Given that if A then B, and I believe A, then it is rational for me to believe B; in fact, it would be irrational for me not to believe B. However, if...
Are you working on bumping up your comment count? You know that you can edit a post after submitting it, rather than just adding another one (or two o...
Disputing how? The hypothetical is stipulative; given that we only have two options, and that one will always have an equal or better outcome, there c...
Who has time for that? Lighten up, I was just attempting to inject a little humor; I even included a smiley in an effort to make that clear. Here, let...
So the issue is not that the hypothesis is imaginary - which technically is true of all retroductive conjectures - but that it is unfalsifiable; i.e.,...
I am not trying to sell you (or anyone else) anything, just doing my best to answer the question posed by the thread title. If you cannot accept the r...
This begs the question; what we are discussing is precisely whether a cause must always be temporally prior to its effect. You cannot just resolve the...
It depends on what you mean by "exist." Platonists might talk about forms that exist independently in a separate realm that is real, but non-material....
No one argues that universals have physical existence. As I understand it, the issue is whether universals are nevertheless real - i.e., whether there...
No, it is the driving of nails - something that is in the future when the hammer is made, not the present or the past. That is why we call it the fina...
It should have been clear that I was referring to your own previous statement. This assertion is not something that I can confirm by observation, I ha...
Your assertion fails its own test. It is not something that I can confirm by observation, I have no good reasons to believe that it is confirmed by th...
I intend to drive some nails. I make a hammer accordingly. The final cause of the hammer is not achieved until I actually drive the nails with it - af...
I do not understand your reply. Are you claiming that "intellectual matters" are somehow limited to "empirical objects"? Why would my assent to the ex...
It seems to me that, on your view, there would have to be some minimum amount of change (or motion) associated with a minimum interval of time; otherw...
"Intellectual assent" means sincerely believing that God exists or is real, not just mouthing the words. Again, I question the assumption that this, b...
But that intent is not realized until the object exists and is employed for that purpose. In that sense, the final cause is subsequent to the event. B...
Of course, this is controversial within Christian theology; as a Lutheran, I would disagree. God's forgiveness is predicated only on the death of Chri...
Pascal's Wager is also flawed in assuming that mere intellectual assent to the existence/reality of God is sufficient to satisfy God and gain whatever...
Peirce's main point is that we cannot "manufacture" genuine doubt. "We must begin with all the prejudices which we actually have when we enter upon th...
I guess what I meant to ask is this: Do you reject the reality of universals because you embrace physicalism, or do you embrace physicalism because yo...
Thanks for the helpful clarification. A few quick follow-up questions ... 1. Is it fair to say that physicalism is your most fundamental view here, si...
, My definition of a philosopher: Someone who would rather ask the right question, and not be able to answer it, than give the right answer to the wro...
What about final causation, which is often subsequent (temporally) to the effect? Even most efficient causation is really simultaneous with the effect...
I will let Charles Sanders Peirce do the talking for me here. "We must act in such matters; and the principle upon which we are willing to act is a be...
Not even as a thought experiment? It seems possible to me, at least in principle, for there to be two objects that are identical in every way, except ...
Thanks, but I was mainly asking Terrapin Station, in response to his statement that "space is simply the extension of matter and the extensional relat...
Are spatial and temporal relations the only relations that you consider to be real? , I am curious to know what both of you think of this statement th...
Okay, my mistake. It sounded like nominalism to me in the sense that "space" and "time" are just names that people give to concepts. I would not descr...
Are they? That seems more like nominalism than realism. I lean toward the latter, as I believe you do, and was merely suggesting that there is a disti...
Agreed, I was just suggesting an example that is more familiar to most people than haecceity; especially since I tend to think of the latter as the di...
Rather than "properties," consider a quality, such as the color red - not a red thing, like a stop sign, but the color red itself, apart from any inst...
As I stated previously, Peirce did not confine logic to deduction, or even deduction and induction; he also included retroduction, which is precisely ...
If what you are trying to say is nothing more than what Peirce said, then I understand and agree. To quote him again, "The elements of every concept e...
That he spent most of his time and energy studying the normative science of thinking - the kinds of habits that tend to help us adopt true beliefs and...
I am still trying to figure out what you mean by "the primacy of experience." Well, we cannot think about everything in the universe all at once; so i...
I asked you to define your terms in an effort to understand better what you were saying. Why would I bother trying to invalidate an "argument" being o...
Right, and my point was that this happens because mathematics is observational - manipulating and then reexamining a diagram can reveal new informatio...
How exactly do you distinguish "outer" from "inner"? How and why would the best method of study - the one most likely to lead to the truth - be differ...
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