creativesoul

I'll hold off for a while... You can do better than this.

Water is not a relation.

You've this very odd habit of claiming agreement, and/or offering praise and then immediately asserting something that does not follow. Weird. That wh...

Yup. I'm beginning to arrive at the same conclusion.

Is a tree dependent upon it's relations? Is a tree's existence dependent upon it's relations? How are we to make sense of this?

Some relations are prior to language.

What are we counting as a tree's relations?

Translation would render the question rephrased as follows... Is a tree existentially dependent upon all necessary conditions that are not inherent to...

No.

I agree with Rorty's opinion regarding social responsibility regardless of strict determinism. His discarding of truth is a huge mistake. He makes a c...

That has yet to have been determined. What are we counting as a tree's relations?

Because I took Quine to be targeting frameworks using the term "existence" as a predicate.

Is a tree existentially dependent upon it's relations? That question is very incomplete. I think that those are the kinds of frameworks and/or asserti...

Normal everyday common language users do not get lost in mistaken accounts of what they're doing, unless they are unknowingly misled into such cogniti...

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Existence, truth, and meaning are all irrevocably entwined within all human thought/belief by virtue of being presupposed and/or attributed therein. S...

Propositional logic takes account of common language by means of propositional terms. Common language use existed long before it became a subject in i...

Trees existed in their entirety prior to being taken into account. Any thought/belief to the contrary is the bewitchment of language use that Witt cou...

All use of the term "existence" is language use. All language use is existentially dependent upon language acquisition. All language acquisition is ex...

Pardon the sarcastic inflection, but... It is no wonder that the value of philosophy proper has been considered on a steady decline for so long now by...

Understandable. I'm trying to work through Quine and the notion that "existence" is not a predicate. I find that talking in terms of something's exist...

No need for me to further explain my own mistaken account. If I've confused your position with some past memory(which is not at all out of the questio...

What is added to our understanding by talking in terms of something's existence? That was the question. I'll let the reader decide whether or not the ...

The mind/body dualism is completely unacceptable on my view. I don't understand how that could be true. We do talk about ourselves with language, whic...

I do.

Rubbish. I asked a question. It is sensible and relevant and cuts to the core of my point. Do you have an answer?

Canada can defeat the Warriors. God has no chance.

The distinction was between the imaginative effort required for novels that is not required for films/movies... Denying that is foolish. Imagination i...

You want it all, but you can't have it...

What is added to our understanding by talking in terms of something's existence? I mean... We can point to trees. We can name them. We can talk about ...

Probably not much on my end.

I briefly read through the link. There's much to like, but there are some serious issues... The above is an excerpt from the article. I like the notio...

Show your work. Gratuitous assertions are not acceptable here. I don't think you know what you're talking about. Prove me wrong. Show how you arrive a...

As it stands this is a gratuitous assertion. Show your work.

How many outcomes are possible? What are the factors influencing and/or determining each? Are you saying that you need not know the answers to the abo...

If the door closing is the result of something else happening, then it is not random. The bit about the probability for us to exist being a mathematic...

I couldn't agree more. The language used to talk about both ought be based upon a criterion that is amenable to evolution, has the strongest possible ...

We are reporting upon our own thought/belief. All reports require something to report upon, someone to give the report, and a means for doing so. All ...

Thank you for pointing that out. I had been misreading "anthropocentrism" as "anthropomorphism". I would like to broaden the notion of anthropocentris...

Here, it seems there is some agreement between us. I agree that a thinking/believing creature need not be aware that it is drawing correlations betwee...

Show him the picture...

I'll put as much as I can into a more formal presentation. It will be later on. In the meantime, you may want to click on my avatar, click on 'discuss...

That is a highly problematic line of thought. To be meaningful is to be meaningful to a creature. Current convention shows that all theories of meanin...

Thought/belief is exactly what allows experience to emerge prior to language use and evolve gaining in it's complexity along the way. You're describin...

I'm willing. You're attributing agency where none is warranted. They are not assumptions. They are conclusions. So... We need to back pedal a bit. Cri...

I appreciate the accolades. You're too kind. I do make a concerted attempt to arrive at sound arguments. Verifiability/falsifiability is valuable. Coh...

If we get thought/belief wrong we get something or other wrong about everything ever thought, believed, spoken, written, and/or otherwise uttered. The...

Here's the rest... Apples are not existentially dependent upon being taken account of. Mt. Everest is not existentially dependent upon being taken acc...

I apologize for the sheer quantity of disagreements I've levied here. I can only hope that the explanations minimize future possible numbers... Howeve...

The bacteria candidate suffers from the same fate as the amoeba. Stimulus/response is adequate to explain the exhibited behaviour. Cause/effect... the...