Yes, I agree with you. However, I haven’t just shown that we can translate everything into Platonish; I’ve shown that we must do so, for example here:...
Yes, my bad; I forgot a second “free” before “dwellers” to indicate that I mean those who are free from, among other things, being spellbound by the g...
Yes, exactly. The Iranian religion of Zarathustrism likely influenced Christianity in weighty ways, and the latter would go on to take over as Western...
That’s mainly true, of course, and I have never disputed it. However, Atawulf did actually want to erase the Roman Empire at first if his declaration ...
Not really, I think. According to my understanding, meteorologists mostly know more about cloudhood than the platonic philosopher does, but what sets ...
Yes, and it’s a deplorable fact showing a manifestation of the slavish element in many humans. Actually, Atawulf did originally try to erase the Roman...
To which someone might answer, “Those very distinctions are pedantic”. However, the witcrafta (flitecrafter, logician) would say that we do have to ma...
Cloudhood need not be added to the discussion, for the meteorologist has already brought it in when defining what a cloud is. The only difference betw...
:up: I also believe that the state has no right to command me, and that I have no obligation whatsoever to obey the state. No man, no extraterrestrial...
One great vice of the Romans and even more so the Greeks was their ethno-supremacism. They thought that they were better than every other folk on Eart...
Here, I’d mainly like to give a not-exhaustive list of crimes that the Romans and their evil Empire commited over the yearhundreds of their despotism:...
Firstly, how can you speak for all “Westerners”? Secondly, there is no such thing as “the West” other than the direction which the Earth is spinning a...
If you created those ideas, then how come you can’t change them at will? Can’t a creator do with his or her creations what he likes? Why can’t you mak...
What I mean is that Alice’s thinking does not directly or indirectly bring about Bob’s thinking or vice versa. So if there’s no abstract entity which ...
It’s just happened again: First, I wrote a new comment, and the counter accordingly went up by one to 118. However, then I added another comment, and ...
Exactly, and if there is no causal connection between Alice’s thinking and Bob’s thinking – e.g. because the two thought-events are separated by a spa...
:up: I think that you might have the same general understanding of the matter as I. In short, mine goes like this: For every idea EID, EID itself exis...
See here (1.), for instance. This gives you the original meaning of the word “idea” and its philosophical definition, and it’s therefore the one we’re...
No, they aren’t, either. What I mean is that everything abstract exists actually, and the only stuff that could have merely possible existence is conc...
Isn’t it perfectly clear that the proposition that it’s going to rain is the object of Alice’s belief? With the first one I agree, but with the second...
The proposition that EID possibly exists, just as “PossiblyExists(6)” refers to the proposition that the rimetale 6 has possible existence, and as “Po...
Does the same apply to what you mean my “actual rimetale”? If yes, does that mean that you regard all the endlessly many numbers which no one has (yet...
Firstly: So you do doubt the actual existence of sauropods after all. Secondly: You must be severely misinformed if you think that dinosaurs are extin...
The problem is that you seem to obstinately refuse to understand the quite simple matter of distinguishing unicorns themselves from pieces of informat...
That’s really an interesting idea. When I first learned of the Pythagorean saying All is Rimetale (Number) as a child, I was spellbound by it at once....
That does sound similar to what I think. There’s just one problem with regarding all-quantification and there-is-quantification as mere infinitary AND...
But why should any of my comments get deleted? I’ve never even remotely used hateful, disrespectful, sexually suggestive, offensive, or otherwise bad ...
So what did you mean by saying the following?: By “abstractness”, I mean the property of being not-spatial, not-tidesome (not-temporal), not-physical,...
Right, but that’s not what I mean. In my case, the true counter (the one on my profile) showed only 97 comments and one discussion when it should have...
Of course I am. How could I otherwise claim that abstract things actually exist? But don’t get me wrong: I certainly think that abstract and thus not-...
Yes to both, as long as you replace “actualised” with “actual”. For things, I’ve shown that possible existence necessarily lets actual existence follo...
I must admit that in what I’ve written so far, I’ve made a mistake. I’ve treated pieces of info as if they were things and thereby abstract when they ...
Let me swuttle (explain) the main possibility argument I’ve put forth so far. Let EID be any thinkable idea. Consider the proposition IsThoughtAbout(E...
The word “wistlily” (“essentially”) is an adverb, while “wistly” (“essential”, German “wesentlich”) is the belonging adjective (how-word), and both be...
Yes, they surely do. But first, let’s make some speech aspects clear. The word “think” doesn’t have the same meaning in all three of your examples. In...
I think that the existential quantifier is basically just an infinite OR operator, just as the all-quantifier is basically an infinite AND operator. F...
You’ve brought up some interesting points, some of which I have already addressed in my rather lengthy answer last time, and some of which need me to ...
Now I get what you’re saying. Interesting thoughts! I think that things stand as follows: All things are abstract and therefore eche and uncreatable, ...
The following are just some thoughts of mine, and I’m not dogmatic about them at all. I think that when the platonist talks with another person about ...
It may be that you call actual abstract wideas “possible ideas”, and actual concrete mental instances of wideas “actual ideas”. It might also be that ...
The understander neither needs nor uses any creativity at all. That’s the whole point. How is that heavy lifting? By knowing English syntax and semant...
Not without reason did I ask you whether quote="Tristan L;453377"]you now see that the following part of my argument is logically valid (the boldface ...
However, it does mean that the state-of-affairs and the proposition that you would break your leg has always existed, as has its negation. Take e.g. t...
If ideas exist after their discovery, but they can’t be created, then they must also exist before the discovery. Otherwise, the discovery would actual...
But it can discover them through actual practice, at least as much as quantum field theory can in actual practice be used to describe cell division. H...
First things first: Do you now see that the following part 0. If ideas can be invented, then they cannot be invented. (premise) 1. If it’s not the cas...
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