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And your being creepy for always bringing up a previous discussion. I've read the works, got the dates of them mixed up, and forgot there was a 6th se...
June 16, 2021 at 19:14
All Descartes arguments are digestions of the same line of argument. And your argument is the resulting poop. Nothing new, same old smell
June 16, 2021 at 19:04
And Descartes had two arguments for God and one for the soul. Your trying to use them in a new way but it's the same old stuff
June 16, 2021 at 18:17
If matter randomly forms into an organism, then meaningful thoughts can arise from this matter because it has a brain. That's the obvious answer to wh...
June 16, 2021 at 18:15
You've clearly plagiarized Descartes arguments
June 16, 2021 at 17:51
All you've said is meaning can't spring from matter. Yet not you nor anyone else knows what matter is ontologically. You can't rule out meaning coming...
June 16, 2021 at 17:41
I don't see how you have any unique argument on this question. It's the same old "matter must be designed to produce consciousness" without actually p...
June 16, 2021 at 17:06
Interestingly, we know ourselves as conscious and spiritual at least in leaning and learn more about matter as we grow up from childhood. "When, in ta...
June 16, 2021 at 03:56
You analyze the conscious mind and conclude it can't come with its a priori thoughts straight from matter. But it doesn't! You have to think subconsci...
June 16, 2021 at 03:29
I think Bartricks is saying "let's imagine the first two evolved members of mammals. How can they talk to each other? They don't have a languages prog...
June 16, 2021 at 00:03
Interesting. Ye is spiritual a continuum from matter or discretely different. How can we know
June 15, 2021 at 20:03
Dewey position appears to lend itself to materialism and it was this that Heidegger wanted to avoid.
June 15, 2021 at 18:55
I once got one of his books from the library. Dewey sounds very interesting but I didn't get through the whole book before i needed to return it. But ...
June 15, 2021 at 17:28
The paradox seems like Zeno
June 15, 2021 at 17:24
Heidegger started his career a dozen years before the Nazis took power. It was a good philosophy and his latter philosophy flowed from it, not from hi...
June 15, 2021 at 17:11
Dewey sounds arrogant
June 15, 2021 at 16:55
An agent that designs the world is a description of God
June 15, 2021 at 01:06
Husserl sounds awesome! It is as if we know experience, willing, and thinking first and then subsequently figure that it comes from the brain, but the...
June 14, 2021 at 22:50
Even my philosopher teacher in college had a lot of trouble reading Heidegger I think. His long sentences are well crafted but take some stamina to ge...
June 14, 2021 at 22:18
We are discussing his work from the 20's
June 14, 2021 at 20:23
That does makes sense, I like that. Maybe *time* is the haze that *being enters* where it no longer knows what is at hand but simply knows the activit...
June 14, 2021 at 04:39
To my eyes Heidegger's ontic is dualistic (me and a hammer) but his ontology is not so, and is even onto-theological in a sense. If you have more on h...
June 14, 2021 at 04:05
That helps me. Thanks :)
June 14, 2021 at 03:19
I get what you are saying. However a point has no dimensions, so how can it have any relation to space except as a limit. An infinitesimal is what com...
June 14, 2021 at 02:32
I got a line from Heidegger: "We can this further clarify the temporality of taking care if we pay attention to the modes of circumspectly letting som...
June 14, 2021 at 02:27
Bartricks is saying we can know an agent is behind the world. But God is unknowable. Bartricks is saying we need to believe in God in a literal obnoxi...
June 14, 2021 at 02:06
If there is an agent behind the world, we are it. You don't seem to have read any phenomenology and understand it. If there is a higher being, than he...
June 14, 2021 at 00:18
I mentally divide objects though. I don't think if this is intuition or imagination, but flexing the segment infinitely than bringing it back like a s...
June 13, 2021 at 20:57
I see a point\infinitesimal as like a hole with a duplicate hole in it that 1) is the first one 2) but reverts back the the whole making the formation...
June 13, 2021 at 20:32
Well as I've mentioned to you before, I don't see how you can slice through a geometric object forever, creating infinite little pieces that keep divi...
June 13, 2021 at 20:08
Material things can't make meaning unless consciousness emerges first. A book means nothing whether made by a man or not unless consciousness is imman...
June 13, 2021 at 19:58
The understanding I presented of Heidegger on this thread was that the world is material but Time (or Spirit) encircles everything and the world and o...
June 13, 2021 at 19:56
What type of being does Man understand? The material world? I haven't seen where Heidegger explicitly denies this, although he focuses on hammering fo...
June 13, 2021 at 19:10
But any human willing can be torn asunder. The only thing that can't be torn asunder is matter which can't be created or destroyed. So care would be t...
June 13, 2021 at 16:41
Thinking higher thoughts (not focusing on chemicals for example) is good is it leads to character building. But nobody really knowns what "God" is so ...
June 13, 2021 at 04:19
So you are saying the cardinality vs density distinction applies in geometry? I think there are too many problems with abstract geometry in this regar...
June 13, 2021 at 04:08
First, if you divide something infinitely, infinite parts separate and fall about from each other. Second, Cantor said all geometric objects have the ...
June 12, 2021 at 22:56
If Heidegger believed that love was ontic and anxiety was ontological, than I think he has it backwards, although I don't think he says this. Intentio...
June 12, 2021 at 22:46
Well if matter is infinitely divisible than the parts divided go on forever. I don't know how the proof goes but Cantor proved that any size geometric...
June 12, 2021 at 22:28
Euclidean geometry assumes that planes are infinitely divisible so there is no end to how many points and lines can be on it. Oddly, Cantor showed tha...
June 12, 2021 at 13:53
Maybe the "agent" gave us dreams
June 12, 2021 at 04:55
The I've read it twice and the OP is not very clear and probably not very good as an argument. Also, why can't you control your emotions in discussion...
June 12, 2021 at 04:53
I reread the OP for a second time and he seems to be arguing that dreaming the world into existence is impossible because we can connect logical conne...
June 12, 2021 at 04:50
Where's the argument that matter is not mighty enough in its substance to provide perception once the matter rolls, meshes, and forms randomly into th...
June 12, 2021 at 04:45
Well we might not understand what matter is so we can't know whether we think with it or something else. The idea of soul you have in your consciousne...
June 12, 2021 at 04:06
I was pointing out that you need to put something in the place of matter as causing sensations and that your idea of God does not work in this regard....
June 12, 2021 at 03:58
Based on what Banno points out and what you've said elsewhere, you don't have an answer to the problem of pain because God can do all evil as well as ...
June 12, 2021 at 03:32
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June 12, 2021 at 01:13
Nobody knows what the greater good is. Everyone has to guess. But governments are not going to listen to a poll on every issue that comes up. They are...
June 11, 2021 at 18:30
Power is not bad. Politics is founded on it. Why can't a state secede in the US? Because the power of the feds will prevent it for the greater good. A...
June 11, 2021 at 18:03