quote="Joshua Jones;630465"]This is why for a conversation, acceptance of my premise is so necessary - that the end of the world is here. That is not ...
How do you treat and care for your most poor and vulnerable? I ask this question, because it is natural that a government treats its wealthy and power...
I think you understand the theory Bob. Everything you said seemed to line up! Yes, I would be interested in your own explorations into epistemology. F...
Fantastic points! It is a joy for me to see someone else understand the paper so well. I'm not sure anyone ever has. Lets go over the points you made....
Yes, I am enjoying the discussion of getting to the essence of the work. I much appreciate your desire to understand what the argument is trying to sa...
Perhaps you misunderstand what "evil" is in entertainment. Evil serves the purpose of representing a challenge to overcome for growth. Evil is seen as...
If those philosophies do not have undeniably solid backing, then I would say yes. Without near solid logic, we are left with our whims. I think philos...
Certainly Bob! Experience is your sum total of existence. At first, this is undefined. It precedes definition. It is that which definitions are made f...
No, you are quite right Bob. I wrote this decades ago when I was much younger and not as clear with my words. I believe you are one of the few who has...
Ah, I see now. This is incorrect. A person's awareness of the vocabulary has nothing to do with it. Their awareness that they discretely experience, h...
I don't think so, no. Absolute power reveals your character apart from the inhibitions and threats of society. It reveals "the real you". I believe th...
Great, I believe we've iterated through this and are closer to understanding each other. I had to laugh at this one, as I've never had senses defined ...
Hi Joshua, and welcome to the forums. You might be getting some resistance from people and scratching your head a bit. What you've brought to your pos...
Likewise, thank you for your response again Bob! And no, I do not find you condescending. I would much rather the point was over explained then not en...
Thank you for the wait Bob. I wanted to make sure I answered you fully and fairly. It is fine if you believe this is too basic, but that is because I ...
Thank you for reading this Bob! This might be a long reply, and I will likely need time to go over it adequately, so sorry in advance if this takes so...
Yes, I believe that's what I was trying to put into words. I appreciate everyone's contribution. I feel like leaky abstraction should be a logical fal...
I was looking for a term, or others experience and view point of what I'm trying to put into words. If you don't get it, that's fine. Its a discussion...
I think the term I've been looking for is "leaky abstraction". Its a term in computer science. In a language, often times extremely detailed sets of f...
Yes! What I did is exactly what I'm talking about. But do we know its out there? All that a dimension is, is a variable. We don't really know what the...
Yes, this post isn't intended to be a solution, but a puzzle for us to discuss. Its a situation I've seen before that I'm not accurately able to descr...
Certainly. In philosophy I've seen people take certain identities and believe because such an identity can be claimed, it must be "real" in some way. ...
What you are describing is a very confident belief. But there are lots of things that we confidently believe that aren't true. And that's fine! It sho...
Whenever I see a broad sentence that signifies a specific group, I get rid of the specific group. "This is something I feel strongly about. People who...
Society might change, but people really don't. People are not rational. And I don't mean, "them". I mean you, me, and everyone on this board. Rational...
I'm not trying to interrupt both your discussions, but I wanted to quote this again because its an important concept to grasp. A first cause by nature...
When you say life has no meaning, implicitly what you're saying is, "Life has no meaning to something else besides myself". Likely you were raised by ...
I agree 100% with causal chains, but I'm not sure how something can have some causes, but then also not have causes. If something is uncaused with in ...
Was the use of "it" the source of confusion? Nothingness cannot be caused or uncaused, because nothingness is not a thing. If its not an effect, it ca...
Can you prove that nothing has no cause though? Nothing isn't anything. It cannot be caused, or uncaused. It is the absence of both cause and effect. ...
Humans have the ability to give identity to things. Imagine a field of grass. That's one "thing". Now imagine a blade of grass. That's another "thing"...
To add to the great contributions in this thread, I think one of philosophy's tasks is to examine assumptions we take for granted and see if they hold...
I believe what you are talking about are limits like in calculus? Or are you talking about the limits of precision? For example, .1 becomes .11, becom...
Well stated again Bob. I agreed with your points, and wanted to also specifically point to this one. Yes, even though you or I may personally agree wi...
Agreed. Not quite. Physical or non-physical, that would be a prior cause. If you posit a non-physical cause, its still a cause right? Which means the ...
Its been years since I've read logic, but that's a good approach. Lets make sure we're setting up the premises fairly. A = !?X -> Y An alpha is when t...
I have a forum post here that goes over your subject matter. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/12098/a-first-cause-is-logically-necessary I ag...
The premises of the OP are not logically necessary. It is the conclusion that is logically necessary if the premises are true. It is either the case t...
Yes, and a cause is an explanation for an effect. Bob Ross and I had a fantastic discussion on this. In the end, I think Bob Ross successfully counter...
You absolutely nailed the "reassessment". So why have I been using causality and not explanations? Because I run into another problem. What is an expl...
Not a worry. I wanted to point out to anyone else watching that you did not delete it because it was offensive or embarrassing. I saw briefly it was a...
If my premises are all correct, I am meeting the burden of logical necessity. Either everything has a prior explanation, or there are things that do n...
Metaphysical is such a broad term, I don't use it. If you mean science is a model that attempts to propose solutions that are not contradicted by real...
Ok, I see what you're asking now. Lets address your reasoning. You are incorrect here. BT does not posit that there is no explanation. It posits that ...
That's what the OP does. I examine the idea of a universe with infinite regress, and finite regress. In examining the idea of an infinite regress of c...
"First cause" does not designate a beginning, it designates the first state of causality chain. If it is the case that everything has always existed, ...
Comments