If truth is mind-dependent, and there are no minds in world x, then: it is true in our actual world (where there are minds) that there is no logic in ...
Here is what you said in your post #484. What does this have to do with my summary? We are having this discussion in the actual world, where there are...
You think that truth is mind-independent. Therefore, you think that there is truth in a world without minds. @"Terrapin Station" thinks that truth is ...
No, interaction corresponds to existence. Peirce's definition of "real" is having predicates independently of the thought of any individual person or ...
It seems to me that the disagreement here is over the very definition of truth, which is tied to the nature of propositions. On your (mind-independent...
Please identify at least one specific view put forth in this thread by @"Terrapin Station" that leads to contradiction. Even if you believe that you h...
No, because it still seems to be expressing a version of nominalism, rather than realism. There are different actualizations of a property, each uniqu...
Maybe, but I appreciate the dialogue as an opportunity to sort out my own approach to these matters. As the saying goes, "I write to find out what I t...
I perceived objects and states of affairs, which produced a percept, which disappeared immediately. The perceptual judgment that followed is what I ha...
Yes, and @"Terrapin Station" is aware that I make the same distinction. That is why we switched to <<whatever>> in the course of the exchange, to avoi...
It depends on what exactly we mean by "repeatable or recurrent entities." I would say that there are no individuals that can be instantiated or exempl...
The whole point is that a universal is not an individual. People talk about the earth, the moon, basketballs, soccer balls, baseballs, marbles, etc. a...
Right - you perceive (non-representationally) the objects and states of affairs, and then you judge (representationally) what you have perceived. In o...
That is one aspect; there is a continuum of shapes that are roughly spherical, including the actual shape of the earth. Even for genuine spheres, ther...
But it is followed immediately by a perceptual judgment, the involuntary (i.e., acritical) representation of the percept in thought. Much like a retro...
You are conflating its proper purpose with how it is actually (instrumentally) employed in most cases. My suggestion is that enhancing the material we...
I see it as the laws of nature, and I see it as final cause. If there were no final causes, then there could be no laws of nature - no predictable reg...
You say that like it's a bad thing. Pragmatism is a perfectly respectable school of philosophy. :D Engineering may not care, but at least some enginee...
The laws of nature are what order it toward that end. God is one explanation of those laws, but obviously not the only one. The final cause would stil...
And here I thought we were having a pleasant, respectful conversation despite our evident disagreements. I simply pointed out that you added the word ...
Peirce had an interesting take on the relations between parts and whole in terms of causation: "Efficient causation is that kind of causation whereby ...
I would, and so would others. Per Wikipedia, citing Edward Feser's book on Aquinas: "Finality thus understood is not purpose but that end towards whic...
This is incoherent to me. Particulars cannot be continuous; anything that is truly continuous can only be general. In Peirce's words, "Generality, the...
Non-living things, such as a ball at the top of an incline, do not have intentions or act with purpose; yet they have final causes, such as coming to ...
As I understand it, nominalism holds that only individuals are real; therefore, space and time must consist of discrete locations and instants, respec...
All forms of reasoning depend upon necessary reasoning, and all necessary reasoning is mathematical reasoning, and all mathematical reasoning is diagr...
The dimensionality of points (or lack thereof) is not relevant to the diagram. Think of a marked number line instead. If the marks correspond to all o...
Do space and time, as a whole, consist entirely of the actual aggregate of individual locations and instants? This is analogous to saying that a line,...
Okay, but "separate" implies something that is obviously incompatible with true continuity, which is why I could not give an immediate and simple answ...
If you require every final cause to be identical to some intention in some mind, then I agree that this is the only approach that works; but since it ...
I am not as interested in the content of your argument as I am in trying to sort out its logic. What you seem to be saying is that any truth about the...
But we do not normally assume intention, or purpose, as final cause in cases where no human is involved. Again, a seed in the ground or a ball at the ...
Sorry, you lost me again. What is contradictory about "All truth depends on the mind" being true about the world? What happened to your key word "excl...
Yes - I already acknowledged that two actual points on a truly continuous line are individual, and not numerically identical. What I denied is that th...
I put "adjacent" in quotation marks for a reason. No two points on a continuum - potential or actual - are strictly adjacent. Like I said, between any...
Please provide the diagram for "All truth is exclusively mind-dependent." In particular, please clarify the particular significance that you are attac...
No, there is nothing "numerical" about potential points on a truly continuous line. Every part of a true continuum is itself a true continuum. Between...
No one is claiming that they are logically equivalent. You seem to think that they are contradictory, but they are not. "All dogs are exclusively mamm...
The Venn diagram for "truth is dependent upon the mind" (by itself) is identical to your diagram, except that the portion of the circle for "World" th...
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