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These are contrary to each other. If he is his thoughts he cannot move his mind but if he doesn't move his mind than he cannot move. To have thoughts ...
January 18, 2025 at 02:19
In time it could be eternal. In space it is infinitely divisible. See Kant's antimonies This is Thomism and false. A part is not actualized by the who...
January 18, 2025 at 01:21
The Catholic Church has many secrets
January 18, 2025 at 01:01
But he came up with Occam's razor, showing that common sense, scientific style that he wrote in. I question whether Aquinas wrote everything that is a...
January 17, 2025 at 21:10
Loosely related statements do not make an argument. Can something non-composed exist? It sounds like a contradiction in terms. It doesn't have clear m...
January 17, 2025 at 20:54
He seems like a very odd person to me. I would think Aristotle for example would consider him odd
January 17, 2025 at 20:49
Not exactly because Aquinas has a Biblical idea of a pure *existence* which was uncreated because it was what was, was necessarily there. Aristotle ha...
January 17, 2025 at 20:41
Jews and Moslims would would agree that auch a change, from all knowing to a state of ignorance, would be impossible for a divine consciousness. I see...
January 17, 2025 at 16:30
If God is pure act he would be everything. Just "to be", is everything. See Spinoza. No thing can be beyond noumena. So God must be fully empty. If he...
January 17, 2025 at 07:49
Thomism doesn't establish a substance. Ok so some power holds the universe together. There is no proof of a God beyond in simple-state doing just this...
January 17, 2025 at 07:16
1) Composed beings are made up of parts." No. They are the parts as whole 2. A composed being exists contingently upon its parts in their specific arr...
January 17, 2025 at 06:10
Hegel ends his first work with the death of God If God is pure actuality, how come he has the potential to incarnate one of the three Persons and live...
January 17, 2025 at 05:40
We mustn't depersonslize Jesus and say his human nature spoke for him. Persons speak, not natures. Surely Jesus said "why did i forsake me"
January 15, 2025 at 19:46
Philosophers often make up there own language while writing about science. Some words like elements might have a mere generic meaning. I think your qu...
January 12, 2025 at 01:54
So this means you are not going to explain how they know particles are in a state of superposition at exactly the moment they are not measuring them, ...
January 02, 2025 at 01:28
So they can rule out God as a hidden variable?
December 29, 2024 at 05:49
That's it? No explanation?
December 29, 2024 at 05:17
No I think it's any interaction between the classical world and an isolated quanta. But to say apart from this interaction quanta is in multiple state...
December 29, 2024 at 00:33
How can we know the state of something apart from measurement?
December 28, 2024 at 01:35
The whole "measurement problem" seems like a hoax. If it only settles when we look we have no idea what it would be (or is) if we didn't
December 27, 2024 at 19:52
Do you believe quantum particles can be in multiple statea at once, and why believe that?
December 26, 2024 at 01:56
How would we even be able to know what state or lack of states quanta has apart from measurement?
December 24, 2024 at 23:29
The James Webb telescope findings might be saying you are correct. BB needs correcting but the details themselves don't matter much to philosophy Real...
December 19, 2024 at 14:45
Could time be potentiality, the possibility to be, endless possibility??
December 19, 2024 at 06:31
So space and time are not separate? And motions come from them? I've speculated on this forum that motion creates time as it moves through space so th...
December 19, 2024 at 01:52
Space only: nothing moves. But doesn't this at least imply eternal time, or "instant" as you say? Space seems to imply time therefore. But does time i...
December 19, 2024 at 01:47
Yes i think there are infinite things we don't know about existence. We are connected by our bodies to the physical world and both are connected with ...
December 17, 2024 at 16:16
If it wants to be eternal
December 17, 2024 at 00:14
Very interesting. Peoples' thoughts starting changing when Galileo started saying things like dropping something on the moon should follow the same ph...
December 16, 2024 at 22:20
Isn't this just a modern version of eternal "potential"?
December 16, 2024 at 16:42
You don't have to know everything to know something. You might know what a rock is but not a cloud, but at least you'd have some knowledge. You say yo...
December 16, 2024 at 16:40
You're the one questioning the world.. I'm saying that to doubt the sky is blue and the suns shines is a pointless exercise unless you get to a higher...
December 16, 2024 at 14:23
Are you aware that John Bell was a super-determinist? If that is a philosophical position that is legit with observation, the idea of random vs determ...
December 16, 2024 at 10:37
Well then these scientific principles should be explained by science instead of being seen as philosophy. So how would they ever prove sonething is ra...
December 16, 2024 at 03:51
How can science prove an action is random or determined? These seem like philosophical categories to me, not related to science and math
December 16, 2024 at 03:11
Your spine is real. Your brain is real. Real is all your organs. At least rest in your flesh and know the psycho-organic as physical, as "there" for o...
December 16, 2024 at 02:19
Indeed, just as the mother comes before the child. But does it make sense to extend backwards humanity, as a thought experiment, and think of it with ...
December 15, 2024 at 22:56
Information reminds me of Kant and his spiritual-metaphysical-psychological-physiological take of space and time and how it interacts with the brain. ...
December 15, 2024 at 22:27
When they are studying things so small we have to invent maths just to understand how small they are (Plank scale) they truly at that point interactin...
December 15, 2024 at 21:48
"The true being of a man is, on the contrary, his act; individuality is real in the deed, and a deed it is which cancels both the aspects of what is '...
December 15, 2024 at 21:42
Can you give an example(s) of math being used to describe the physical world without using philosophy? That seems impossible to me. The math only meas...
December 15, 2024 at 16:30
If the world wasn't in motion there could not be life. I know there is the block universe idea, but that's more on a metà level for me. Space and time...
December 15, 2024 at 14:27
There is a biology of humanity since the laws wouldn't exist without that level of intelligence. Without consciousness itself the universe would be a ...
December 15, 2024 at 04:46
The small and the great aren't two different things. You can never find the large without moving through the small if you imagine knowledge as feeling...
December 15, 2024 at 03:12
Are you just substituting "local" for quantum and non-local for classical?
December 14, 2024 at 03:48
Particles can communicate in sinc with each other faster than light. Some speculate worm holes to explain this, which really means we redefine what sp...
December 12, 2024 at 07:56
I think they are saying the noumena is the very small where particles aren't space-bound in the classical sense. The classical is the same classical s...
December 12, 2024 at 06:32
Well you have the mind of a doubter. Won't get you far
November 27, 2024 at 01:42
I dont agree that life and desire work in that "logical" way
November 27, 2024 at 01:32
All my choices have been right in my view. How about your's to you?
November 27, 2024 at 01:23