Perhaps by the victim; or by people in a society who’ve agreed on upholding “social contracts”, that is, in order to be a citizen of the state, you’ve...
I don’t agree with that, as I believe in the maxim of, “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.” So that, in principle, the most effective way...
“I think it boils down to retaliation towards some perceived threat” — Right, as I’ve said in my first post, “negative reinforcement”, or just a negat...
“If people knew how many people actually DON'T get away with crimes, things would shift so dramatically.” — Exactly my point, only if people KNEW, the...
I guess that I would it explain by saying that the perpetrator doesn’t view/experience the consequence as being something negative, or just doesn’t kn...
”But, does this have to be demonstrated in act only?” —... for beings without a higher cognition, like dogs or other animals, I would say, yes. For ex...
“What is the deeper point towards punishment”? — In my opinion, “negative reinforcement”; by associating something negative, or undesirable, with a gi...
Lol, his philosophy as a system is very much open to criticism; only on a superficial or surface level does it appear to be too well done, but it’s ac...
Excuse the late reply, as I’ve been quite occupied lately & haven’t had the time to check into my account. Yet, to the point... “Ideally too though, i...
Heraclitus himself, in fact, produced a manuscript of his own that was entitled, “On Nature”, which he submitted to the historically famous “Artemisiu...
There’s no equivocating, I’m using the word how it’s commonly understood; even how Spinoza understands it (in a general Cartesian sense). Moreover, yo...
There’s nothing else but substance to conceive of substance, sure, but the point is that there’s nothing else but substance to be conceived of as bein...
What does it mean for an “attribute” to be “necessary”? My point in the post of mine which you’ve quoted, is, that, merely stating that it “has” them,...
“Yes, we do claim states otherwise. He outright states substance is conceived through itself.” — The point is, though, him stating that “substance” is...
“You just keep on misconceiving ‘conceived through itself’" — I’m not misconceiving anything of the sort. Spinoza clearly only ever asserts “substance...
I didn’t equivocate, if anything, you did in the wording of your own question. How you don’t understand the difference between a thing & a conception ...
“Equivocating is when an author is using two different senses/acceptable uses/definitions of the same term in the same argument.”— Lol, I was only reu...
How is distinguishing between the thing of which one conceives, &, the conception itself, e.g, the sun is different from my conception of it, equivoca...
Nowhere does Spinoza speak of conceptions being self-caused (in the same way that the conception of eternity or an eternal thing isn’t itself eternal,...
Such your cheerleading self up, lol. You should get yourself some tutus & pom-poms from Walmart while you’re there picking up a personal copy of “Spin...
I’m not denying Spinoza’s definition, in as much as you’re just misunderstanding them. “Substance” isn’t a conception, in Spinoza’s philosophy, nor ca...
You haven’t made any case, you’re also making that up in your head, too, as far as I’m concerned; so rest or no rest, I’m carless either way. Moreover...
The conception can be formed independently of every other conception, not independently of every thing, such as “substance”; thus there’s a distinctio...
Very strictly speaking, it’s ineffable, sure, but not imperceptible; so, as I’ve mentioned to the other fellow in one way or another, the words that a...
I’m only responding to the second half of your post, for the rest is ultimately irrelevant. Very simply put, is “substance” a conception? Is “substanc...
Firstly, what does “consciousness” mean to you? In order to begin to understand you from here, definitions must be sorted out. So what do you mean by ...
“the mind gets everything backwards and inside out when it goes off on its own and does not rely on omniscience as the source of truth” — You seem to ...
1— It’s not so much talking about metaphysics as it’s thinking about it (quite the difference): again, don’t focus on the characters or words themselv...
1– It doesn’t require belief but does require the foundation of reality (so, no escape in that respect for you); the former, you have a lot of, while ...
1– .. except that possibilities are metaphysical, not merely objects of knowledge; if this weren’t the case, they would never in fact be possibilities...
1– So you’re rejecting real, or the reality of, possibilities? Logically speaking, that is, apriori, reality is the very foundation of possibility. Wh...
1– Notice that you avoided answering my question, as I somewhat thought that you would’ve, & simply proceeded to repeat your prior assertions/assumpti...
1– First things first, according to you, what is (by definition) a “substance” (such that a new one cannot be created)? Moreover, no, I’m not talking ...
A lot of what you say is opinion-based, & not strictly logically determined, even though I get the feeling that you believe differently. “No thing can...
The main question that your post revolves around, in my opinion, is that of creation. Based on what you say, how can a given consciousness be the crea...
“Spinoza's point is they are of identical reality. The a priori definition of the modes insentience and sentience in the attribute of thought are of t...
Determining distinctions between kinds of conception is one thing, understanding Spinoza another; your attempts at both, either way, are quite dissati...
The supposed force of the statements of the author in question are beside the point, if you understand them & thereby their flaws. “It also means, par...
“Substance is in itself and conceives through itself.” — Substance is conceived through itself, granted, but the point is that the conception itself, ...
”Only reality (substance/justification) can predicate an instance of insentience or/and sentience (depending on what modes we are talking about).” — T...
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