TheGreatArcanum

like I said, when we act, our reason for acting (final cause) is determined prior to or at the time of our will to act, its first cause. if our will t...

in time, young padwan, in time.

you already exposed yourselves as fools when you failed to understand the ramifications of my OP. Since nobody seems to think that there is any "evide...

can you please tell me when the concept of non-existence came into being?

already done it. I’ve established 10 principles of ontology/epistemology and 17 first principles of philosophy. In two years, without a college degree...

why would you think that?

i’m not sure what you mean by “support?” which definition are you using? and when you give me the one you mean, all of those words are going to have t...

the instinctual drive presents itself to my conscious mind; I make a decision as to whether I give into t or not; sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. I...

maybe you don’t understand the definition of support. maybe we should break down the term as per usual and never get past the pitfalls of language lik...

your Will has a final cause and therefore a first cause; when each person is born, their potential to die is contained within themselves as well; and ...

I think that the religious definition is the only reasonable definition. I think that it’s quite clear that one cannot will to move their arm without ...

it’s not unreasonable to say that changes in the world can happen without my will, but not reasonable to say that those changes can happen without wil...

just present it in logical form using syllogisms and I’ll tell you what is wrong with it. I already know that your universal context is off so your co...

autocorrect isn’t very friendly.

and I don’t confuse empirical truths of fact with truths of reason; I’m perfectly aware of the distinction between them.

you guys are all wasting your time. mysticism seems irrational until you become a mystic yourself. there are preconditions for becoming one though. bu...

change has its origin in the will, the will has its origin in the memory; there is silence in my mind; I then will to create change within my present ...

i'm saying that the watcher of these changes is beyond space...and how simple is it? can you give me the true state in absolute detail of any one of y...

through the intuition of difference, the concept of unity becomes known.

Americans are so lost.

using time, the law of non-contradiction, as a bridge. that is a bridge between being (the present) and non-being (the past).

no, they have their origin in intuition, the past, and the present, as distinguished from each other in awareness. no colors or objects are necessary.

you must close your eyes, silence your mind, relax your focus, and then perceive the persistence of your own existence. that's unity. a million billio...

it doesn't take a form; take for example the concept of unity; which follows directly from my own intuition and presence, or the concept of difference...

you must distinguish between mental images and concepts which do not require images. that is to say that the primordial conceptions are the concepts o...

that's for you me to know and you to figure out; that is, what it refers to. when i say pure subjectivity, what do I mean? what is necessary for the e...

what i'm saying is that relative time has no effect on its essence; and that both relative time and space are subsets of it, meaning that the relative...

it is everywhere in space because the spatial is a subset of the non-spatial; so it must be there in one sense and not there in another in the sense t...

it's in time, but not in space. not time in the relative sense, but time in the non-relative sense.

it's pure subjectivity. it exists everywhere that existence is.

You're the one quoting "Rorty;" loser...stop wasting our time. One cannot be both a philosopher and an anti-mystic. those who aren't mystics and call ...

Terrapin Station version one million

there’s over 21 different interpretations of QM, not because they are all true, but only because so called “philosophers” like you refuse to accept th...

i use set theory applied to ontology to figure these things out. we cannot conceive of the object without perceiving it, obviously, so our conception ...

I think that the object itself, its essence and all of its changing qualities, are subsets of an 'original concept' which has become subjected to chao...

Modern scientific discoveries in particle physics support the existence of a non-local substratum to reality, for in terms of the phenomenon of quantu...

This is an appeal to authority fallacy; and a poor appeal at that, for no matter what language we decide to use to refer to the ground of existence, t...

what are you talking about “religious?” my philosophy invokes no religion at all. when you discount the possibility that subjectivity precedes the exi...

it’s taken many shots fatal shots to the body over time; it’s still salvageable, of course, because philosophy can never truly die. it take major hits...

“context is everything” yet he knows nothing of the absolute context in which he is speaking, ironically. in fact, he probably reduces the absolute co...

well, what are the axioms in which you base your philosophy?

the thing is what it is no matter what word or definition we choose to give it. if there wasn’t first and foremost existence, and memory, and willing,...

all concepts point to a word which points to a thing, whether it be concrete or abstract in its nature, that has an essence. existence itself has an e...

I am very well versed in the concept of being itself, and in no way to I think that existence itself is continent upon human functionality at all, but...

there is no infinite regress, our conception of the object has its origin in our perception of the object, and our perception of the object has its or...

memory is the solution to Russell's Paradox, memory formulates the ground of being itself. It is not in space. Memory is temporal but not spatial. Fir...

I'm saying that there are concepts which don't necessitate space at all, and therefore do not necessitate objects either, like, for example, the conce...

that is, an empirical claim like “between here and there is 20 meters,” and a non-empirical claim like “this hamburger tastes really good” or “existen...

that’s what you mean but you don’t understand the difference between an empirical and non-empirical claim, it seems.

don’t you mean non-empirical claims? how are we supposed to know if change itself is changing or not changing, or rather, can become non-existent or n...