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Right from the beginning of this thread it has been acknowledged that the representation is physical. But number is not - it's a rational operation, a...

He just has. He has acknowledged that he had to fire Flynn for lying to the FBI and the VP. And he says in the next sentence, that there was no collus...

There are ideas that are not at all 'detectable by the senses', i.e. in pure mathematics and many other forms of abstract reasoning and logic. As far ...

Organisms are cases where meaning takes physical form; organisms are not only physical; they embody a level of organisation which is more like languag...

Meaning isn't physical - the interpretive act is internal to thought. It's first person, although not necessarily 'subjective' in the sense we usually...

The story this morning (AU time) is 'US President Donald Trump said on Saturday there was "absolutely no collusion" between his campaign and Russia, h...

I mention Trump's nefarious and destructive hijacking of 'The Office of Presidency' in this thread, and also the post-truth thread, from time to time....

That's like what I'm claiming - representation is one thing, and meaning another; it's a form of dualism. And the interpretation done by computers is ...

Because we are embodied beings, then a mental image has physical correlates. But in this case, the physical correlates are analogous to the role of 'r...

This is the whole point of the Edward Feser article that has been discussed at great length in this thread. He makes the distinction between the form ...

Well said. Indeed I think it was exactly that kind of understanding that was behind the original formulations of liberalism.

cue the trumpet. I have no doubt he believes his own lies.

Your attributing an agency here, an ‘it’ that ‘does’ something. But the same ‘it’ is what you’re trying to explain, so there’s an issue of recursion i...

That is something like the Vedantic view - that there is an inner being that migrates from life to life, undergoing the experiences caused by previous...

I should add something to the above. I would much rather live in a world governed by the attitude that Andrew expresses - ‘live and let live, what wor...

The (possibly unintended) irony of that observation, is that the idea of a philosophy as 'something that works for you' is a sentiment that no Aristot...

It’s more that Trump simply crashes through the guardrails of proprietary, of what is decent behaviour, with utter contempt for such niceties, and the...

You can represent it physically, but it's an ideal object in the sense of being a geometric primitive. And surely the triangle I am just now imagining...

And I think a Platonist response would be, very simplistically - what put it there? What is the origin or source of the order? Now this is not an 'arg...

One of the stories doing the rounds is that Trump is confident that the whole Mueller investigation will be completed before Christmas and will totall...

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I think Life, capital L, or Eternal Life, is the central teaching of the Gospel - Life being 'entering the Kingdom', which is radically transfigured s...

One of the reasons I couldn't accept the articles in the Nicene Creed was the doctrine of the 'resurrection of the body'. There seemed to be a belief ...

They are all excellent questions and quotations, and I'll do my best to address some of the points raised. I will acknowledge that I haven't gone thro...

agree.

Not for want of trying on my part.

There’s a Franciscan monk, Father Richard Rohr, who is a popular speaker and author on these topics. The book I have of his on the subject is called ‘...

:-* Sorry, I hope that I wasn’t wrong, and that you’re not being ironic. In either case, apologies if any are called for.

They are used to communicate the same information: ‘three-masted ship, Greek, arrives after noon’. Irrespective of which language is used, or which sy...

A lot of these points have been discussed over the last two months since this thread started. There was a very succinct statement from a text book on ...

Not at all. When Metaphysician Undercover came into this thread, it was to say that two sentences which say the same thing, don’t really say the same ...

Hey I don’t mind Wilber. I’m not an enthusiast, but I think he’s alright. I bought his first book when it first came out and I’ve read some of the res...

One idea I have come to is about the malign consequences of Western religious orthodoxy. It’s not that the principles they’re based on are bad - I am ...

Have a read of this http://veda.wikidot.com/dharma-and-religion. It’s not a scholarly article, it’s Hindu polemic but more than a grain of truth.

I never got that kind of instruction from my religious education. Actually when I was a teen and young adult, I didn’t equate the interest I had with ...

And value! Where in that, is the domain of value, some way of anchoring qualitative judgement? Or is it entirely subjective, ‘beyond words’, can’t be ...

I think the dimension of ‘praxis’ is rather missing from the modern conversation on religion. That’s the whole point of the Karen Armstrong OP I linke...

The way S?t? teaches is very direct, it does put a lot of emphasis on adopting the posture and sitting in the Zen manner with a minimalist ritual. The...

The S?t? Zen attitude is, giving up ideas of succeeding, but continue to practice.

Only too brief. I’ll let the OP make her own judgement.

I don’t want to re-hash all of that again, but Metaphysician Undisovered denied that two propositions that say the same thing are actually saying the ...

Buddhists don’t generally use the term ‘salvation’, although Nirv??a might be understood as equivalent. But a key difference between Buddhism and Chri...

I have already admitted, the topic really ought to be about ideas, not about information. But on the other hand, the example in the OP does rely on th...

The issue I have with Metaphysician Undiscovered concerns his obfuscation over what it means to say 'two things are the same' or 'two representations ...

No metaphysics of value there, sausage.

Thanks, that is a key passage. (I’m really not that well-educated in all this stuff, I’m flying by the seat of my pants.) I *think* I see that as a st...

it should be clear from your exchanges here that your opponent is arguing for a version of nominalism or subjectivism. However he doesn’t understand t...

It’s not that simple a comparison. But the point I immediately thought of in response to the opening line of your OP was Nietzsche’s prediction of the...

I have been reading this thread with interest, and also downloaded the PDF and read the original. Two observations: in Feser's original text, I think ...

I should add, the reason why the ancients so esteemed mathematical certainty, is because when we say X + Y = Z, then Z is, in a way that mere material...