Janus

How sure are you about that? To return to seriousness; I would not wish to live under any dictatorship, whether so-called 'benevolent' or not. Also, I...

Insofar as they are considered merely as degrees on a scale they are ordinal, and insofar as they represent degrees (degrees here in the sense of quan...

Yes, it seems that we must run out of necessity somewhere along the line. If there are laws of nature then they impose necessity on phenomena. But wha...

Jesus...

"Digital" understanding seems to be merely a sharpening of analogical understanding; a making precise in terms of 'is' and 'is not' the imprecise prin...

Yes, all observation is conceptually mediated, but I don't think it is appropriate to refer to it as being "theory laden" through and through. So, wit...

I can see how an analog system can deal, albeit somewhat fuzzily, with exclusion and inclusion.

Yes, but the whole of yourself is greater, more comprehensive, than it was yesterday (hopefully). It depends on what you mean by 'whole' though; on on...

I don't think you have really "abused" it. I think the difference between myth and science is one of degree and orientation, not so much one of kind. ...

Sure, but I would count that kind of relation, whether logical or material, as being between a part of yourself and another part. There is also, for e...

Yes, of course the unique material entity must have temporal extension. The exact duration of its temporal extension up to any moment prior to its 'co...

What is the universe prior to it being experienced? I say that as soon as there is experience there is meaning, because meaning is given in signs; it ...

Luckily, most idiots don't have much power. You probably don't have much power either, which is also probably lucky. ;)

I read 'nonsensical' as 'lacking in sense' in this kind of context. It consists in lacking in any reference to anything that may be perceived. Relatio...

Yes, the two kinds of identity: formal and material, you are referring to do seem to be in accordance with the two ideas of identity as digital and an...

Yes, I think that's right, that "so-called 'laws' are useful descriptions of what is in play under certain conditions"-the "certain conditions" being ...

Well, you wrote this: and you could be taken to be claiming that Popper thinks it is not logically possible to falsify a theory full stop, or that it ...

Well, the thing is really a matter of interpretation; there simply is no determinate truth about whether TGW is your whole identity or merely your onl...

Just goes to show that TGW is merely a part of you, the online you, TGW is you in a similar sense that the spout of the kettle is the kettle.

The conclusion is simply that no name can express your identity. The fact that your different names refer to different aspects of you, and that no nam...

If being TGW has any uniqueness it is parasitic upon being a unique entity that is called 'TGW". Someone else can say that being TGW is unique; which ...

I'm saying it is an empty tautology. It's truth is utterly lacking in real sense, it is just an expression of a trivial definition.

But TGW cannot be a unique identity, because someone else, a million others, could also be TGW. Only 'I' as said by each person expresses the uniquene...

I think that is redundant; to say that you are no one else is already to have said that you are. To say that your are yourself is a an empty elaborati...

See, I don't think this is right at all. He is not Adam; he is called 'Adam'. This goes back to an argument on another thread about the difference bet...

But I don't agree that is what people commonly have in mind in their acknowledgment that a thing may have two or more names. As I see it the notion of...

All this shows is the very pedestrian fact that two different names can refer to one thing.

I cannot bring myself to think of thought in terms either for or against any myth such as "the natural goodness of thought in the traditional image", ...

I haven't said "it is an actor in the world" so you are misinterpreting again. Radical contingency is the postulated antithesis of necessity, of the l...

I think this is obviously false. The "build-up" of memory, if it is a true build up reflecting temporally occurring actualities, is obviously given ac...

I think Meno's Paradox is only an apparent paradox. It appears to be a paradox by dint of its underlying assumption that there cannot be any pre-discu...

From the perspective of our experience, as considered, in some contexts, for example perception, the external seems to be prior, and in other contexts...

No, all that is immediately and directly known is one moment of perception, The actuality of the synthesis,which we call experience, that is built up ...

I am not sure the radical contingency Willow and I were discussing is even a coherent idea. Willow's assertion was that what we think of as the laws o...

It seems to be that what you are referring to here is the idea of the "supervenience" of something like a speculative higher order 'what is the case',...

Falsification of a theory is not equivalent to disproof of a theory, and you appear to be conflating the two in you responses to andrewk.

But unlimited freedom or possibility to do what? As soon as you do anything at all your doing of it is constrained by the fact that it cannot be all t...

Yes, I certainly agree with all of that. That said, I think even formal logic has its place if it helps people to be able to think better; kind of a f...

I can see the point you are trying to make; but I don't see it is contrary, in regard to the questions of inherency and categorizations of constraints...

I agree; modal logic is a narrow formalized conception of logic. All disciplines, even poetry, have their own logics, and there is a logic of individu...

You really need to read more carefully; you're "pointing" me to a "mistake" I didn't make at all, based on something you apparently think I said, that...

Not true; I don't exclude the self that does the willing at all. The self is free to think whatever it likes, within the constraints of logic, where '...

Cheers, I'll have a read. I like some of Barfield's writings that I have come across.

If radical contingency were the case you could have no warrant at all for thinking that you could even know what "passing historically-situated notion...

You are missing the point. If radical contingency were actually the case, then anything might actually have happened, as well as could happen in the f...

That's right, God might really have become incarnate and Christ might really have risen from the dead. There might have really been all the Gods of al...

8-)

:)

Willow, you often seem to be "talking about something else entirely", and it makes much of what you write hard to understand (for me at least). Perhap...

Thanks for your well thought answer Pierre. I have really only one question regarding what you wrote:the current view of science is that everything re...