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In: Physical cannot be the cause of its own change  — view comment
These misplaced concreteness & anthropomorphic fallacies render your (latest) OP "argument" gibberish, Mok. At best, as far as I can tell, you've expr...
February 20, 2025 at 22:29
In: PROCESS PHILOSOPHY : A metaphysics for our time?  — view comment
:up:
February 18, 2025 at 23:37
In: The Mind is the uncaused cause  — view comment
:up: I agree.
February 18, 2025 at 14:19
In: The Mind is the uncaused cause  — view comment
What you "asked", Mok, is a red herring that lamely avoids addressing my critical objections to both your claims and how you're (mis)using "mind" and ...
February 18, 2025 at 11:35
In: The Mind is the uncaused cause  — view comment
:up:
February 18, 2025 at 03:11
In: The Mind is the uncaused cause  — view comment
:roll: An "uncaused cause" is indistinguishable from a random event and "mind" (i.e. what sufficient complex brains do ... contra a reification fallac...
February 18, 2025 at 00:57
In: Meinong rejection of Existence being Prior to Predication  — view comment
I can't discern what it is you're asking for: a conceptual definition? or a logical demonstration / mathematical proof? or a fundamental physical theo...
February 18, 2025 at 00:52
In: PROCESS PHILOSOPHY : A metaphysics for our time?  — view comment
In my Epicurean-Spinozist (i.e. p-naturalist) terms: "beings" sub specie durationis are atoms of "becoming" sub specie aeternitatis void, which is why...
February 18, 2025 at 00:45
In: Meinong rejection of Existence being Prior to Predication  — view comment
:up: :up: Thus, we can sensibly imagine and talk about fictions (or lies). (à la Meinong)^
February 17, 2025 at 23:05
In: The case against suicide  — view comment
:up: :up:
February 17, 2025 at 22:40
In: The Boom in Classical Education in the US  — view comment
You're mistaken. I didn't change anything; I underlined text for added emphasis.
February 17, 2025 at 10:21
In: The Boom in Classical Education in the US  — view comment
:100: :up:
February 17, 2025 at 02:06
In: The Ethics of Not Doing Drugs  — view comment
:cool:
February 16, 2025 at 19:53
In: How to define stupidity?  — view comment
:up: :up:
February 16, 2025 at 19:52
In: The Ethics of Not Doing Drugs  — view comment
Jazz = blues, dude. :smirk:
February 16, 2025 at 19:51
In: The Ethics of Not Doing Drugs  — view comment
I can't say it any simpler. What's unclear to you? :up: :up:
February 16, 2025 at 19:48
In: How to define stupidity?  — view comment
:fire:
February 16, 2025 at 18:05
In: The Ethics of Not Doing Drugs  — view comment
... or anyone other than the users themselves (either directly or indirectly as a downstream consequence). Afaik, any addictive, mood/mind-altering su...
February 16, 2025 at 16:58
In: The Mind is the uncaused cause  — view comment
"Experience" is a feature (output?) of "mind" and mental and physical – the former either an epiphenomenon or emergent (strange loop-like) from the la...
February 15, 2025 at 23:17
In: fdrake stepping down as a mod this weekend  — view comment
:smirk: Me too! :100:
February 14, 2025 at 23:19
In: The Mind is the uncaused cause  — view comment
:ok: Non sequiturs ... Whatever.
February 14, 2025 at 13:04
In: God changes  — view comment
:roll: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/966656
February 14, 2025 at 12:49
In: The Mind is the uncaused cause  — view comment
Nonsense. Abstractions do not "exist" (A. Meinong) and are not "subject to change". Thus your conclusions are invalid. Also, "mind" is what sufficient...
February 14, 2025 at 12:31
In: fdrake stepping down as a mod this weekend  — view comment
Thanks for your dedication to the site, you will be missed. All the best.
February 13, 2025 at 22:14
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
12February25 https://youtu.be/ZCGfO-58dYU?si=KF7L5K8P-KeHb0_r SLAVA UKRAINI :strong: :fire:
February 12, 2025 at 09:52
In: What exactly is Process Philosophy?  — view comment
Thanks! :up: :up: :up:
February 12, 2025 at 01:58
In: What exactly is Process Philosophy?  — view comment
True. And yet there's a never ending bilge of pseudo-scientific "opinions" often rationalized by incorrigibly poor reasoning / bad philosophy festoone...
February 11, 2025 at 22:29
In: What exactly is Process Philosophy?  — view comment
:chin: I've also pointed out how "process philosophy" fails; what more needs to be "explained" that has not already been summarized ... https://plato....
