Janus

Ingenuous disagreements are fine! :smile: So, it seems that in regard to other universes and how we can conceive of their temporal relationships to ou...

Yes, I agree with you that it's good to try to understand as much as possible, while always being mindful of the paradoxes and limitations of reason a...

Do you think it is plausible that we could come to know the answers to these seemingly intractably antinomial questions?

No, I didn't have that question in mind at all. What a stupid thing to say, considering that I have shown that I understand the use/ mention distincti...

It is an argument against the idea that being born can coherently be considered to be the cause of any particular instances of suffering, so it is an ...

Under the contemporary conception a universe is a space/time continuum. If there are other universes then there are other space/time continuums. The p...

Now, that is funny! What an imagination! :lol:

Yes, I do agree with you that the tablet would have meaning in those senses, just as natural marks have meanings. And the tablet in question would als...

I have an inkling but I'm not sure; my memory is not that comprehensive, unfortunately.

Because the fact that we can imagine or conceive frames of reference as existing independently of percipients does not entail that they actually do. W...

I am calm, and since I understand just how your mind works, I already answered the question before you even asked it, so why don't you read what I wro...

Typical disingenuous ad hominem attempt to use a strawman to gain the upper hand. It's pathetic to see you wriggling on the line like this.

No, again I haven't denied that the concept is taken to refer to something extramental. I believe I already said that it is understood to not necessar...

I didn't say it refers to itself. I said the phrase refers to the concept. I am familiar enough with the concept to know that it always involves an ob...

I am not denying that many concepts refer to sensible entities, and hence to something that may be thought of as "extra-mental". But "frame of referen...

"Use/ mention"? Sure: the phrase 'frame of reference' refers to the concept frame of reference. If you think a frame of reference is something other t...

Are not "the nature of our brains" and the "nature of our embodied experience" part of nature? We experience nature as difference and sameness or simi...

Of course I am familiar with the concept. A frame of reference just is a concept and concepts do not exist without percipients (unless you're a Platon...

There's nothing to stop you looking at causation that way, but as I have said it is an arbitrary reduction. In any case what bearing does it have on o...

So you think there is physics without percipients? Not what physics describes mind, but physics itself? Even what physics describes is what we observe...

OK, so you came off a motorbike and broke your leg. You can come off a motorbike without breaking your leg just as you can go to South Africa without ...

Then what exactly are you saying? Particular frames or points of reference exist only (predominately) for humans and perhaps (and if so, much more min...

Perhaps, but not if determinism is the case (which we don't and cannot know either way). I'm not an antinatalist, but I'm criticising your argument ag...

So give me an example of these "forces". Are they something we can observe or are they just theoretical? Say you hit your leg with a sledgehammer suff...

Yes, if you impact you leg with sufficient force to break your leg you will break your leg. Again, that's real intelligent, genius!

Many decisions that are bad for many people are made with the full knowledge that they will be bad for those people. It does come down to value too, t...

You can do absolutely anything without breaking your leg...except breaking your leg; so according to your argument breaking your leg is the cause of b...

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I'm not sure what you're driving at. I don't deny there are spiritual practices, and I have no criticism of those whatsoever. I also have no criticism...

That's an interesting distinction. Perhaps the philosophical denier of representationalism is a naive realist concerning both the existence of objects...

Think about a 'stop' sign. If someone found one in the future, after the apocalypse, they might be induced to think it was a human artifact with a mea...

Yes, the universe, insofar as it is observed is obviously "observer dependent", no argument about that!

Thanks for that. :smile:

If all you're saying is that nothing is without relations, or that a thing is nothing over and above its relations, then I agree.

I agree with that. I look at the world as being replete with meaning, not as lacking it. I still maintain a distinction between a tablet that is inscr...

There is a sense in which that statement is true, but that's the point; it all depends on what you mean by it. And when people argue over materialism ...

Well we can obviously address different senses of 'meaning', without having to be concerned over whether we have covered every possible sense of the t...

Well, I am certainly interested in such subjects and I have found repeatedly that when I make objections or points that would be problematic for your ...

There are two claims here about which I am dubious. Firstly, there is the claim that for meaning to be there must be symbolism. Perhaps by "symbolism"...

Yes, of course we all know by now, O would-be Guru, that anyone who disagrees with you, or even has the temerity to ask you to present and justify the...

Taking what seem to be the relevant parts of Kant's account there: "The transcendental realist regards space and time as something given in themselves...

I'm not familiar with that expression, what does it mean? Google translate gives ""there is no form, I will". I could find no other refernce to the ph...

Problem is there is no other judgement than our own. And your statement about "moderns" is a gross and unwarranted generalization, I would say.

Holding a human maker responsible for his creations is by no means a uniquely modern response. If God is conceived as an omnipotent, omniscient and om...

Yes, it'll be interesting to see what it looks like. I can't decide what to think would be the best outcome. How long can this limbo be sustained befo...

Yeah, I agree it would seem unlikely that the EU will capitulate. How much more likely do you think the Parliament is to agree to "Brexit without a de...

What would that "one option" be? Failure? Walking the plank? Seriously though, I see at least two possible (even if not likely to be achieved) options...

From a "perspectiveless perspective" (which means considered as they are absent being perceived) objects are commonsensically considered to simply be ...

Pity his name is not Bloris Jobson!

Nice job speaking about something very difficult to speak about! I think a little differently about this; for example, I would not say that the "in-it...