Thanks for clariflying. And here I would clarify that I only mean that the form would be expressed in its most definite fashion at the end. It would b...
So you keep repeating. But didn’t Aristotle leave some room for the accidental? - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident_(philosophy) Just consider ...
Thanks. So you are thinking "hupokeimenon" here makes a further distinction in regard to substantial being? Or is hyle not meant to distinguish matter...
Yep. That was my point. I was puzzled Andrew was calling it prime substance. But then I guess that the problem is Aristotle was ambivalent about the s...
The pansemiotic claim is tricky. I readily admit that it is a speculative project. So I will try to explain it better. Straightforward semiosis is no ...
So where exactly did Aristotle spell out an argument for prime substance? Do you have a reference in mind? Did you mean something like an Apeiron? I a...
Janus is right. Here you are just trying to win an argument by playing with definitions. Sure you can identify being with mind, consciousness or spiri...
The Peircean position which I take would see this matter - like a plasma - as the simplest form of actualised substance. Then human being stands at th...
Are you ever going to deal with the reality that this could be your minority opinion. Maybe what you see as repetitious maintenance is something most ...
But immanence needs to account for itself by way of some inner mechanism. And Aristotle rather danced around on both sides of the argument. That is a ...
And so nominalism depends on an ontology where everything is a material particular. The differentiation of being is the primary fact. The integration ...
There is also what CS Peirce called his extreme scholastic realism, or realicism. That follows from Avicenna and Duns Scotus. And it fits with a moder...
Pseudoscience doesn't fit in. And so it falls out. Not a problem. That is where the feedback loop comes in. The method is designed to amplify the good...
But philosophy does rely on observation of the world. There is a confirmation step involved in the beliefs it might form. Good philosophical argument ...
Reason creates its own natural hierarchy. Cream floats to the top, cranks rant alone in the basement. What works, simply works. The rest is noise from...
They are three stages of the one process. So it is a natural sequence that leads from questions to answers. The first one, abduction, is of course bas...
Exactly. Science is what reasoning looks like at its most rigorous level of application. This is the point made by CS Peirce, the guy who invented the...
Inductive reasoning is answered by the evidence. It leads to predictions. Those predictions either tell you the theory was true or not. So circularity...
Probably it's rather that I expect morality to have an adaptive natural function. So I would critique it in terms of some objectively-supported notion...
Hmm. The obvious reply is that you can't just claim an ad hoc mixture of moral relativism and moral realism. It has to be one or the other. Either mor...
What sets us apart is that we can make the choices, they can't. We can have rights because we can accept responsibilities in fair exchange. Now we can...
So this is where philosophy would start (as any intelligent person accepts the reality of climate change and ecological footprints). Do animals have "...
If you take the question to be about the maximum rate of change, then it makes sense. So the present is commonly understood as the extent of the momen...
I agree. Getting old, it is decrepitude and its many indignities that are the live issue. Death becomes a solution more than a threat. But then unnece...
I'm thinking of those as applied philosophy. So the answers are not so much to be found as invented. And a science - like positive psychology - is the...
Of course. And the general goal of philosophy or critical thinking would be something along the lines of "arriving at the truth of reality". But even ...
What could be more ideological than claiming that the facts of the world are not subject to ideology? Such absoluteness is the very hallmark of the id...
Total agreement rules out any scope for differences of opinion, hence freedom and creativity. So that is why I would stress productive agreement - the...
Hah. Philosophy in a nutshell - the art of productive disagreement. Everything said becomes the departure point of its own possible contradictions. :)...
If you invest in your people, then you will prosper as a nation. Seems obvious. And universal health care and education are the most basic of those in...
Would it make a difference if philosophy were simply renamed "critical thinking"? Folk may make the mistake of wanting answers when what it mostly tea...
Do we experience any sounds coming from our ears? Our ears are a stereo system that help place sounds appropriately in space. So we hear sounds coming...
Time has a physical limit in that nothing could happen in less than the Planck time - 10^-44 seconds. But then even physically to differentiate past a...
Hah. Your OP is flawed in taking it as intuitively obvious that we would want to be spacefaring. That’s hippie thinking. But it’s funny to see the sam...
I’m questioning your apparent assumption that it would be an attractive enough proposition for people to pay their way there. Even if commercialisatio...
I have no interest in being a heroin addict. But if I had to choose that or being shipped out to a Mars colony for life, then heroin does seem the ros...
Governments represent national interests. Commerce cashes in on individual desires. The real question is why the heck would anyone want to live on the...
Vagueness is that to which the principle of non-contradiction fails to obtain. It is ultimate ambiguity in that it is neither a something nor nothing....
It still has to start off homogenous and thermalised at the small scale of the initial conditions. If it was patchy at the start, it couldn’t be now n...
Aren't you neglecting that the matter density must be uniform? You have to count the contents too. Spacetime won't be flat unless the matter is presum...
Sorry fdrake, but I don't get where this is going. Your responses are vague as if you are only intent on creating some endless descent into technicali...
Why adopt the sterile old approach where one side of a dialectical relation must be “wrong” so the other can be “rightl? Functional systems - as in po...
Great that you think that. But again, my goal is to be technically precise at the most general metaphysical or qualitative level. If you don't yet acc...
The possibility of something else having happened. The existence of the oak is a constraint on the existence of other trees, shrubs, weeds, that might...
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