Thorongil

Yes, I view Spinoza as a neutral monist. For a very long time, I counted myself a Spinozist because I thought he offered a solution to the mind/body p...

I think this conversation is somewhat tedious, unimportant, and one-sided, for we are really just confronting the problems with assuming that the worl...

But this is basically what I did just say: "it is abstracted from perception." Obviously the abstraction is not empirically perceived, but your use of...

This is the closest to my view, but I would say that conceptual knowledge, such as what mathematics reveals, is not "void" of any perception, since it...

Yeah, and a lot of people like to reject him by making ad hominems. Some in the secondary literature try to offer actual arguments against his positio...

More people tend to disagree with him than agree with him, in my experience. I'm the only person I know who actually agrees with his philosophical sys...

An even shittier place.

No I haven't. Not a mathematical model at any rate. What you term "Euclidean space" is a phantasm, something created by the model itself. It has no re...

But that is what you're doing.

You're still believing that something's true here, namely, you believe it is true that something else could potentially be true.

Because I have to. That's where my knowledge stops. No such thing exists. You're just referencing a mathematical model. That model, whether it's accur...

One can believe something without knowing it is true, but I think it's just definitional that to believe something is to regard it as true.

Ah, but I said "orthodox," lower case. Perhaps it's true that one can be an unorthodox Orthodox Christian. Perhaps that's what you are, but you appear...

Only if by "how" we mean that it determines that things appear in the plural.

There is a sense in which triangles are indeed impossible, for we don't perceive perfect triangles in nature, while the triangles we can imagine are b...

I've determined that Agustino is much more heretical than he appears.

I'm not sure what you're asking here. Your last question seems to commit the category mistake I listed above. Nothing can "govern" space. A possibilit...

And what, pray tell, is a "pure spatial relation?" For what it's worth, Wikipedia disagrees with you.

No, my main point was that space has no properties. I was thinking of physics when I said material objects. Geometry, you are right, deals with mental...

That's technically true, yes, but it doesn't affect my main point.

No it isn't. Space has no properties. Only material objects in space have properties and these properties are what geometry studies.

Yeah, I think so.

It doesn't create whatever relationships you might be referring to. It creates your ability to say "figures," plural. Rubbish. Try thinking of or draw...

For Schopenhauer, they are phenomenal.

Are you asking me this? Because if you are, I think I quite clearly implied above (and in my PMs) that I am not necessarily committed to defending thi...

No, not according to Schopenhauer. The Platonic Ideas are dependent on the will, as the adequate objectification thereof. That being said, as I have t...

Sure. This is still a bizarre claim to me. It's equally distant from both ideas and matter in terms of what it is. No! This is profoundly antithetical...

This is correct. The will can be considered a weird sort of phenomenon, yes. But it is not composed of parts, given that it's not in space. It is what...

I think we see two bifurcations in Schopenhauer. There is first will and presentation, which is the world (hence his title). Then there is the world a...

I feel I should make an appearance. As I told Agustino, I freely admit to being fairly mathematically illiterate, which may hinder my ability to see t...

Your reward will be a post in the space thread.

You want a medal?

Speak for yourself. I've read enough of the New Testament, the Church Fathers, and countless Christian mystics, ascetics, and theologians to know that...

The arguments have to do with life, not souls per se. If they were solely to do with the latter, then positions like Aquinas's, who believed ensoulmen...

No.

I'm thinking of a certain type of advocate: the unthinking kind. So don't be so hasty in your defamations. You'll notice I didn't say "refugee advocat...

That's different from the question Agustino asked, though, which was about whether it was worse to run over a human or a cat. I have said that I find ...

The vocabulary for disapprobation is wider than strictly moral terms. Destroying flowers for fun is an imprudent, irrational, inconsiderate, unreasona...

>:O

Huh?

What, because you say so?

It's natural in a setting that requires it for survival. But in the modern, industrialized world where one buys all of one's food at big grocery store...

Pfft. Tough luck.

Yes. There are vegetarian dog and cat foods.

What's the context? Did you deliberately buy the meat or was it just given to you? I can admit a difference between the two, as the Buddha did, whereb...

Why?

Are you saying that aborting a human fetus is a moral thing to do?

I wouldn't try to do that, though. I would try to argue that it's immoral to kill animals regardless of the psychological reactions people have to it....

Yeah, I realized that right after I posted.

Yes, I hold out hopes that this can come to fruition.