T_Clark

Seems to me you two are doing something different from what @"Angelo Cannata" is doing. He is telling you how he determines what he has to do to act i...

Yes, you're right. I didn't like "system" either, but I couldn't think of a better word.

Is this your description of a post-modern ethical system? It seems like that could be your intention and it makes sense.

Very little of what we know is based on "studied empirical evidence." To be fair, it is part of the common meaning of "metaphysics." It goes back to w...

I don't mind making a metaphorical connection between God and parents, but you've made a stronger argument than that: This implies that religion devel...

I always liked this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3c9v1COjcY

I don't see it as a controversy. I am used to thinking of epistemology as part of metaphysics. I think it's time for me to reexamine that understandin...

Metaphysics is commonly used as a synonym for supernatural or religious. I don't really like that, so I try to avoid the discussion because I don't th...

It's not in Collingwood, I checked. As I said, perhaps I'll start a new thread.

I'm thinking of starting a thread to examine my belief that they are inseparable. Really the same thing.

Oxford English Dictionary; Metaphysics - The branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as ...

It is common to include epistemology as part of metaphysics. It is also common to consider them separate. I don't think it make sense to talk about th...

This makes sense to me.

The scientific method is epistemology. Epistemology is often included within metaphysics. I believe that's appropriate.

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I don't know about that. The discussion of pronouns is pretty transphobic.

A poet does not explain his poetry.

A recipe tells you how to cook something, it doesn't cook anything itself.

Perhaps @"universeness" will tell us what he meant, but I stand behind what I wrote.

I'm with @"universeness". The scientific method isn't science, it's metaphysics.

Because of the conversation in this thread, I bought "Existentialists and Mystics." After reading one of her novels, I have been intending to read Mur...

I might say that mysticism and metaphysics mistake each other for themselves.

Yeah, but f = ma.

People with mystical leanings, of which I am one, have as much right to use the English language as anyone else. The way they use it is as legitimate ...

Agreed. I don't know if this is the same thing, but I don't find quantum mechanics weird or strange. After all, it's just the way things are. I'm comf...

Subsequent to the arrangement of Aristotle's works by scholars at Alexandria in the first century CE, a number of his treatises were referred to as ??...

I think this is a good way of putting it, although I think a lot of people would not agree. This is something I'm struggling with. My intuition tells ...

This is definitely true, although I don't see that any of the posts you've quoted are necessarily inconsistent with each other. I think we're all, mor...

Program where you can see aerial photographs of anywhere in the world. Service so you can send pictures, data files, documents, and letters anywhere i...

The reason I resisted using the phrase "two inseparable poles" is that I don't see science and metaphysics in opposition to each other. Metaphysics is...

No. It's not true. Clearly this is not a shared experience. "Seeing the notion several times in literature" does not constitute evidence.

It's a good thing I'm not a member of your family, I would definitely call her "Roseanne Roseannadanna," which would piss off, confuse, or frighten ev...

My wife used to call me by my given name, but then about five years ago she started calling me "T Clark." Now, recently, she started calling me "Clark...

That means your father's name is "Egghead."

That translates as "Hanover the little shit."

From "That's Right, you're not from Texas" by Lyle Lovett: You say you're not from Texas Man as if I couldn't tell You think you pull your boots on ri...

Perhaps I'll change my forum name to Clarky Herbovich. No, I'm not serious.

I agree. Then your friends all say "Just shut up and eat your cookie." Although if you're a professional philosopher they probably won't. Well, I'm su...

I guess it's like going to Texas and trying to wear a Stetson and western boots. How about you introduce her as Jamalsina. She'd probably like that. A...

Thanks. Actually, I like it. It seems more intimate than just one name.

@"Jamal" A question about Russian names. In these books I am reading there is a girl. She starts out a baby and has grown to be 15 years old. She is c...

This is like saying "Apples are the mystery that human intelligence will never unravel." I answer by picking up an apple and taking a bite. Apples are...

If you care enough to follow the chain of posts back to how this started in a response to a post by Tobias a few pages back, you can find how the ques...

You're right. Collingwood was not dismissive of metaphysics and neither am I. Recognition that metaphysical statements, i.e. absolute presuppositions,...

Seems you are commenting on my comment about Collingwood. This is from "An Essay on Metaphysics." Metaphysics is the attempt to find out what absolute...

I'll say it again - I'm not saying that our concept of reality shouldn't include an understanding of quantum mechanics and other phenomena that can't ...

You are as much a philosopher as 95% of us here. You certainly are more well-read than I am, in spite of your aw shucks, I'm just a jumbuck playing my...

Agreed. Do you mean we're not on the same page because you and I understand that Newton and Einstein have changed the way we think about gravity? If s...

I don't want to overstate my case. I think what we call reality should incorporate the things we learn from science about the world we can't directly ...

Sez you. I am a reasonably normal person and I think my understanding of reality is consistent with how most people in my culture see it. What I like ...