Gregory

You said that attachment to the world is illusion yet you want us to take the world as it is presented to us. Is this not a paradox?

Buddhist seem to think like I, the world being being and Nothingness, a yin and yang of opposites. For how can an untainted God sustain the being of w...

You mention God several times and do you use to to refer to a being undisclosed? Humanity lives in time even if its spirit does not. I have several ob...

Do we start with the discrete and then divide it, or are the divisible parts already there?? Continuity and discretenes seem to assume each other. Try...

I too wonder how a continuum makes up something discrete

With regard to a segment, are you saying this segment is determinate in that it is finite and indeterminate in that it has infinite points in it?

Maybe mathematical infinities only make sense in relation to the metaphysically infinite

It sounds to me as if you agree with Schopenhauer over Hegel. Is the world pure will, irrational and free. Or is the world pure reason wherein new tru...

I agree with what you write. The world is presented to us and it is as we subjectively present it to ourselves. If we say H2O, what kind of knowledge ...

The reason I mention being and nothing is that only the insane would deny they experience being (and the insane are detached from that) but if one can...

It may be faulty metaphysics but it's still logic, unless you're going to say no faulty metaphysics is logical

Buddhism says that "that" is just illusion because we are all everything which is nothing. To traditional Western philosophy that is nihilism but many...

From your OP let me say I don't think God could change its nature but the question arises why injustice and suffering is necessary for us when they ar...

Hegel only rejected the law on non-contradiction because he thought all contradictions were paradoxes in nature and that contradiction was an empty te...

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is" Albert Camus

I think a lot of Hegel's arguments do have 3 parts

I doubt anyone can find happiness without a good understanding of themselves. The process may never end

Faith is believing in something, which appears out of the range of thought, for the sake of the good the intuition seems to sense in it. I assume Budd...

That sounds gnostic, as if the physical self is reincarnated bodies while this false self has not awaken to its true relation to reality

It seems to me that Nirvana or Heaven (either word) would be a state of great mental activity

I think that Buddhism might be a system of antimonies. Is it that we cannot be everything without being nothing? But how can we be one with the world ...

Is Nirvana empty and does it change? I see self as identity, as identity as personhood. The personhood is spread out through the the body. And separat...

Is this called qietism in the West? The dichonomy between resting and acting (internally) is not clear to me

Are you saying we accept responsibility before we abdicate ourselves? That's a neat logical trick. Interesting, it's like a supertask. And yet can one...

Why do we always have to know what is objectively right and why would God necessarily have to will ubiquitous clarity?

I recently read the "proofs" Lectures and am now into the Davos book

Yes: "The first thing to be considered in the sphere of the revelatory religion is the abstract concept of God; the basis is the free, pure, revelator...

In 1911 Husserl wrote his essay "Philosophy as a Rigorous Science" in response to the historicism of writers such as Wilhelm Dilthey. It is true that ...

Lots of good posts! Reason for me is the ability to grasp an idea with the necessary means of consciousness. We strive for the idea among a complex of...

Yes that might be true This is reminiscent of my personal thought that I shouldn't be bothered with things I don't know. There is no evidence there is...

Whether a rock stays the same through change doesn't matter much as far as our lives go. Maybe the rock melts into some universal form every 7 minutes...

If someone is evil, he can be sure about that even if he tries to hide it from himself. Sartre on bad faith

An absolute truth is a thought that accords with reality. I guess a solipsist wouldn't have truth, but if there is more than oneself, truth is when yo...

How much of shaimanism, old and new, is about promoting faith in something objective? A true religion knows that you can only have faith in something ...

It would seem that death is a far greater mystery than time

"Nature's highest goal, to become wholly an object to herself, is achieved only through the last order of reflection, which is none other than man; or...

It seems to me that reality and time are the same thing. Time is of our minds but our minds are connected to everything. Time is the space that space ...

To my mind either God or time has to explain how the present continues its journey to a sure future. Otherwise there is no context for things to move ...

Usually the only time that is real is the present. Space? It's what contains material things. But if time travel becomes real it will open many myster...

I think we know time exists intuitively just as we know space is real.

Great thoughts! Language is structured such that the full truth of reality, the ever moving Present, can't be explained in finite time. The qualia of ...

Thanks for the thoughts. Allow me to add that if we start out saying that the world is mental the same arguments seem to continue, in an infinite loop...

If we can use evolution to say anything about the infinity or finity of an object, then we have contact with it. The only way to say that we have hard...

Let me add for the reader that Hoffman has to admit that we see enough of reality (gene images, fossils, ect) in order to establish evolution (the bas...

Earlier on this thread you mentioned that humans can't process infinite information. I don't know why you brought that up if you didn't assume there i...

You can understand a tree without knowing everything about it. Shift from knowing nothing about the tree to knowing something

If I am a thought and the tree is a thought, is the argument that the tree is infinitely complex and hence not comprehendable still intact? I think no...

Let me add that, because one set of scientific standards (Hoffman's case) leads to a change once the ontology changes (so that we do know the interfac...

Those distort so that it doesn't see completely but perception can see accurately

Well if everything has always been mental entities why cant a mental entity have storage capacity beyond it's form? Hoffman can't continue to apply hi...