Gregory

Let me jump in somewhere: if a liar says he is lying, the foundation is shaky enough to allow either that he is telling the truth or that is he not (t...

Clarification: I'm not saying that Godel proved the mind is non-computational or that the brain is not solely a type of machine. The middle ground is ...

If the mind is pure matter (brain, nervous system) and it can compute Godel's truths, then maybe Hawking is right. And Penrose about microtubules?

Leibniz allegedly got his concept of a logic machine from the mystic Ramon Llull, who in turn may have been influence by Kaballah. He abandoned the th...

But to my point, if Godel proved there are limitless unprovable propositions and if these propositions can be used to make theorems then they are no m...

You're quote from St. Maximum is interesting although many arguments have been put forward for pandeism, pantheism, and panentheism. In the Summa Theo...

How is an unprovable proposition different from a postulate?

As with Zeno's paradoxes where we see space dissolve into nothing (or parmendian pure being), numbers must have a basic unity that holds them from inf...

"The set of all sets that do not contain themselves". Obviously this top set could not self reference. I would say the same of Godel My 2 cents

It seems to me that geometry/space is what has presente a foundation for all mathematics. If numbers and sets of numbers alone was the concern, could ...

Wittgenstein tried to apply logicism to language. The unsaid though is said all the time, being so basic it's almost impossible to overlook. Like a tw...

"Those who put forward such assertions really themselves say, if we bear in mind what we remarked before, the direct opposite of what they mean: a fac...

When we classify two objects in a language set we are more focused on the use of language then with the objects. The latter are discerable by the sens...

If two objects, say two bowling balls, are identical in everyway according to science, we don't have to posit them sharing something higher from them ...

Maybe the answer is that objects are similar enough to mentally classify them as without saying that participate in a Form which is individual and dis...

Why would you say the philosophy of Hegel has nothing to say about nominalism? The OP points out that realism tries to bring in spiritual realit8es as...

I hope someday you'll read one of Hegel's logics. For him pure materialism and pure idealism are simultaneously true as a paradox from which the Absol...

What of the cogito. I think therefore i am? What is this relative too? Fichte says it's related to others but the existent of a single personality see...

I've been considering the Absolute vs relativism. I think there is something objective but that it's so far out there it can't be grasped. So relativi...

It sounds like nominalism drowns in contingecies (and infinity?) But numbers in general do this. 1 can be divided unlessly so that there is no base un...

I don't respect G. K Chesteron as an intellectual. He had too much fun(ny) doing what he did. He didn't work hard enough

If realists are say thought is in matter in some way then they are definitely idealists in some way. And nominalism, if it's just about naming things ...

The fact that two chairs can be different seems to me to say that the "realist" position is wrong. If you imagine a classical painting of a lake, with...

I believe pansychism would say that the fundamental laws are both material and conscious. If multiverses exist in reality then maybe part of us is in ...

Nature, essence, and substance are all identical. They may not be for a hairsplitter. Nor are they different from accidents. A things reality is what ...

Thomism leads to skepticism. No longer is what a thing is enough to define what it is. I dont think Aristotle would approve

So we have a host here and a pineapple there. Jesus in the true essence of the host. What stops a horse from being the substance of the accidents of t...

You not doing any kind of metaphysics. You havent proven a single thing philosophically

You're a biased thinker like Aquinas. You've avoided the question about why God can take the substance out of bread and put Jesus inside but cant take...

Take the smallest piece of bread possible. Divide it any further and it's no longer bread. Now where is Jesus in there? His body and blood are spatial...

If Jesus's "body blood soul and divinity" are acting as the substance of the matterial piece of bread, then the body and blood are accidents acting as...

Why cant God take the substance out of the sun and replace it with whatever pleases him?

Maybe Ignatius believed in Thomism but translations of religious texts are open to innumerable variation. And again, is it possible that God put the e...

Aristotle thought the world was eternal in the past and future. A constant loop. But something kept the whole from falling into its parts or losing al...

I dont understand why Wittgenstein thinks language has anything to do with abstract thought. Language is both noise and an understanding of the noise ...

Question: if the future need not resemble the past, why did you say a first cause needs a final cause. Your post seemed contradictory to me

You can profane a sacramental, right? And i didnt insult you. I respect you but not your religion. Seriously, does Jesus feel your tongue when you che...

So does your tongue touch Jesus when you eat him? Where? Like is your tongue glidding over his chin or ass? Is it really in the realm of possibility t...

You have to interpret scripture in order to establish the catholic authority. Is that not private interpretation. As for Vatican I and simplicity, why...

Ludwig Ott is not the magisterium. Simplicity can be interprerted along with many philosophical traditions. But no i am no longer Catholic. Vicarious ...

Divine simplicity is a contradiction however. How can God create if he has to make an moment of choice, thus changing his simplicity to a multiplicity...

Not all Catholics are Thomists. In fact many many are not these days. Traditional Catholic scholar Robert Sungenis has a book The Immutable God Who ca...

Plato, and also Descartes, thought we dont see with our eyes but through our eyes.

For my understanding "subjective" is thoughts which are opinion instead of knowledge. When you are mulling over an issue you are thinking subjectively...

A physical feeling can only be objective. It doesn't mean anything to call it subjective. The feeling of the chair is just a judgment that it feels go...

To paraphrase Rumi, "Your task is not to seek love , but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

You're trying to separate the beauty from the person in order to make it part of you. If you are going to doubt the beautiful, why not insist the whol...

I disagree with all that. If two people see a third thing and one sees it as beautiful and the other doesn't, keep in mind that they look with differe...

If a machine can, if unhampered, do great feats this shows it's material perfection/beauty and usefulness but the question of beauty is usually about ...

Common agreement doesn't make something objective. Objectivity is the experience in act of truth. I can look at something and know that it is perfectl...