apokrisis

That is rather the point. Peirce was highlighting the presumption you have “truthfully” identified an object. Some concrete particular under the first...

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The PNC is not about "truth". It is about "validity". Or indeed, merely about "computability". So let's take the deflationary tack here. The PNC could...

It only contradicts some assumptions you take as axiomatic to your theism. The PNC is a case in point. A belief in some Newtonian and non-thermal mode...

U(1) is just the simplest possible symmetry group. It is the symmetry of a rotating circle. And nothing is more symmetric than a circular object. If y...

Yes, we can consider this a contest between pragmatic naturalism and dogmatic theism if you like. One holds consequences here in the real world. The o...

But Euclidean geometry was merely shown to be a special limit case on non-Euclidean geometry. The two were consistent. The advance was to find a param...

If time is what is emergent, then it is necessary that nothing be happening before it gets started. The idea of "before" becomes the incoherent claim ...

This is a good example of the tensions now developing because mathematical research looks to be cutting deeper than empirical research. We simply can'...

I certainly find that any good metaphysics has a mathematical clarity. So there is a deep connection. But not a simple one. In general, good metaphysi...

I agree with that argument too. Which is why I say the matter of origination can only be solved by adding a logic of vagueness to our metaphysical too...

Yep. Guess so,

Where was your question? Were you wanting a definition of force as a term of art in modern physics as opposed to the many other ways of using the same...

Are you high?

Hmm. Is this philosophy as practiced by academia or the kind of “philosophy” that believes in crystals and scented candles? Seriously. Show me the phi...

The social definition of inertia; demonstrated here as “meaning is use”. :lol:

Next demonstrate your comprehension of today’s set word by using it successfully in a whole sentence. Tomorrow, we can try using it in a paragraph. In...

Do you have a source where it is clear that is the argument? The Stanford article I cited on the prime matter issue fits with my view that Aristotle n...

Lol. Why are you trying so hard to avoid talking about inertia? What is that when it is at home in your naive realism paradise?

That seems more like a huge difference. :grin: Do you see how one contradicts the other? We have tapped into quantum tunnelling/entanglement in a big ...

Err no. Mass is not a simple matter of a weighing a kilo of stuff when you get beyond schoolboy physics. It is defined in terms of inertia - resistanc...

“What a thing means is simply what habits it involves.” CP 5.400) :up:

First, reductionist is a technical term. Second, you are well recognised as the name caller and scoffer in chief around these parts. :hearts:

How many times do we have to scratch the same itch. :smile: The process of “definition” is circular. For a reductionist like Banno, that is a bad thin...

I’m unclear as to what you mean. But tunneling and entanglement don’t seem relevant even if axons were understood as copper wires with a flow of elect...

Surely what he wanted to refute was an efficient first cause to the Cosmos. And this led him to claim that the actuality of Being must therefore be et...

Conversation? I asked you a question that you can’t/won’t answer. I supplied the reference to how modern physics would quantify substance. Play or go ...

You had your chance to reply. And...

I wouldn't. Banno did. What else did you think I was picking out here?....

You mean that I just exposed your own disingenuous game here. Yes, you can buzz off now.

It's what you said. And it seems legit. :grin:

I mean it could be that you are just trolling, or lazy, or something else. But I don't mind if you believe it is this.

But we agree why that is so.

We agree then. :ok:

I realise you are not interested in the real answer here. But physics has arrived at its most general way of measuring units of substantial being - ht...

The usual lumpen riposte. How heavy is your 1kg mass in outer space? What are your units of measurement now? Are you going to rely on a pair of scales...

Great. I’m just pointing out how it contradicts your broad generalisation in the OP. You now need to modify your statement to claim only a community o...

Sure. That is why I used that example. As a great big question-mark counter to the OP's generalisation.... If Isis collectively agreed that its course...

Always looking for the loopholes that might lie in what we don't know? :razz: In fact we do know plenty about glia. And you keep talking about electri...

Thanks for digging out the bit you had in mind. We have of course been through this hoop before. Not that I mind a re-run. :razz: As this Stanford art...

I have. Although it’s been a while. Which quote or paragraph did you mean?

I think you are in essence right. The problem is how do you then define flourishing? Isis flourished in some sense as a community bound by shared prec...

Which passage did you have in mind where he labelled it a fiction?

Sorry, I misread your "primary substance" as "prime matter". But then I'm still not sure which you have in mind here. However I would see Primary Subs...

So "mass" has been properly identified and defined? Or did you mean "massiveness"? Oh dear. Back into the good old metaphysical debate about "substanc...

Trans means "beyond" and so that would be a claim of dualism. Pan is a claim of monism. My own approach is semiotic and so triadic - about a relation ...

So the cryptochrome example would go to my point. The nanoscale is where quantum effects can be harnessed by molecular machinery. The claim is that is...

Surely what Aristotle meant by prime matter is one of the most fraught debates in metaphysics. But it can’t be cashed out as mental stuff. Nor even, i...

It has to be the case that the matter~antimatter symmetry couldn’t actually cancel away, and so some latent asymmetry exists. This has been confirmed ...