Bartricks

How? I'm not embarrassed. He should be, with a name like that. Anyway, how about actually addressing the OP rather than telling me about dead science ...

No, I am unsure who he was, and I am entirely unclear why you are mentioning him. I don't agree with him if he thinks we're subject to a systematic il...

I don't think we're living in the past. I thought you were saying that it was his opinion that we were. If he agrees with me, then his surname is unju...

Then he deserved his surname.

Well, I'm saying that's baloney. A certain picture is being assumed to be a true - a picture that, if true, would render all perceptions of the presen...

Glad you've finally taken your meds and some of the scales have fallen from your eyes.

Well, it is hard because I don't think it makes sense - so I am explaining something I think is ultimately nonsensical. Take the proposition that you ...

And I didn't say that he pushed me into a corner. I said "In what fantasy world did you push me into a corner?" A fantasy world is not this world, is ...

It's not quite as simple as that, but the details would bore you. I suppose you'd ask non-experts - is that right? God must be atheist? Praxis?

What are you even asking there? You are asking me a question about a patch of time?

Locate the fallacies. So you think that what determines whether you've had several years of graduate level philosophy is not how much graduate level p...

You ask the experts. Now, can you answer my question above please, if it isn't too boring.

So, as you clearly think it doesn't make senes to ask that question on 'this' planet, you admit that the 'is this person interesting to creativesoul' ...

On what planet is that the test of whether someone is an expert? Is this person an expert? I dunno - see if creativeoul finds him interesting (creativ...

I partially approve of them, it is just that I identify 'truth' with an activity of Reason, rather than an activity of ourselves. Our judgements about...

I haven't asked for help, I am testing a thesis. I am seeing if I can do without the notions of necessity and contingency and not thereby commit mysel...

I don't think you've got anything to teach me. If you could show me how, by denying the reality of necessity and contingency, I am bound to find mysel...

You are still misusing ad hominem. I have not been pushed into a corner - I am stood out in the open, naked and proud. You're just locked in a fantasy...

Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. As introductions go, it doesn't get better and if you ask philosophy professors which book they read...

The feeling is mutual - nothing you're saying makes any sense. Just a sequence of non-sequiturs with added misguided confidence.

Would any expert academic in your field cite a Wikipedia page in a peer review article?

But I don't think any expert in metaphysics would deny that, historically, most expert metaphysicians - including most of the undisputed best - have t...

Er, how on earth does that demonstrate that "always is the case" means the same as "necessarily is the case"?? It just doesn't. For one thing, you're ...

I think most would consider it incoherent to deny the reality of either or both. They may be right, of course. I am just exploring whether we can do w...

Are you an expert in either philosophy or physics?

Gibberish. Well, because there's nothing in it for them. Why would an expert write a Wikipedia page? It isn't peer reviewed, so it won't count for any...

The classic opinion of a non-expert. "Experts are no better than us non-experts" Er, no. Experts can be wrong. But that's true of non-experts as well....

No, I believe there is a proof, but I am not sure why you think I think it is the only proof - there may be others, and other arguments that by themse...

If I say that something is always the case, that is not the same as saying that it must be the case. Let's say I have existed since the beginning of t...

Why? I don't see that at all.

I take the word to be expressive. So, when I use it it functions a bit like 'hooray' - that is, it expresses an attitude, rather than describes a feat...

How does the fact a proposition is true by definition make it necessarily true? Why not just 'true'?

I think all the events have causes. That's not the same as saying that all events must have causes. I'm trying to understand you - I don't understand ...

How does "all propositions are false" pose a difficulty for me? I think the proposition "all propositions are false" is false. For I believe that some...

I think all events do have causes. I don't think they have to. But I think they all do. So there's no 'must' about it.

Wikipedia? What next? You going to quote from some toilet cubicle graffiti? Wikipedia is not written by experts. It isn't peer reviewed. You could wri...

In what fantasy world did you push me into a corner? You tried to show that I was committed to a contradiction, and I showed you in no uncertain terms...

Well certainly experts can make mistakes (and expert philosophers spend a great deal of time pointing each other's mistakes out). But so too do those ...

Erm, hmm, okaaay. Not really an answer to my question, but okay.

More, of course. So you think, like me, that everything that exists is made of indivisible, simple entities? Good!

The study of the fundamental nature of things.

Van Gogh is in a totally different league to Cezanne and Gauguin - blows them out of the water. Best artist in the world ever. Ever! There are all man...

Well, I am glad you've adopted my view - which is that 'necessary' functions expressively, not descriptively.

That's because you don't have them. The argument I just presented is a proof of a god's existence. But you don't recognise that, because you don't kno...

No it isn't. "There is at least one total dumbo on this thread" does not mean the same as "There is necessarily at least one total dumbo on this threa...

No it isn't. I don't think you know what you're talking about. Do you have any formal qualifications in philosophy?

You do realize I absolutely didn't? This: "There is at least one true proposition" does not mean the same as "There is necessarily at least one true p...

Or, alternatively, you won't address the argument at all, but just say something about what it reminds you of. You missed it in its entirety. Bad dog!...

You've yet to show me that I'm wrong, though. That is, you've yet to show me that by denying necessity I am committed to affirming contradictions. All...

So, I think proposition A is true. What about the proposition "A is necessarily true"? No, I think that proposition - proposition B - is false. I thin...