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I think the main problem is that different philosophical schools have incompatible definitions, and there has been an attempt here to somehow reconcil...

Most definitely the wise move. This thread should be renamed "sophistry in action".

I didn't get it from your remark. You posed a question, I was only answering it facetiously. It does qualify as a moral reason, but morality is not ro...

I would think, on face value, that a person who holds true to his principles is much more deserving of respect, and much more likely to have self-resp...

I guess it doesn't matter if I act morally, it only matters if others act morally. I like that, it gives me license to be a complete bastard :smile:

Because, that has been done, done in many ways, and it has never worked out. Its a slow death at best. But, Platonism never made it into practice on a...

in platonism, the mind does not create what the world becomes, but discovers the world as it is. Remember that plato talks about a triple nature in ma...

Probably something based on Platonism, like the quote provided by @"Wayfarer": " making possible an ascent from the more particular, posterior, and mu...

Because, it is ironic for someone to claim special knowledge of a subject, if at the same time he concedes to the notion that man is the measure of al...

It is really a matter of whether a hierarchy exists. And that requires a world in which intelligibility exists. It would then be possible for the rati...

That is the problem, such types of claims are unverifiable. But just because we cannot verify it, it does not mean that it is not the case that one ph...

In other words, it has ruled out the existence of intelligible objects, so that everything must be reducible to a sensible object. And according to 'o...

Just because a thing is simplistic, egregious or generalized doesn't not mean it's untrue. But to be clear, it's not refering to all philosophy but to...

You might be the only relevant philosopher on TPF who consistently argues on this point. It is such a different view that it is nearly impossible to g...

It is not denying that there are many streams in modern philosophy, it is saying that out of all those streams, its highest aspiration is in securing ...

Well, shit! Great excerpt there. Indeed, Platonic hierarchy of forms. The purpose of philosophy (traditionally speaking) is to make this ascent, and b...

That is the basic nomimalist view. when I compare it to the traditional view it is obviously more problematic. For instance, things like mind, justice...

But then you necessarily rule out the reality of rational thought... along with the capacity for apprehending intelligible objects. It diminishes huma...

Me too. I'm mostly interested in ethics, but this issue is the one nonethical philosophical issue I can't let go Hopefully you can help me understand ...

They are intelligible objects, apprehended in the mind. And, although they are objects in the metaphorical sense, they have literal existence in the s...

Universals have little significance in nominalist views. They are nothing but particulars we call by the same name. If universals exist at all, then a...

Don't forget about the blessed nomenalists, they only have access to their own unique set of variations on particular themes :smirk:

It is this "union of knower with known" that is difficult for me because it insinuates a division (knower/known). And when I reconcile it by saying th...

Yes, math is universally discernable to the rational mind, so it will be identical for anybody capable of comprehending it. You make a good point abou...

Me too. It's one of the greatest philosophical subjects of all time.

Rather peculiar to refer to math as an intelligible object since the intelligible is subjective. Math is a universal logic that is rather easily proje...

A wise philosopher once told me: "there are interminable arguments in philosophy of mathematics as to whether maths is invented or discovered, whether...

Thanks. I usually attack head on. But it is obvious that TPF is oversaturated with evasive tactics, so I feel the need to work on my evasive tactics s...

Very interesting indeed. I find it's best not to think about karma too much. But according theosophy, we started out as spiritual/ethereal beings in p...

Also Johannes Climacus And Repetition:

Precisely!

only thing I've read is Kierkegaard's "Repetition - An Essay in Experimental Psychology". he also says something interesting in Philosophical Crumbs:

And, recycling souls makes for an efficient universe and leaves enough space in hell for everybody, if necessary :naughty:

are you familiar with Kierkegaard's concept of repetition? It's a very interesting take on Socratic recollection.

That is the popular interpretation. But I've never seen any indication that is what he actually meant, at least not in the works of Plato. The more mu...

Which can, at best, give us a more or less arbitrary approximation of the future, never any certainty.

Piece of cake. :kiss:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Made me laugh

Abstinence :blush:

I say: The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of extension and duration for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift whi...

And that debate is no different than the debate of whether space and time are only a construct of the mind or have external existence. I agree, its a ...

We cannot know something we can't remember. Socrates was correct.

Does mathematics overcome the perceived separation? It seems to me that it feeds into the illusion of a separation by treating extension and duration ...

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The former are properties that are imutable and self evident, the latter are relativistic - contingent on their relation to other things. Not so sure ...

I would say it makes no sense because it is an absurdity. No matter how it is explained, it will always seem preposterous. However, it has an undeniab...

:lol: very true. Your wisdom is endless

Precisely. It comes in handy when dealing with the irrationallities of real life.

It's gotta be tough, superstitious bathwater is what makes the world go round.

Don't sweat it. It's just religion. It's not meant to be taken literally or rationally. The concept of the trinity is meant to be a sort of brain teas...