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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...
December 30, 2024 at 15:50
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 "...
December 30, 2024 at 13:43
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 ...
December 30, 2024 at 09:44
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, ...
December 30, 2024 at 09:36
Not many people in history have said that Einstein was not a rational person. From Einstein’s Mystical Views & Quotations on Free Will or Determinism
December 28, 2024 at 15:14
True. For both Free Will and Determinism, there is a reason why at 1pm I choose not to fire my gun. ==================================================...
December 28, 2024 at 15:04
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 ...
December 28, 2024 at 14:05
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...
December 28, 2024 at 09:34
Pablo Picasso. Not beautiful, but an aesthetic art, even though ugly. /uploads/resized/files/9q/jc6a3mk3eh5gasfa.png
December 27, 2024 at 17:39
Thomas Moran. Sublime rather than beautiful. /uploads/resized/files/53/gggtnzh40mznrakd.png
December 27, 2024 at 16:41
Another word is "sublime" From Edmund Burke: Delineating the Sublime and the Beautiful
December 27, 2024 at 16:29
The particular meaning of a word having several possible meanings depends on its particular context. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, one ...
December 27, 2024 at 14:06
A brave statement to call everyone from Heraclitus to Aristotle to Hume to Dennett not rational people. Wikipedia - Determinism ======================...
December 27, 2024 at 09:12
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...
December 26, 2024 at 16:42
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...
December 26, 2024 at 13:22
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 ...
December 26, 2024 at 11:43
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...
December 26, 2024 at 09:43
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 ...
December 26, 2024 at 08:33
I still cannot understand how a person can feel a pain and not feel a pain in their finger at the same time. =========================================...
December 25, 2024 at 17:05
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...
December 25, 2024 at 14:56
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 -...
December 25, 2024 at 10:22
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...
December 25, 2024 at 10:05
Determinism seems to encompass more than Inevitabilism, and includes the concept of inevitability. From Wikipedia Determinism Wiktionary - Inevitabili...
December 24, 2024 at 14:25
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...
December 24, 2024 at 14:09
My understanding of Determinism is that your writing your post was inevitable, not probable. From Wikipedia Determinism From SEP - Causal Determinism
December 24, 2024 at 13:56
In my location, 1pm is simultaneous with my picking up a cup of coffee. ==============================================================================...
December 24, 2024 at 13:33
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...
December 24, 2024 at 12:50
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...
December 24, 2024 at 11:45
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...
December 24, 2024 at 09:36
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...
December 23, 2024 at 15:43
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...
December 22, 2024 at 15:07
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...
December 22, 2024 at 14:15
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...
December 22, 2024 at 12:55
There are many different type of logic, suggesting that no one logic exists necessarily. For example, there is Propositional Logic, First Order Logic,...
December 20, 2024 at 15:38
I think it is more likely that Free Will is an illusion than an actual thing. ========================================================================...
December 20, 2024 at 14:12
Some argue that Free Will is an illusion.
December 19, 2024 at 17:47
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...
December 19, 2024 at 17:44
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 ...
December 19, 2024 at 15:35
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...
December 19, 2024 at 09:52
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 ...
December 18, 2024 at 15:22
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...
December 18, 2024 at 11:26
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...
December 18, 2024 at 09:42
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...
December 17, 2024 at 13:58
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 ...
December 15, 2024 at 13:58
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 ...
December 15, 2024 at 12:48
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...
December 15, 2024 at 09:30
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...
December 14, 2024 at 17:51
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...
December 14, 2024 at 17:05
Thoughts exist, otherwise you couldn't have written your post. Thoughts exist in the physical brain which exists in the physical Universe. Thoughts mu...
December 14, 2024 at 15:26
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...
December 14, 2024 at 09:49