Plato's Protagoras, Charmades, and Republic" by Laurence Lampert https://press....

There are certain continuities that connect them. There are a few passages in the Phaedo that I compare with the Republic. I think the similarities ar...

I discuss this. It is important because the same thing occurs with Soul/soul. At the approach of Heat Snow retreats but the stuff melts. Analogously, ...

In the beginning of the paragraph he says "the multitude" and then toward the end "our people at home". I don't know if he is making a distinction bet...

This is something he said many times already. He says he repeats it as an incantation.

I am not able to delete other people's posts and had nothing to do with them being deleted. I asked for comments on what was being read, not what you ...

I used the translation I have and online translations I found. If I had used Sedley and Long I would have skipped the introduction.

Socrates did not show that the soul is immortal. I laid out the arguments. Read what Socrates says to Simmias when he expresses his doubts. Read what ...

My first reaction is different audience. With Christianity there was by the time the Tractatus was written more than enough myth.

Actually, the essay was written over the period of a week. Several times I asked for viewpoints on the section under discussion.

I did not edit the work, I pointed to a specific point. Whenever we quote from a text we do not include the whole of the work.

Of course, but no one has actually shown where I have misunderstood them. I have repeated asked you to do so,

Why should you copy and paste the Greek? Once again, there are no missing words. I left the words out and I explained why. Instead of addressing that ...

I don't. It is the arguments that fail. In the absence of reason he uses myths and charms as a means of persuasion. But it is in life that he exhorts ...

Read the essay.

You are confused. On the one hand you fault the translation and on the other my omitted part of the translation. Regarding the former, I linked the tr...

Read it in context. The myth is about the soul's immortality. It is followed by the statement above calling the truth of the myth into question. Once ...

You posted the same thing elsewhere, but did not accuse me of using a "fake translation". You have accused me before of making things up but when I ci...

Thank you. I am familiar with some of the secondary literature but chose to read the dialogue itself by itself without recourse to it. My intention wa...

My wife is the judge of whether or not she feels hot, a properly calibrated thermometer does not judge it, simply provides an accurate reading of the ...

You neglect to include the following from this translation: Whether or not the soul has been shown to be immortal is a basic question of my essay. I s...

It is not clear what Jesus meant by "Kingdom of God is at hand". Some take it to mean a geopolitical change, but others interpreted it as a change in ...

It is not subjectivist. It reasonably follows from the claim that he is going to doubt everything that he will doubt the Church's authority. These are...

Good example! My wife says she is hot or cold and wants to turn the temperature up and down. The thermostat, however, is set at a specific temperature...

Having a feeling of eternity does not mean you are eternal. You want to believe otherwise. But you want more than just the comfort of your beliefs. Yo...