apokrisis

Even in logic, it is for reasoning about the particular. It axiomatically secures the PNC and LEM. But then how is the principle of identity itself se...

Your account needs to say something exact about why fiveness can be regarded as a unity. The continuity has to be explained on logical grounds, not si...

How does this story work when we are talking about nature? Humans can invent notions about beds (and what use God would have for a bed is a mystery). ...

So all ideas about things are mind dependent and some ideas about things are mind independent. Seems legit.

It makes mereology emergent rather than fundamental. So yes, ontically it gets the story the right way around. It explains how hierarchical organisati...

Studies of people in deep slow wave sleep show that they were experiencing a desultory kind of ruminative thought when woken. It’s hard to catch and n...

Like the tree that falls unheard in the woods, is what a computer program computes meaningful without an act of interpretance? Observables demand obse...

Yep. MU is suddenly now an anti-Aristotelian atomist for some reason. But to call a thing an individual is only to point to something that has been in...

I realise you are just pissing about, but it is not a problem that a nested hierarchy of classification - one dependent on the bifurcating exactness o...

I’ve explained. Universals are constraints. Constraints are causal. Causal is real. And then language is a semiotic constraint on meaning. Language ca...

MU right, the world wrong. MU accepts unbroken as an antonym of continuous, but not as a synonym of undivided. You’re in a hole. Quit digging.

And so we wind up in the usual place with you denying the most standard philosophical definitions....

A short quiz. Q1) When something is undivided, is it: A) Divided? B) Continuous? Q2) When quantifying an amount of water, do we ask: A) How many water...

Thanks.

You make less sense with every post.

Sounds legit. Goodness knows why we always find ourselves talking about them in the same breath.

Sounds legit.

Where exactly?

But it is a big difference. It is the difference between atomism and a structural holism. One view needs to presume fixed parts. The other presumes a ...

Nope. Meaning arises out of the relating. The meaning of words is stabilised through the functionality of habits of use. Language is shaped by the wor...

No need to remove them. A constraints-based logic simply ignores them as differences that don't make a difference. So a compositional approach - one p...

And yet all still capable of further sub-division apparently. And how can there be further division if there is nothing further that counts as the und...

Dicks are real and not linguistic inventions. This must be progress!

So you won't answer the direct ontic question - are you backing realism or nominalism. Instead your issue is epistemic - how could we determine the ma...

What? Even the females?

Are you continuing with this nonsense even after I explained why it is nonsense? A structuralist approach to language use emphasises its role in the c...

Snore....

Having done so, I'm waiting for a sensible reply. I realise that will never come.

So how do you divide up a foot into inches unless there is some underlying continuity to be divided? So now you have switched track from epistemology ...

Your compositionalism vs Aristotle's structuralism.

So you are going to bore me with repetition as usual? I've already told you why I don't agree. Your move.

I'm saying that counting shaping or structuring constraints is different from counting compositional elements. So you are thinking like a reductionist...

Hey, you just invented a new category of fallacy!

So are these discrete units bounded lumps of continuity or not? What dichotomy properly defines your notion of "unit" here. Clearly you have in mind t...

So I am right that you simply fail to get what a structuralist ontology is about? You are wedded to logical atomism. Aristotle wasn't.

So now you are saying that a unit is a continuity chopped into discrete pieces? That is, it places limits on the continuous so that bits of continuity...

Pragmatically, where is the difficulty? You seem to want to turn an ontological question into an epistemic one. Your tactic seems to revolve around em...

What I am emphasising is the structuralism that was implicit in his substance thinking. The holistic causality used to account for the nature of Being...

So is a penis a social construct? Is an X chromosome a social construct? Sure, social construction is a thing. But so is biological construction. And ...

So when you measure a degree of continuity, what else do you measure that against except a corresponding degree of absence of discreteness? A is conti...

Agents? My account was rather more general than that. Hot and cold are defined by a temporal asymmetry - a direction in which time or change flows. So...

Huh? The past is the constraints on future degrees of freedom. The future is the remaining free possibility that the past hasn't managed to constrain....

A silly reply if my immanent metaphysics is what I've said it is - a full four causes naturalism. Are you kidding?!? That's like saying Led Zeppelin w...

Well if a dichotomy is a mistake, you should be able to expose that fact. For instance, the material and the immaterial is indeed a weak-arse dichotom...

Exactly. And an unreceptive audience is a help in making the effort as you get old and lazy. :)

It keeps the ideas circulating as well as making some fresh connections. I used to write books. I might well start another next year. The problem is I...

It's only for my own benefit. I don't expect people to read them. ;)

This is an example of the bad thought habit I just highlighted - turning a "soft" contrary into a "hard" contradiction. It is the reductionism you alw...

What is more important here is that the accidental and the essential (or the necessary) are a dialectical dichotomy - defined as a mutually exclusive ...

Remember that I was talking about a contextless fluctuation. So it is the fluctuation that is an action in a direction. And these would count as the a...