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Since you’ve pointed me to SEP, you’ll notice that the entry on identity is in no way unequivocal about what identity is. But taken from the introduct...

Given that, as you say, we are going around in circles, it might just be that we might need to agree on disagreeing. All the same I'll give a reply. T...

Agreed. For me they apply to all forms, including fictional ones, and not only to that which is physical. That Harry Potter is not a unicorn is true -...

I see your point here. A unicorn as concept is not substantiated by primary substances (which I still maintain can only be empirically known). The cla...

Dude! I'm trying to figure out MU's position a little better. Thanks for the ignoble backing, all the same.

Yea, I get that. For right now I think the argument centers on whether or not there are any mathematical objects to begin with.

You're using substance to denote something different than what I'm denoting by it: for you, it seems, substance is only that which is empirically cogn...

Given what we've been through in terms of prime matter being pure potential and all givens being identified by their forms, why would the abstract for...

Long story short, I agree with this.

In still trying to think this through: It strikes me that the showing can occur even if not intended. For instance, in this quoted example they might ...

Yea, I'm thinking it through myself. To use an example, if the pointing dog is not showing but telling, then its pointing is itself propositional - co...

Maybe I'm naive in asking: Why always the metaphor of "shows" and never that of "tells"? As one example: a good poem tells of things it does not direc...

This would make sentient beings seperated from nature. Which invokes a very weird notion of "nature". We are not that which causes ourselves to be in ...

:up: My view is that that being per se is by its very nature beyond the principle of sufficient reason and, therefore, in one literal sense, absurd. T...

I'm glad to hear that there isn't any significant disagreement (if any) in relation to Nirvana as "ultimate identity". Finally got around to reading K...

To do a Galileo like thing: but still the table can burn due to being constituted of wood rather than marble. You are of course correct in respect to ...

In one sense I agree, but in this sense all four of Aristotle's causes co-occur (an Aristotelian variant of codependent arising). Which is not the cas...

Thanks. Briefly skimmed some of it for now. Will look further in it in a few days. Looks to be up my alley. I have a great deal of respect for Buddhis...

No such implication was intended: One one hand, these definitions are in accord with Aristotle's definition of matter as ""that out of which" X is mad...

Here, you’ve misconstrued what I was saying. I wasn’t saying that a given’s summation of parts *causes* the given’s composition/matter. What I was sug...

Blushingly, point taken.

I'm going to push this issue a little. From such quotes I interpret Aristotelian matter to be fairly synonymous with composition. A material cause is ...

By this argument, no continuity of (the Aristotelian notion of) any substance can occur, for any physical object will have accidental differences betw...

And what's wrong with it being illegal in human made democratic laws if fascism is indeed something bad ... that inevitably leads into lands of the at...

What is, democracy? Its a jeopardy-like answer to a jeopardy-like question.

Try to imagine the same attack being perpetuated by people of non-white skin ... or by those utterly evil "anti-fascists" (an attitude which blatantly...

I’m curious to know how you would address the following scenario via the law of identity: --The concept of tree is the same as (is equal to; i.e., is ...

Neither. I sharply disagree with the part about there being a metaphysical division between humans and all non-human life. I'll leave that for another...

My own definition of awareness’s primacy: The tenet that everything which can and does exist (i.e., everything that can and does stand-out in any way)...

I think I can very much understand and respect where you’re coming from. Abiogenesis is a big thorn in the side. As for myself, though, I do strongly ...

People are sometimes also fond of arguing that ameba do not hold a first-person awareness of light and dark, not to again mention of what is relative ...

Then we sharply disagree.

Bees and ants do not have socially transmitted behaviors as far as I'm aware - hence, no culture. If you know otherwise, please provide a reference. N...

Other than via mischaracterization or willful strawmaning, panpsychism does not deny the (somewhat) clear line between the inorganic realm and the org...

How does that follow from the premise that the universe has been partly negentropic from the Big Bang get go? This being something you’ve previously s...

Maybe this needs clarification: if primacy of awareness is true, and a universe that was once devoid of life-forms is also true ... then what other vi...

Haven't read up on dolphins but, as a fun tidbit, chimpanzee cohorts have their own unique cultures (with a small "C"). For example: https://www.newsc...

If one accepts both a) the primacy of awareness in one form of another, together will all that this entails (e.g., goal, and thereby telos, driven beh...

If my imaginations serve me right, when younger I once remembered a world of benevolent and wise Yahoos while reading Gulliver’s Travels. Oh, wait, a ...

Yea, false memories can occur. Whoop-de-do. So can illusions and hallucinations. What’s the big novelty here? How does one “know” that one isn’t suffe...

Yea, I acknowledge that. To my mind though, the same roundabout mind-games can occur with just about all other perspectives. Being or not being favore...

I’m probably gonna kick myself in the morning for asking this, still, why so harsh on the philosophical notion of karma? I’m saying “philosophical not...

It seems we have different metaphysical perspectives. That aside, do you find any way of avoiding some given that “just is”? To give example, historic...

For me at least, the question can be posed in parallel to “what is truth in the context of atheism”. For those who uphold an omnipotent creationist de...

I fail to see any contradiction, contradictions as I understand them being "both X and not-X at the same time and in the same respect". Cause and effe...

A disingenuous answer to the issue at hand. My point is that in the phrase "it is" the being (verb) addressed is not a doing: the specified "it" doesn...

Were this to be true, it would signify that solipsism is logically impeccable. I've disagreed with this on logical grounds in this recent thread. So I...

As in the truth to metaphysical and/or epistemological solipsism. Right. Deep questions that are best not cherry-picked.

OK, but here ordinary language clashes with ontology: "be" is classified as a verb, yes, but then does it make any sense to affirm that X causes - or ...

I'm still trying to understand the notion of panpsychism. Currently, to me, it seems to be a logical conclusion, though I can't make sense of it, not ...