LOL, psychoceramics! MU can be somewhat stubborn in his refusal to see sense sometimes; but I think this little demigod has reached an altogether diff...
The Oxford Dictionary lists three definitions. None mention evidence, the first says "especially without proof" which would seem to indicate a notion ...
This is nonsensical; whether people tend to generally ignore evidence or not is not based on how belief is defined. People have different ideas of wha...
Problem is you cannot ever know exactly what the author means; you obviously don't know what Aristotle meant. Obviously so-called literal interpretati...
What is being interpreted is a text. Of course texts are meaningful, but that doesn't entail that any text must have just one literal meaning. So, of ...
"If that is so, then why the need to state a conditional as you did earlier "The abstract fact that If the additive associative axiom is true, then 2+...
You are just playing with words and clutching at straws. The challenge for you is to show how an axiom could be false in a context where it is applica...
I wonder, though, whether Peirce can make sense of the development of reasonable habits in terms of something more fundamental? Schop could say that W...
If you want to say that something could be true or false, then you must be able to give an account of what difference that would make in either case. ...
Yes, Schopenhuaer's prose is clear enough, but just a little dated and pompous in tone. ;) For Schopenhauer, the other half of the story is Will, unde...
You agree with Schopenhauer: Thus also, whoever has recognised the law of causation, the aspect of the principle of sufficient reason which appears in...
That a prelinguistic belief is stateable is not that the prelinguistic believer can state it, When you say the cat believes X you are stating her prel...
You have to know what 'existence' means in order to be able to coherently ask the question as to whether any thing exists. When Moore shows his hands ...
The point is that within a system it is redundant to specify "if the axioms are true, then..." . The system. and any truth within it, does not exist w...
The idea of an "abstract if-then fact" is redundant. '2+2=4' is true by definition; there is no "if-then" about it. Facts are facts, what we may think...
There must be some fundamental difference(s) that you can pinpoint and articulate if indeed there is any coherent discursive difference at all. You di...
It's not clear to me what you mean by "incomplete". I do think there are no definitive 'in principle' abstract solutions to moral dilemmas, and I do t...
Buddhist political correctness! Who'da thought? What would you say the differences are between the idea of atman on the one hand and the "almost ident...
Nonsense, all meaning consists in interpretation, and it seems to me that it is your interpretation which is inapt to Aristotle's intention, and the s...
If Sunyata is be a dialectical synthesis of the polemic 'eternalism/nihilism' then it must be rationally explicable. I think it is more a case of the ...
"If you look out the front window" bears no relationship to the present or the past, but only the future; so the example seems inapt to your point. Th...
That seems like a pedantic quibble, though. You are interpreting 'Ducks lay eggs' as "All ducks lay eggs" rather than interpreting it as "it is normal...
It seems to me that that conflates what is: 'the green car out front' with a possibility: 'that I will look at it'. Your other examples seem to be no ...
It is generally thought that anything which can be said to exist must have some kind of form, even if it is only a form of activity (as with the diffe...
Are you claiming that ducks do not have anything in common with each other that they do not have with other kinds of birds? Or that they do not have a...
There is no evidence as to what consitutes real evidence without begging the question. What might be believed to be the best kind of evidence in scien...
Depends on whether a belief is arbitrary or well-founded. What constitutes a well-founded belief is best defined in science, and in relation to empiri...
Whatever it is that we formulate in terms of "if-then" may be thought to be in a certain restricted sense "true for and known by animals". We could ev...
An "if-then fact" is exclusively a linguistically formulated fact. I experience the world as has been, is being and could be; only the last is possibi...
Yes, I have already agreed there may be different interpretations, and that the thought of the priority of either consciousness or perspective will de...
In one sense I would say the rock does not have a perspective in relation to you because you have no effect on it. Looked at another way, if your seei...
Kant wants to formulate universal moral imperatives. In other words he wants to reduce morality to a set of rules, all of which may be rationally just...
If you prefer to continue with your evasive self-justificatory bullshit rather than offering up for assessment and critique just one central statement...
In one sense it may be said that we know that we think in terms of abstract facts. What we don't know is whether this means that reality consists of a...
You need to try harder. First read more carefully; I didn't say I disagree with all the statements on your "system", I said I cannot find any that I c...
I think you are looking at it as though I am imputing a 'perspective as qualia' or something of the sort, to other creatures. I don't think of it that...
Yes, but there is a sense in which it seems perfectly reasonable to assume that all beings have or maybe better, are, a perspective; whether or not we...
There is no obtaining of the fact that there could be nothing. If there were nothing there would be no facts to obtain. You are still confusing yourse...
I would agree with the OP that perspective is an expression of each unique spatio-temproal embodiment, and in that sense is prior to consciousness. Of...
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