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Doesn't compute to who, though? The distinction is perfectly clear to me; perhaps you cannot understand how that could be, but conversely it is hard f...

The problem is their systems fall apart when the lynchpin is removed, which raises the question as to how we might think their systems are important w...

Phenomenology is the business of describing how things appear to be, not explaining anything in terms of metaphysical theses.

There is a clear conceptual distinction between 'knowable' and 'unknowable'. Can it be proven that everything is knowable or that some things are unkn...

For Leibniz there is a "master monad" who coordinates all the rest: God.

I'm down with that although I would say it depends on what we mean by "world"; do we mean "human world' or simply 'world' as in 'everything that is' i...

I don't read Spinoza's idea of substance as an idea of "stuff" in any sense. His way of thinking is not materialist or idealist in my view but, if any...

Looking at it that way, I agree with the distinction between logic and physical process. That makes sense, he is replacing the Great Chain of Being, w...

To say that consciousness is fundamental is to propose an answer to a metaphysical question. I had thought you agreed with me that metaphysical questi...

This resonates with me. Great thinkers are of course clever, but I would say a much great factor is their obsessiveness. I agree in the sense that it ...

I would say each object exists (as long as it does) as a reliable possibility of a very specific and unique set of perceptions, and I don't think of t...

Cheers, will check it out...

No worries, I figure that if you would not be prepared to buy the book then to acquire it for free and read it does no harm to the author and they at ...

I don't see any other coherent way to interpret the fossil record and cosmology. I can't make sense of what you say here. I am a non-dualist ontologic...

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Of course: why not? Science certainly seems to show that things existed prior to consciousness; unless you are a panpsychist.

I would say it means that consciousness cannot stand or exist apart from being.

I interpret that to mean that consciousness is not separate from being, not that consciousness is being or that being is consciousness through and thr...

It seems to me that to say distinctions begin with consciousness is to articulate a phenomenological observation based on reflection on a question: to...

That metaphysical questions are undecidable is also my view. As soon as we say anything like "reality is mind-dependent' or 'being is nothing but cons...

Spinoza, as I read him, treats substance as being or true reality, not as "stuff". I think we get our concept of reality from our experience of a shar...

Yes, I can relate to that...I've had very similar experiences.

I take your point, but the applications of logic, the unfolding of deductive arguments, also occurs in time. Another point of difference is that causa...

Particular categories are defined by specific criteria, just as particular objects are defined by specific attributes.

I know what you mean but not specifically what you are referring to. So, you it seems are focusing on the method, and I'm focusing on the foundational...

The point was that each category is particular and distinct from all other categories.

There is a sense in which all deductive thought is circular in that conclusions must be "contained" in premises, even if some considerable degree of u...

There is a general sense in which religion can be classed as faith-based, and science as evidence-based or it is a common trope that religion perpetua...

This seems like pointing to a non-issue: categories are particular just as indivdual objects are.

AFAIK, Aristotle posited a potentially infinite number of substances in that he thought that the primary substances are individual objects.

I wasn't questioning the laws of logic, I was referring to thinking on the basis of some preferred premise or other; so, yeah, not a case of preferrin...

I would have thought the "preferred" would take care of that...but perhaps not with everyone given human diversity.

It's not a precept or rule of phenomenology as far as I am aware, it's just my own take. I realize of course that space and time are not sense objects...

I don't know. I know what seems plausible to me, and I know that differs from what seems plausible to some others. I don't see myself as being concern...

Thanks for starting a thread on one of my favorite thinkers. I'm a bit pressed for time at the moment, but this may motivate me to re-read the text, i...

Any argument is rational if it is consistent with its most basic premises, and I don't think basic premises are rationally derived, but are products o...

You'll probably disagree with me (we all have different ways of thinking about these things, apparently) but I see space and time as being for us, jus...

Rosatom has a 38% world market share and in 2019 led in global uranium enrichment services (36%) and covers 16% of the global nuclear fuel market. Fro...

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I'll be honest with you: there have been many times where I thought I have posed salient and difficult questions regarding what I have understood to b...

That is nothing like what I've been saying. Do you claim nothing exists outside of cognition? For me reality is vast. much vaster than human cogntion,...

I haven't explicitly accused you of dodging. That said, I do have the impression that you are prone to withdraw when the going gets tough. I said why ...

:up: Spinoza's idea of substance was very different than Aristotle's. Not sure about Aquinas' since I am little familiar with his writings.

I'm well familiar with those positions. Where we disagree is that I don't see perspective as being relevant to existence, except within the context of...

Yes, of course we experience everything through our human perspective. We are trying to work out what is best and most plausible to say about things f...

It surprises me that you say you challenge scientific realism; that seems inconsistent with your own avowed direct realism. What do you understand sci...

To me you seem to be misunderstanding the idea that objects are not necessarily merely the sum of their attributes. We only know of objects, the attri...

I don't see it as a metaphysical question, but a phenomenological one. It is a phenomenological fact that metaphysical questions are undecidable. The ...

This is a result of thinking of the present moment as separate. Now is not fugitive, it is perennial. Future and past also are always now, else they h...

It seems to me odd that @"Wayfarer" will say that universals have mind-independent existence, but he will not admit that ordinary objects do. As I see...