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No. In metaphysics, sometimes non-empirical entities are postulated because the denial of their existence leads to absurdities. It's a mistake to ask ...
March 03, 2019 at 00:34
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...
March 02, 2019 at 22:42
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...
March 02, 2019 at 19:31
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...
March 02, 2019 at 16:58
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...
March 02, 2019 at 11:10
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...
March 02, 2019 at 09:46
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...
March 02, 2019 at 02:13
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...
March 01, 2019 at 03:34
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...
March 01, 2019 at 00:13
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...
February 28, 2019 at 22:14
No, you also need the laws that describe how the particles arrange themselves upon interaction. You cannot deduce the behavioral properties of the who...
February 28, 2019 at 21:52
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...
February 28, 2019 at 21:23
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...
February 28, 2019 at 20:00
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...
February 28, 2019 at 19:06
I understand that you believe this, but you still haven't demonstrated why anyone else should believe it.
February 28, 2019 at 18:05
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. ...
February 28, 2019 at 17:58
(Physical) death only eradicates meaning if there's no soul, God, Absolute or some other physically transcendent source of meaning.
February 28, 2019 at 17:56
I think you're confusing metaphysics with physics. Matter and form are metaphysical principles that explain the structure, not the details of reality....
February 28, 2019 at 17:17
Yes I'd agree that calling DNA a "language" is a more of metaphorical projection than anything else.
November 24, 2016 at 02:03
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...
November 23, 2016 at 22:33
Statements (as signs) are essentially conceptual/inferential in nature, whereas DNA (even if it be a sign in some sense) is not.
November 23, 2016 at 18:47
I wouldn't classify DNA as a statement.
November 23, 2016 at 16:00
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...
November 23, 2016 at 14:37
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...
November 23, 2016 at 05:12
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 ...
November 22, 2016 at 20:43
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...
November 22, 2016 at 18:24