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But you have had a hand in determining your preferences. You just haven’t been paying attention. Freedom is a quality of variability. Our imagination ...
April 10, 2022 at 10:46
Affect refers to a four-dimensional structure of relation. Conscious observers are five-dimensional. Non-conscious observers are four-dimensional. I t...
April 10, 2022 at 02:46
I think it has merit as a philosophy that is grounded in an affected preference for mathematical logic. I don’t disagree with it, as such, I just thin...
April 09, 2022 at 17:13
I don’t really subscribe to this Peircean sequencing as such. Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness suggest ordinality as a fundamental assumption, but ...
April 09, 2022 at 06:14
No - the point of metaphysics is to extract the holistic simplicity of existence, which I think you and I can agree is triadic. They’re just different...
April 09, 2022 at 03:52
How did we extract ourselves from the description of a planetary system, where our understanding of the system was biased by our position within it? T...
April 09, 2022 at 02:56
No, mathematics reduces the relation. It aims to reduce any relation to one dimension: a numerical order. And measurement is an act of quantification ...
April 09, 2022 at 02:05
No - I just have better things to do with my time than arguing with someone who so aggressively rejects open-mindedness and charitable discussion. I’m...
April 08, 2022 at 00:15
In practice, sure, and likewise with claims about quantity to be supported by acts of qualification, ie. observation. And yet theoretical physics. Obj...
April 07, 2022 at 23:56
How we interpret the situation and their intent is never as ‘clear’ or objective as we might assume. I think your brother’s approach is reasonable in ...
April 06, 2022 at 10:39
How can you be certain of that, and how is your own response not to be interpreted as equally self-righteous by them?
April 05, 2022 at 23:43
As I said, the problem with ‘free love’ is the freedom to withdraw or deny love without compunction, and the moral justification to then withdraw or d...
April 05, 2022 at 23:25
As I’ve said before, my approach to this is qualitative, so I agree that classical conceptions of ‘dimension’ don’t work at this level, but the qualit...
April 05, 2022 at 17:55
I agree that this accountancy is applied to all four dimensions - that’s kind of my point. These three aspects (location, change and energy), all redu...
April 04, 2022 at 23:52
Given that we’re born dependent, and that we rely on so many systems, manufacturers and suppliers in our day-to-day lives, at what point can you claim...
April 04, 2022 at 15:10
I can see how temporal structure rendered as a linear continuum would simplify the ideas you’re navigating here. But there’s a more complex dimensiona...
April 04, 2022 at 10:53
Perhaps a healthy and affectionate family with a ‘free love’ philosophy is theoretically possible, but it’s by no means easy to structure with the aim...
April 04, 2022 at 09:02
The distinction/boundary is heuristic.
April 03, 2022 at 10:33
In practice, the brain is inseparable from the lifeform as an integrated event, and has evolved with a high degree of variability within its protectiv...
April 03, 2022 at 09:58
Phenomenology is one way to approach it, sure. But this non-conceptual awareness is arguably indicative of qualitative variability at every dimensiona...
April 03, 2022 at 08:12
This is what we’ve been taught to assume: that consciousness is image-based, rather than chemical-based. What forms inside an ordinary camera is a pho...
April 02, 2022 at 16:37
What we consolidate as a ‘rock’ consists of individual molecular structures in an arrangement of which they are obviously unaware. If you broke a rock...
April 02, 2022 at 11:35
When theists describe a God or Gods they give them human characteristics as a matter of relatability. Those who believe in science/karma/balance prefe...
April 02, 2022 at 10:30
A six year old is never going to grasp this, and any attempt to reduce it so that they can would be analogous at best. The foundation of existence con...
April 02, 2022 at 09:19
Which also renders the ‘one punch’ such a despicable act. But consider a verbal exchange that deteriorates/escalates into a physical one. At what poin...
March 31, 2022 at 03:21
Fundamental implies ‘mind’ all on its own. But ‘mind’ is just relative potentiality, a conceptual structure or prediction. Meaning as existential rela...
March 31, 2022 at 02:41
Feminist intentionality is to draw attention to the conservative patriarchal myth that all power is quantitatively determined. It is predictable that ...
March 29, 2022 at 10:45
You really do have no clue about women at all, do you? You’re just projecting your patriarchal perspective of ‘power’ onto a narrow oppositional persp...
March 29, 2022 at 00:00
It’s all relative.
March 28, 2022 at 15:31
Ridiculous fear-mongering. From someone who has lived and worked with mostly females a lot, the world is not better off without males. That they may s...
March 28, 2022 at 15:17
It does negate the limitation as ‘forced’ - the limiting factors apply to life, not to our capacity to act against these factors. Dissatisfaction and ...
March 28, 2022 at 06:49
Oh my god! - WHAT report card? This is apologistic nonsense. Where I come from anything above 50% is considered a ‘pass’, but that’s honestly beside t...
March 27, 2022 at 16:53
Bingo!
March 27, 2022 at 11:18
They did ‘badly’ according to whom? An academic standard? What does that have to do with happiness? If the highest possible score was 10 (infinite hap...
March 27, 2022 at 11:08
This has nothing to do with an F on any imaginary paper - it has to do with your assertion that “the amount of evil, on balance, exceeds the amount of...
March 27, 2022 at 10:40
“The amount of evil, on balance, exceeds the amount of good.” This assertion is based on an assumption that ALL thinking about the world is reducible ...
March 27, 2022 at 09:43
This describes moral judgement, which is a particularly affected, reductionist mode of thinking - among many other ways of thinking about the world.
March 27, 2022 at 08:40
I’m NOT claiming that it’s justified and I’m not arguing FOR procreation. My position is non-moralistic. It is YOUR narrow view that all harm (intenti...
March 27, 2022 at 08:27
You predict incorrectly - I’m saying that we don’t need to procreate in order to find a more satisfying way of life - and that procreation/child-reari...
March 27, 2022 at 02:05
necessary: (of a concept, statement, etc.) inevitably resulting from the nature of things, so that the contrary is impossible. Humans naturally have t...
March 26, 2022 at 03:49
Anyone looking for evidence of matriarchies ‘ruling over’ societies is not going to find much, because it won’t be structured as an overt power. Matri...
March 26, 2022 at 03:16
I’m aware they exist - I’m saying they aren’t necessary.
March 25, 2022 at 11:23
I still think you are assuming this ‘agenda’ as a package deal of limited potential, which parents have in mind prior to having a child, and buy into ...
March 25, 2022 at 11:17
Everything else I agree with, except this. I honestly don’t believe that ANY violence between humans as self-conscious beings is necessary. That doesn...
March 24, 2022 at 23:51
I don’t really think men hate women because of ‘sex’ - I think some will say that - and even convince themselves that it’s true - because it’s one asp...
March 24, 2022 at 15:09
And this ambiguity of language was why I didn’t bring it up initially. When does a disagreement or argument turn into a ‘fight’? Who makes that call, ...
March 24, 2022 at 10:41
:up:
March 24, 2022 at 08:55
So, by ‘de facto’, you mean that it ISN’T, it’s only perceived to be, and is assumed to be so... by you. How does anyone know that ‘entailed in a huma...
March 24, 2022 at 05:25
:up:
March 24, 2022 at 04:35
From SEP on Structural Realism:
March 24, 2022 at 02:32