Janus

The relation just is the amount of actual space between them. That is, if you allow that space exists mind-independently, which I find it most plausib...

And it is now a field very different from "traditional" metaphysics.

To me this makes no sense. The relation "north of" exists in space and time between objects. If you move the objects the relation may change. When you...

At first I thought you were suggesting that we might have a noetic intuition as to what's real and then define 'real' according to that intuition. the...

Yes, no matter without form and no form without matter?that makes good sense to me.

:ok:

:up: Too subtle for me, it seems. Can you explain why Davidson is being inconsistent in dismissing the view that Clark Kent cannot fly?

I am out of time, but I just want to address this; the frequencies are in the science of optics referred to as being of different colours?the colours ...

I certainly don't?there can be no reasonable justification for them?they are despicable, as are genital mutilation and foot-binding.

If Superman and Clark Kent are the same entity, and Superman can fly, then so can Clark Kent. Do you think that Superman needs his suit in order to be...

Ok, you're right that "honour lkillings" are an exception. I guess if people are understood to have seriously transgressed in a context of very strict...

I can understand why Berkeley would have thought getting rid of matter would "remove and important cause of atheism" (although the belief in a mind-in...

That is uncontroversial?of course appearances are mind-dependent, or body-dependent?however you want to frame it. It simply doesn't follow that what a...

Radical changes like that are bound to cost a lot in the short term. Which is not to say I think the DOGE was a good idea.

If we cannot coherently conceive of something being real without it existing somewhere at some time or everywhere at all times then that tells against...

:up:

Sounds dangerous?flipping tractors is not a good idea, but much easier to do than many people realize! Where the lantana is up here it is so vigorous ...

There are a lot of old hippies up here to be sure. I have never really identified as a hippy, although I do have some sympathy for their values. I jus...

I've also struck theists who think that way. But it's not really defesnible since 'emprical' refers to the shared world of phenomena. Yes, esoteric ma...

There is plenty of herb available up here. I don't grow it myself. So much rain up here for the last few years?makes it difficult to get anything done...

That's excellent! I live on fifteen acres and recently had a dam put in, but there are so many other land maintenance issues that I am yet to get to s...

We can agree, and do, agree on what's real in most contexts of ordinary usage. When it comes to metaphysics it's a different matter. So, what do the t...

Yes, thanks. Looks interesting...I will read it later...now I have some work to do outside.

You mean the "problem" that we don't all think the same, that we can have different viewpoints? You would have us all return to living "under the aegi...

I was thinking in terms of identification of things as kinds of thing, not identification of things as particular things. For the purposes of the latt...

Whitehead pointed out that any object is "subject" to effects from its environment. So cliffs are weathered, are subject to sunlight, wind and water e...

I see no problem with the idea of essential qualities or attributes. But should we think of them as logically necessary or merely as criteria for the ...

I made the same point myself earlier in the thread but it received no response?which is probably understandable. Kant may have "gone too far" as you s...

That's right, it is just one thread within the whole tapestry. The attempt to characterize nominalism as 'where we went wrong' is a tendentious, "just...

If you are trying to describe macro-level functions in micro-level terms, then the macro-level description is also indispensable. Otherwise what would...

You are probably right that I can become a little verbally aggressive when it becomes obvious to me that the person I am supposed to be discussing wit...

:up:

It all depends on your perspective. For the physicalist the claim "mind is brain" is physical, as reasoning is a physical process. Concepts themselves...

Yes, the redundancy of ipseity. :wink:

So, according to you it is out of bounds for anyone to join in by expressing their opinion unless it is accordance with yours? You won't dare to engag...

Gobbledygook. I'm not sure what your are asking here Manuel. I think all worldviews must entail mental mediation insofar as they are worldviews. And I...

It's more that the way we access what we access is mentally mediated, and that is really a truism, even tautologous, If we say that perception is a me...

With no input from the structure of the world or a collective originating mind? That just doesn't compute. Not sufficient to explain the commonality o...

Berkeleyan idealism consists in claiming not that the objects of the senses find their genesis in the individual human mind but in the mind of God, so...

Not sure which direct quotation you are referring to. If you mean his saying that the equation should describe the world in a deterministic way, I wou...

This doesn't seem to be true: Penrose’s attack is directed at determinism and materialism, still dominating the scientific environment and, in particu...

I think this is a bit misleading. Here Penrose says that what he means is that QT is incomplete, and when he says 'wrong' he admits he is being "blata...

Why would that necessarily be so? For all we know there is nothing more fundamental than quarks. There does seem to be a limit to the possibility of m...

I'm not sure how you are relating what you say here to the point I made. The idea of fundamental constituents of material objects has been around sinc...

Why would it be thought that material substance "stands apart from the objects it comprises" if it is what constitutes them? This looks like a strawma...

The point was just that there is no strict measure of what evidence should be convincing for everyone, other than direct observation ( and even there ...

I accept the Big Bang provisionally as the most plausible current theory. I can see absolutely no reaosn to doubt that WW2 happened. I accept plate te...

From my perspective it's an extraordinary event simply because I have never experienced such a thing, and none of the many hundreds of people I have k...

Sure we do rely on such inexpert testimony in many contexts, but the testimony relied on in those contexts is about commonly experienced events, not c...

That passage reads like nonsense?can't find anything there to respond to. Sorry I previously missed this response of yours. I'm not getting what you a...