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no, I’m not saying that meaning and thinking are mutually exclusive, only that thinking, that is, a particular set of words with a particular set of s...
May 08, 2019 at 11:08
I was wondering, Terrapig, since it took time for you to speak those words inside your mind, and a duration of time to speak each individual word, how...
May 08, 2019 at 10:56
I don't see a need for an option 4, and its very difficult for me to understand what you saying here; it's not exactly worded coherently. the position...
May 07, 2019 at 22:58
considering the fact that the argument was over with the OP, and everything that happened after that was unnecessary and primitive, I'll go with neith...
May 07, 2019 at 22:46
am I the chimp or the pig?
May 07, 2019 at 22:43
yet still, the truthiness of the statement is true whether or not the individual makes the judgment of its truthiness or not, so the truthiness of the...
May 07, 2019 at 22:38
you can change the words around and substitute japanese for english, for example, by if the original state is to retain its truth value, the meaning i...
May 07, 2019 at 22:31
senseless and meaningless are synonyms. it means that the words and concepts associated with the phrases do not point to an unchanging meaning, but a ...
May 07, 2019 at 22:18
see hypotheticals 1, 2, and 3.
May 07, 2019 at 22:13
There, its fixed, can we move on now, look how much time you've wasted unnecessarily, clearly, the word "that" wasn't supposed to be there.
May 07, 2019 at 22:09
good thing logic isn't bound by the English language.
May 07, 2019 at 21:49
there's nothing wrong with the sentence. are you going to nitpick about the first sentence or refute my refutation. If you cannot support your own pos...
May 07, 2019 at 21:40
Yes, for example, the phrase 'nothing is unchanging' presupposes that nothing is unchanging without providing a logical proof that this is true. the p...
May 07, 2019 at 21:16
unchange = not not change....nothing is unchanging = all is changing
May 07, 2019 at 21:09
this isn’t that hard to figure out, either the phrase ‘nothing is identical over time’ is identical to itself from one moment to the next, or it is no...
May 07, 2019 at 18:49
how about the concept ‘nothing is identical through time’? does that change over time? don’t you realize that you’re contradicting your own position a...
May 07, 2019 at 18:42
the answer doesn’t change. yes, the qualities of that thing change over time, but the abstract set in which those changes occur within remains unchang...
May 07, 2019 at 18:35
here’s an experiment for you: go grab any object from the room you’re in and hold it in your hand, look at it, and then ask yourself, “what is this ob...
May 07, 2019 at 18:18
that depends on how you define “exist.” a mental image exists as an object of imagination, but not as an actualized physical object. the set of all se...
May 07, 2019 at 17:33
essence is the aspect of a thing which remains unchanging so long as it exists, and as an abstract object in memory thereafter. quality is the aspect ...
May 07, 2019 at 17:24
that’s if you can prove that something cannot exist eternally, but to do that, you would have to prove that existence came into being out of non-exist...
May 07, 2019 at 06:43
all things are born out of it, return to it, and exist within it at all times, but it was never born, and will never die.
May 07, 2019 at 06:40
meditate on it a little more; what both exists, yet isn’t tangible, and both contains itself and does not contain itself simultaneously?
May 07, 2019 at 06:36
on paper, yes, but it may be the case that something existent can both contain itself and not contain itself at the same time, in which case, it would...
May 07, 2019 at 06:28
agreed, there is no actualized infinite. meaning that there is no set of all sets, or there is. as stated in the other thread...
May 07, 2019 at 06:26
It’s only a contradiction if the ground of all being, that is, the set of all sets in nature as opposed to in the imagination, does not reside in a pa...
May 07, 2019 at 06:21
duration is the persistence in the existence of the absolute law of identity; which is purely noumenal. it is not in itself, it exists only as result ...
May 07, 2019 at 03:42
is physics incompatible with physicalism? well, I suppose that depends on if the laws of physics, which have no spatial extension in themselves, prece...
May 07, 2019 at 02:10
doesn’t it seem absurd to presuppose that an effect can exist without a cause considering the fact that all effects are conceptually contained (I..e. ...
May 07, 2019 at 01:16
not entirely, but yes, it deals with subjectivity, that is, consciousness, in part. It deals with the essnce is Being in the absolute sense, that is, ...
May 07, 2019 at 01:13
No, I’m a philosopher myself and im writing a book on the ground and essnce of being and Being, so naturally, I’ve been contemplating the trinity for ...
May 07, 2019 at 00:50
of course the Trinity is logically coherent, although, not the Trinity as envisioned by Christian theists. There are three Trinities which precede the...
May 07, 2019 at 00:24
'to be is to be the value of a variable,' yet that which possesses the potential to contain a limited value within itself, has being, for that which p...
May 07, 2019 at 00:20
since that potentiality is necessarily beyond space, it cannot have a quantity more than one. Of course, within itself, my varying concepts can exist ...
May 06, 2019 at 23:30
I wouldn't say that the law of identity applies to nothingness, because the variable a cannot point to something which does not possess an essence, th...
May 06, 2019 at 23:09
I suppose that mathematics has its first appearance in the Law of Identity, not a = a, but 1 = 1, and that 1 points to something which has an ontologi...
May 06, 2019 at 22:52
I am certainly no mathematician, but my presumption is that both one and zero stand for mathematical waves of a particular frequency which are either ...
May 06, 2019 at 22:27
It seems to me that, from the perspective of the absolute, logic was discovered, not invented, and mathematics was invented, not discovered, but from ...
May 06, 2019 at 22:18