how is this for a first principle of knowledge? “when I am thinking, I know that I am thinking and not not thinking, and this is because, when I am no...
for example, does the category of identity relate to the category of modality, that is to say, can something be is identical to itself and not possibl...
I’m not entirely sure what this means exactly. in my philosophy, time is nothing but ‘the persistence in existence of that which exists.’ one could al...
my categories are not purely abstract, as is the case with Kant’s, but natural categories. My main categories of the mind are memory, understanding, a...
I am using a variation of Kant’s definition of synthetic and analytic truths, one which is defined in terms of necessity and contingency and not conta...
the intuition is grounded in self-intuition, and my method is grounded in the structure of self-intuition, or rather, in the axioms that mediate the c...
I didn’t say that you could. I speak of relatively necessary truths and then absolutely (eternally) necessary truths. I’ve laid all of this out as cle...
my philosophy is defined in terms of contingency (dependency) and not necessity, I just see them as being logical opposites (e.g. if x is contingent u...
I would like to do this. As of right now, I am having trouble finding people in academia who are willing to help me, I am also thinking about presenti...
he thinks that because he can imagine the existence of a past eternal contingent being that past eternal contingent beings exist, and therefore that i...
I did see that you said that, but it doesn’t make any sense to me as to why anyone would just doubt it as a presupposition when it is so clearly self-...
this is interesting, although, if I were you, I would define my starting axioms in terms of the concepts of necessity and contingency for the purpose ...
I have already cleared this up. I think that you are confused here. I think that there is a difference between relative necessity and absolute necessi...
I have edited the original post. I have removed the poll and posted that I intend to use it as a fundamental axiom for an entire system of philosophy....
sorry, I do not mean to say that it is in need of proof, either a priori or a posteriori; but rather its truth is self-evident and therefore not in ne...
one can speak of the relationship between precedence and geometry without invoking temporal relations, but one cannot speak of the relationship betwee...
what is an opinion to you may be an analytic a priori truth for me (which is proven elsewhere). even if it were to be shown to be false, empirically, ...
I think that the logic of quantum mechanics is ultimately derived from classical logic. this is because quantum logical pertains to spatial categories...
I understand that you’re claiming this, without proof. I’m just asking for your proof that something which is logically necessary for something else, ...
you cannot have an atom without a nucleus, so the existence of atoms is contingent upon the prior existence of nuclei, so to deny that logical necessi...
right. you ask me to define my terms. you then disagree with the definitions. and then we spend the whole time talking about definitions and not of wh...
so you guys have chased all the philosophers away, and now there’s only sophists left here? it’s a barren wasteland on this forum, a body without a so...
thank you. if one denies causality, that doesn’t mean that one also denies necessity, and this is because the category of necessity can exist independ...
Then it exists necessarily and not contingently because it’s being false is logically impossible. on that note. I think I call it a night. I need to g...
ok. Is it eternally true, or did it become true in some moment of time, and if so, how long will it be true and when will it become false again? if it...
by definition, if something exists contingently, it does not exist necessarily, and therefore had the potential to come into and out of being (which i...
I didn’t say that the word necessity necessarily refers to eternally existing entities, for something can be necessary for the existence of something ...
I didn’t say that the word necessity necessarily refers to eternally existing entities, for something can be necessary for the existence of something ...
they are not different. if x exists eternally, x exists necessarily, meaning that it’s existence is logically impossible. if x exists contingently, it...
what you mean to say is that “there are no necessary or contingent truths except for the truth that “there are no necessary or contingent truths,” and...
how can it be possible for something to exist eternally and exist not necessarily, but contingently. this is another logically impossible state of rel...
this is an easy one, because buildings cannot exist eternally. they are contingent upon the prior existence of manmade building materials, and also of...
firstly, this is a logically impossible hypothetical scenario, so there’s no point of even trying to use it as a mental experiment. secondly, it conta...
I am not sure what you mean by “skeptic about necessity?” how can you be a skeptic about necessity if your claim that “necessity does not exist,” is e...
you have to convert it into ontological terms, because as it stands, the sets in Russell’s paradox are empty referents, and because of this, the concl...
The answer is simple: the study of metaphysics pertains to the study of the logical relationships between the ontological categories of being which ar...
You may be right, and that gives you the right to ignore all of my other points? Instead of addressing my argument, you simply nit-picked an inconsequ...
the many worlds hypothesis has its origin in the infinitesimal chance (1 x 10^123 odds against chance according to Penrose) that the universe came int...
even the existence of alternate worlds is an assumption. if you wish to posit the existence of alternate worlds, please prove that the existence of al...
even if space/time is eternal, does it necessarily follow that it is not contained within an eternally existing non-spatial dimension that may or may ...
but is it possible for there to be motion within a non-dimensional point? if, as Cantor claims, there are multiple (or an infinite) number of infiniti...
this is incorrect, you cannot have time existing in itself apart from being. time, by definition, requires the persistence of being and is therefore d...
an eternal being exists necessarily, but a necessary being is either eternal or non-eternal, so you admit to the possibility of a necessary being that...
my contention is that meaning is prior to language, or rather, that meaning isn’t to be found in language and propositions, but in what the words of t...
of course, I agree, symbols are all that are necessary for denotation, and denotations are not limited to words, or to sounds, but can be geometrical ...
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