The last dialogue I read was Parmenides. The Forms are pitted against "The One". Plato's references to God are sparingly spread out across his works. ...
Many today ask "what is consciousness". I don't like it because it's one dimensional. How can anyone answer that question from that angle!? We have re...
The One of Plotinus is not a mind. It's pure potentiality, the "ideal being" of Rosmini. The system of Plotinus wasn't completed until Antonio Rosmini...
What you mean is that the illusion breaks down, not the body? Right? That sounds psychotic, but a lot of people do believe that, pure Platonists being...
Plaonists believe: In God In quasi-ideal Forms that do not subsist in a mind In a certain geometry of these forms In innate ideas that represent a pre...
Assuming God exists, since he only knows bliss and being, how does he know what pain and suffering feels like? Because he is an intellect and can thin...
If you and I were in identical mental states and given identical arguments, we would come up with the same results if we chose to follow the truth of ...
Take relativity for example, instead of relativism. There is a Meta sense in which to people really talk to each other face to face and have "a moment...
I don't know that anyone can follow through with all doubts. Descartes tried and his doubts ripped through math and empiricism but had to fall short, ...
Srap Tasmaner wrote the following last year: " The barber (B), a philosopher (T) who doesn't shave himself, and a mathematician (M) who does. We have ...
Platonists can think whatever they want when they do science. Their experiments are on matter regardless of what they think. False. Life has meaning b...
Of course. The one rule in science is "identical objects act identically in identical situations". Knowing there is matter is a priori to all science....
Well I disagree. I had a great childhood and thus do not deny matter. I've experienced some trauma but it hasn't shaken my belief in matter. People ge...
Formalism is denying that talking about matter in ontological terms is legit, so maybe speaking of nominalism might be a derail even though it runs co...
Matter is not a property, it is a substance. You are made of matter. It doesn't matter is messed up people also believe in nominalism. A healthy perso...
Soul emerges from matter. Belief in matter is essential and the only people who in their souls' don't believe in matter are people that have had psych...
How do you know that? No it doesn't. It just says that a tree and another tree don't share some quasi non-material nature in common. Its just a bunch ...
It's interesting how old nominalism is. It's seems to me to be common sense. Ideas of natures and objects having accidents coming out of substances ar...
You have the idea of God and the idea that existence is perfection. So I see you are using two premises and really using Descartes's first ontological...
I can rap on this Imagine you are a penguin, walking on those cute feet toward the water. Suddenly a lion seal bites your fin off after leaping at you...
In your attempt to mechanize an abstract logical puzzle so that it can be told to society "a computer can prove there is a God", consider that if we m...
"The subject of all perfections does not exist» were true, then necessarily non-existence would be a perfection of said subject, which would imply a l...
"But do you accept that those disjunctions are true? If you do, then either p or not p must be true, where p is «Existence is a perfection» and not p ...
"1. Either nonexistence is a mark of greatness OR Existence is a mark of greatness " Existence us "2. Nonexistence is a mark of greatness " False "3. ...
"Leibniz' definition of perfection is: «The magnitude of positive reality, taken precisely, beyond the limits or boundaries in the things that have th...
You say (1) we have the idea of perfection. (2) existence is a perfection "which would imply that it would not only exist as an idea in the mind, but ...
That was from the Summa Theologica I believe. I do not have the exact article from that work but I wrote down that sentence when I was reading the Aqu...
Because it undefended. I am not saying it's indefensible, but you have not given a reason to think we can turn all our ideas of good into a single sub...
Aquinas wrote (I can quote too) "But the order of things is the best it can be, since the power of the first cause does not fail the potency in things...
Depends how you mean by that. Why draw a distinction between perfection, perfections, and a subject of them? If perfection is the state of Nirvana, fo...
Ok. I asked that several times and now I have an answer. I think your argument works in a certain sense, in the sense of being consistent with the sys...
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