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Count Timothy von Icarus

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I think Plotinus is informative since he brings up this line of reasoning and uses it to reject truth as simple correspondence. If truth is the corres...
December 23, 2024 at 17:37
Ok, that makes more sense. I had thought these were supposed to be good reasons for rejecting platonism, not simply not affirming it. However, it does...
December 23, 2024 at 16:52
What contradiction? The only one I've seen is that "since math is a sui generis human creation that doesn't exist "objectively " then it doesn't exist...
December 23, 2024 at 16:01
No, he is firm that dividing and composing is where truth is known as truth (for us). The paradigmatic knowledge is God's knowledge,which is not discu...
December 23, 2024 at 14:52
What do you think about cases where we can speak truthfully about potency or what is not? For instance: "Joe Biden could have stayed in the 2024 elect...
December 23, 2024 at 14:26
Exactly, the predication is analogous, not the term. There is not an analogy between two different Goods (plural). Is the idea here: "either something...
December 23, 2024 at 03:17
Yes, you seem to be asserting this as a premise and then arguing from there. But this is to assume as true the very thing you're setting out to prove,...
December 21, 2024 at 14:56
:up: :100: Yes, the philosophy of Plato does not seem to be commensurate with modern subject-object dualism. It seems even less applicable to later Pl...
December 21, 2024 at 14:43
Peter Redpath makes a pretty convincing argument that it is never our terms that are (properly) analogical for St. Thomas (obviously when we equivocat...
December 21, 2024 at 14:22
Ok, but you didn't answer how this "reality" can be inferred "by science," but numbers absolutely cannot be. It seems to me that the empirical science...
December 21, 2024 at 13:26
Yeah, why answer a difficult question when we can just engage in question begging? And if everyone just assumes the asserted conclusion is right, this...
December 21, 2024 at 03:32
This works sometimes. I don't think it always does; that is, we cannot reduce thought down to "atomic propositions." But even if we can, does this mea...
December 21, 2024 at 03:14
The first: Yes. The second, no. My point is that it is not only or even primarily propositions that are true or false. We have beliefs that can be tru...
December 21, 2024 at 01:12
Something cannot be true and false because nothing can both be and not be anything, in the same way, at the same time, without qualification. But sent...
December 21, 2024 at 00:54
:rofl: It does. Is the idea here that just thinking something is asserting it? Surely a woman can suspect her husband of cheating, and thereby hold a ...
December 21, 2024 at 00:39
Agreed, although I don't know if "context of assertion" is the right framing. Beliefs can be true or false without being needing to be "asserted." Wel...
December 20, 2024 at 23:37
What about the quote from the OP? https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1017.htm#article4 Yes, something cannot be black and not-black, just as a sentence c...
December 20, 2024 at 22:41
This distinction seems more Kantian than Platonic to me. I think "noumenal" might be a better tern here, i.e. "a thing that exists independently of hu...
December 20, 2024 at 22:09
I know this isn't your definition, but I would suggest a modification to just: "Platonism about mathematics (or mathematical platonism) is the metaphy...
December 20, 2024 at 19:30
I will just note that the path from the elimination of analogy vis-a-vis goodness and beauty to total equivocity (extreme relativism or nihilism) is q...
December 20, 2024 at 19:11
"Philosophy as therapy," has always interested me. There is this neat New Yorker article on it. It would be interesting to me if anyone had ever tried...
December 17, 2024 at 21:18
Superdeterminism isn't really an interpretation in quantum foundations, like Pilot-Wave or multiple worlds is. Some interpretations are sometimes said...
December 17, 2024 at 16:12
:up:, although sometimes the term gets applied to less spurious theories. One way I've seen it framed is this: Lots of experiments, particularly modif...
December 17, 2024 at 16:04
Is there a distinction in quantum theory between "nothing" and "nothing-ness?" The questions: "why existence?" "why the singularity?" or "why cosmic i...
December 17, 2024 at 12:32
Wilzek isn't talking about nothing there, he is talking about the "metric field," space-time. I have read a bunch of Wilzek's stuff and I have never s...
