Philosophim

Thank you for your patience Bob. I'm back from vacation! Goodness is simply material existence and its expressions. It has nothing to do with culture,...

Absolutely yes. We torture our and kill our food every day for our own survival. Yet I still eat to live. I torture bugs beneath my feet that I accide...

Something to consider is that logic and metaphysics require a linguistic or numerical representation. These things can be defined incorrectly but be '...

Good points Bob, this is what I need to hone the idea down. Certainly. The initial idea of good is what should be. So we go down the line. Should huma...

No. I am saying there is something instead of nothing. I say that existence is what is good. If existence is what is good, then the more existence the...

Please relate this to the OP. Its not a 'quaint notion', its a step by step process. Please demonstrate why it is incorrect.

No. I think this is getting too far away from the topic as well. Please relate it to what is posted. This is not an abstract discussion, this is a dis...

Then what if two separate cultures or civilizations want different things? Are we saying the victor is in the right? No, this is still not a very good...

This again is nothing more than self-interest. This is not an argument for why humanity ought to even exist apart from its own desire from the reasoni...

First, I agree that from the foundation I've developed here, we can come to know and justify that life is highly moral, while intelligent life is some...

Great question. The question or morality starts from, "should" there be something at all, and arrives at the conclusion that it is the wrong question ...

I don't believe there should be a limit at all. The concern for me is the floor for everyone else. Can the society at large afford state of the art te...

And after seeing my conclusions, do you think it is objective or subjective?

Did you read the entire post? Please comment in terms of what I've expressed in the post and we can discuss. This is not a post about the issue in abs...

Hello Bob! I'm glad the idea is an interesting exploration for you. This has been difficult to write without it exploding into something less manageab...

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Well Bob, I've been holding onto a moral theory I've had for a while, I guess its time to get cracking on it! Give me a week and I should have somethi...

Lets change this real quick: Known statements can only exist as cognitive content. Truth is what exists whether we know it or not. Lets say you didn't...

Agreed, science pursues knowledge. Knowledge is our most logical way of being concurrent with truth, but cannot assert that it is truth itself.

You may be interested in reading this then: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/12098/a-first-cause-is-logically-necessary/p1 Also a follow up h...

Fantastic post. I have had countless discussions and debates with people over the years and can throw my two cents into the ring. 1. People are not in...

Well, this hit home a bit. The answer is, "No." I'm academically trained in philosophy, and have come up with a few original works. I've spoken with p...

By two posts, did you mean the two posts of the actual argument, or the first post on how to approach the argument and the first post of the argument?...

A very important question. The answer is that we have at some point in our lives, attempted to apply our model of reality to reality, and failed. At i...

That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about using specific, clear, and unambiguous words in your discussions so that the debate can remain ab...

Hello Wayfarer! We have disagreed in the past on many of your posts, but this is well written and sensible. I am almost entirely in agreement with the...

I appreciate the question, but I do not want to distract from Bob's thread. Bob understands the reference I am pointing to, as we have discussed many ...

The problem is for me that the word "metaphysics" is a non-descriptive and generic filler in most conversations. "A different metaphysics" just shows ...

Not a worry. We can only communicate within the model, so you must use a model. This is a fine way to use the model to describe the unknowable existen...

Hello Bob. I've noted before I generally do not use philosophical terms such as 'metaphysics' in discussions, because as you can see from the many rep...

Right, my point was that regular truth isn't relative either. That's knowledge or beliefs. Truth is what reality is, whether we believe it or not.

This had a lot going on here, but it seems at the end of the day you think that one needs to believe in a God for absolute truth. Perhaps people who d...

@Caerulea-Lawrence My apologies again that I missed this! For whatever reason, I seem to miss your replies. If you're still around, I'll do my best to...

Thanks Bob, I think I fully understand all of your points by now, and you mine. I think its just a different outlook on the word usage, but in general...

As long as this isn't an attempt to disregard the underlying physics, its fine. The problem generally isn't that people want to talk about mind apart ...

Thank you for waiting Bob, the weeks have recently been filled so I have not been able to respond quickly to you. Excellent, I think we've tied the is...

Hello Bob, I've had a busy weekend, but I'm back to answer! I think our conversation has narrowed now to language. Again, you're using the fact that w...

Yes, and I disagreed with your interpretation, and noted looking to the Gettier argument's idea of truth gives the normative view of truth. My point h...

A quick google search. Journalist and UFO researcher Jaime Maussan is the one who's claimed that a third of the DNA is "unknown". Lets see the history...

What is real is "What is". How do we know what is real? That is the question epistemology has been trying to answer for centuries.

I don't think you made a strong enough case for me to agree with these. I can definitely see some agreeing with you, but not the majority. But this is...

I think we are missing the forest through the trees here and I'm going to back out a bit to focus on the key points that I think are relevant to the d...

The property of being in accord with fact or reality is another way of saying truth is reality. For example, if I stated, "That apple is red, is that ...

This leaves a bit of a mystery as to what the real is then. I think I see what you're doing, which is taking vocabulary and turning it around to solve...

I agree. The one reason I am not quite sold on your semantics is what is "real" cannot be considered true at that point. Right. Basically instead of "...

My intention is not to go back into my view of epistemology, but just provide a point that whether I succeeded or failed, I did attempt to justify thi...

Hello again Bob! I have wanted to dive into your posts but I have not had the time to give them the thought they deserve. I am impressed by this parti...

Well of course. Concluding something in one area does not mean you will conclude something in another area. Being an atheist doesn't make you any more...

No one cares about the Tarski Undefinability Theorem for practical purposes. If you're going to go that in depth, then you're going to have to be in d...

Sure, but in philosophy, you need a reason. If you can't say why its unreasonably implausible, then you haven't solved anything. If you're just concer...