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Your answer of "vague~crisp" does not answer the question that you replied to … unless it is to explicitly say that the metaphysical beginning is unkn...

In my own opinion, no she wouldn't. My stance's justifications are inductive ... meaning to say, not of deductive logic. The nature of experience havi...

Funny, I had Helen Keller in mind. So that would answer that. Trying to address the metaphysical here, though.

I don't know, my last question to you seems pretty coherent given the topics we're discussing. Can you answer it? But hey, if we've suddenly departed ...

Is vagueness an uncaused presence of "lack of crispness"?

There's something your missing out on in you system of justification. The miraculous coincidence between the conclusion of mystics you quote to suppor...

Whose talking about phenomenal representations of what is non-phenomenal. Think of the four Aristotalian causes, together with all other possibilities...

And yet these mystics you gleefully put down in their place, with nothing more than their states of (non-measurable) awareness, came to the same concl...

OK then, the impetus is on you to illustrate via logical argument that existence had a metaphysical beginning. Is the Apeiron you uphold an uncaused g...

First off Ein Sof is a Kabbalistic-specific expression which is far closer to Zen Buddhist notions of emptiness (interpretable as absolute selflessnes...

I can understand this possible relation between Pierce’s “primordial firstness” and the Vedic Brahman. Thanks for the info. To be frank, via my own ph...

Contingent on interpretations of “transcendent”, I can envision alternatives to this: e.g., that of time being a metaphysical corollary of freewill-en...

An exquisite post in my view. In attempts to compliment you post, I think it should be remembered that C S Pierce was never privy to Georges Lemaitre’...

You've covered them by placing the cart before the horse: better spelled out, maths before awareness ... then by explaining awareness via maths, you f...

:D I take this to be irony, and find it indeed humorous. As to the complexities, what's new, the mind's complex. This complexity all boils down to tha...

OK, yes, but in your view bio-semiosis must emerge from pan-semiosis (e.g., not the other way around at some grand scheme of things; this where “bio” ...

Isn’t your triadic system one of pan-modeling-relation-with-context/the world? If I’m not extremely mistaken in so appraising, then why would a lepton...

I can, um … vibe ;) … with just about everything you’ve stated. Yea, there are other allegories that can be used, like one where consciousness is like...

First off, my apologies for not reading this thread earlier (I gave a half-behinded reply to this topic on the thread about contraception being murder...

Right, but the premise I was replying to is that of potentiality. So, every single cell of every single person has the potential to become a person .....

Man, not to hound you, but, maybe: it's due to peer pressure? Cool is cool, and who wants to be a nerd, kind of thing.

Hey, a truly humorous depiction of an entire philosophical stance. Nice! Going by the illustration, I'd say it would first require the justification o...

I’m acquainted with the argument from “potential for being an integral human being”. As far as reasoning is concerned, the argument is logically flawe...

If we (to me, as bundles of unconscious awareness when in states of dreamless sleep) would not be present when we slept, even in dreamless sleep, then...

That would be the favored interpretation of “meta-physics” by anyone who sponsors materialism / physicalism. But, then, in this view, nothing is in fa...

sub-stance: that which allows things that stand to so be (yea, there's some allegory to etymology sometimes) What can I say, you can in the same breat...

How do you justify its presence? Do you need a reasoning based on personal awareness? Or can you justify it without any personal awareness?

You’re trying to corner me by assuming me to hold perspectives that are easy for you to argue against. Remember the old forum? That whole evolog busin...

No, apo. Not self-awareness. Awareness, period, regardless of how self aware or not it may be at any juncture. You keep on introduction the issue of a...

X-) OK, your joking with me by stating the superficially obvious. Good one. Do you know of reason due to awareness OR do you know of awareness due to ...

Hey, while I’m myself not fully certain of how to interpret your statement, to be clear, I’m addressing “the physical” in the sense interpret-able via...

No. Our difference dwells in justification for that which physically is. On what do you base your justifications that "everything fluidly emerges"?

Well, I’ll try to make myself clearer: When addressing aspects of our concrete reality, for example, are we founding things on the metaphysical realit...

I think what schopenhauer1 is getting at is that this interpreter, however conceived (else, we wouldn’t hold any conceptualization of it), is itself o...

You’ve already quoted a post of mine where, I think, I was relatively harsh against the terminology of “unconditional love”, with my reasons for this ...

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Just saw this. Well, I would argue that the issue of causation is first and foremost metaphysical. As to causation on the physical plane, who would fo...

Hey, not to get deep into this threads topics. And it seems out of context regarding Gettier. I’m reading along every now and then. A different vantag...

You seem to be arguing against the wrong guy here. Or maybe you haven’t read a single one of my previous posts on this thread. Befuddling, but what's ...

There can be a subtle, but important, different between “expect” and “hope / anticipate”. I can’t currently discern whether your reply is the result o...

Via example, I can well understand the following: if a parent is compassionate toward their children with the consciously pursued intention that the c...

In fact, I don’t conceptualize selflessness to be the other relative to self. Rather, in tune with many an Eastern understanding, I conceptualize self...

I’m here addressing differences, not agreements. We may, and me thinks most likely will, choose to yet disagree. But so I may, hopefully, better eluci...

The question I place – to myself if not others – is whether or not these mathematics (and in theoretical maths, many disperse systems can be fathomed)...

Why a leap of faith? It's the very conclusion that inductive reasoning would result in – and it, as conclusion, would remain true and untarnished unti...

You are right. We talk past each other. Maybe on a different topic we won't. Till then, I'm logging out of this discussion with you.

I think I get what Wayfarer is saying. Empiricism these days addresses only the materialist notions of that which can be perceived through the physiol...

OK. To reply, no: There is no "must posit" some guiding mind or spirit required for the stance of such idealism. One could instead posit an end-state ...

And how would “dual aspect” monism be logically contradictory to a stance of objective idealism? To better spell things out, some mind-stuff holds the...

(Y) This gave me a good laugh. But it's a good approximation. Hell, I even read Tom Jones - a very, very long book by Henry Fielding - on this count. ...