February 11, 2025 at 21:57
In: What exactly is Process Philosophy?  — view comment
With respect to ethics, as I've stated above Insofar as it is an a priori categorical framework (i.e. ontological paradigm), a metaphysics might const...
February 11, 2025 at 21:37
In: What exactly is Process Philosophy?  — view comment
:smirk: :cool: How does the following fail to answer your OP? (p.1) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/963559 plus (p. 5) https://theph...
February 11, 2025 at 15:35
In: What exactly is Process Philosophy?  — view comment
Is it though? He sounds to me patently uninformed (as you've repeatedly pointed out); after all, "why" pertains only to actual agents and not to exist...
February 11, 2025 at 09:45
In: Fascism in The US: Unlikely? Possible? Probable? How soon?  — view comment
Different histories and legal traditions 'require' different ways of addressing their respective Empires. Hindsight bias is completely. uninformative.
February 11, 2025 at 01:50
In: Fascism in The US: Unlikely? Possible? Probable? How soon?  — view comment
The US Constitution of 1787 was ratified in 1788. Prior to that (1783?) the Articles of Confederation governed the (former British colonies of) 13 sep...
February 11, 2025 at 01:34
In: Fascism in The US: Unlikely? Possible? Probable? How soon?  — view comment
The first US elections were held in 1788.
February 11, 2025 at 01:18
In: Fascism in The US: Unlikely? Possible? Probable? How soon?  — view comment
America's Fascisting Around and Finding Out ... PSA Monday https://youtu.be/u49-8NDGdrc?si=Jhl7xKX9t8IwFqR8 Proudly Voting rich, Living poor since 178...
February 10, 2025 at 22:23
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
United States of Kakistan 10February25 (FAFO day 21) As the "deep state" is being bulldozed and replaced – with fear-muzzled, bipartisan acquience – b...
February 10, 2025 at 21:51
In: How to define stupidity?  — view comment
The post-2024 US election blues ... Addendum to https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/622062 The Five Laws of Human Stupidity https://yout...
February 10, 2025 at 21:41
In: Questioning the Idea and Assumptions of Artificial Intelligence and Practical Implications  — view comment
2020 (re: 2013) - fiction https://youtu.be/EGcBNACe80M?si=uGHnMLY3mvoMtoC1 2025 - fashion https://youtu.be/nb5SUgxSHyY?si=OQfa3eAlMl4KRpuT "Commerce i...
February 10, 2025 at 06:25
In: What exactly is Process Philosophy?  — view comment
:up: :up: I don't think there are any "ethical implications" unique to either the naturalistic-chaotic (Dewey, Deleuze, Prigogine-Stengers) or the the...
February 09, 2025 at 22:39
In: Could anyone have made a different choice in the past than the ones they made?  — view comment
... and also not free of consequences. :100:
February 09, 2025 at 20:48
In: What are 'tautologies'?  — view comment
From Witty & co, iirc, 'tautologies' are information-free, necessary repetitions (syntax) and 'logic', constituted by tautologies and rules of inferen...
February 08, 2025 at 23:33
In: God changes  — view comment
Another hidden premise. Ad hoc ... Why not? – a third hidden premise. :roll:
February 08, 2025 at 22:12
In: Could anyone have made a different choice in the past than the ones they made?  — view comment
The OP raises whether or not it's possible to 'change the past' of the actual world (i.e. retroactively making a choice different from the choice that...
February 08, 2025 at 22:03
In: Fascism in The US: Unlikely? Possible? Probable? How soon?  — view comment
Idk anything about the podcast.
February 08, 2025 at 07:59
In: Fascism in The US: Unlikely? Possible? Probable? How soon?  — view comment
Two politically-savvy philosophers discussing "truth in an age of division" is quite relevant in this Trumpian moment, no?
February 08, 2025 at 06:50
In: Fascism in The US: Unlikely? Possible? Probable? How soon?  — view comment
United States of Kakistan 7February25 "Truth matters" ... https://youtu.be/npBC-9cvkg4?si=e3DATdvHb2RRHZQU
February 08, 2025 at 06:16
In: What Are You Watching Right Now?  — view comment
February 08, 2025 at 05:34
In: God changes  — view comment
Neither C1 nor C2 validly follow because P1 is not true and P2 contains a hidden premise ("There exists a creator").
February 08, 2025 at 04:41
In: Could anyone have made a different choice in the past than the ones they made?  — view comment
Unless the universe (of determinant forces and constraints on one) changes too, I don't think so.
February 08, 2025 at 01:01
In: God changes  — view comment
Unless what is meant here by "God" is synonymous with "nothing" ... First – (D1) "from nothing" contradicts (P1) "caused by an agent"; thus, (C1) is i...
February 06, 2025 at 20:41
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