No. In metaphysics, sometimes non-empirical entities are postulated because the denial of their existence leads to absurdities. It's a mistake to ask ...
Okie dokie. Nah, I'll pass. I'm more interested in discussing the topic in the OP. Those are all standard topics of metaphysics. No sorry, it's a cate...
Sure, that's fine. So you accept the reality of possibility as "a state of not being impossible given contingent facts", but you deny the reality of a...
That's practically vacuous, like saying "things change because things change", for motion is just a type of change. What accounts for motion if potent...
No, it can't be forms all the way down, or there would be no potentiality, and thus no change. There must be a principle of pure potentiality. I'm not...
Lol...you were the one who said that what physical reality does is distinct from what a physical reality is. Perhaps it's you who is confused. Still c...
Right, they are distinct, which is exactly the point! Using your lingo, what a thing "does" (the way it's arranged) is just as real as what it "is" (t...
Sure there is. If the arrangement of the atoms was simply identical with the atoms themselves then all arrangements would be identical. That's obvious...
I'm not denying that modern physics can explain the differences between H20 and CH4. I'm saying that the concept of formal cause is implicit even with...
I didn't say that they are prescriptive. I said you need to invoke the arrangement of the parts in order to explain the behavior of the whole. A mater...
No, you also need the laws that describe how the particles arrange themselves upon interaction. You cannot deduce the behavioral properties of the who...
No, the behavior is partially at least partially determined by the form or arrangement of the particles within the atom. The particles taken as a grou...
That's not true at all. Billions of actual people would be deprived of the goods (of which there are many) associated with having and raising families...
Fair enough, but I disagree completely. Basically your position is that no amount of goodness/growth/beauty is worth any amount of evil/pain/suffering...
The assumption of the OP seems to be that no greater good can come from suffering. Basically, suffering is never worth it. You never argued for this. ...
I think you're confusing metaphysics with physics. Matter and form are metaphysical principles that explain the structure, not the details of reality....
Well, I didn't make that claim, so none. I don't deny that DNA can act as a sign-vehicle of sorts, analogous to how markings on a page can act as sign...
Correct me if I am wrong, but you seem to be admitting (at least) that there could not have been any statements had there not been any intelligent lif...
Hi! That's pretty much my view as well. Right. Basically (and as you rightly point out) mathematics is objective and public while yet remaining entire...
Ok. I don’t yet know how you define any of those terms ("fact", "statement", "truth", "world") so it’s hard to evaluate your claim at this point, but ...
If truth is here understood by you as some kind of correspondence between mind and world, then it seems hard to avoid the conclusion that truth is min...
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