I think that if this was submitted in a University assignment on the basics of philosophy, it would fail. The Law of Identity is very simple: A = A. I...
How do you think that relates to Hume’s criticism of inductive reasoning? ***** Man: “Hey Im looking to buy a new car, can you show me what you’ve got...
This is the same nonsense. If you write a technical specification for a particular model of machine and then turn it out according to those specificat...
Thanks for the explanation. At issue was a what I considered a nonsensical argument about whether two pieces of information were 'the same information...
Very interesting and informative post. I will continue to meditate on this idea. But I think the 'self-organising relations' idea is not from Peirce, ...
That's because it's the same information, represented differently. This is what the whole thread is about from the word dot, you've been too busy want...
Actually, it's not. I've had a fair amount of consensus on many points, as can be noted from @Apokrisis' reply to yourself. Anyway, the point I was cl...
But that's the whole point! 'Generalisation' is the entire nub of the argument! That is what the whole thread is about. Here we are, more than 1,100 r...
OK then - the same kind of thing - which is what 'two instances of the same kind' means. If you were given a test to categorise groups of objects whic...
This is your mistake. According to you, there are no types. Two instances of ‘a triangle’ are two instances of the same thing. If you added ‘a square’...
I think some form of pluralism is unavoidable in a globalised culture; it just seems inescapable to me. But I think there’s a cultural issue that’s be...
I have this dread that by saying the above I've triggered another cloud of obfuscation. When I was a kid, I used to snorkle. Every so often I would ap...
The OP is right, the Webster Dictionary definition of culture does indeed begin with this: I think what the OP is objecting to, is the use of the term...
So, in the case of 'the triangle', you are denying that a triangle is the same for you and Apokrisis - that because your idea of a triangle, is differ...
Yeah but Freud set his sights too low.....actually I suppose that’s a kind of Freudian thing to say.... :-* Do recall the account of the legendary mee...
That’s what Freud says in ‘Civilsation and its Discontents’, but again, I see another dimension to human existence. But it’s certainly true that not e...
To quote Nike, 'just do it'. Literally. The way to practice, is to practice. There are plenty of teaching centres around nowadays, unlike when you and...
I think the best approach to Buddhist meditation is that taught by S?t? Zen, one of the two main schools of Japanese Buddhism (the other being Rinzai)...
You would both draw a triangle. Your entire (wasted) effort in this thread has been about a completely different subject, namely, the principle of ind...
IT DOESN”T MATTER. If you were both set an exam, ‘draw a triangle’, then you would both have to do that task. You wouldn’t; draw a square, or play a t...
Probably, the current author to study is Ed Feser, as he specialises in Aristotelian-Thomist philosophy. But it’s not as difficult as you’re making it...
Simply not true. You might express it one way, and I another, but there is no room for difference. You’ve been arguing this useless distinction for hu...
Unity is not an entity. ‘Being one’ is being unified, not being one of something. After all the numerical One only exists in relation to what is other...
On the contrary, I think it is time to acknowledge that physicalism as a natural philosophy has utterly failed, and is now leading us up 10500 garden ...
All philosophy is what 'some philosophers thought'. That is one version of dualism, which depicts mind as 'a substance', with many well-known and copi...
The old forum has died. In any case in this thread I have provided detailed responses to your questions here, here, and especially here, and here. The...
In the theistic traditions there's a major difference between the way that God creates, and how humans create. God creates ex nihilo, i.e. 'from nothi...
The grounds are like this - as has been discussed at length in the thread on whether information is physical, the conception of ‘reason’ in the histor...
You’re the one who introduced Buddhism to the conversation. I’m simply pointing out that when Buddhism and western scientific materialism speak of the...
That's what 'transcendental' refers to - the Buddha has gone beyond, that is part of what it means to be Buddha. That is symbolised in Tibetan depicts...
Einstein and Bohr had that argument over 35 years, where he tried to persuade Bohr by various thought-experiments that QM must be wrong. This is cover...
No signs without minds, IMO. ‘In the beginning was the word’. Those articles about Peirce’s religious views show how they were influenced by Emerson, ...
Actually I found a quotation on a reference site about ‘objective idealism’ which puts it well: I think the objective account of the natural sciences ...
It's not. If, as you suggest: Then what is the point of discussion? That's what makes it pointless, because, if true, there is no way to persuade by r...
It was in response to two things, the first being this: I took the reference to the ‘concrete particulars’ as a reference to atoms or at least to an a...
You came into this thread, saying, ‘what’s the matter with Dennett’s realism? He might after all be correct.’ But then when I challenged that, you say...
I really don’t see it. I’m making no assertion of a correspondence between mind and the world. Incidentally, the ‘last bite’ argument was David Stove’...
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