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“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.” - S.A.K.
The order of the O.P.'s premises leads to a contradiction. For, if, according to "premise 1," "somethings are pious while others are sin," then, contr...
The whole bike exists, or rather all of its parts. Yet, again, the parts themselves can be divided, even if they actually aren't divided; & until they...
If there are "unseparated parts," how would I know how many parts there are, infinite or otherwise? If they're not separted or divided, they're not pa...
... says the wall who's incapable of grasping that what can be parted isn't parted. The only thing that you've refuted is any claim of yours to logica...
A subtle distinction is being overlooked here, which is, what I take to be, the root of your mistake. What's divisible into, say, two parts, isn't act...
As I far as I see it, no, you can't. Anyhow, take care, pal. Your bare assertions are leading us nowhere. However, I still thank you for our back-and-...
You mean, what you consider to be important. For what's really important & what you take to be important aren't the same evidently. Who's claimed, let...
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, not. Yes, it can. It subsists as a possibility relative to what can initiates its unfolding in time, despite its u...
So an infinitude of moments has unfolded to your, or everyone's, consciousness, past, present, & future? Okay, if that's so, & the present & the futur...
From Wikipedia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%27s_Horn): "Gabriel's horn is formed by taking the y = 1/x, with the domain x ? 1 and rotating...
Lol, if you really that think I've corrected myself, rather than having repeated my original assertion, this conversation is wayyy beyond me. Aw, why ...
... you should also that believe that your illogical assertion caused it. You can't determine what's moving on the condition that motion is defined as...
Lol, are you saying that two, or multiple, things can't be moving relative to each other? So, yeah, there's no self-refutation. You just seem miss the...
Yes, relative to place/position, as I've originally asserted. No, I can't; because I've originally said that motion is defined as change of place or p...
Uh, yes, it does, precisely because, although everything can be said to be in motion or changing place/position, everything isn't, in the same context...
Apologies for the late reply. Sure, I've also heard of physicists talk about something being infinite but bounded, yet, nevertheless, these are physic...
Understanding this word, "in-finite," in the most literal sense, which is strictly negatively, or, in other words, as in meaning not-finite or not-lim...
So if one says that two people pre-existed their child's birth, they mean that those two people didn't actually exist, but only had the potential to, ...
Don't know if you guys are being sarcastic or not, but Socrates was neither an atheist or formally/expressly charged by the Athenian state for teachin...
Well, there's your own rebuttal. For, on your view, this "substratum" exists independently, since "pre-existence" doesn't mean "non-existence" but sol...
Yeah, that’s one way of looking at it; but I would describe it as challenging the knowledge of the reality of sense-organs, & not solely of their caus...
The main premise of sensualism, i.e., that all our knowledge involves sensations or sensory-information, can be reduced to absurdity, if one first att...
Seems to me, the main premise of “anti-realism” is, as it’s been expressed in the O.P., self-contradictory. For if by “objective,” it’s meant (as it w...
On the condition of distinguishable times in general, one may act, as well as require others to do so, accordingly; that is, relatively to the time; q...
Sorry for the very late reply; I really haven’t had the time to sit down & log into my account lately. So if you don’t reply, I’ll understand. Is this...
Very sorry for the (about a month) late reply; but I haven’t had the leisure-time, for some while now, to sit down at my computer &, so, be able to tr...
You must bear in mind that all syntheses aren’t apriori, as synthesis can be aposteriori too; & the latter is what Kant had in mind when referencing e...
“Awareness” is an abstract noun formed from the adjective “aware,” i.e., “awareness” by itself is an abstraction by definition. Now as an adjective wi...
Hume’s claim that one’s perception is derived from or caused by a bundle of impressions can be denied on the very same grounds, or the very same means...
If possibility & impossibility, both in empirical & intellectual intuition, are determined by our agency, then why can’t their bounds be changed or al...
Though that’s the very point. The pure or the formal is contrasted, thus not being equivalent, with the empirical, as apriori is contrasted with apost...
From an etymological standpoint, in one way or another, “principle,” “law,” & “rule,” aren’t as different as you’re trying to make them seem, & they c...
A “principle” is to be understood as one understands the word “law.” So the principle of reason is just another way of saying the law of reason — in o...
“Redundancy,” “tautology,” ultimately end up meaning the same thing (this is a mere quibble with words), which is insignificance due to repetition. ‘T...
“Energy,” based on E = mc2, is inconceivable without time; such that it can’t be separate from it, in order to be eventually combined with it. For ene...
“But there are no natural squares or circles, in the same way bodies are extended in space. If they don’t occur naturally other than an artificial cre...
“I don't know if there is any nuance of English that escapes me” — No offense, but it seems like a lot of your statements come down to nuances of lang...
Before anything, just want to say sorry for the long reply. Firstly, no, I don’t think that’s per se the problem, IF, in the first place, it’s granted...
No, my friend, yours wasn’t the fallacy of circularity; but that of inconsistency, or incongruity (to use a term that you’ve used). The fallacy of cir...
Sorry to intrude & intervene in your discussion, but I would like to reply to the question that you’ve raised in your latest post in this thread (abou...
The inability to answer this question only arises if one presumes that its identity can be EXTERNALLY demonstrated; which is precisely what Descartes ...
In my view, “time” is defined as the form of any possible or actual change. Time & change are synonymous; which is precisely why whatever truth that’s...
“that we could get by without the whole ordeal to start with.” — When have you known this to be the case, if ever at all? Or is this just something th...
So you advise to teach children no rules for behavior & interaction? They should simply just act how they wish without any correction or consequence? ...
Sure, not the technicalities of jurisprudence, but are you saying that children shouldn’t be taught rules of behavior & interaction at all? Moreover, ...
Sure, I don’t deny that modern “contractualist” states can over do it, but that’s not an objection to contractualism, per se; but just to how certain ...
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