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If nature is an idea in the sense that you describe here then states are ideas; the world is an idea, actions are ideas, everything is an idea. If tha...

Yes, 'nature' is an idea, but nature is not; here you are failing, among other things, to get the 'use/mention' distinction that is so dear to AP. If ...

They are; but I think in light of that we must be satisfied to trust our best intuitions in matters that are not susceptible of empirical or logical v...

I haven't read the work; but from various references to it I have come across I have formed the impression that it was an attempt to determine a set o...

No, I am not making that claim at all. Perhaps some things I could claim would be verifiable to me, in the sense that they are intuitively obvious, bu...

You just haven't read what I wrote, or at least haven't understood it, if you think I was claiming that moral actions must be the outcome of following...

What's the point of a discussion if you make objections to what I have written, but are not talking about the same thing? You do this a lot Willow; as...

According to Kant one knows that killing is wrong, not by an intuition, but by means of a process of reasoning that determines if it accords with his ...

I think the point of that formulation is simply that we can verify and thus objectify 'is's'. If I say, pointing: "Look there is a dog", you can easil...

Utilizing the CI, involves using reason: I'm not taking about "talking and reasoning about the CI".

I don't understand why you are agreeing with me and yet writing as though you think you are disagreeing. In the case of Kant's CI reasoning is certain...

The point is that although we must be rational creatures in order to exercise such intuitive judgement; it does not follow from that that the acts of ...

But the idea for Aristotle is not that we use a rational principle 'nature', and draw out it's logical, ethical entailments. It is, instead, that we i...

I think that's a bit harsh. Many, perhaps most or even all, animals other than humans could not fulfill your criterion for beinghood. Are we then to s...

I don't think this is right at all. Kants CI is a purely rational imperative; whereas Aristotle's notion of virtue is bound with the idea of the soul,...

I don't know if you read the rest of the post where I gave some examples of common claims that are usually considered to be facts, but are not suscept...

For me, this is an incoherent and empty notion of the infinite. Since the infinite is the dialectical partner of the finite; the spiritual dimension o...

That sounds like some sort of transcendent. ;) I don't disagree with much of what you say, as such; but I think it is your own strawman version (apart...

It's an odd way of putting what is usually presented as the 'fact/value distinction'. Putnam criticized the distinction, claiming that it is not as cl...

It's true meaning is infinitely there and must be listened for, but freedom, and not imprisonment or anything which needs to be "escaped', consists in...

Yes, Nietzsche's 'Eternal Recurrence' was primarily a thought experiment designed to allow you to feel the degree of your own life affirmation.

I don't think the question is "serious and interesting". The fact it can be answered so easily by common sense attests to that. Judging by your own re...

I don't insist on a "hard problem" at all. I think the relationship between the physical and the spiritual is something than can be intuited; but it i...

As I see it the physical aspects of an object are sensed; the identity of an object is intuited. Why must all things "be of the same realm". Do you ha...

Yes, no doubt they did! And I'm sure I also have made just this kind of point many times in the past. It's a fairly commonsensical point, I think. The...

I would never say that. Experiences are certainly part of the world we know; but it makes no sense to say that an experience is a physical entity. To ...

Yes, I know objects are intuited as well as sensed. But that is not the point, or rather it goes to the point in another way than you think. The intui...

Well, at least we agree about something! :)

I am not denying that the experience of embodiment is greatly elaborated by our linguistical natures. The two are inseparable, and language (including...

I think this just shows that the business of overcoming unpleasant experiences must always be a meter for the individual who is having those experienc...

You are equivocating on what it means to be "philosophically significant"; of course if someone spends their time concerning themselves with issues th...

Yes, I agree with this, since you are saying basically exactly what I said in my last post.

No, apart from bodily sensations of pain, those things are not "sensed" as entities at all. Those kinds of things are intuited. I haven't said that at...

I think you've hit on something here. If the most important part of our knowledge is a natural result of our embodiment, which in the process of 'huma...

The words 'physical' and 'material', mean, respectively something like 'able to be quantified and modeled mathematically' and 'able to be sensed'. The...

This is in no way a description of the physicality of consciousness.

If something is physical you should be able to explain how it is so. Its easy to explain how the body, for example is physical. To support your conten...

OK, so since you believe that consciousness is not a bodily state, I presume that means you also believe it is not a physical state; from which would ...

So, consciousness, or experience, is not a state of the body? What is it then, according to you?

I interpreted what you said to mean that states of experience both are bodily states and that they always are of bodily states. What else could "resul...

I think I am defending the notion that entropy-in-action is asymmetry in action. Maybe the state of maximum entropy (heat death?) can be understood to...

So, if meaning and metaphysics cannot be determined we are left to rely on... what... intuition?

You are leaving out the fact that not all states of consciousness are in the form of "states of the body interacting with the environment" and/or the ...

What you say here seems to be in agreement with what I was saying, and yet you seem think you are disagreeing. :s

Sorry, no idea what you are trying to say here.

Yes, I agree that he may be taken that way; and his later involvement with apophatic theology may attest to that dimension of this thought. In fact, I...

The very employment of the materialist catch cry "mystical woo" is characteristic of the chauvinistically and mindlessly bad form of reductionism repr...

I think it's right that the human tendency to reduce everything to some ultimate substance is suspect. "Mind", "God" and "primordial stuff" cannot be ...

When I spoke of asymmetry and entropy being the same I had in mind systemic asymmetry not the asymmetry of individual entities. From a systemic perspe...

8-) Nothing to disagree with here, Jamalrob...