I do not know what you want by way of an answer. Our minds are immaterial: that's what the argument from indivisibility appears to show. And our minds...
No. If one is not bound by logic - because one is its author - then one has a power that someone who is bound by logic lacks, namely the power to alte...
Do you agree that it is actual nonsense - an actual contradiction - to maintain that of two people, the one with less power is the more powerful? I ta...
No it doesn't. 1 is true. It doesn't follow that 2 is. It is not a rule that every rule has an exception. It's just a true description. Imagine every ...
That's not an argument. Explain why an extended thing could not be divided. An extended thing occupies some space. So it can be divided. That it can b...
You are quite right that the clearest demonstration that change us possible for an indivisible thing is that our minds change states yet are indivisib...
You are ignoring the philosophical point and telling me what Catholics think. Omnipotence is latin for all powerful. One can use the word omnipotence ...
I do not yet see a problem that would not just be a much more general problem of change (one that would apply as much to complex things as to indivisi...
Well now you are simply ignoring reason. The only basis upon which you claim the pizza - and everything else - would magically become indivisible upon...
Yes, you can't keep dividing something forever. But you would be able to divide an extended thing forever. As the tiny pizza case shows. What those tw...
You are not appealing to reason, but to physics. You lie when you say it is clear to your reason that the pizza cannot be divided. It can be, can't it...
No, isaac - don't say physics. I told you about that. Give the urchins a slice of the pizza. You know you can. Stop saying you can't and not explainin...
But we orphans is so hungry mister. It don't make no sense what you is saying. The pizza is three times bigger than your head. I gets that we is all t...
Tell me, Isaac, when you get a pizza and it hasn't been sliced up, do you think it can't be divided? It can be, can't it? What if it was smaller. Oh, ...
oh, well you edumacated me for sure. Thanks guv. If only you could have edumacated Zeno and Plato and Parmenides! You belong in the canon. We dumb phi...
Er, what? Do explain to me, isaac, how it could be that an extended thing might not be divisible. And don't be predictable and say 'physics' and then ...
No. If you're too lazy to scroll up and find what I said, then you're too lazy to try and understand anything I might subsequently say. Everything I s...
You want me to list names? What would that add? So, shall we start with Parmenides and then Zeno of Elea. How many more do you want? What'll do the tr...
No. What did I just say? I just said this; What does that mean? That means I think NDEs are not veridical experiences. So, I think they're not evidenc...
One does not need to be a genius to see that this argument is sound: 1. If my mind is a material thing, then it is divisible 2. My mind is not divisib...
I don't understand what you mean. It doesn't seem to connect with anything I have said. You don't have to experience something to know about it. I don...
How are you addressing anything I said? Why am I writing posts explaining my argument again and again and again, when you don't seem to be able to add...
No, you do. You don't seem able to understand very basic points. An immaterialist - the opposite of a materialist - believes there are objects of the ...
Like I say, all filler no killer. Lots of views are this. Lots of views are that. Lots of views are mistaken. So what? What's your point? You're imply...
I don't think you really know what views you hold and so you just change your views post to post. Here's what you said: That's not the definition of a...
The tradition in question is the tradition of listening to reason. All you're doing is talking about views in a dismissive tone. That's not how you re...
You're just contradicting what I just said. LIke I say, you clealy think the fact I have said something is sufficient for it to be mistaken. I'm publi...
All you're saying is "we should be wary of making mistakes". Er, yes. So? Clearly the implication is that you think I've made one. Well, locate it and...
It is not simplistic at all, for they exhaust the alternatives. And that's not the definition of a material thing. An immaterialist does not deny the ...
All I can do is repeat the point: faculties, 'functions' and so forth are always of a thing or involve things. You can't just have 'functions' floatin...
You think that the only people who can know what happens to them after death are those who've died, yes? That was the implication of what you said - t...
So, you think that only people who have died should be posting on this thread? You think only someone who has died knows whether we survive it or not?...
Digestion is an activity. Something does it. Thinking is an activity. Something does it. And the thing that does thinking is called 'a mind'. You keep...
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