apokrisis

They are universal particulars in that they quantify some quality absolutely everywhere. :) Yep. In a process philosophy view, both particulars and un...

But that's only because you keep refusing to reconsider your very narrow definitions of things like "logic". So you are sticking to your premises and ...

I agree that your definitions are too fuzzy. Intelligible means logical structure to me. It is not about being in accordance with custom. It only make...

And yet still that variation would be measured in terms of cultural norms? So there has to be something collective there as the backdrop against which...

So you don't think that things can be predicated of formal and final causes? And the Peircean distinction between real and existence seems to have gon...

Good job I don't say principles "exist". Or that they are "brute facts". And saying that about properties would be inconsistent too. Sigh...

Well, only the one. Apeiron. Or however we would best understand that appeal to material principle in our best physicalist theories. I agree there is ...

Well that's hardly a problem given that universal scepticism is no longer an issue once you have already given up the pipedream of "demonstrable truth...

Remind me of some actual question that is in fact being begged. You might not like the answers that physicalism gives when used as a framework to anal...

Yeah. And I have reasons to prefer one set of presuppositions. They are the ones that happen to be demonstrably better at making phenomenological pred...

I'm not getting your difficulty. Once things start to get stabilised, they become the platform for further development. Its hierarchy theory 101. So a...

One can only face palm at a comment like this. Does this everyday concrete stuff exist, or is it simply how we construct our experience of it? What do...

I agree. And I'm even quite sympathetic of theism to the degree it puts forward a coherent opposition to Scientism and hardline reductionism. Religiou...

Given physical principles derive from phenomenological observables, it is pretty obvious which way round things in fact arose epistemically.

So physical principles ARE used to analyse the Platonic triad. Cool.

Where did I make that circular argument? I tried instead to show you why your "actual question" doesn't even make sense in my holist and pansemiotic p...

It's the scholastics who need that first cause. And also some high flown purpose for human existence. So we can park those prejudices one side, The su...

So you offer the kind of problems that bug a reductionist in answer to my holist position? The reductionist issue here is that because they are only i...

Confidence in your competence is the phrase that immediately sprung to my mind. So I agree.

The search for symmetry, equilibrium and the minimisation of uncertainty - the usual physical principles?

Order is explained within thermodynamics as the negentropic investment that is made to increase the production of entropy. So it is order that emerges...

That's right. That's why I am arguing against nominalism. But how do properties emerge into crisp being if vague being isn't what they are leaving beh...

Constants emerge as the rate limit on self-optimising flows. So they describe the regularities that a process of symmetry breaking creates. They don't...

Yep. But I would really call universals "habits of individuation". So the stress is on being as a process. Universals aren't celestial things - abstra...

Strewth. If formal logic arose within the gene pool of ancient Greece, how on earth did all of us without Mediterranean bloodlines manage to master it...

Pattern recognition or pattern matching is more evolutionarily basic than cognition or deduction. And it follows from inductive learning. That is Hebb...

That a contradiction is conceivable is to say we can conceive of what - for reason of contradiction - can't possibly exist. So not sure how this helps...

If you tell me that: "I do tend to think of being or existence in terms of tangible beings or existents that can exert tangible forces that work as ef...

So substance dualism then. And yet Aristotle did such a good job of deconstructing the very notion of substantial being. :)

Says who exactly? If you are thinking that universals are ghostly forms or epiphenomenal ideas, then your claim is that they definitely don't exist. S...

Would you agree that talk of existence, being, or reality, is talk about causal potency? It is "stuff" that has an effect? So the problem is that most...

Exactly. There is the counterfactual hypothesis. And where does the evidence currently stand? "Dark energy" is telling us that there is only a one way...

And better yet, it is not theistic mumbo-jumbo but testable hypothesis! Divine will is capricious. God can forgive you or smite you. And either will b...

Yes, in practice our talk about the reality of things is talk about them being causal entities. They are "things" if they can make things happen. So t...

Well I don't either. And so my point is that focusing on conception as "that which can be said" is trivial. It is clearly not sufficient. They go to t...

Well given physics is what has examined this question in the most exhaustive fashion, I'm not sure what you would be basing your reluctance on. But th...

Well what about turning it around a little? It could be that conceivability is the limit on possibility. It is basic to notions of existence that bein...

"It" is "entailment", of course. And the construction of the sentences indeed entails that interpretation on any reasonable view. "Entailment" is the ...

Firstness is logical vagueness. But secondness is particularity - the particularity of some fleeting relation or event. And thirdness is then generali...

But universality or generality is the product of induction or generalisation from particulars. So really it is a two-way relation - a symmetry-breakin...

This illustrates how entailment is "mechanical". It claims states of constraint that are absolute. And speaks to the way such states can be constructe...

You ignored that I specified ignorance due to indifference. So that is where my position is based on a full four causes analysis. Purposes are alway i...

Depends. It could be a particular inquiring mind or it could simply be the world physically. That would be the advantage of my semiotic approach. It a...

The question is going to be ambiguous as you can talk about it either in terms of formal logic or physical causality. And then that leads to the issue...

Well, given that we are cultural creatures, yes "psycho-behavioral coherence" is learnt behaviour. We do have to discover a balance in terms of what w...

But acting in this fashion is learnt behaviour. So "authenticity" is another social script. And wouldn't you say that a problem in modern society is t...

Your argument relies on a representationalist view of perception - one where the brain "displays data", leaving open the question of "to who?". Any mo...

What? Do they take turns or something?

So your ontic commitments amount to a bob each way. Cool. :-} Yes. But why? What difference does that make? Did you mean outside philosophical circles...

Let's not jump ahead of the game. You have yet to understand why this question doesn't even make good sense in terms of the ontic commitments of pan-s...