Janus

I find nothing to disagree with here, unfortunately. I would like to note, though, that if mind is considered in the way Spinoza does, as an attribute...

We don't invent the law-like behavior of nature. Sure, the Law of Gravity is also a human formulation as well as an invariant natural phenomenon which...

According to current scientific understanding mass warps spacetime, and this is a universal phenomenon which is called 'the law of gravity', or simply...

Awww, now some of the men are going to feel inadequate. :joke:

If gravity operates always and everywhere then it just is a natural law; that's what the term means.

I would agree that we can certainly feel as though we are experiencing infinity. That we really are experiencing infinity, whatever that could even me...

Yes, objectivity is really inter-subjectivity. But I think that more than a couple or even a few subjects would be required to agree about a belief ba...

A belief is objective if it is the one that any disinterested inquirer would come to when presented with all the evidence. So, for example the belief ...

Possibly, but my point was just that a finite mind, which relies on abstraction, cannot see things as absolute singularities. So, I was saying that on...

I disagree: evolution is evolution and it is, per se, not concerned with anything. Evolution is adaptation that happens naturally due to interactions ...

I think Kant would say that no overarching purpose to life can be demonstrated by pure reason, but that we have good practical reasons to believe in G...

OK, but this has nothing to do with what we were discussing, which was the difference between finite, and an infinite, mind. Is that an order?

I take it that all you mean by this is that what you term "awareness" (which I would call 'reflexive self-consciousness' to distinguish it from animal...

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As I understand it, to say there is a universal law just is to say that there is a universally invariant form of action, a natural behavior which oper...

Yes, only God, being an infinite intelligence, can handle that. Probably S/He/It cannot handle abstraction, generality, similarity and even identity, ...

I didn't word that so well. I should have said: Then we would not be reducing the idea of the noumenal to the idea of the world. On the contrary, I th...

Well, yes, because then we would not be reducing the noumenal to the physical world. If all our experiences and ideas, including the physical world, a...

The idea of the action of gravity is indispensable to the scientific understanding of the evolution of the Universe, so, that gravity was universal pr...

It would seem better then to say that the idea of the physical world is really a reduction of the noumenal to a habit of meaning. I would further modi...

Isn't the idea of a physical world itself "a reductive habit of meaning"?

Because they were operating in the darkness of an inculcated superstitious belief that that was what God wanted. And then Christ came along and said, ...

Yes, but as I said it is also true that Clinton did not won the election if something is present (namely a presence of Clinton losing). A presence of ...

Well, that may have been true, but we'll never know. :lol:

I can't see the problem; the "state of how things really are" is that she lost the election. Is what made true by "some non-obtaining state of affairs...

I don't see why this is the case. If I have a mat in front of me with no cat on it, then "the cat is on the mat" is not true, provided I stipulate tha...

What is the difference between saying '"The cat is on the mat" is true iff the cat is on the mat', and saying that "the cat is mat is true" if the sta...

Those are conceptual distinctions, so I don't think you have answered the question at all. Of course physics does not deal with semantics; who in thei...

That's fine, but I was merely pointing out that I remembered coming across the information that the idea of distinguishing between primary and seconda...

What could those "separate domains or magisteria" be beyond being conceptual distinctions, abstractions? The other alternative is that they are, subst...

These issues I have been touching on recently as you can see in these exchanges with Dfpolis: --Janus -- Janus I think being can be understood both as...

The circle is closed, to be sure. Perhaps your problem is that you want to know precisely where it is closed. It is closed everywhere. Now do you have...

So you are against substance dualism? Do you favour some kind of 'dual aspect' theory or something else? Is it something you can articulate?

As I said, I can't remember where I encountered that item of information, but a google search yielded this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary/seco...

I don't think this can be right. A law is not a law unless formulated, and how could you formulate the law of identity absent language? I think the la...

As I said in my previous comment, the correspondence account of truth is not a metaphysical theory. This is in keeping with Kantian philosophy (even H...

You are generalizing too much without any justification I would say.

I think it may have started with Galileo, but I can't remember where I encountered that information, so I may be incorrect.

So do I. :cool:

You are arguing against a qualified version of what I said that I have already acknowledged, and ignoring the unqualified version, so nothing to respo...

I think you could reasonably define "existent' as being synonymous with 'manifest'. But, yeah, potentia is a different notion.

I don't see a problem with the idea that there are parts of the universe that are not manifest to us. In fact I would say this obviously must be so.

Your objection is without substance; the totality of the universe must consist in all that has ever been or will be. Are you saying that the things wh...

No, "universe" signifies all things that have ever been or will be. The universe is not exhausted by any particular collection of things at a time, ot...

I think there's a pragmaticist element to the correspondence picture, which means that it is not an absolutist theory, but an intersubjective account....

I'd rather you explained it to me in your own words. I don't think an infinite regress of temporal activity is necessarily implied and even if it were...

Well, as I said I don't know of any, but my answer was meant to convey the message that I don't think that was particularly germane to my original poi...

I do find it hard to think of logic as a form of probability. But perspectives do rely upon backgrounds, and no doubt I lack the appropriate backgroun...

That seems to be as good a reason as any...

Thanks for this explanation Pierre. It's probably a little outside my are of philosophical interest, though, which would be due to lack of time as muc...