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so there’s no correlation between correlation and correspondence? Because it sure seems that way.

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Bingo, you win the lucky door prize for the correct answer. Before when you said you didn't understand the reference to the 'principle of intelligibil...

What is this 'something other', according to Aristotle and Aquinas?

I really don't see any relevance to the topic, nor any ' firm refutation of Pythagorean idealism'. True, he argues that geometric constructs cannot be...

That these arguments apply to your initial premise: On the grounds that 'mental correlations' amount to the same idea as 'correspondence'.

:-O This might be an opportune time to provide a few of the textbook examples of 'problems with correspondence theory', as I'm sure they're relevant t...

Book 9 of the metaphysics is online here. Kindly indicate where in it Aristotle 'refutes Pythagorean idealism'. More references on the principle of 'i...

Gerson refers to it in the video link I provided, specifically: Whereas you had said: So - not independent or separate. That is the specific point at ...

This is not true at all. No Platonist would ever say that. You're instinctively modernist in your responses. The idea that mathematics could be 'the p...

That is completely mistaken. The principle of intelligibility in ancient philosophy, was based on the exact opposite of what you’re saying.

A lot rides on 'in a sense'. The point about religious principles, as distinct from scientific ones, is that in the first case, you yourself are the s...

The significance of something being 'real but not physical', is that if there are things which are real but not physical, then physicalism is false. A...

Based on the criteria that the theoretical model which supports the existence of quarks make predictions which provide evidence for the existence of t...

Pleased to see my post above was accurate for about .0003 milliseconds.

And if your diagnosis is correct, so is everything that used to be described under the heading of philosophy.

Quite how we make these divisions is fundamental. I suppose you could say that the early church solved this very problem by thrashing out and adopting...

Were any other species of beings - non human but sentient - to evolve on some other planet, then I'm sure they would discover the same thing. Well, wh...

What’s your view on the debate between realism and nominalism in medieval philosophy? What effect do you think it’s had on subsequent philosophical th...

What interested me about the idea of the ‘perennial philosophy’ was, firstly, that I too am inclined to the mystical, but also because I think there’s...

In the Greek philosophical tradition it was assumed that most people would have neither the capacity or the interest for the higher truths. It was una...

Of course it's more - it's a development. I’m not saying it’s *only* that. But what I'm saying is that in the history of philosophical theology, you w...

That quote you attributed to me, was not my words or my expression. It is the way that the summary of the course put the issue of the question of ‘the...

You don't have to declare that regularities or natural laws 'are beings'. All that is necessary to say, is that what is described as 'lawful regularit...

One response is that, the idea of science itself presumes that there are regularities and an order of nature, the discovery of which is fundamental to...

Grasp: comprehend fully. "the press failed to grasp the significance of what had happened" synonyms: understand, comprehend, follow, take in, realize,...

I think that's a bit simplistic. The early Christian Platonists had no trouble showing that the Unmoved Mover of the Greeks, or the One of Plotinus, a...

That doesn't add anything to the point; you know how to proceed, because you grasp the idea. Feser makes the same point - that a concept is not a ment...

I think the major issue is not 'God' per se, but the fact that so much of the cultural heritage and philosophy of the West was associated with the the...

I see your point. What I took from it is this: that the concept 'triangularity' is determinate and exact, i.e. if I asked you to 'draw a triangle', th...

Also, from the same blog post: Also my view. Unfortunately, I've been born in the wrong century. (Although I do admit, it has its good points.)

Some brief arguments for dualism part IV

Mainly, it means that philosophy is primarily concerned with a ‘metaphysic of value’ - some factual basis for values and meaning. Science doesn’t prov...

Stevenson spent nearly 30 years on those cases, and dismissed many of them, wherever he thought there was coaxing or manipulation. He was well aware o...

Actually, Harry Hindu, the reason I ignored your comments is because of your dismissive attitude - 'the question is nonsense' - and your (I'm sorry to...

Very learned post, but it is still the case that no animal can understand the concept of 'prime number' (for instance). The difference between philoso...

Actually the problem of the distinction between doxa, belief, and episteme, knowledge, was central to the Platonic dialogues. There is a sense in whic...

Sorry - that's how I read this: Never mind, we'll pick it up later.

I read what you said about Chomsky, but I don't get how you can reconcile that with this: Because that seems to negate the meaning of what you've quot...

While I understand that the human cognitive capacity evolves from the simpler forms of communication in other animals, I think the idea that the under...

Well when I started thinking about the question of 'whether information is physical', I googled that very question, as you do nowadays, and Landauer's...

Fair enough.

Yes - but I still say that bee languages and animal communications can be understood behaviourally, in terms of stimulus and response. There are patte...

The fact that very different types of symbols can mean the same thing. The harbourmaster receives an exact account of what vessel is arriving, not sim...

What are you referring to? What is outside of the will?

The basic argument is that time and space are 'necessary intuitions' i.e. they are required in order for thinking and cognition to be possible at all....

You study psychiatry through the medical faculty, psychology through arts or health sciences. Psychiatry is part of medicine, psychology more allied w...

In philosophy, 'substance' is 'the bearer of attributes'. It is almost more like the word 'subject' as in, 'the subject X has the attribute Y'; it is ...