Wayfarer

If you said something relevant to the passage above - the actual argument - then I might respond.

Notice that ‘not a thing’ and ‘no thing’ is not the same as ‘nothing’. Thinking of God as an existent flattens out the ontological question. Read some...

Being 'beyond conception' is not 'a concept of nothing'. You proclaim that you speak for Christians, when you yourself say that you're not one, and th...

How, pray tell, did we get from a brief comment about Bohr and Heisenberg, first to 'the ineffable', and then 'religious fundamentalism'? It reinforce...

See the post above as to why God does not exist. I am 'engaging with something', namely, what I think is an erroneous conception of God. Consideration...

You're not.

Another thing. Earlier in this thread, I linked to the Smithsonian Mag article on this topic, 'What is Math?' There was a statement made in that essay...

I've sometimes observed that the last aphorism in Wittgenstein's Tractatus ('that of which we cannot speak') is often used as a firewall against metap...

they only exist as particles under specific conditions of measurement. Otherwise, their existence is uncertain or indeterminate.

All due respect, that is a red herring. It is not necessary to understand set theory to understand such basic facts as 2+2=4, they are logically neces...

+1. Succinct yet comprehensive.

Found that quote:

https://youtu.be/NGGvjZBrlxs?si=oJG7MihkwyCEHGRS Adam Frank is one of the three authors of The Blind Spot of Science (the others being Evan Thompson a...

That is precisely what 'creation ex nihilo' means. On the contrary, according to Christian doctrine, only God can create something from nothing. I don...

I bet, looks right up my street, thanks for it. I sometimes wonder if he's being dragged kicking and screaming...... Fine! I have realised the link be...

A very shallow analysis, Banno, although easy to stereotype, which is what you're doing. There's an excellent book mentioned by me and others from tim...

Perhaps not - but it's a metaphysical question, and insofar as metaphysics is usually associated with religion, rightly or not, it ends up being tarre...

However it presents an obvious ontological question. As SEP puts it, and as I'm sure I've previously quoted:

Well, Nagel says he is. But he's philosophically open to a somewhat religious perspective, the idea expressed in Mind and Cosmos of rational sentient ...

Well, Frege is a modern representative of it, but it really does go back to the ancients: That is a common thread throughout practically all pre-moder...

Not at all. History of ideas is very much my interest - more so that what is taught as philosophy nowadays - and I see the issue in terms of the cultu...

From that comment, I think you have an incorrect picture of what Kastrup means by 'dissociated alter'. From a glossary entry on Bernardo Kastrup's ter...

On a more serious note, there's an excellent current text available online which provides a succint and accurate account of the Platonic forms - Eric ...

Oh, so you don't know what it is, but you do know it's a fantasy.

What do you think that might comprise? An ethereal palace, replete with ideal dogs and cats?

Compare: Plainly Augustine has theological commitments that Frege lacks, but nevertheless the Platonist elements they have in common are significant. ...

By 'theological voluntarism', associated with Protestant conceptions of Divinity, and very different from the philosophical rationalism of scholastic ...

I don't know if it does. It says that everything that exists has a reason for its existence. But everything that exists is the domain of phenomena, 'w...

What about the mathematical and analytical tools that are used to determine what in the world exists, especially on the scales of the atomic or cosmol...

I've been reading Hans Jonas: The Phenomenon of Life (1966) which is a highly-regarded work in phenomenology and existentialism. He points out that fo...

It’s a perfectly meaningless expression. But Happy Christmas, regardless. :party:

How is anything? :chin: Anyway it’s Christmas Day, I’ll reply later (and Happy Christmas :party: )

Every sentient creature is surrounded by objects but only rational sentient beings know arithmetic. Anyway if you read the quote in context it makes a...

I’m not criticizing individuals but ideas. In this case, empiricist philosophy which can’t admit the reality of number because of it being ‘outside ti...

I’m not totally on board with Kastrup but I don’t know if it is implausible. Human infants possess an un-formed intelligence which will normally come ...

Of course :ok:

I never have used that expression nor would I put it like that //although on reflection I suppose it is fair//. What I do say is that material objects...

Hey that’s pretty good. One for the scrapbook. Although shedding the illusion is often rather more traumatic than a snake shedding its skin.

Rather like objects as ‘permanent possibilities of sensation’ but here the objects are noumenal.

And no less.

Subject of a book by Sabine Hossenfelder, Lost in Math. (Although from my perspective, embracing reality 'as it is' will entail abandoning the axiom t...

I've discovered a Notre Dame Review about a book which I'll probably never get around to, but which finds some common ground between Platonism and Hus...

They're good questions, but also very big questions. There is a description you might sometimes encounter, 'scientia sacra', meaning the sacred scienc...

Here is a passage about Augustine which details the Platonist insights that inspired his religious conversion.

True. Although there is considerable debate about what 'Plato's world of forms' actually is or means. In any case, the reason I mentioned it, is becau...

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That's why I suggested that essay about Frege. I'm no expert in Frege - in fact that essay is about the sum total of my knowledge - but it explores th...

If you mean, I believe that there is a truth to logical laws that is not dependent on one or another philosophical doctrine, then yes, I do believe th...