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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...
September 05, 2021 at 15:27
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...
August 14, 2021 at 11:51
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...
August 11, 2021 at 11:23
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...
August 10, 2021 at 10:54
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...
August 09, 2021 at 16:20
"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...
August 07, 2021 at 10:15
(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...
July 24, 2021 at 16:45
Trying to work out how to upload an image. When dragging from computer, get message "You do not have permission to upload files"
July 11, 2021 at 15:09
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 ...
July 11, 2021 at 14:57
Logic is empirical A field of study must study something. Ornithology studies birds, aesthetics studies aesthetics, psychology studies the mind, physi...
July 09, 2021 at 15:04
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 ...
July 08, 2021 at 15:14
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...
July 07, 2021 at 15:39
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...
July 07, 2021 at 15:33
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...
July 05, 2021 at 16:42
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...
July 03, 2021 at 14:45
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...
July 02, 2021 at 11:38
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...
July 01, 2021 at 12:05
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...
June 30, 2021 at 14:10
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...
June 30, 2021 at 14:08
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...
June 30, 2021 at 10:33
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...
June 27, 2021 at 10:25
(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...
June 25, 2021 at 16:34
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...
June 25, 2021 at 11:54
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...
June 25, 2021 at 10:04
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...
June 24, 2021 at 10:27
It certainly is.
June 23, 2021 at 16:57
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...
June 23, 2021 at 16:26
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...
June 23, 2021 at 10:19
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...
June 23, 2021 at 09:02
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...
June 22, 2021 at 11:23
The immediate answer to the question "does complexity infer a high intelligence" is no, as complexity can derive from a mathematical equation as simpl...
June 21, 2021 at 10:19
Fractal patterns in both space and time are infinitely complex, yet don't need an intelligent originator. Natural phenomena include algae, coastlines,...
June 20, 2021 at 10:38
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...
June 18, 2021 at 14:09
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...
June 18, 2021 at 11:49
I'm surprised that no-one has been interested enough in this thread to add a comment in more than 11 weeks.
June 18, 2021 at 08:34
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 ...
May 18, 2021 at 13:37
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...
May 16, 2021 at 11:50
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 ...
May 15, 2021 at 12:25
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...
May 14, 2021 at 10:18
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...
May 12, 2021 at 10:11
The Scottish are not separate to Westminster. The Scottish are part of the Westminster Parliament, together with Northern Ireland, Wales and England. ...
May 11, 2021 at 10:40
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...
April 28, 2021 at 11:30
Success at last. Time to celebrate and open a good bottle of McGuigan Shiraz.
April 28, 2021 at 11:28
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...
April 27, 2021 at 20:42
I would say that both Luke and metaphysician agree that rules are necessary when using both language and games. Whereas metaphysician is pointing out ...
April 27, 2021 at 20:29
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...
April 26, 2021 at 16:42
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...
April 26, 2021 at 16:36
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...
April 25, 2021 at 14:52
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...
April 24, 2021 at 15:20
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...
April 23, 2021 at 16:22