You posit the evil daemon to be inconsistent to realism—the latter, by your definition, being the stance that one or more things can hold presence whe...
We differ on how much of a person’s behaviors we deem to be intentional. Acts of passion—I think they’re legally called—could be deemed acts of lack o...
Nitpicking here. To me this example presents a choice between two alternatives. One alternative is that of paying attention to the road, which you kno...
Say a person is clumsy and accidently knocks over a book on the coffee table while walking. Do we blame them for so doing? Of course, if the item is b...
Hmm, think of the same scenario of perceivable behavior but with a different set of imperceivable intentions: Person A violently shoves person B to th...
As a general rule I agree. Still, as regards intention and the outcome of harm in relation to the philosophy of ethics: There’s the abstract, hypothet...
As one example, were a single light in the home to no longer turn on when I flick the light switch, the realism of an external world would indicate th...
Kuddos for a well thought out OP. As you mention, Skepticism as term and denotation carries with it a multitude of often divergent meanings, each endo...
My best reply to your post: In relation to sameness being a property of temporal continuity: A guy builds a toy ship made up of legos. His wife gets u...
(Y) Can’t get anywhere these days without taking that first step. Walking is good. (As to the Fuhrer thing, there's a NIN song about that: something a...
It’s late for me, I’m tired, and am bordering on seeing Fight Club again. So, do you recommend fists, knives, guns, bazookas, tanks, or hydrogen bombs...
For all practice purposes yes (unless either the materialist or idealist is off his/her rocker and has lost touch which reality). The reason for debat...
To try to avoid a back and forth of endless opinions, I’ll offer a more metaphysical argument. As per Heraclitus’ flux, we can never be privy to the s...
This is a bit of a merry-go-round. Communication of an abstraction via concrete physical particulars is not the abstraction that is being communicated...
My question isn't about the communication of abstractions, such as we are now engaged in, but in relation to the abstractions themselves: how are abst...
It's a presumption not yet evidenced to be true in all possible cases. A telos, for example, would be abstract, non-physical information not itself ab...
1 imagined abstraction of some non-physical world (e.g., a heaven or hell) + 1 imagined abstraction of some other non-physical world = 2 non-physical ...
Going back to why you uphold this to be so: Your core argument again is that for the same meaning to hold presence nondifferentiable phenomenal inform...
Looks like we might be addressing different things in reference to meaning. It seems that by the same arguments you’ve articulated, no two languages c...
If you’re into the metaphysics of causality at all, there is no way that this experiment will not be shocking. Again, it’s about the reality of causal...
Though I'm not yet well versed in this branch of philosophy, having browsed up on it, I very much agree. I’ve my issues with the notion that DNA (all ...
Yes, and in today’s world, in large part due to the great modern influence of physicalism, “things that appear” (i.e., phenomena) is deemed fully iden...
I can just hear someone in the back of the forum yelling, “yours was an awesome post!”, and I agree with them. Trying my best to figure out something ...
Sounds like a cologne name translated into English. Some Homme by somebody or other. (Don’t want the bring up the Twilightzone episode of “To Serve Ma...
I’ve been thinking about this some. As before, I agree that your position serves as a very good rule of thumb. I feel I could easily complicate this i...
What would the foundation be? As to your questions, I again uphold it takes awareness to interpret information thus.So, devoid of awareness so interpr...
Right, but I don’t interpret a squirrel (or any individual lifeform) to be an individual species. TMK, it was conceived to be a characteristic of livi...
I don’t know if you do this intentionally or not, but you get bogged down in details as regard individual particulars. I’m asking a metaphysical quest...
One important difference between a squirrel and an avalanche is that the first is negentropic while the second is entropic. Otherwise expressed, the s...
The hypothesis I learned of is of a polar explosion of information which thereby flattens galactic stars into their common disk shape form. But again,...
Nevertheless, as to the duality between some X which is interpreting information and the information itself: Is the squirrel here deemed an inanimate ...
Ditto. One relevant issue that I find interest in is the ontic possibility of novel information creation and information erasure. As it happens, there...
Very true. The two things that got to me most, personally, was their interpretations of Goddess and God and their Hollywood minded favoring of persona...
You appear to confuse humorously sardonic remarks with horror. Hell, bring these new interpretations of information on! Who knows, given enough inform...
If one presumes something along the lines that love is ontic Truth and that ontic Truth is always expressed through some form of love, then: the creat...
To add what I view to be an added metaphysical dimension to this conversation in terms of causality: At the very least technically, blame is (one type...
Appearance, at one level, gives evidence of biological health (here strictly in the sense of carnality). Everyone is a bit shallow in one sense and I ...
This is somehow amusing to me. In terms I think even preadolescent kids might understand, it all amount to: who has the metaphysical rights to the ont...
Though I’m taking the quote slightly out of context, that the presence of being "is absurd in the grandest sense” I can very much acknowledge. There i...
Trying to keep things as simple as possible. With habit, it can well be argued that former consciously willed actions between teloi have become repeat...
The possibility of action is the possibility of causal agency. In a culture heavily habituated to notions of causal determinism this is often overlook...
Agreed, but to me this sentence is omitting making explicit what the vital essence of all empirical sciences is : empirical data. In theoretical maths...
Thank you for the feedback on Platonic Forms. I’ve read much of Plato but it’s been some time and, to be honest, my memory of his writings are by now ...
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