Sounds like a long word for Faith prior to Evidence. If you accept that blind faith is a good thing, then you will be hooked into whatever belief syst...
The etymology of the word "Intention" seems to imply teleology*1. But a mere "tendency" refers to an apparent direction, e.g. toward future fitness & ...
In his disdainful reply above, 180proof dismissed metaphysical god concepts as a "distinction without a difference". When I referred to Aristotle's no...
Sounds like a computer program, for which the intention*2 is in the mind of the Programmer. But signs of intention can be found in such directional in...
Does the notion of God as ground of Being have any "practical use" in your world? Does it "open up" a new path for philosophical dialog? What do you f...
Yes. Our world seems to be fundamentally stochastic ; at least on the quantum level. So the pre-set mechanistic A> B> C> type of evolution doesn't fit...
Personally, I haven't read any of Tillich or Hart*1, but I have constructed a non-anthro-morphic god-model that may have some features in common with ...
In the 17th century, it seemed natural to think of the rational regularities and mathematical principles of the universe as Divine Laws, by analogy wi...
Sorry, if my word-choice seemed to put you in an irrational category. Since you used the term "belief", I simply substituted another term, "faith"*1, ...
So, you are aware that your "premise" is a Faith instead of a Fact? Most people, including Scientists, intuitively take for granted that their senses ...
This post was started prior to the post above, but interrupted. Until you brought it up, I was not familiar with the term "Negative Fact"*1. But the d...
OK. But do you have a Positive Fact that "_____ does fully account for the nature of consciousness". A Materialist worldview might fill-in the blank w...
So, you agree that incomplete empirical Physics*1 leaves something to be desired, that theoretical Philosophy can explore : perhaps a Theory of Everyt...
I'm just throwing this out there : maybe the lack of "creativity" is not just in Philosophy, but also in Physics, and in Politics. Are we seeing a gen...
I guess that conditional agreement depends on which traditions you refer to. Plato was very clear that he considered his Ideal & Universal Forms (e.g....
Exactly! As a part of speech, in our materialistic language, "circularity" is a noun, a thing, an object. Yet Properties (Qualia) are not actually mat...
If Consciousness was entirely physical*1, there would be no need for Philosophy*2. But even scientific Physics is not entirely physical*3, in the sens...
Yes. The Substrate (hyle ; wood ; matter) already exists. But the Form (morph) is what converts wood into art. In the image below, notice the hands & ...
Quantum Field Theory is just one of the mind-expanding technologies that opens doors for novel philosophical & scientific exploration. Of course, an o...
Yes. That's what exploring philosophers do : use our limited senses to learn what is within our reach, and then reach-out to "speculate" on what might...
No. But the Matrix movie serves as a metaphor for the Information Age*1, in which computers do a lot of our thinking for us. A few centuries ago, huma...
I have used a practical example of Mind Over Matter before : the Panama Canal*1 was a dream of shippers for nearly three centuries before it had any p...
Please note that I didn't say he definitively & finally answered the "why?" question of a purpose to the universe. "Questions of why and purpose" are ...
Thanks for the thoughtful re-question. Due to the multiple lines of evidence from science & philosophy, I do think Causation did not originate in the ...
Why take a hypothetical possibility (HP) seriously? Hmmm. There is a hypothetical possibility that US & Iran will soon be engaged in a nuclear war, an...
I no longer respond directly to 's sneering Gnomon-directed diatribes on this forum, over the last ten years or so. Therefore, I will address these co...
That statement depends on how you define "reality". Your comments seem to indicate that your "reality" excludes anything beyond the scope or our physi...
You sound confident about the independence of our world from any uncaused First Cause. Do you believe that measurable space-time is a continuum extend...
180woowoo anachronistically & erroneously confuses my metaphorical programmer G*D, with the religious God of Abraham, Isaac, Joseph & Jesus. Since the...
I suppose most of the creativity in western Philosophy occurred in the Golden Age of the Greeks, who basically defined the methods & terminology of th...
In skimming this thread, I must have missed "the OG theory". And "hylomorphism simpliciter" may be above my pay grade. But I think has clearly & simpl...
What you are describing sounds like a social contract*1, in which what we both see is real, and what we individually imagine is ideal or unreal (or wo...
As others have so helpfully pointed out, "nothing" cannot or does not exist. That's why the concept of Zero took so long to catch-on with mathematicia...
Your "god" sounds a lot like Aristotle's First Cause/Prime Mover, which was a logical necessity, not an emotional source of succor & sanction. In othe...
In my youth, I had little exposure to Philosophy outside of Theological argumentation. As a Post-religion adult though, my "reflective life" was mostl...
I've noticed that several posts in this thread speak of having a "narrative" as-if it's a bad thing, like fiction or myth. Is "dissection" or "analysi...
Not at all! From my amateur perspective, you have hit the entailing nail (Pure Potential) on the head. My own personal worldview is based on a notion ...
Thanks for the perspicacious post. I have noticed the different philosophy "styles" on this forum, but hadn't distilled it down to a polarity : Dissec...
In the US, the typical, non-philosophical, believer seems to feel the need for a sympathetic person to pray to : Jesus and/or Mary. And Jesus' absente...
I assume that by "literalist" you mean those who accept the Christian bible as the revealed word of God. But, I've seen very few bible-thumpers on thi...
"Imagined Telos"*1 and "Projection" make the notion of a direction to evolution sound like wishful thinking. But a more positive way to label that ide...
"What do you find intriguing" is a serious question to determine where you are coming from. "To provide a larger context" is just one possible respons...
I haven't read anything by Vervaeke, but I Googled and found this summary of his worldview*1. His notion to "untangle the sacred from the supernatural...
That is exactly the kind of natural Revelation that turned me away from Atheism toward Deism. The "self organizing processes" of Nature are what led A...
Mea culpa. Due to my personal bias, I did not interpret Faith in Revelation as a viable means of knowing the "unknown god" (Acts 17:23). As you say th...
Again, I have to apologize for asking questions that upset you. I'm just trying to understand what you mean, behind what you say : the implications. 1...
If that is the case, why are you posting on a Philosophy Forum? Did you expect responses to your OP to be lists of hard Facts? What is Philosophy, if ...
You must not post on the same topics that I do. Ask Wayfarer and Count Timothy von Icarus about their encounters with many Materialists, Atheists, and...
I apologize if I misinterpreted your "safe place". But a synonym is "Haven", an analog of "Heaven". I am intentionally trying to avoid "riffing off th...
Thanks. Now that we have established that my philosophical worldview is not a religious search for a "safe place" in heaven, let's consider what it ac...
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