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if there is a partial truth, it is still whole. all parts are wholes, this whole distinguishes them from other wholes, and also from the whole in whic...
March 20, 2020 at 22:25
each truth is contingent upon a higher truth, this is pretty much self-evident, for if there were not hydrogen atoms, nor oxygen atoms, there could no...
March 20, 2020 at 20:59
How is it that you think teleology and acausality can co-exist? Is not all chaos, controlled chaos, and thus bounded by order? Aren't all infinities b...
March 20, 2020 at 20:16
Take a truth, any truth, and then ask yourself, what must first be true for it to be true, and keep going and going until you find an undeniable truth...
March 20, 2020 at 19:58
There's a difference between using words to denote objects or relationships between objects in the world, and the objects and relationships between ob...
March 20, 2020 at 19:51
the problem is that you’re trying to use a priori truths as the foundation for an a posteriori system of philosophy (empirical realism), that is, for ...
March 20, 2020 at 05:49
It is supposed to be a necessary truth, but are there necessary truths that are not simply believed to be necessary, but necessarily necessary? It cou...
March 20, 2020 at 01:42
that which creates change within itself or the world by means of its own volition. one cannot be alive and be without will; now there is a difference ...
May 27, 2019 at 08:09
I mean that the second law of thermodynamics states that if the universe is a closed system, (purely physical) the total energy of the universe is fin...
May 26, 2019 at 01:23
that’s not necessary; and also not true because the actualized state of existence isn’t eternal.
May 26, 2019 at 01:02
the will is a process in the sense that its a bridge that connects potentiality and actuality; it has no real existence in itself, obviously, it's not...
May 26, 2019 at 00:32
if the cause of your fear of freedom lies in some prior material cause(s) or perception, what was the nature of that cause? if you don’t know the natu...
May 25, 2019 at 16:17
what about the will in terms of phenomenology? why do you think that someone else can tell you about the nature of your will? when you call it, it com...
May 25, 2019 at 15:31
as per usual, you guys still haven’t moved past semantics. no wonder it is said that “philosophy is dead;” the philosophers today know nothing of the ...
May 25, 2019 at 08:29
The mystic roosts his argument in absolute truth, the scientist roots his argument in empirical and universal truth, while the post-modern philosopher...
May 25, 2019 at 07:39
On the Intellect, the Understanding, A Priori Concepts, and God: In the process of intellectualization, two disjunctively separated (A ? B ? A) concep...
May 25, 2019 at 07:16
maybe later. don’t you remember when I posted an inarguable refutation of your nominalistic worldview that “nothing is unchanging” and you failed to c...
May 24, 2019 at 13:14
it’s simple. a multitude of contingent reference frames presupposes a necessary reference frame which contains and unites them all. the necessary refe...
May 24, 2019 at 13:08
even math isn’t absolutely objective; 1 + 1 being equal to 2 is dependent upon what the numbers represent; that is, whether coalesce is occurring or n...
May 24, 2019 at 07:05
that’s what Plato referred to them as in the Sophist, the ‘gods and the giants.’ For my work, I mustn’t be overly poetic, but just poetic enough so th...
May 24, 2019 at 06:25
yes, I’m well aware of the difference between the giants and the gods, the former prefer the fruits of the physical, and the latter prefer the fruits ...
May 24, 2019 at 06:08
this is incoherent, what does this even mean? you need to be more concise in your language, you have a very noticeable problem with clarity. you’re so...
May 24, 2019 at 06:05
I think the problem here is not me, but the ego of the Western man in general, which is so alienated from its source that the existence of spirit is c...
May 24, 2019 at 03:08
he doesn't have to say it, it is implied in the other things he says, if the all is one, there can be no distinction between subject and predicate, un...
May 23, 2019 at 22:39
in which case there is still freedom.
May 23, 2019 at 21:01
and ‘what is’ includes that which is perceptible, they which is potentially perceptible, and that which is not potentially perceptible. that is, the c...
