Intuition is a subjective personal source for suggesting possible beliefs which is far from being a source of any kind of knowledge. Intuitions are de...
Apparently so. Plato was considered the leading Pythagorean as well as Eleatic of his time. His mathematical preoccupation at times obscures the main ...
If existence is eternal then what do you mean by beginning? If existence simply is then what could its properties be? Without time, how can existence ...
Your hunch is supported by Plato's Theaetetus, where the alleged Protagorean subjectivist theory of sense-perception is accused of secret alliance wit...
Like other academic endeavors, philosophy has a pure theoretical side. You may disagree with this sharp divide, but to me metaphysics should only be i...
So do I. Parmenides and Plato are too dense a topic and I don't expand and slow down the exposition enough. For example, to , the direct Platonic answ...
Zeno's plurality is flawed because he applies the deductive binary logic of the Way of Truth to the changing world of opinion without warrant. For a d...
That's true, but without logical clarification that challenge is incomprehensible. Parmenides only has one Form. Then that Form is kicked around quite...
Plato's Parmenides character is not Parmenides. Uncovering the foibles of the primitive logic of opposites and pluralities and how this evolved from P...
So he did. Parmenides (and Plato) divided the 'World' of the philosopher into (I) what can be known with certainty and (II) what is mere opinion. (Par...
There are a number of views to be sure due to the lack of clarity of the original text. Some is just poor writing skills in expressing an abstract sub...
The overwhelming majority of professional philosophers today do not hold that there is a significant difference between metaphysics and epistemology, ...
From a third-person observer perspective, it is true that other observers are part of reality and blend right into reality. But that is not what you a...
Well that's the thing. If we have to consult someone's philosophy to say what reality is then we are in trouble. Why wouldn't we all just know what it...
Philosophy is a rational enterprise that has, following Plato, been divorced from creative arts. The notion that art is technical imitation persists a...
My hazy intuitions warn me that you somehow both recognize and confound various times here and there. Plato seems to read as speaking of three types o...
Reading Plato is like a quantum mechanical view of the physical world. What we see is an interaction between the reader and the text. Who we are and w...
Even given that this is your topic I admire your courage to take up something this deep. Metaphysical issues are strewn about throughout the Dialogues...
We can try this one: This is a crucial problem in the Forms. If the opposites (complements or contraries?) 'greater than' and 'smaller than' are relat...
When I cut a pie in half then I have a determinate dyad of slices of the whole pie. No problem. When I divide a cloud then I have two clouds. When I s...
Unfortunately, Plato's logic could be renamed early logical or pre-logical argument. Neither the great Sophists nor Plato had sufficient grasp of the ...
Gerson also insisted that Plato was an Aristotelian ! (It's a book plus a lecture on youtube) What does that say about Gerson's credibility as an expe...
I think Aristotle was genuinely struggling to understand as much of Plato as he had read and (mis)understood as well as insisting that one or another ...
Some objects are tangible, like a house or a mouse, some are less so, like a cloud. Some other objects are in the mind, like ideas, simple numbers or ...
The SEP article lays out the difficulties of the subject, and this does not even acknowledge the role of the listener or the circumstances of the perf...
The wild ride also goes for the audience, especially if the performer is famous and the concert is highly anticipated. I often think that composing an...
Your highlighting the importance of presence in music sparked thoughts in a number of directions. The prime focus should be on the essential personal ...
I think that at the time of presencing the composition in their minds most composers were keenly aware of the audience and as professionals needed to ...
I would venture that most disagreements in philosophy originate from vagueness of the topic or from ambiguity of usage in the language employed by the...
So what's difference between speed and velocity? If I run around in a circle at 10m/sec what's my speed, average velocity, and my instantaneous veloci...
This is three-valued logic with the middle ground being everything and anything between the recognized and named extremes. This example is a fascinati...
Believe it or not, an old friend of mine had very similar thoughts! He spent his life trying to relate those ideas without much success. But he died h...
By what means can any of these be related? How does Prishon's physical world relate to Prishon's material world, can they really be the same, as in 'i...
Are you saying that there was a 'before' before time? Was there any time at all, or perhaps there was more than one time. Do you mean time as an inven...
One should not have to choose between these extremes. Mathematics was discovered through technological trial and error to be reasonably but not perfec...
But mathematics is predictive only in the sense that physicists have assumed (as the Pythagoreans Heraclitus Plato Galileo had) that the unknowable na...
No. I'm suggesting that philosophical reality is made up by the philosopher, constructed out of the elements of the model, to match a particular philo...
In everyday conversation reality is a word for what we might imagine to be out there. From a philosophical perspective only formal technical models ca...
... non-sentient randomness of conformity implies a scientific (but not philosophical) objectivity in that within the scope of all observations that c...
Sorry about that! I'm only trying to make a point to Kenosha Kid there. I agree with you about QM. Exists is only meaningful to a philosopher and is a...
There is an interesting thing about that cat. Wigner's cat and his friend's cat are obviously not the same cat, as one is alive and the other is dead....
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