December 16, 2024 at 22:26
You've mentioned you don't really understand this stuff well, and it shows. Might I recommend perhaps letting go of the rigid commitment to what "scie...
December 16, 2024 at 13:00
It's an interesting question for sure. But against the "information requires consciousness," view we might consider the ways in which information theo...
December 15, 2024 at 22:45
What's always funny to me is how the classical Newtonian view is held up as the paradigm of "common sense intuitions." Is it? It's sometimes claimed t...
December 15, 2024 at 22:20
I think this is an unwarranted assumption. Most philosophers of physics are physicists by education and work experience. The ones with philosophy PhDs...
December 14, 2024 at 18:14
There are quacks and charlatans who use quantum weirdness to push all sorts of nonsense. There are also lots of people who try to label the work of se...
December 14, 2024 at 14:27
No doubt, but other ends often loom larger. Stinging often kills bees, and yet they sting for the good of the hive. Male spiders, male praying mantis,...
December 13, 2024 at 16:16
There will be more of us once we unveil the new Thanksgaining mascot, Pizza the Hutt. People will drop their dry turkey in no time. /uploads/files/nf/...
December 13, 2024 at 00:52
Truly, we should forget the prayers and thanks and just fully embrace our secular bourgeoisie culture. Rename the damn thing "Thanksgaining." The sale...
December 12, 2024 at 23:10
Sure, I just think the extreme cases are useful to demonstrate how it is implausible, from the perspective of almost any ethics, that we always benefi...
December 12, 2024 at 12:33
I think it particularly makes sense from the perspective of virtue ethics, but I think it will make sense in almost any ethics. Our lives are finite, ...
December 11, 2024 at 23:50
There are two distinct crises, occurring centuries after Origen is dead. The first takes place around 400, during sort of the Patristic golden age and...
December 11, 2024 at 23:41
Because it's generally bad to have one's grandchildren die. The one act, saving the kids, might entail dying. Which is to be preferred? The claim that...
December 11, 2024 at 20:06
So what do you think of Plato's response to Protagoras' similar position in the Theaetetus, that philosophers and teachers are worthless if we can nev...
December 11, 2024 at 19:26
Yes, and they would feel the same at random, according to arbitrary desires, so we should expect overlap to be roughly random. So, supposing human des...
December 11, 2024 at 18:42
Not for most ethics. It is things, not acts that are primarily good. One can have a "good car," a "good doctor," a "good government," or a "good perso...
December 11, 2024 at 15:09
I couldn't quite parse what you were trying to say. Is the contention that individuals always know what is best for them and what is true for them vis...
December 11, 2024 at 14:22
The ubiquitous "bourgeoisie metaphysics" rears it's head again! But Mww, if someone like St. Augustine, Boethius, or Plato are right, then it is your ...
December 11, 2024 at 03:02
Two is a false premise, yet it's easy to imagine an example where something like this might be successful. For example, the courageous fire fighter mi...
December 11, 2024 at 02:46
So this only covers part of ethics then? Those are just examples. When I think of people who feel genuinely bad about what they have done I am thinkin...
December 11, 2024 at 01:40
This is a really great work, both volumes, not so much because of Fukuyama's individual contributions, but because it's fairly encyclopedic and is goo...
December 10, 2024 at 19:09
But that isn't what is required at all; that would be a straw man relying on extremes (Plato's point, for instance, requires significant nuance). Fort...
December 10, 2024 at 18:13
Yes, but you have said that from your perspective the choices made by Boethius are better for them and "the best option they have available," and that...
December 10, 2024 at 15:05
There was a fight in Syria, just not much of one. The rout wasn't particularly different in kind from that the ANA suffered without US support, and th...
December 10, 2024 at 14:34
Except for: Afghanistan 2021 South Vietnam 1975 Iraq 1991, 2003, and 2014, see below: /uploads/resized/files/z9/z1byltctvl57oczj.jpg Nazi routs follow...
December 10, 2024 at 12:07
It relied heavily on Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, and other Iranian proxies to survive. Iran and Hezbollah just lost a lopsided war against Israel. Israel...
December 10, 2024 at 03:14