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The questions you ask indicate otherwise. Where did you get your degree?
August 31, 2021 at 22:13
I thought you claim to be a particle physicist
August 31, 2021 at 22:02
I agree with your post. As Kant said about the series of past causes, it's indeterminate. We can speculate if it's eternal or not but time itself is e...
August 31, 2021 at 20:54
Spacetime is space as substance. Time describes the affect of relativity
August 31, 2021 at 20:41
Space is a container for matter. It's necessary for matter. Time is an effect that happens from motion. Physicists speak of "spacetime" because it's e...
August 31, 2021 at 20:38
Aristotle had a middle ground between materialism and life in the mind
August 31, 2021 at 20:25
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August 31, 2021 at 19:52
My point is that there two kinds of good, 1) goods of nature (babies, strawberries, ect) 2) and goods of action, like sacrifice If God contains of the...
August 31, 2021 at 18:43
I think he is saying that the god of the philosophers is more reasonable than the God of the religions because religion says he creates from nothing. ...
August 31, 2021 at 18:29
Which is this thread about?
August 31, 2021 at 18:24
God has no power he doesn't have to earn. A necessary being is an incoherent idea. Who created God?
August 31, 2021 at 18:21
The Greeks seem to be divided between materialists and idealists. Plato, Parmenides, the Skeptics, all seem to be about the life of the mind. Those wh...
August 31, 2021 at 16:45
Aquinas makes it out as if God is reality itself and there can only be one reality. He also says you couldn't distinguish between different Gods if th...
August 31, 2021 at 16:40
Because Aristotle thought there might be many First Movers and the world was eternal so it was not technically created, right?
August 31, 2021 at 16:37
An oxymoron for a classicist
August 31, 2021 at 16:31
It seems to me that Aristotle was trying to say something about the world while Plato was trying to help people find a personal truth
August 31, 2021 at 03:36
The action is destroyed indirectly by destroying the actor
August 31, 2021 at 03:34
Stopping cannot be destroyed it seems to me
August 31, 2021 at 03:23
Terminate means to stop, exterminate means to destroy
August 31, 2021 at 02:51
What are parabolic linear fractional transformation? Is it something I should fear lol, jk
August 30, 2021 at 22:58
Yes classical space is what is illogical. Zeno was the first to prove it. Space in order to remain itself has to be divisible. Yet infinite sections m...
August 30, 2021 at 22:55
If space is not infinitely divisible than there is a space that can't be divided. But that wouldn't be space. So space is infinitely dividable. So it ...
August 30, 2021 at 21:06
Nonstandard analysis
August 30, 2021 at 21:04
Of course not all philosophers are physicists but I consider all physicists as philosophers of some sort. People were saying "Krauss is not a philosop...
August 30, 2021 at 21:03
"In space, in which time is suspended, the body is enduring, and in time, in which the indifferent substance of space is suspended, the body is transi...
August 30, 2021 at 20:56
Yes but Galileo didn't talk about space and time being united like Hegel did
August 30, 2021 at 20:50
Zeno showed that space and objects in them appear to be both finite and infinite at the same time. This is why Kant called this an Antimony (an impass...
August 30, 2021 at 20:37
Spinoza? Plato? I think the former thought that mind and matter were two sides of a coin while Plato thought matter was decayed mental stuff. Hegel th...
August 30, 2021 at 20:33
The word "beginning" is misleading because there could be a finite universe with a first movement and a material engine of causality but there be no b...
August 29, 2021 at 21:08
I agree that is the case regardless of what religion one believes. Unless the whole subject of predestination is just a mystery, I think there are som...
August 27, 2021 at 19:38
The PBS digital series has said that entropy comes from quantum physics, that time comes from entropy, and that gravity comes from time. So it seems t...
August 27, 2021 at 16:59
Malebranche thought that Jesus' humanity gives grace and since he doesn't think of everyone at once he doesn't give grace to all. His critics retorted...
August 27, 2021 at 16:54
I read a lot of theology because it's interesting and I like to put my ideas on it out there for comments to them
August 27, 2021 at 15:57
Hawking's imaginary time turns time into space and nowadays they say this is also what gravity is. So with Hawking's picture the universe is not etern...
August 27, 2021 at 15:56
You are assuming God can't give grace before someone first sins
August 27, 2021 at 15:45
I'm reading a book about Malebranche, Leibniz, Arnauld, and theology. You don't have to be Christian to discuss these matters
August 27, 2021 at 15:44
Even if matter is more than force or more than energy, we could posit that time is beyond something we can know fully about from physics and that it s...
August 26, 2021 at 21:54
If matter is energy or force than it can come from nothing. Substance in the philosophical sense doesn't exist
August 26, 2021 at 21:50
Classical theists say that deism is wrong because God can't be all powerful and at the same time not know everything. I think God could be all powerfu...
August 23, 2021 at 18:02
Aquinas says that Aristotle thought God(s) didn't know of our particular lives. That sounds like deism the most. Do modern translations of Aristotle s...
August 22, 2021 at 22:36
It seems to me that theists behavior appears to be better because of their religion but what if the religion sucks the soul out of them and they act "...
August 22, 2021 at 00:47
An object is that which has a certain classical cohesion. Most things can be broken down into their substances but not everything. It's hard to define...
August 21, 2021 at 01:05
You don't have a single original of the Bible so everything you quote is contingent. You have no reason to hold it in regard even if you had all the o...
August 20, 2021 at 01:54
This is just physical law. What physical law does the soul follow, or God? Neither because they don't exist.
August 20, 2021 at 01:41
Can you even imagine completely destroying an object?
August 19, 2021 at 18:27
It can to known by reason that God doesn't exist so your "intuition" is just your imagination
August 19, 2021 at 18:19
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August 19, 2021 at 01:41
This sounds like Sartre who said we are nothingness inside of being. It seems to me that we are matter and know what matter is in a very real sense bu...
August 19, 2021 at 01:29
Internally there is nothing transcending our nature that does not require our activity to create. Externally there is matter which we are. The sole de...
August 18, 2021 at 03:48
What problem did Peirce have with Hegel, or what did Peirce say that was different from Hegel and not just stated differently?
August 18, 2021 at 02:58