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Thanks for the video posting, you. Cute. This Modal Logic, which can diverge into different forms, is itself rooted in metaphysical presuppositions re...

Laws of thought which facilitate all logic exist as well. Do you then agree that the concept of "a possible world of nothingness" is not logically pos...

Agreed. I'll rephrase: why do you find the concept logically possible to begin with?

In honesty, I happen to uphold that nothingness is a logical impossibility due to unavoidable contradictions and reifications. But this is contrary to...

Yea, I could see that use of semantics, and I for the record tend to agree with it. But I'm thinking of the question which many have philosophically a...

Isn't the idea of nothingness a purely metaphysical construct? Hence, a world of nothingness would then be a possible metaphysical construct - about w...

I mentioned something about how animals think without words in that thread. So I felt like commenting on this aspect here. Although animals will have ...

While I still find the notion of a posteriori necessity suspect for reasons aforementioned - for example, such as the issue of a term's sense(s) being...

I get that, but then how does one obtain the necessity of equivalency between terms when they each in large part specify different things, such as in ...

Can you clarify the attempted distinction. Venus references love as well as a planet X. Lucifer references lucidity as well as the same planet X. The ...

The issue is what that X innately entails. Here, X = person. That X is both A (infinite) and not-A (finite) at the same time and in the same respect w...

Please justify this so far unsupported affirmation to someone who can't comprehend it. Is any person, for one example, omnipresent bodily or omniscien...

How do you figure not logically? To rephrase: an infinite person is at the same time and in the same sense both a) a person that does not have end or ...

Try it this way: "infinite" in all cases means "not finite", where "finite" means "having an end or limit". A person in all cases is finite in both mi...

The leading example I've seen of a posteriori necessity is that of "Venus = Lucifer". I so far find this fishy. Any bloke on the street will tell you ...

For what it’s worth, my current thought process on the matter is along these lines: Logical possibility—all of it pivoting on laws of thought—pivots o...

Glad to hear it was of benefit. :up:

How do you understand “metaphysical possibility”? As 1) possible iff it is true in at least one logically possible world, as 2) possible iff it is log...

You asked for potential problems with deontology. Don't get me wrong. I've read up on deontology a bit. It's just that I so far find it lacking. Rephr...

Consequentialism comes in a very wide variety of forms: from “the proof is in the pudding” type mentality that can be used as evidence that might make...

Well, they're most definitely experienced. "Phenomena" technically translates into appearances perceivable through the physiological senses. In this s...

I'm in full agreement with what you've replied.

Consider the distinction between "an object of awareness" and "a subject of awareness". At least some specific objects of awareness can then be classi...

Since people are different, I’m here speaking only for myself. I’ve been this way (without an inner voice) in periods of my adult life. One appraises,...

By my appraisal, we so far seem to agree in full. If you care to further this: As with ideas universal to a populace - such as that of a circle - word...

Awfully narrow view of divinity as concept. BTW, what exactly is metaphysical about the bible? Does it present any logical arguments anywhere regardin...

I'm not yet understanding how this conflicts with words being more than their word-forms. For example via analogy, red is just a color. But cultures w...

Before the meaning of hieroglyphs was deciphered, hieroglyphs were to us word-forms devoid of known meaning and, therefore, could not be used by us to...

Hey, more for my own reasons than anything associated with topics in this thread: Ambiguous dictionary definitions aside, do you find no semantic diff...

Forgot to mention, I'm in general agreement otherwise. Also: :100:

First, this is an exceedingly limited view of what metaphysics entails. More to the point of this one reply, doesn't this then mean that we are subjug...

If ideas were to all be fiction, wouldn't all true propositions then be fictitious? As to being just names, names of what - other than the archetypes,...

I might have misinterpreted you before. Sounds like underneath all the superficial bickering, you just might be into this "control over the subjugated...

Smilingly asked, would one otherwise classify the findings of metaphysics - such as the nature of time, space, and causality - as "bullshit regarding ...

As in "control over other (to distinguish this from self-control) is the good to be obtained for its own sake"? Aye to that, for far too many. Agreed....

I can't help but have a good laugh at this. So, you've never encountered a controlling woman then?

Not all. Understanding of X does not necessarily equate to control of X. No?

Maybe the boldfaced answer provided could be further elaborated upon but, so far, I can only see this answer as utter hypocrisy. Being sapient, we see...

To me, your post addresses a very worthwhile perspective. To reaffirm what I was previously expressing, value's ontological standing - with the perspe...

I simply mean that value (i.e., worth, or importance) is experienced by us and that we can only know of it via our experiences - although not through ...

Your questions do not address my contention. Value is experiential, but in no way empirical (in the modern sense of the term); therefore, the empirica...

Suppositions can get rather arbitrary. Value is a standard English noun, and value was only one of the examples I've provided. It is fully synonymous ...

They're worthy academic fields of study, but the vast majority of social sciences, and of political science more narrowly, do not make use of the scie...

In relation to the scientific method of the empirical sciences—by which I mean falsifiable hypothesis, test with no or with restricted confounding var...

as well as: Apropos the interplay between religious and irreligious beliefs and praxis: Back in my early twenties when I basically was an atheist in a...

I read this as entailing that being just in decision X is inextricably entwined with being unjust in decision X, or else that being right about what o...

I mentioned greed, not self-sufficiency. Wiktionary defines greed as “a selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved ”. In parallel...

More like a tragic travesty of democracy when you're a voter within it. Besides, American politics might also have some effect upon non-American polit...

Can’t help but comment on this. In as simplified manner as I can currently muster, there are two directly contradictory mythoi, or folk-tales, that ar...

:smile: eh, "javra" is the Romanian word for cur/mongrel, not that many people make a habit of using the latter. Yes. Moreover, were he to choose exil...