Are you saying then that the word "red" caused the existence of the redness in things, instead of the opposite way around? Following the same train of...
In other words, although knowing the concept is not a necessary effect of knowing the language, knowing the language can still be a necessary cause. I...
So you may be correct that "all forms are eternal" could be what Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine thought. It is hard to tell because Plato's dialogues...
You stated the terms 'blueprint' and 'eternal' in the same sentence. I think it is important to keep the distinction between Forms and forms. Forms or...
Why is it contradictory to you? It would be contradictory to understand the word "red" without the language, but not the concept "redness". Concepts a...
The child abstracts the concept of redness solely by seeing red things. The understanding of language is not necessary for abstracting the concept, bu...
Thanks for the info on relational properties. indeed, I think it is the case for colours. I don't see why temporal and spatial properties would be rel...
Could you provide an example? I don't see how one could fulfil justice without being just. Note, I don't mean here mere legal justice, which could be ...
Dang. Once again, I have trouble understanding your big words. Could you provide an example of what you call 'non-relational aspects of an object'? If...
The word only points to the concept. The concept is apprehended through experience or observation of particulars that participate in the concept or fo...
Our universe is filled with multiplicity because each of those things has distinct properties. Since no two physical objects can occupy the same space...
Got it. I figured it was likely a confusion of terms. I am personally ticked off at how freely the term 'form' is used to mean so many different thing...
Now I still have unanswered questions. To start with, do general forms (2) exist only in our minds (excluding God's mind), or do they exist in particu...
Understood. You are correct, but my previous syllogism is only step 1 of a three-step argument to prove immateriality. Step 1 proves that information ...
I agree with you; that the term 'form' is archaic. It should be seen as a temporary term early philosophers used as a place-holder until later philoso...
I'm sorry, but I admit I have trouble understanding your posts. And unfortunately, it seems this conversation has drifted far away from the original a...
So if I understand you correctly, particular things must have particular forms (3) because only forms are intelligible to our minds, and matter is not...
I think Aristotle separates the formal cause (essence) from the final cause (reason or end). Thus the formal cause of a triangle is "a flat surface wi...
Yes, I came to the same conclusion myself about the form of anything that is man-made: the form of a man-made thing coincides with its end or purpose....
Yes, that is a great point. As I was wondering myself, if the theory of forms is so important in philosophy, then why is it that nobody really speaks ...
So you are saying that if there is a physical obstacle, like distance between the message and the recipient, which prevents the receiving of informati...
That's it. It's syllogism time. If you disagree, can you point to the precise statement you disagree on? P1: A property is called 'objective' if it is...
Yes, I think that you are both correct; that my argument falls apart if the term 'stealing' really means 'copying'. I see now I also made the mistake ...
I take it you are playing devil's advocate, but I don't see how your statement refutes my argument. If ideas exist in brains and brains are physical, ...
More on the claim that information is not physical. A physical thing cannot be stolen if it remains with its rightful owner. E.g., I logically cannot ...
I refute your argument by claiming that the information is in the container, independent of the ability of the subject to interpret it. If a letter sa...
I'm pretty sure feelings are never part of a body that is not a subject. Paintings don't have feelings, and neither do corpses (former subjects). On t...
I agree with you, that there is merit in calling the world of feelings the 'inner reality', because while it is part of objective reality, feelings ar...
Is it this? "All immoral acts cause harm to the one committing the act, or to the one who is the object of the act, or to both." Why do you say that a...
Hello. What if your spouse cheats on you and you never know about it? As they say, "what you don't know cannot hurt you". But surely, cheating is immo...
By 'outer reality', I meant properties which are not inner feelings. You have asked not to called them 'subjective', and so I tried to call these prop...
So you are saying that in order for me to acquire the message "Montréal is in Québec" from a letter and from a voicemail, I must be able to read, hear...
The problem I see with your interpretation of the story of the fall is that it sounds like this advent of knowledge and self-consciousness is a good t...
I admit that this infamous tree of knowledge of good and evil does suggest that Adam and Eve acquired the knowledge of good and evil only after eating...
Ah yes! Hello again. I don't disagree. Did I say that murder was sometimes not wrongful? Otherwise, accidental killing is not wrongful, as it is accid...
I am not sure what you mean by this; but how do you know that God does not have a sense of humour? Jesus' first miracle was to turn water into wine at...
But then how do you explain the fact that is it universal? All other things man-made seem to differ depending on time period, place, culture and so on...
As I see it, there are only two logical outcomes: saying yes to God or saying no to God. The former is the state called heaven; the latter is the stat...
Yes, but not in the strict sense of picking evil for the sake of being evil. I am optimistic that most people are not made of pure evil. Rather, picki...
If intention is not a necessary component of morality, how do we account for the fact that attempted murder is punishable by law? If only attempted, t...
I mean to say that it is part of objective reality, not man-made. It is fitting in the sense that universal (objective) morality is assumed in my argu...
What you write is correct. But this 'corruption by sin' refers to the corruption of the body, from immortal to mortal and prone to physical suffering,...
That is precisely my point about your previous argument: Beauty is in the subject because it is a value; and values are things in the subject. We can ...
But to say that "beauty is a feeling in the subject because it is a value judgement" is begging the question, because value judgements are made only o...
This cannot be. If the will was uncorrupted (incapable of evil) prior to the original sin, then what caused the original sin? No, instead, the will be...
I'm late for the discussion, but here is my two cents anyways. The 'test of imagination', as Chesterton calls it, is useful for determining if a thing...
If I understand, your hypothesis is close to Kant's, which claims that the perceived data is modified in the mind, and is therefore different from the...
I think you are right that colour is in the mind, if we talk about what is being perceived only, because if the object or subject is travelling at hig...
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