The point was never that he didn't grant reality to both (acomist speech aside, of course), but rather they are not each other. Reality of substance i...
You're confusing substance with modes. Spinoza' s point is to only assert reality with substance. It offers no determination of modes itself. For that...
Let's not forget that every scientific observation is also someone personal experience. Then entire displine is formed in the aggregate of our persona...
Conscious beings are existing states. There can be no necessary consciousness. The context of a conscious being supposes the existence or non existenc...
Hume is also the better scientist because he takes what the world does. He allows for instances of the world breaking our expectations. When it happen...
I do hear myself. Hume is correct because he rightly identifies causal relations to be a feature of existing states, rather than being formed out of c...
I'm not sure I would say abstract here. Abstraction brings to talking about some similarity between existing things. Sort of liking talking about the ...
Nope, just the opposite. Metaphysics deals in logical distinctions of necessity. Properly reasoned, metaphysics involves what we can be sure of, witho...
It worse than unsupported, the claim is incoherent. If God is knownto genderless, electromagnetic consciousness, God is certainly not ineffable. Amen ...
Hume has something stronger in mind. It isn't just that laws of cause and effect aren't observable, but rather that there are no laws of cause and eff...
Valentinus' point was existence precedes essence. This precludes the accounts you giving because neither an essence of God nor an essence of mystery c...
I don't think so, at least not in this abstracted sense. I like living and so am afraid of many things which might act to end my life (e.g. lack of wa...
I'm saying your position is a nihilism. Faced with our lives, you assert they must be meaningless, that only a greater being or mysterious force could...
No, as per above, people sometimes know something, other times they do not. Plenty of people know of their own death. Plenty of others do not. Such is...
Sometimes, yes. Not always though, like any peice of knowledge, people are sometimes without it. Humans sometimes know why they are here, be that in a...
We have needs or goals because it is a feature of our existence. The counterfactual of a person without needs or a goal shows this to be the case. Wha...
Unless it happens to be God of course, then we can finally be certian. Or so many these stories would seem to have it. One must ask why God amounts to...
Were you expecting your dog to speak English and so understand your words? Speech isn't important here. The point is that the (material world) needs n...
That's why we identify meaning with the meaning of material things(including minds-- not brains-- but the existing mental entity caused in the world)....
The God you have in mind clearly does not exist. It's infinite nature precludes it from acting in the world, it cannot be the means by which any state...
I'm inclined to think there is no responsible way out in this so situation. So long as stability was given by the presence of US troops, I don't think...
My point is that your account of sex is just another layer of these sexist assumptions. What does anyone any one need a penis to be a man, a womb to b...
In a way... but less trying to disprove an existing God (that's a space for emprical questions and answers), than showing that the a priori infinite b...
The more interesting question to ask here is: how does God explain any of those? Not because they do.not have explanations or need God to be explained...
Arm is a word and concept.for a specific different body part. It's not just a collection of traits. There are many ways traits of an arm might collect...
It absolutely does not. All these facts are given by what a body does. It's the breasts (Or not breasts! Breasts aren't the only possible state which ...
That is the proof. Sex is not actually telling us about the body parts. We still had to use the body parts themselves to give a description of the bod...
What if our terrible predicament is to believe our terrible predicament can be overcome? Perhaps there is no answer to our death because we are being ...
The failure is there is there is acually no descprtion. If you are dealing with the body, then the terms which describe it are that a body exists. To ...
I meant anyone, since I'm discussing the description of individuals. Due to being a category error, this account of sex fails in any individual instan...
Misreading my point, the so called an anomonlies are not the problem with this account of sex, although they are symptomatic of it. This account of se...
Our identities are social constructions. You seem to.misundertand what I mean by social constuction. I do not mean a certain type of cause opposed to ...
Oh I know you were being facetious, I was just taking seriously for any reader poised to attack me for supposing yeast spreads had an identity essenti...
I know the metaphysical sorcery to make it sort of work, but then it's not really an account of any specific proposition, so it's just confusing in di...
The objection does work. A property of being English or Australian is not exhaustive of an identity. The entity of a yeast spread might have an identi...
I know that, which is why the fact I don't accept the essentialism of biological sex (by this I mean the idea that someone's anatomical properties mak...
That's just having an identity. There is no specific set of properties which amount to being more feminine or not. Anyone with a sex or gender is in t...
Missing the forest for the trees. The social expectations and myths to change ones body do not vanish in a world which properly recognises and is incl...
It appears that way because the group of sex essentialists (@Swan @Bitter Crank, @Terrapin Station and @Artemis) haven't realised the terms of identif...
Sex has in mind something more tham just difference in anatomy. When we use sex, we are not dedicated to identifying anatomical parts. We are interest...
In a trans context, the sensations have to be social mediated because they have to be indexed to certain concepts and lingistic practices. Dysphoria a...
You've missed the distinction I was going for. The partioning of an anatomical parts is not sex either. A penis+certain chromosomes, etc., no more equ...
The anatomical is the body, sex is social. Sex is a category into which someone placed or belongs. To be a man or woman on account of having a certain...
You're so close. All you have to do is fully remove the idea of the body determining identity. The trans women is not a women because she senses femal...
Bearing seems distingishing identity isn't about conforming to a standard or not, but a feature of one existing being. The trans women isn't a women b...
No, that's just terrible evo psych postion committing a naturalistic fallacy. And yes, we definitely have to fight against it, since it is our myth ho...
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