OK, when you say something is immaterial, or non-physical, what exactly do you mean? merely that it is not an object of the senses, or something else?...
Yes, certainly it's obvious that we don't "see" information, and that we need to be able to generalize ( in fact we need to be able to do that even to...
I believe I understand the issues. I have been trying to address your arguments by asking questions that suggest different hypotheses than yours to ex...
It seems the rational act of grasping a number is the mental act of representing it to yourself; what else could it be? How else can you think 'five' ...
How do you represent a number to yourself if not by a symbol derived from an auditory or visual representation? The bare "sense datum" might be, in pr...
But in the world objects engender other objects in various ways, and the forms those engendered objects take seem to be determined by invariances that...
How can information be detected if not by means of the senses.? It is true that you cannot "bump into" information; it is not a physical object. You c...
Yes, that could well be true; which means YourLeaderSapienta has not acquired control even over himself; he is a helpless victim of modern body image ...
You have forgotten the unlucky lesson number 13: Leader has small dick which creates inferiority complex leading to grandiose fantasies of power and s...
You need to try to give a coherent, consistent account, if you want others to understand your standpoint. I don't think you have attempted to address ...
Ethics is not determinate, just like aesthetics and metaphysics are not; but that does not stop philosophers from discussing within these disciplines....
If we examine the traditional conceptions of God, then we are faced with logical contradictions. Those contradictions cannot be evaded if you want to ...
If you allude to your experience, I can respond by saying that I have an idea of the kind of experience you are alluding to. I can only do that if I h...
So you impute free will to all entities then? In any case, I would say that even in a case where free will is operating there could be no prior form (...
No I was referring to entities that we have imagined, responding to your example of someone making a plan for something. I wasn't referring to determi...
I think it is a challenge to the coherence of the idea that being is something over and above the totality of beings. Here, for the sake of not losing...
Dawson and his donkey both held views which were identical with mine; and they haven't really changed that much since. I am interested in this topic, ...
OK. if you have been taking my critiques of your arguments personally then that explains your failure to address what I have actually said. And your c...
I would call that an imagined existence preceding a material existence. Particular Imagined existences are always part of general material existence t...
No, I haven't equated essence with existence at all; what I have said is merely that a thing cannot have an essence if it does not exist, because with...
To say that a thing is the same as itself is to utter a vacuous tautology. Conceiving of identity merely in this way does not grant identity any metap...
This is a typical example of your apparent inability to deal with objections except by becoming condescending. The fact is that you can't produce a co...
Yes, but why are jumping to conclusions that are unwarranted? I didn't say that all others disagree with you. You are jumping to more unjustified conc...
The problem is that others disagree with your position regarding the implications of the phenomenon of generalization. It's not clear to me what could...
Yes, but even this is a matter of generalization, because there are also different types of triangle: isosceles, equilateral, scalene, right, acute an...
No you would have two of the same kind of things, not two of the same things; to say the latter is to abuse language. No two triangles are the same an...
I can see now that an infinitely large number of planets is not needed for the argument, so thanks for correcting me on that. I remained unconvinced, ...
Just that it would seem there could be no actual infinite number of planets, and hence the argument that a finite number of possible planets would lea...
I just read through the latter parts of this thread and I must say the degree of irrationality being displayed by those claiming that sexist comments ...
I think you misunderstood; the point is that there is no actual infinite distance. Even if you traveled away from Earth, for example, forever you woul...
Yes, obviously, so what is it above that? Why is it a ground for thinking that thought is immaterial? Right, so please give an account of the other ve...
I can't see what being could be (apart from being merely our idea) over and above the totality of beings. Being is comprised of beings I would say, ju...
That's not grounds, it is merely what some philosophers thought about the nature of reason in the past. Many modern philosophers think that this way o...
It's nonsense to say that Dennett thinks reason is "undermined". If he thought that why would take the trouble to write books that consist in reasoned...
That's not what 'transcendental' refers to in Western philosophy, which is what we are dealing with here. In those terms the story about Buddha's purp...
Yes, I certainly agree with this sense of transcendence and have argued for it myself in relation to understanding Spinoza's philosophy. This view is ...
How can anything at all be said from a "point beyond human experience and understanding" that makes absolutely no sense. And from Dennett's view of th...
So, you're a fan of CC? Bit early in the day to listen to that, isn't it? Doug Mulray once ran a faux competition on 2MMM where the prize was a Jimmy ...
No Dennet's position just leads to the conclusion that reasoned argument along with all our experience is ultimately illusory. But it is still importa...
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