T_Clark

An example would be helpful if you can think of one.

That's the question I'm wrestling with. I think, although I'm not sure, that there's a standard that has to be met. It's like they say, you can't prov...

Your response has ignored the content of my post.

I still think we disagree. Pursuing happiness just means living life as you think is best. I've committed to respecting other's right to do that. I do...

I've laid out my whole metaphysics schtick over the previous six pages, not counting all the other places in the forum I've discussed it. I have no de...

Yes, I think you've laid the argument out correctly. You've raised another question in my mind. Here it is: Since there is no evidence whether it is p...

The example I used in the OP may clarify things. I think the multiverse interpretation of quantum mechanics is meaningless because I believe it is not...

I started working on a response to your post but quickly started running around in circles. I'm still thinking about it and I'll get back to you later...

Yes, I just responded to it. I included some links to your posts. As I told him, 1) I think there are similarities between your positions and 2) I dis...

This is an interpretation of the meaning of "metaphysics" I've never heard before. Based on the limited amount I have read, I don't find it very convi...

Even if it's irrefutable, that doesn't mean it's true.

I'm not frustrated, I just think your understanding and use of the word "metaphysics" is too different from mine for us to have a fruitful discussion ...

I moved this to the Shoutbox because I didn't want to clutter up our brilliant discussion in "What is Metaphysics? Yet Again." I've never heard of the...

Two things. 1) The Mad Fool has a "paradox" obsession; and 2) Having a function is not the same as having a purpose.

Jefferson et. al. put it better than I could - I recognize that all people are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain u...

I think I may want to start a new thread just for this statement.

My, aren't you clever. Nicely put.

I think you and I have taken this as far as we can for now.

So I guess here's the real difference in our views - As I see it, if we cannot definitively demonstrate the truth of a proposition, even in principle,...

This is the way I would say it too - Not true or false, useful or not useful.

I'd like to try to run through a thought experiment. I'm not trying to set you up for anything. I'm not even going to try to convince you of anything....

Yes, I also am talking about meaning, not the physiology of nervous system. I don't believe your understanding that all mental phenomena are considere...

Some thoughts: Ideas and opinions are not "by definition" metaphysical. In the OP I described my view of metaphysics as the "...set of rules, assumpti...

Did you think I ever professed "the absence of necessity for a meta-framework?" I never did.

Hey, you're just supposed to tell me when I'm a jerk and tell us about Russia. You're not supposed to give me substantive responses to my posts... Act...

First of all, no. Preferences are not the same as goals. And then - I believe that all people are created equal and they are endowed by their Creator ...

As I've noted, this is what I've come to think is true.

If it were a salad bar, it would still be metaphysics. We all get metaphysics whether we like it or not.

Greg Abbott

My thoughts about metaphysics began to take shape in a thread I started about four years ago - "An attempt to clarify my thoughts about metaphysics." ...

That's lovely, now be a good boy. Ditto, Captain.

@"praxis" It would be really great if this back and forth about the conflict between Praxis and GMBA would end. I have found it upsetting. It clearly ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMhaehb5AnE Lyle Lovett makes up for Greg Abbott any day.

I don't think you're saying that these factors are goals. Are you? If not, I think you and I are in agreement.

To me, the important thing is the idea of using people as a means to an end. That means making decisions about their lives for our own benefit without...

If my memory is correct, Collingwood does deal with God by using him as one of the absolute presuppositions for science. I'm not sure about that. I'm ...

Oh, yes, welcome to the forum.

Boy, this is a good post. Some of it stretches beyond my grasp, but it's still interesting. I don't have an overall response, but I have some thoughts...

I don't think this answers the question anyway. I don't know enough to tell if he did a good job or not. It doesn't really matter, to me at least. As ...

I don't get the connection. I can treat someone as an end in themselves without considering their idea of their own purpose. What if the other person'...

I don't feel as if I have a purpose. I don't see that as a bad thing. I am responsible for my own actions and I guess I could choose a purpose, but it...

In the Essay, Collingwood summarizes Aristotle's metaphysics and then derives his directly from it. I've read it several times and I don't understand ...

Janus: Collingwood is not a metaphysician. T Clark: Why not? Janus: Because he's wrong. T Clark: Why is he wrong? Janus: Because he's not a metaphysic...

And so...

I don't think I get your point.

As I've said many times, "metaphysics" means different things to different people. You can say it means anything you want it to. So can I. As far as I...

The universe as is isn't anything. You have to have a point of view to see from, a center to stand on. That's metaphysics.

Seems metaphysical to Collingwood and me. No reason we have to agree. As I said, it looks like "metaphysics" means something different to you than it ...

Wherever our ideas and technology go, we ourselves live at human scale. All human value resides at human scale. For us, the world is inseparable from ...

In his own words: Metaphysics is the attempt to find out what absolute presuppositions have been made by this or that person or groups of persons, on ...