Janus

You seem to be equivocating on different senses of what it means to say that events could potentially be stated. It could be said that, at a time when...

The nature of meditative states cannot be definitively understood intellectually, They are affective, and exemplary of "that whereof we cannot speak"....

So called non-material explanations (explanations in terms of reasons) are only appropriate in regard to human, and some animal behavior. They only "l...

The so-called "Hard Problem" just consists in the perceived difficulty, or impossibility, of explaining the mind in physicalist language. For me it si...

It seems most plausible that there is 'something', not dependent upon us at all, that appears to us as a world of entities and events. It also seems m...

I don't know what this even means. I would say that there is a sense in which all questioning is, if not dictated, at least mediated in forms of subje...

Yeah, I am well familiar with that syndrome!

Before deciding that I would recommend you listen to the podcast I linked, where those statements are given in context. Even if you still disagree wit...

You might find this interesting Wayfarer. I read this several years ago and was reminded of Gabriel by the comment by jgill I responded to above. I fo...

Did you listen to the actual interview or form this judgement based on the out of context quote from Wikipedia? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/...

Reads like loquacious Cartesianism!

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I think you can rightly be held to be racist on the basis of either commission or omission; the latter consisting in failing to recognize the plight o...

Right, you're a racist then; so not worth engaging with; please fuck off now.

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The Freudian slip is telling! Or perhaps it isn't a slip at all, which would be even more telling!

Send me something that cites baseless Democrat claims of voting fraud, not a video featuring a comedian. And in any case even if the democrats had mad...

If that is indeed true it would probably be so because they are an economically and socially oppressed and disadvantaged minority. And to further comp...

So, your general philosophical position is that people should act blindly and hope that their actions will turn out to be justified by evidence? And m...

What do you think the percentage of whites to blacks is?

Poor attention span I guess. It seems to go with the territory.

The truth may be hard, or even impossible to establish; if it's merely hard then evidence can be found and presented, if impossible then no evidence c...

They didn't do the right thing because they had no evidence that there had been voter fraud. Acting on blind belief is not doing the right thing. Even...

Extant meanings always carry with them the possibility of novel associations. They are never absolutely fixed. Recently I was reading a passage in Gre...

I agree that there is affectivity and empathy prior to language. We can see it in social animals. Language is a tool for representing meanings and ass...

Yes a nothing cannot be anything more than a conceptual fiction, otherwise it would not be a nothing, but a something.

I don't see that the categories; the families, genera and species and so on have been abandoned, but rather their interconnections have been better un...

Science would be impossible without conceiving of particular individual entities and specific categories; in other words without thinking sameness and...

It doesn't seem strange to me, but in accordance with how we understand past and future.

Different ways of talking about the nature of things are different conceptions of reality, though. If we want to think about ontology what else can we...

Of course I am not denying that the world is subtly different for each percipient, whether animal or human, but it is the one shared world which appea...

It's just the same as with anything else; the world, this particular environment, ocean, mountain and so on. There is only one world, one particular e...

It is the same language inasmuch as it has the same total lexicon.

That is untrue: the language is the same, the difference lies in each individual use of the one language. No two individuals use their language in exa...

Sure you can change the nuanced meanings of words, create novel nuances, associations and so on. But all of those nuances are themselves intelligible,...

Yes, but Tolkien and the reader only know what the words in that invented language mean or refer to by means of translating them into some public lang...

Seems interesting, thanks, I'll look at it. As I've said above, I consider that there are real possibilities or potentials; I don't see how it could b...

Of course there could be no nothing in this world, because this world is everywhere something. Even if there could somehow be a totally empty space it...

It is interesting that the web of actuality entails possibility, but then if there is to be any change, how could it be otherwise? I'm wary of referri...

You are conflating use and mention. From a post I made in your other thread: "Nothing is nothing, absolutely nothing. <Nothing> is the concept of noth...

Nothing is nothing, absolutely nothing. <Nothing> is the concept of nothing. It is a real concept, not imaginary. The idea of nothing, as idea, is ind...

Problem is if there were nothing there'd be no probability, and once there is probability there is already something.

I still cant see any reason to think it would be any more or less an instance of control than making a choice.

What makes you think we have any more (or less) control over delaying picking up the chosen can than we do over choosing which can? That's the bit of ...

I remember that he says in the book that he is not proposing anything beyond complex physical systems; systems, however, which cannot be explained jus...

Note "natural order", not supernatural order, and you purport to be an opponent of naturalism. For Kauffman the natural order is "self-organization, s...

You're forgetting the other half of the picture. If the proposition is also unverifiable, then why should we believe it is true? As the article pointe...

Kauffman's thesis is that life and mind are purely physical processes that emerge once the system becomes complex enough. He explicitly rules out any ...

Yes, that sounds about right.

Yes, there is. Read Stuart Kauffman's At Home in the Universe. https://www.amazon.com/At-Home-Universe-Self-Organization-Complexity/dp/0195111303/ref=...