I agree with this; poetry is no substitute for philosophy. But it's also true that philosophy is no substitute for poetry. Poetic philosophy and philo...
This doesn't contradict what I have been saying at all. I haven't said the two account become one at all. But they do not "express a unity" ( you ar c...
You're falling into the same mistake again. There can be freedom in cogitans,(the mind) because the mind freely chooses one reason over another. There...
Apparently I was mistaken about getting the idea there is no identity across time for the Cyreniacs from you then. It's true that at any time we have ...
As in my response to TWoD, I think Spinoza in a way sets the stage for Kant also. The unity of substance is not exhausted by either of its attributes ...
You are falling into the same trap Spinoza did. He posited that cogitans and extensa are the two possible attributes, that is, 'parrallel' accounts of...
I wouldn't agree that those orientations "obscure what's really going on"; I think they both reveal aspects of whats going on that would otherwise not...
Fair enough, I suppose; but for me that's a one-sided psychologically based story; right enough from its own perspective, but severely limited by its ...
I agree the intelligibility of interactionism seems on one hand to be very the main problem for him, but on the other hand, since he envisages nature ...
Yes, fair enough. I introduced "immediate" because my understanding (derived from something you have written previously I'm pretty sure) is that the C...
Seamless variance in a spatial sense is instanced by any surface which is not homogeneous, but which shows no clear boundaries between the different a...
It's interesting that, in their own different ways the philosophies of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz all seem to make free will impossible. Descartes...
I don't know what it could mean to say that truth is objective. The idea of truth seems to be the idea of something really being the case; the idea of...
Here again you seem to be demanding that a process that may be seamlessly variant, both temporally and spatially, must consist in series of static mom...
The idea that pleasure is the only "good" that is sought for its own sake seems entirely unconvincing; in fact I would go further; I don't think it ev...
Your proposal that there is a "problem" involving an intermediate state between being and becoming or between the being and non-being of a thing, seem...
None of what you say here shows that you have the least understanding of what I have been saying or that you are making any effort to genuinely engage...
If you want to claim that views and the claims they make are not necessarily logically dependent on presuppositions that underpin them and do not them...
It seems to me you're not interested in serious discussion at all, just in mouthing off. As such, there is no point engaging with you. I wonder how ma...
This is incomplete, it should read "Logic is nothing more than how all individuals think about the world at the most abstract, generalized "level" of ...
This is again nonsense. If someone is looking out on a view of the mountains and there is say a cabin which is clearly visible; but she simply doesn't...
This is quite wrong. If some naive realists don't see some logical entailment of their view and posit that as part of it, and other naive realists do ...
The problem is that if there are a whole lot of naive realists who all believe different things, as you claim, then there could be no coherent view th...
It would depend on the conception of God you are concerned with and whether the logic of that conception is compatible with the logic of free will, de...
Naive realism may logically entail things that some naive realists are not aware that it entails, so yes, their view might not be what they think it i...
Many people are naive realists to be sure; from that it doesn't follow that they have necessarily worked through all the logical concomitants of their...
Seems ridiculous to ask someone for empirical evidence to support the correctness of their characterization of a metaphysical standpoint.Thinking abou...
I was saying something along the lines that, for example, if an envatted person calls a vat a 'tull' then if he was able to visit the real world of th...
But if the virtual brains and vats are modeled on real brains and vats in the programmers world, it wouldn't then seem to matter what words are used, ...
If that's the way you want to stipulate it, then does the name really matter anyway? The programmers would have chosen brains and vats as perceptible ...
if you want to say that, then you are claiming that the link between word and object must be intentional, and in terms of the user of the name, not th...
I suppose you could talk about all the real composite parts that make up the dragon being simulated, but I am still not convinced that it makes proper...
This is taken out of context db; Levinas is referring only to passively endured suffering. The kind of suffering that is inflicted by an active evil a...
Then you should make it more clear if you are not referring to what you think are your real qualities; I am not a mind-reader. Clarity is the foundati...
This is not entirely true for a start; some knives are designed for spreading. In any case knives are designed to cut a variety of different materials...
This lame argument quite obviously fails simply because there are real meteorites and a real Earth, whereas there are no real dragons. The notion of s...
So, there is not a great variety of different kinds of knives made for different purposes? I am well aware that Aristotle did not explicitly speak abo...
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