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That’s what I’m seeing in the Platonic ‘eidos’. Interesting fact: the word is derived from the Indo-European terms for ‘seeing’. I suppose, colloquial...

Very close to the question I asked in the OP. Consider this: the above discussion about information theory was based on the requirement of information...

There's a lot in that article that I'm not able to understand - it would require a course in physics and/or information theory to really grasp it. How...

Information entropy is exactly about semantic content, isn't it? It's how many bits can be lost before the information contained in the string loses i...

There is an irreducibly subjective element; the perception of the tree includes the act of perception and thereby implicitly includes the observer as ...

Remember that in the context of the discussion about ‘reality of universals’, I mean by ‘realism’, not ‘modern realism’, but ‘realism with respect to ...

That is far from the truth. You yourself believe that the Platonic forms amount to 'social conventions', and then fault the realists for thinking that...

But is inorganic matter on a continuum with life and mind? Or is there a discontinuity there?

If you really believed it, there would be no point in posting, as nothing you could say would make any sense, and nobody would respond. As it is, your...

Speaking of things to wish for: This is the most disgraceful interference with due process by the media. What makes it even more galling, is the irony...

Islamic mysticism is Sufism. I have read some of Idris Shah, and also an independent scholar by the name of Henry Bayman (‘The Station of No Station’)...

In the first section, you haven’t mentioned ‘sensible objects’. They are received by the corporeal senses - ear, eye, etc. The forms are what are not ...

This is the point of 'praxis' - in the Greek philosophy, there were two parts, 'praxis' and 'theoria' - practice and theory. But, in those days, human...

I think you're conflating 'shape' with 'form' here. What is being passed along is more than a shape, it is the entire principle of organisation. (Actu...

If Dennett is correct, then what he's saying is meaningless. It can't be meaningful, because any meaning it might have, is itself simply a neural cons...

Maybe that’s what he’s doing here.

I think Dogen was a profound mystics - as was Lin Chi (Rinzai). But you will find it’s still controversial to speak of Buddhist mysticism - a lot of B...

I studied mysticism through comparative religion, and have also been personally drawn to mysticism throughout my life. But I'm sorry to say the openin...

My view also - the active intellect is what perceives the forms or ideas - it is 'intellect' proper. The passive intellect receives sensations. That i...

That'd be a large proportion of the American population wiped out.

Obama could never become President again, he’s not eligible to stand. Whatever happens is going to be pretty awful, I suspect.

I think the original terms for 'mind' and 'active intellect' would be worth knowing, in the original lexicon. But having looked a little at De Anima, ...

It is basically still about correspondence, though. But that isn't to say that it is, therefore, a false argument. It's a very difficult philosophical...

Well, if 'the thirst for transcendence' is simply an animal instinct, then it is obviously a delusion - it is simply a means by which the genome seeks...

Because of biological reductionism, of course. The criteria for anything that rates in evolutionary theory is that it aids and abets survival. From th...

You will enjoy this review (if I haven’t pointed it out before.) Actually the word is derived from 'the people over the River Indus' i.e. Indians. Hin...

SO you’re saying that Aristotle doesn’t accept the immortality of the soul? Actually, found a reference on that: ‘the soul neither exists without a bo...

As a consequence of evolution? >:)

Best case scenario - Trump resigns as President and the Government agrees not to pursue him further provided he walks away from politics and goes back...

Well, I really have no idea what you're talking about with this 'correlation' between 'objects' and 'agents', if it doesn't amount to 'correspondence'...

Sure do. What does the active intellect do, that the passive intellect can't? Beside the point. What I'm saying is that in many places in this thread,...

This article, published July 2016, takes on a new significance in light of the arrests:

Computers are human instruments. They could replace flags and morse code, but the same arguments apply. It's similar to the point that Apokrisis often...

I would prefer 'instantiated' to 'grounded'. It's more that particulars are 'grounded in form' rather than vice versa. According to A's 'hylomorphic d...

I have an interesting book by Thomas McEvilly, The Shape of Ancient Thought, which is a cross-cultural comparison between ancient Inndian and Greek ph...

Lloyd Gerson, Platonism vs Naturalism ** No. Norbert Wiener (founder of the science of cybernetics) Computing Machines and the Nervous System. ** Acco...

Right. That is simply the empiricist argument - that all knowledge comes from experience. However humans have linguistic and rational abilities that a...

‘Hence’, says the Christian, ‘the need for salvation’. The basic argument of Descartes’ Cogito is apodictic - cannot plausibly be denied - and indeed ...

It all hangs on the meaning of the word ‘exists’ (in this case, ‘remains’.) My example of the ship, is indeed a particular instance. But more general ...

Read this important Slate OP. Don’t Wait for Trump for Fire Mueller

because of anthropomorphic misconceptions?

(Yes, another Thomist. :-} )

I will take a stab at an answer. Suffering is an inevitable aspect of physical existence, because whatever is physical is necessarily subject to decay...

What’s that saying - ‘a shiver looking for a spine to run up’.

Which is precisely why psychology’s status as a science is open to question.

What I’m telling you is that you misquoted.

You better correct that before we continue - the quote was 'blended with a body'. But, no, of course I don't subscribe to many of the ideas in Aristot...

That comes from treating 'mind' as if it were an object of perception, which it never is. A lot of enormous philosophical problems accrue from that re...

This is one of the reasons that William of Ockham invented his razor - that would be an example of what he criticized as the 'proliferation of entitie...

Sorry, but I think your last two paragraphs do not at all represent or paraphrase the passage that we're referring to. But it has been a helpful discu...