T_Clark

A naive world view might be less complex, but not necessarily more static. I don't think static vs. dynamic is a good distinction to describe the situ...

I like all the quotes you provided. If you take them all, add all the ones I included in my post along with 1,000 more I could have provided if I want...

Those statements were presented as examples of metaphysical statements, not as metaphysical positions to be discussed. The point of this thread is to ...

You and I just had a similar discussion in another thread. As I noted, I've started this so the participants in that discussion can all work from the ...

Yeah, but, nobody listens to moderators. You know that.

Famous fictional old-style rich guys. As John Mulaney once said about Donald Trump before Trump became president - What a hobo imagines a rich man to ...

When I want to take a look at a specific one of my own past posts, I generally use the advanced search function. I put in a key word then specify "T C...

Sort of. The contrast between stasis and dynamism is one that gets argued about in many sciences. Catastrophism vs. gradualism. Cycles vs. progress. O...

This conversation has been fun and interesting.

Does this seem like a battle to you? I thought it was a discussion. I've been friendly and civil.

What can you offer to back that up against my testimony of 30 years of daily, nose to the grindstone, data collection, management, and use when I had ...

I don't think I misunderstand, I disagree, at least in part. First - Making distinctions can be misleading - agreed. Second - Some distinctions, such ...

This seems like an artificial distinction to me. Here's the first law - "A body continues in its state of rest, or in uniform motion in a straight lin...

By this logic, we should go through the world not making distinctions. Not separating the whole into parts. But we do, and we can't not. I assume it's...

Also, welcome to the forum.

This seems like a very simplistic characterization. It seems like you're trying to make a distinction - static vs. dynamic - which isn't 1) represente...

Ok..., but... Somebody else pulled them apart and we're left here to deal with it. Again, the hand we're playing. Also, nothing is an "inseparable who...

This is a thoughtful, generous, realistic, clear, moving, and deeply self-aware description of your situation. It allowed me to try to put myself in y...

You've addressed the issue by explaining why the issue doesn't really exist or isn't really important, which is a valid philosophical and rhetorical s...

I agree that subject/object duality is needed for science, but not necessarily for philosophy. I don't think this is the place to go into that any dee...

Seems like they are talking about God as an experience. The idea of the direct experience of God as evidence for his existence makes sense to me. It's...

I think rights are primarily about the one who grants those rights rather than the beneficiary. When I say that someone or something has a right, I me...

I think you are already a god over your own very, very, very, very small creation. But it's part of your endearing and very, very, very, very limited ...

I was getting a bit poetic, metaphoric, in my previous post. That can be confusing, but sometimes I can't help myself. I want to play. As for your que...

This distinction between scientific theorizing - the generalization of models and theories from scientific data - and philosophy has come up several t...

@"Verdi" One of the two of you will have to change your name. It's hard to keep you straight.

Most of what you write about the philosophy of science is about the goals of science. That's fine, but I don't think it's the most interesting or impo...

Yes. We agree. This is what I wrote in a post to @"Tom Storm" earlier in this thread: As I noted, I was afraid to bring all this into this discussion ...

I've been thinking about what I wrote since last night. I think I was wrong and I feel bad, especially since it was your first day. I guess it was tha...

Interesting and well written. Welcome to the forum. Not to quibble, but I don't see how this is relevant to the subject of this thread, specified in t...

I was going to mention Stone's essay, but you beat me to it. It's a bit broader issue than @"Shawn" brought up. It deals with the rights of the enviro...

I feel like you're setting me up for something, but I'll bite. "F = ma" is a scientific statement, and thus has a truth value. Yes, it is true.

You've brought up "presuppositions," which is Collingwood's term for the content of metaphysics. Actually, he says "absolute presuppositions." I've sh...

Under some metaphysical schemes, my self is an illusion. I don't think that would make me a metaphysical entity, I think it would just mean I don't ex...

I don't think it's that simple. "Not true" is not the same as "false." In this case, they live in different universes. I think this is an important is...

I don't agree with this. I see a relatively definitive delineation between metaphysical and scientific issues, statements, and questions. I call it "s...

By that standard "My tummy hurts." is a metaphysical statement.

In what sense is "The earth revolves around the sun" a metaphysical statement.

"Harry Potter is a wizard" is neither a true nor a false statement. "In J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series, the character of Harry Potter is port...

I just wanted to check if you and I are in agreement. For me, making generalizations from observations and the results of experiments and creating the...

I'm sure many people have questioned it. Here's an answer to the question "Is 'cogito ergo sum' true or false?" from Quora. Nietzsche had an interesti...

There are many philosophies and psychologies which do not recognize the existence of the self - me, myself, I. Just because "The truth conditions of p...

I'm rereading John LeCarre's "The Honorable Schoolboy," which is the middle book in his Smiley/Karla trilogy. I'd reread the other two books - "Tinker...

I'm not sure if this is different from what I wrote or not. A question and a comment. 1) When you say "conceptual interpretations" do you mean like th...

Is this different from what I said? Is it inconsistent with what I said?

Is this true? Is it false? If it's true, is it true in the same sense that "1 + 1 = 2" is true? I was using the statement about the coherence theory o...

This just feels like we're going around in circles.

I support "creative" reworking of recipes, similar to what you've done. Since you're a "good old boy," you might want to try some substitutions that w...

Yes, I said that. I don't understand. I just said that metaphysical statements are not true or false. This is why I thought you hadn't read the OP. I ...

As I've said in several posts in this thread, my claim is that ethical questions don't have true or false answers, i.e. that ethical statements are no...