Possibility

No acceptable enforcement of authority in tradition, text or community alone, no.

There is no condoning or encouraging an action here - there is, however, trust that there is more to the prescribed action than it appears. Faith does...

Testimony is not the same as authority - this is a misunderstanding of faith, albeit a common one. And merit comes from action despite the evidence. H...

It is a (mis)interpretation of the binding of Isaac as ‘obedience to authority’ that I think you may be referring to here in describing the ‘evil’ of ...

Yes - but in terms of relational possibility, not just logical possibility.

Sorry for the confusion - I’m not suggesting you did. I agree with you - I’m referring what you said back to the OP... ...for those who may have misse...

Probability is not really about uncertainty, per se. Potentiality is about uncertainty. Probability is a solution to, or consolidation of, uncertainty...

You’ve set the limitations - ‘never’ and ‘always’ - by using a six-sided die. Take away these imposed limitations, and uncertainty returns.

The aim is not to remove ‘time’ from the interpretation, but to restructure our understanding in a way that doesn’t separate ‘time’ and ‘change’. I th...

I’m not arguing that a relation that exists meaningfully does not exist, only that the nature of its existence prior to a creature attributing meaning...

Short answer: no. I’m saying that there’s no way to prove that the meaning/significance attributed is or is not the entirety of its existence without ...

I didn’t think so, which is why I posted this quote. You’re interpreting QM with a linear concept of time as a given, but it’s possible (and arguably ...

Well spotted. The quantisation of time is a theory being developed in quantum physics (part of loop quantum gravity) that I’m not entirely on board wi...

What you’re describing here, then, is NOT a situation where you have ultimate authority. That’s just something you tell yourself to make you feel bett...

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So...there are only impossible cases? In that case, I’m going to side wth MU on this. Thought experiments can’t demonstrate your claim that “there are...

Have you provided examples of these cases?

3. The observer claiming that R moved has changed position themselves in relation to R, without being aware of it. Like claims of a geocentric univers...

I can understand that your household politics seems to operate most efficiently (from your perspective, I might add) with you as the ultimate arbiter....

Sorry - I was getting ahead of myself, and messed it up. :yikes: It can be said to exist - if something exists meaningfully only in the presence of a ...

I could ask you the same question... Makes sense from the human experience of time. It really makes more sense to say that the experience of change im...

The aquarium is meaningful to you as an aquarium, but is now meaningful to your cat NOT as an aquarium but as a water source. From your perspective, i...

I highly recommend Carlo Rovelli’s book ‘The Order of Time’. It will flesh this question out nicely for you. You’re assuming that R experiences. As an...

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That’s arguable - perhaps not in terms of secular rationalism, at least. I’d agree that religion has a role to play in challenging the ignorance, isol...

In this statement, ‘it’ refers to the word. It wasn’t very clear, though. I’m distinguishing between the meaningful relation (how the word is defined)...

I’m distinguishing between the relationship structure it defines and the more complex relation it refers to. The scare quotes are to note that I’m usi...

Well, I’m not one to dismiss possibility... ‘Mathematically describable’ doesn’t eliminate the notion of quality, though - we still have to interpret ...

Or perhaps I’m just approaching it from a perspective that you’re struggling to relate to - it certainly wouldn’t be the first time... In my view, you...

Unicorns are only quantifiable within a particular qualitative or relational structure - horse plus horn does not necessarily equal unicorn. Mathemati...

Yes, I got that, but it doesn’t answer my question. If some relations can exist ‘prior to’ meaning, and some cannot exist as a meaningful relation in ...

Currency is the process, and money is the symbol. Its value is an agreement determined by its relation to other processes: exchange, production, deman...

I’ve been reading along, but this quote caught my attention. I would have thought that the political structure itself is the basis for judging the out...

But can they possibly still exist simply as relations, regardless of meaning?

Well, that sounds to me like an incel grumble. There is no ‘rule’, and even if there was, I can assure you that’s not it. Romance IS nice, from my exp...

Attraction to the ‘bad boy’ is not really a sign of intelligence in women, per se. The diligent, studious or dutiful young woman is often attracted to...

I don’t think the conclusion drawn from the experiment is accurate. I will accept that there is a relation between thinking about words and actions re...

FWIW, I’m not sure there’s a particular qualification to attract an intelligent woman. If you’re curious enough about the world and are prepared to ch...

The question is whether a human can exist in physical exactitude without consciousness, or if consciousness is integral to our physical human existenc...

Possibility is a starting point, but to be honest I don’t think we can avoid the starting point being a binary or contradiction of some kind. So possi...

This ‘political talk of women’ is aimed at drawing attention to the limitations of cultural definitions of ‘masculinity’. The aim of highlighting domi...

So you say that some relationships exist prior to meaning, but not all, and that some relations do not exist prior to language use. I have to ask: by ...

It’s not that simple. By agency, I mean the capacity of individuals to act independently and make their own choices. The interdependence of humanity -...

So you’re saying that meaning may exist prior to language, but we have no means to discover it as such. How would you know that it exists fully formed...

Ok, clearly I’ve misunderstood you, then. My interpretation of ‘emerge’ was this, from Google Dictionary: 1. move out of or away from something and be...

Please correct me if I’m mistaken here, because I don’t want to assume: am I to understand that it isn’t the coercion of women that you object to, but...

Ok - given that meaning exists before it emerges, are we in agreement first of all that its existence is not necessarily as a ‘thing’? There is an asp...

Meaning. What are you hoping to discuss here? My only quibble that I can see is that it emerges by virtue of drawing correlations, full stop.

That’s not what I’m doing at all - I’m simply pointing out a perspective that is conveniently overlooked in these discussions because it calls out the...

This threat of violence is perceived as a ‘force’ that needs to be removed, and I do understand how you can think it’s that simple. But simply removin...