javra

I'm not sure it's worth debating, merely provided you with an answer to your initial request. But as to this second question, I have addressed it here...

Off the top of my head, all things pertaining to laws of thought and to all aspects of value theory (including the metaethics of what “good” is) is in...

Infinity itself is a tricky concept. I once started a thread on the topic and got brutally pummeled by less than charitable mathematical folk for the ...

Got it. Just wanted to reply to with a :grin:

Aristotle himself made use of the term ??????????? (hypokeimenon) and demarcated it in the following way: The term "hypokeimenon" can well translate i...

Yup, philosophical issues 101. Which some will doubtlessly want to be spelled backwards, no less.

We inhabit two very different minds. I'm always active in what I contemplate. You claim not to be. OK.

Ah shoot, gonna turn this thread into one about best understandings regarding an objective idealism ontology? I'll pass on that for now. All the same,...

One again wrong in your presumptions. Tis me (formerly "evolog" on the old website, don't you know). Because contemplation is not something we do?

An inch no more exists without anyone contemplating it than does any word (such as the word “money”) exist without anyone contemplating it. In other w...

agreed in full

You're gonna have to be inventive and/or cogent. Is the hill itself changing (say due to some volcanic eruption)? I presume not. Does the hill's measu...

For my part, no, I see you not having followed the very points I just made. In what way can "y may well change with a change in x" in which there does...

:100: I would only add: "supported by experience, of which empirical evidence is one form of" (this in the modern sense of "empirical"). Your former e...

Funny reply, but OK.

To be taken seriously, show your reasoning. For instance, in what theory or truth that you wish to uphold is truth not partly dependent on one or more...

That, again, requires an observer's changing/moving mind to discern. I'll get back to you on this early next year my time. :smile:

For my part, the issue is that existence can only be rationally concluded absurd in so far as its being is, and can only be, a-rational (beyond any fo...

As a whole, nothing of the image changes. It is only within it that changes occur form one part of it to another. I'll look into it. Not on the pacifi...

Almost forgot: I'll try to work on it after the new year comes around in my neck of the woods. :wink: :razz:

This, however, fully ignores the reality of the observer's gaze moving in time from one spot of the image to another so as to discern the change addre...

I can get that, and I did jump into the discussion without reading most of the previous posts. Make of my reply what you will. To me it does evidence ...

It directly concerns what the alcoholic ought to do despite what anyone might want, or like, the alcoholic to do. I fail to understand how this specif...

It not a statement of suggestion that one gives to another - for in the example all who know the alcoholic want him to continue drinking. The example ...

A) The alcoholic (who thereby self-destroys themselves via alcohol consumption) should become sober, this despite B) the alcoholic and all which surro...

Well, unlike some others, there indeed is something about concentration camps that I deem wrong. This especially when they turn into extermination cam...

@"Merkwurdichliebe"'s “boo hoo” reply makes me envision someone eating popcorn with a brewsky in their hand in front of their TV set while joyfully la...

This will be fully dependent on what is interpreted by the term “causation”. That causation expressed in the phrase, “my aim of expressing the ideas o...

If the first scenario, then: Before the evolution of life came around, there was no requisite identity to anything at the same time and in the same re...

Of course: one ontic reality (whatever it might in fact be) and many ontologies (each with its own proposed metaphysical laws) trying to accurately ma...

I'll put it on my list of books to read. Thanks for mentioning.

My take was stated in this post in the thread, which is itself based on this SEP entry (you can quickly look at the SEP entry's section 1's two defini...

I'll say that, if by no other means, then via acquaintance with there so being different ontologies out there, all of which are metaphysical possibili...

As a friendly reminder, we do know that different ontologies are metaphysically possible. Although we also know logically that contradictory ontologie...

The example I just gave of GPS evidences the significant difference between the gravitational force that a satellite is in and the gravitational force...

I've already agreed to this, upheld it even before you mentioned it. But I don't see how this then contradicts the theory of relativity as regards a p...

Unless I'm mistaken, there is no other way that estimate can be established other than via the theory of relativity - coupled, of course, with empiric...

It is commonly enough known that we perceive time in subjective manners (the linked Wikipedia article gives a nice presentation). This I think fits in...

An addendum for improved clearness as regards my last post, just in case it might be needed: In the fable presented, the protagonist’s age as measured...

There's a fable I was acquainted with as a kid in which the hero overcomes many an obstacle to at long last arrive in a kingdom where life occurs with...

Though I appreciate the effort, the movie The Age of Adaline, for one example, directly contradicts it not being metaphysically possible (Adaline myst...

Oh fudge, I'll reply. And if Hitler happened to be a vegetarian, then it would be a worthwhile thing to keep in mind that all vegetarians worldwide sh...

Going back into a non-sarcastic mood, it was good chatting with you.

All the same, if there isn't any further ado, I'll be bowing out of this discussion.

I duly agree with you're appraisal, and am strongly inclined toward the following conclusion in respect to the perspective I've previously outlined: ....

Touche. Your logic as to fortune tellers and such is truly out-standing. In an attempt to help out: Since “a person” signifies a subject, and since do...

This misses the entire point. Modal logic is founded upon metaphysics. These being two separate entities: modal logic as one specialized subset of met...

Going in circles. "Subject" is far more ambiguous then "person". But so be it.

So what does the term "person" signify to you?

Here's a reference: Modal metaphysics concerns the metaphysical underpinning of our modal statements. There could be no formalized modal logic without...