May 23, 2019 at 20:25
well, Non-Existence in the absolute sense of the word is non-existent, meaning that in the absolute sense of the word there is only Existence, but ala...
May 23, 2019 at 12:12
these processes are controlling the body; if it is not true that the will can set the brain in motion, all of your wills and the words and actions tha...
May 23, 2019 at 11:30
I think you’re the fool here. I was referencing the mystical experience regarding the fall. you’re talking about me falling. That’s not gonna happen.
May 23, 2019 at 08:57
I don’t need a co-creator. I need someone very familiar with the history of metaphysics and logic to critique my first principles on their validity an...
May 23, 2019 at 08:55
What I’m trying to have edited isn’t my prose, but my philosophical axioms, principles, and definitions, the logical basis and framework of my philoso...
May 23, 2019 at 08:25
I solved the problem of causation today. I’ve solved the problem of subjects and objects. I’ve established 10 new principles of ontology and epistemol...
May 23, 2019 at 08:09
I emailed like 20 professors from various respected universities around the country and even several from the local D3 college in my area and I got ze...
May 23, 2019 at 08:01
I call my philosophy ‘rational mysticism.’ Typically the mystics avoid rational thinking because the absolute cannot e known rationally, according to ...
May 23, 2019 at 07:57
I’ve edited quite a bit and done quite a bit of thinking about the document I sent you. When I sent it to you it was 10 pages, now it’s 17. And I’ve c...
May 23, 2019 at 07:40
yes, I’m well aware that “man is a bridge between man and overman, a bridge over an abyss,” as Nietzsche said. I’ve spent many of days in the abyss no...
May 23, 2019 at 06:34
this experience isn’t triggered by that kind of stuff. have you ever read any of the esoteric writings of like Manly p. Hall? I suggest that you read ...
May 23, 2019 at 06:02
Yes, many, many more. Yes, it’s altered, permanently altered. It’s been a slow development. I’ve had so many good memories, like the day back a few ye...
May 23, 2019 at 05:27
not in detail, no; there is an oath of silence; I’ve told you about the detachment of the will. also I can tell you that when I move my awareness arou...
May 23, 2019 at 05:05
I’ve been writing, reading, and organizing for two-three years now. When I started, I basically knew nothing. Yesterday I finished the most important ...
May 23, 2019 at 04:01
yes, it advanced and advanced a lot. but slowly over several years. I cannot say too much about it, but I can tell you that the will and awareness, wh...
May 23, 2019 at 03:27
don't forget that brain processes can be set into motion by the will; so to say that the will is contingent upon brain processes is a contradiction. t...
May 23, 2019 at 02:37
there is a difference between transient mystical states and permanent mystical states. all of the greatest philosophers and scientists of all time exp...
May 23, 2019 at 02:32
if you cannot figure it out for yourself using the law of identity and the law of non-contradiction, you won't understand it. I'm trying to begin a di...
May 23, 2019 at 01:48
Hume, as well as all previous philosophers failed to account for "vertical causation." the processes which perpetuate the existences of objects while ...
May 23, 2019 at 01:45
those particles are not particles, but waves; they may exist as particles, at times, but when they're not particles, they're mathematical waves with n...
May 22, 2019 at 05:05
it's not determinate anyways because the chain of causation which supports hard-determinism is broken in the quantum substratum of reality and all thi...
May 22, 2019 at 03:33
You're attacking a very poorly constructed strawman here... physicalism entails that the antithesis is true; that's what the paragraph says; that "the...
May 22, 2019 at 03:15
if the universe must end by means of "heat death" and the law of entropy, it necessarily has an end, and if the universe is deterministic, that end wa...
May 22, 2019 at 02:56
to solve the unsolved questions about the nature of existence, one must first ascertain the essence of the set of all sets which do not contain themse...
May 22, 2019 at 02:53