Space-time is being conflated with existence Itemising the argument in the first part of the OP : i) there cannot be non-existence - therefore existen...
Wittgenstein and what cannot be said Wittgenstein wrote in TLP 6.421 "It is clear that ethics cannot be put into words. Ethics is transcendental". Rus...
Wittgenstein's TLP 1 "The world is all that is the case" needs to be translated before it can be interpreted As I see it, normally when reading a sent...
TLP 1. The world is everything that is the case It certainly is the case with Wittgenstein. As the SEP article on Wittgenstein wrote: "The Tractatus i...
1. The world is everything that is the case As 1. "The world is everything that is the case" begins the Tracataus, it is probably especially important...
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world" The meaning of "my world" I would suggest that as Wittgenstein is using the term "my world" in...
(1) is invalid. With good reason, the pollees believe that a Republican will win the election, not that a Republican might win the election, meaning t...
Understanding "what a word means, and how a word means" As regards "what a word means, and how a word means", a word such as "ndege", for example, is ...
Logic is empirical A field of study must study something. Ornithology studies birds, aesthetics studies aesthetics, psychology studies the mind, physi...
I agree that metaphor is a critical part of understanding. I can imagine the metaphor of the path of a particular rock in an avalanche. I see neither ...
I would argue that logic is empirical, as logic cannot exist in an empty domain. Reason one - the human mind is incapable of thinking about logic in a...
There seem to be many measurable physical effects that seem to point to the existence of virtual particles, but "virtual particles" are not the only p...
Logic as a study of valid rules of inference Logic is the systematic study of valid rules of inference, in that there are particular relations that le...
Independent of any observer, the physical world is logical. For example, i) rocks exist - ii) a particular rock is a rock - iii) therefore, a particul...
Wittgenstein 1) In Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, he proposed that in order for a picture to represent a certain fact it must, in some way, possess t...
In saying that the physical brain and nonphysical mind are two aspects of the same "thing", what is my understanding of this "thing" ? Mysterianism As...
Both hypotheses, i) that a physical mind is different in kind to a nonphysical mind and ii) that a physical mind and a nonphysical mind are two aspect...
You are assuming that the physical and nonphysical are of different kinds, leading to a paradox. However, if one assumed that the physical and nonphys...
I agree that if one starts with the premise that the physical is different in kind to the nonphysical, then one will conclude that the physical is dif...
Whereas an atheist may say "meaning comes from playing the game using the human spirit of imagination and understanding", a theist may say "meaning co...
(Attempting to combine the insights of the 5th C Greek Tigranes son of Artabanus, a 6th C Indian board game, the 18th C German philosopher Kant and th...
But the meaninglessness of the game may be the very meaning that you are searching for. A Dadaesque rejection of reason and logic for irrationality an...
Meaning is use. Even if life was intrinsically meaningless, extrinsic meaning can come from how life is used. Chess pieces on a chess board are intrin...
First, comparing 1 and 3 (where evolution is continually being directed by a high intelligence) to 2 and 4 ( where things evolve without being directe...
Even if the theist/atheist assumed both i) a god that is all-knowing and ii) a complete understanding of an all-knowing god would lie outside human ra...
Starting with an analogy. If I am on a golf course and hit a golf ball, the probability of final result depends on prior intention. If I want a hole-i...
I believe that snow is white - my argument is that I observe snow is white I disbelieve that snow is black - my argument is that I observe snow is whi...
A logical belief needs evidence. There is no evidence for the existence of unicorns. Therefore, it follows that a belief that unicorns exist is not lo...
The immediate answer to the question "does complexity infer a high intelligence" is no, as complexity can derive from a mathematical equation as simpl...
Fractal patterns in both space and time are infinitely complex, yet don't need an intelligent originator. Natural phenomena include algae, coastlines,...
Though as Harry S. Truman said at his Commencement Address at Howard University 1952 : "It is no service to the country to turn away from the hard pro...
Perhaps it is a case of self-censorship, where forum members feel that they might get into trouble if they expressed their honest opinions on this thr...
The SNP's mistaken dependence on North Sea oil and gas prior to the 2014 independence referendum should be both a lesson and an important moral about ...
What Rees-Mogg actually said was: "It is the SNP that has been the failure and it is not devolution that has been the failure." At Commons Business Qu...
I can understand some Scots wanting independence, even at a financial cost of about £15 billion a year. For example, this compares to the £14 billion ...
As Tim3003 pointed out, referendums are won by % votes, not seats. In a democratic society, the will of the people is generally taken to mean a decisi...
I beg to differ. As noted in The Telegraph of 10 May in an article about the UK's 50 best fish and chip shops, there are now 10,500 fish and chip shop...
The Scottish are not separate to Westminster. The Scottish are part of the Westminster Parliament, together with Northern Ireland, Wales and England. ...
It is interesting that we only observe in the world a set of intermittent particular events, yet are able to conceptualise in our minds something that...
The question is, if our knowledge of space is innate a priori pure intuition, how is it possible for us to alter our conception of the nature of space...
I would say that both Luke and metaphysician agree that rules are necessary when using both language and games. Whereas metaphysician is pointing out ...
I agree that there are two aspects to imagining either an eleven-dimensional space or there being no space, dependent on whether mathematics was a dis...
As I believe in reductive physicalism, in that I believe that the mind and body are ontologically indiscernible, for me, the mind cannot be prior to s...
The impossibility of imagining something that cannot be imagined Kant's proposal of a priori pure intuitions is at the core of my philosophical belief...
We are faced with the insolvable problem of how the mind can know things that exist independently of the existence of the mind. Paraphrasing Kant as r...
Taking the (solar system) as a thing, do things have an ontological existence ? There are two parts to this question, Whether it has an ontological ex...
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