Wayfarer

Oops, I used superscript instead of sub-script. My bad. :yikes: The symbol "2" (or "II" or "two") denotes the number 2.

It is assumed. If you read the early Buddhist texts, they are mainly dialogues - discussions about the dhamma, the Buddha’s teaching and principles. S...

:up: On the contrary, I take it to mean something quite similar, although I prefer Kant's 'transcendental idealism', which he took pains to differenti...

From this review. Note 'the distinction between reality and existence' - you won't find that in many places. Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences (...

Yes, it would be a mistake, and one I would never expect Aristotle to make. I don't believe that for a moment. I think that why science is currently e...

My view is different to Apokrisis, although in agreement in some respects. But I've belatedly discovered Aristotle and the broader Platonist tradition...

Analogous to: there is no actual electron until some measurement is taken. This is not coincidental. Real numbers don’t begin to exist by virtue of th...

You may be right - I am painfully aware (and frequently reminded) of my own lack of knowledge of both Aristotle and physics. However Heisenberg, who i...

Einstein felt compelled to exclaim, frustratedly: ‘Does the moon not continue to exist when nobody’s looking at it?’ Of course he posed that as a rhet...

Right - hence the discussion about the characteristic of typically modern thought which is that the real attributes of anything are what are able to b...

In one of the first lectures I attended, Alan Chalmers (whose book What is this Thing called Science? is a standard text in philosophy of science) tol...

I’m saying that they are indubitable within limits. What I said to the aptly-named OP is that there’s no more point trying to explain the fundamentals...

You asked me whether I favour a form of dualism, and in response to that, you say: The basis of the argument is that: This is also noted in the entry ...

I’ve been trying to articulate it since Day One - but from my perspective, it is always misunderstood. It has to do precisely with the reality of inco...

That’s what I meant by ‘not omniscient’.

It seems to me, then, that you’re actually rejecting Aquinas’ hylomorphic dualism. And as I commented before, I don’t think your analysis can account ...

No ‘essence of me’ in Buddhism. Arguably, belief in such a thing is the very problem that has to be overcome. A promissory note, eh? The thing is, the...

So, your ‘religious experiences’ were hallucination. Good you recognised that. I don’t read the argument as being that the fundamental constants might...

Agree. I think language relies on the ability of the rational mind to abstract and compare. When we say that A=A, by definition we're not talking abou...

I didn't think it was. But the New Scientist article simply notes that Hawking opined that 'A point of creation would be a place where science broke d...

I completely agree with that. You can never prove the reality or otherwise of God by inductive or deductive reasoning. I recall reading once that the ...

I would be interested in your comments on this passage, which I linked above, but I reproduce here in full, as I think outlines a very different model...

Isn’t there an empirical reason, namely, that they always are? Could it ever be F=MA(most of the time)?

What interests me about that article, however, is the idea of 'potentia' as 'real but not actually existing'. 'The unmanifest' was tacked on by me at ...

Source This idea bears intriguing similarities to the philosophical conception of 'the unmanifest'.

Keep coming....you’re getting there.....

Do you think a Thomas Aquinas would have made that statement? You see, I think not. I think the awareness of ourselves as knowing subjects, separate f...

Which apparently is nothing of any significance.

That is the philosophical crux as far as I'm concerned. I quoted from Bertrand Russell's 'Free Man's Worship' which depicts man as 'the accidental col...

Here’s where your analogy fails. Why? Because it begs the question. In the situation at hand what you really have is nothing whatever. If you have a m...

Today’s outburst - the twitter rant directed at Bob Mueller - is pathetic. It’s so obvious that Trump lives in his own world and that he’s incapable o...

See the below There’s an analogy in holograms - take a holographic image and divide it, and instead of two pieces with half the image in each, you end...

I am finding it hard to understand why you don’t see the issue here. The customary post-Enlightenment attitude to this matter has always been that as ...

Well, that's very much the view of Advaita Vedanta, as you know - everything is Self. But Indian and Greek philosophies were very different in this re...

If you're asking about essence then really I think the answer is: read a bit more in Aristotle's metaphysics. I myself haven't read the original in th...

:up: That's pretty well what I meant when I said that 'it is a story that needs to be interpreted in the context of ancient religious lore, in which t...

What you’re saying here amounts to something like the mixing of metaphors. The idea of ‘essence’ is associated with Aristotle’s metaphysics. ‘Essence’...

Were the first cause not uncaused, it wouldn’t be called ‘the first cause’. That's what makes it, you know, special.

No matter what happens, it will be a deep state conspiracy, a political witch-hunt instigated by Democrats who have infiltrated the FBI and Justice. I...

It undermines the sentiment so eloquently expressed in the opening of Bertrand Russell's famous essay, published right at the beginning of the 20th Ce...

You know, I think the back-story behind this question has to be 'atomism'. That was the original rationale behind materialist reductionism. I once did...

The point is, scientific methodology has one golden claim: that what it does, works. Stick this electrode on this plate, and bingo, copper sulphate - ...

'Is' might suffice ;-)

The point is, if God does exist, then the kind of difference it makes might really matter. I mean, I'm not a church-going type, but have nevertheless ...

Is that so? I have never read Kierkegaard beyond Encyclopedia entries on him. However the story of the significance of Isaac’s sacrifice is not one th...

And I think the counter to that is for anything to emerge, there has to be at least some order. Given that there is some order, then all kinds of thin...

It sounds to me like you're rationalising the difficult decisions and commitments that adulthood requires; you're trying to decide whether to grow up ...

Thank you for the very clear explanation. I am not entirely persuaded by it, but it's given me a much better idea of the problem, and also where to lo...

Christianity is predicated on something beyond ego. 'He who saves his own life will loose it, he who loses his life for My sake will be saved' . Sure ...

That is a very interesting interpretation, although I would like to consider a counter argument. If you consider the reality of numbers, these are abs...