Banno

I don't see that. I don't see what it is you are driving at. I don't think he is doing what you claim; but then, I'm not sure what it is you are claim...

That I didn't is clear evidence of divine intervention. God is on my side. Turning and seeing the wheels three feet off the ground was very - sobering...

We were manually running a chain around the Lantana in order to avoid pulling out the natives, then ripping it out with the tractor. Effective but slo...

Yeah, OK. Phenomenological difference is a difference in conceptual role, not a difference in referent, so not following this at all. Have you a pheno...

I spent a summer pulling out lantana when I was seventeen. Not fun. That was further south, near Comboyne. My hippie girl and I got chased out of Lake...

I'm thinking it best if I just let you go. Have fun.

Sure. :meh:

I can't see how that links to what I understand about Davidson.

I've no idea what you said here. Sorry.

Nice. I haven't been up that way since I was a kid. I presume you grow a few "herbs"... not need to answer. Ours is a suburban block, carved into mult...

I've read Being and Nothingness - as an undergrad requirement, so never completely. I also read Nausea, but I quite like radishes. I don't mind No Exi...

In the Existential sense, yes - it's what I choose to do, since the existence of the seeds precedes the essence of good gardening. :wink:

Potted up tomatoes, caps and eggplant seedlings this morning to get going in the greenhouse. Put seeds for celery, cauliflower, cabbage and silverbeet...

Is the article mentioned above available to you? Why alchemists can make gold

Yep - the issue is what they are. Talk of the properties had by some individual in every possible world is much clearer than "a metaphysical explanati...

Banno: Essence as a choice? It's an improvement. What is, is not fixed eternally. But again, I'll go with essence being a philosophical invention, pet...

Some data worth reflecting on: U.S. Image Declines in Many Nations Amid Low Confidence in Trump

Yep. We might even go a step further and ask if the idea of essences is worth keeping. If you don't mind reading the Devil's works, have a look at Why...

If you understand logic, you should be able to address the explanation of "=" given twice, above, as well as in another thread. But you choose not to....

Yes. Now, what exactly is an essence for him? I've asked, but not received a clear answer. Just verbosities such as "... an essence is primarily a met...

Many ways. All of them are ad hoc workarounds. Compare the tortured "Socrates is-a-thing-taller-than-Plato" to Taller(Socrates, Plato). While you are ...

Wasn't there a time when the Mods removed this sort of thread on sight? Or did I dream it

Sure.

Buttered pig? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Pig_roasting_on_a_spit.jpg/250px-Pig_roasting_on_a_spit.jpg

A question worth considering is how this failing on the part of syllogistic logic relates to the whole edifice of the philosophy of "being". A misplac...

Moreover, "is-ness" appears to be yet another example of how merely syllogistic logic fails to deal with identity. Syllogistic logic can only deal wit...

Interesting how folk are happy to use logic until it doesn't get them what they want, and then just drop it. What's "Is-ness"? Isn't that a reaffirmat...

Davidson is happy to say that people have beliefs, and to use beliefs to explain actions, and says that such explanations are causal. So not behaviour...

The standard modern definition of an essence is as those properties had by some individual in every possible world that includes that individual. It's...

And how would you attach buttered toast to such an agglomeration? No, each cat must have it's own buttered toast. The purple elephants would save on a...

Do I have to spell it out? We affix buttered toast on the back of the purple elephants and install them in large vehicles. Since purple elephants have...

Not sure what that sentence is. The ball remains in your court, so far as I can see. How does 1+1+1=1? By misunderstanding either "1" or "+" or "=", o...

Then this calls for a breeding program... Or maybe we could use CRISPR-Cas9 to copy the landing-on-feet gene into purple elephants.

Pretty much. This thread will doubtless go on for several more pages. Unfortunately not.

You could let the cat out when the engine is not in use. But you might have difficulty in encouraging it back. A larger cat will of course provide mor...

All you have shown here is the inability of a merely syllogistic logic to represent relations, including equivalence. Your SA is muddled. It conflates...

No, I don't think that. What I've shown is that the description of God presented here is muddled. The arc is that the muddle is continually papered ov...

@"Hanover", have you considered buttered cats?

Suit yourself. Multiple persons sharing one being does sound a bit mad... Added: Googling "Multiple persons sharing one being" returns DID. Googling "...

Neither explanation is particularly clear nor cogent. Also, if they were right then the Trinity is superfluous, anyway. We might hope that a good expl...

Three persons, one substance. Sounds not unlike Dissociative identity disorder.

Recognising Palestine. The interesting thing here is probably the increasing isolation of US foreign policy.

On a quick check @"Hanover"'s physics looks very optimistic.

Yep. The danger for the Catholic is polytheism. Banno is one of the things that is a man, so is Bob and so is Frank. Three different things that are a...

Puts me in mind of Captain Scarlet...

Dude,

I'll leave you to your own resources, then. Enjoy.

It might be best if you did the homework for yourself...

I prefer Mysterians, with whom you have much in common.

Again, I'll leave such stuff to the theists and mysterians to deal with.