Taking wine as an example, the more residual sugar there is in a wine the sweeter it will be. For example, a dry wine could have 1 gms/litre of residu...
I have no access to what Peirce wrote about hypostatic abstraction, so I cannot comment about what he said. Can "honey is sweet" be transformed into "...
Axioms are assumptions taken to be true. As there is no logical necessity that assumptions don't contradict each other, there is no logical necessity ...
I agree. I think that the distinguishing feature of art is that it has an aesthetic. Such an aesthetic can either be beautiful, when non-threatening, ...
True. For both Free Will and Determinism, there is a reason why at 1pm I choose not to fire my gun. ==================================================...
I disagree. If Determinism is the case, a person has no choice in what they choose. In language, the word "choose" is used in certain ways. Inanimate ...
As the SEP article on Causal Determination writes If someone happens to be in the middle of a city road and sees a truck directly approaching, they wo...
The particular meaning of a word having several possible meanings depends on its particular context. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, one ...
A brave statement to call everyone from Heraclitus to Aristotle to Hume to Dennett not rational people. Wikipedia - Determinism ======================...
You make a strong argument. I agree, as you argue, that if there are two contradictory ideas "should I go" or "should I stay", in order to be able cho...
Hopefully, not whilst driving. Perhaps the law on the use of mobile phones whilst driving shows that even the Government accepts the difficulty in car...
The singing could have been employing a "muscle memory" rather than active thought, allowing you to carry out another task that did require an active ...
Both indecision and deliberation require consecutive ideas. Perhaps I will stay, no, perhaps I will go. I agree that free will requires the ability to...
Interesting experiment. I tried writing "four" whilst speaking "four". The problem was that it took me four times as long to write "four" as to speak ...
I still cannot understand how a person can feel a pain and not feel a pain in their finger at the same time. =========================================...
I can have the thought of coldness, and can then have the thought of hotness, but the question is, is it possible to have a single thought of both col...
A logic system is built on axioms. From The Foundations of Logical Reasoning: Axioms of Logic Axioms are assumptions taken to be true From Wikipedia -...
If it were possible to have two contradictory thoughts at the same time, then I could feel pain in my finger and not feel pain in my finger at the sam...
Determinism seems to encompass more than Inevitabilism, and includes the concept of inevitability. From Wikipedia Determinism Wiktionary - Inevitabili...
OK. If Determinism is the case, and all our thoughts and actions are already determined, then your thought that you are free to choose is just another...
In my location, 1pm is simultaneous with my picking up a cup of coffee. ==============================================================================...
There can be thoughts not resulting in acts. For example, I may think that Monet's "Water-lilies" is aesthetic or I may think that it is not aesthetic...
If Determinism is true, then all our thoughts and actions are determined by causes external to our will. Our future is already written, and all our th...
An argument against Free Will At 1pm exactly I have the idea to pick up a cup of coffee. Assuming free will, at T seconds prior to 1pm, it hasn't been...
No. Suppose a person has the idea to reach out for a cup of coffee. On the one hand, assuming free will, a person can have the idea to reach out for a...
I don't believe in particular that thoughts can cause themselves, and I don't believe in general in spontaneous self-causation. One reason for my disb...
At exactly 1pm I decide to press the letter "T" on my keyboard. If free will is the case, at exactly 1pm, I could equally decide whether to press or n...
Free Will A person hears an argument. If that person has free will, then they are free to accept or reject the argument. If that person has no free wi...
There are many different type of logic, suggesting that no one logic exists necessarily. For example, there is Propositional Logic, First Order Logic,...
I think it is more likely that Free Will is an illusion than an actual thing. ========================================================================...
The material and the immaterial I can understand a God as being a prior cause to physical events, providing one accepts the possibility of a God. I ag...
There is a lot in your post, but taking your points one by one. I observe a hundred times that when there are regions of excess positive and negative ...
There is a particular lightning strike, and being a particualr instance is a token. Several lightning strikes would create a class of events, The Ligh...
You are right. How can I say on the one hand that "numbers exist in the mind but not the world" but on the other hand say that "science tells me that ...
The OP is about the ontological status of ideas. It goes on to ask "So, chairs exists and numbers subsist? Is that a common understanding?" I agree wh...
Is a logical necessity a sufficient reason or a Brute Fact. I agree that: 1) The Unrestricted PSR states that everything has a sufficient reason 2) "L...
An example of logic would be the Modus Ponens. i) IF P THEN Q ii) P iii) THEN Q Let P and Q be physical facts, such that P = it rains and Q = I get we...
They exist in literature and in the mind as thoughts. If either the unicorn or flying pig didn't exist somewhere, then you couldn't have written your ...
P1 - Numbers and colours exist somewhere otherwise we couldn't be discussing them. P2 - We know that numbers and colours exist in the mind because we ...
Is logical necessity a brute fact? For example, is the logical necessity that "A triangle has three sides" a brute fact? A Brute Fact has no explanati...
Ideas are in the head, but ideas can change the world. If ideas in the brain exist as part of the physical structure of the brain, then this would exp...
If thoughts didn't exist, then how can a thought affect the physical world, such that the thought of pressing the "t" key on the keyboard turns into a...
Thoughts exist, otherwise you couldn't have written your post. Thoughts exist in the physical brain which exists in the physical Universe. Thoughts mu...
There are no definitive versions of the PSR. The PSR is a family of principles. The PSR may be factive, true in actual or possible worlds, or regulati...
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