At present, it seems it is headed towards a recreation of the "Dot Com Bubble." Now, that doesn't mean it won't change things later on. The internet o...
I haven't given Russell's paradox two much thought, at least as it respects logic as a whole. I think Wittgenstein gets something right in his early w...
Fair point. We are our consciousnesses, and we do not experience consciousness without a body (at least in this life). We are not "just brains," altho...
The framing in the OP seems to lean towards the idea that "logic" is "formal logic." Thus, we speak of "languages," "systems," and "games" and difficu...
About 2 million Germans were murdered in reprisal genocides across Eastern Europe towards the end of and immediately following WWII. Perhaps 3 million...
Eros leads the way upwards, as Plato says in the Symposium: And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin f...
Anyhow, this is interesting because it seems to imply that a thing must be given its telos from some external source. However, in the Physics, Aristot...
Agreed. I've moved this to the Lounge due to lack of substantial philosophical content. It seems like just a list of headlines of people saying silly ...
Well, I wrote and lost a long reply to this, but to keep things short, I would say the denial of potentialities related to form are most important. E....
Correct, stoic-inspired omnipotence. But the One wouldn't have a strictly Aristotlean potency, since this would entail mutability, change, and parts. ...
In the older sense of eidos, yes. Clouds are intelligible and sensible. If they lacked form they couldn't be experienced as clouds. Yes, it's a proble...
What does this mean? Are there non-configurative phenomena as a constant? "Agent" as the term is used in chemistry, e.g anything affecting change, or ...
If the mind is imposing a form on "clouds of interstellar matter," that lack it, why does it impose one form over any other? Why would this imposed fo...
To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another...
Well, it helps to pull apart popular "uses of Kant" and Kant's actual philosophy here. Kant doesn't speak of brains, neuroscience, genetics, etc. when...
You can certainly frame the issue in terms of harm. You can also frame it in terms of freedom, since misinformation can at times act as a clear limit ...
Ha, I am now seeing that the way I wrote that is extremely unclear. Of course matter has form in hylomorphism! What I meant to say was that in modern,...
Ah, ok. I thought the entirety of your post had gone over my head. Not German by the way lol. Seems like something like convergent evolution, or even ...
Well, the concept of potential is used all the time in practical matters, e.g. the counterfactual analysis that makes up a great bulk of the work done...
Yes, that's a good point. This is why dispensing with final causality in biology is so difficult. But final causality also goes off the rails when we ...
Sure, no "true Jew" has ever thought God became man in the very same sense that no "true Scotsman" has ever told a lie. Right, that was exactly my poi...
I don't have any problem with the general description, because it seems to pretty much the insight that "act follows on being," that the eye has a fun...
This is simply an invalid inference. That there is not evidence available to confirm that a message has been transmitted faithfully is not evidence th...
Sounds similar to the idea of participation in existence through limiting essence in scholastic thought. Essence is a limit on the fullness of being; ...
https://i.ibb.co/YNgYyCB/wtflol.jpg I find it particularly amusing that this was in response to a question about him tanking a "Ukraine aid for border...
And then Deely has some very interesting stuff on the Doctrine of Signs lying prior to logic in John Poinsot that gets at the relationship between tru...
This is the exact thing Artistotle circles around in Book IV Chapter II of the Metaphysics, only vis-á-vis being and unity (truth comes into it later ...
Yes, and I assume in copying that line you actually finished the sentence, which continues: "for by Him all things were created, both in the heavens a...
Wouldn't Christianity be a prime example to the contrary? Jesus and all of the initial Apostles were Jews. Unless we're going to claim that all the ea...
Sure, and that's possible, but what are likely the earliest documents that exist even mentioning Jesus mention him as divine. Of course you don't. And...
If information is thought of as form (actuality, quiddity) then the idea of information as a "foundation" of sorts is very old indeed. In Aristotle, f...
It's worth noting that the compilation dates of the Gospels cover a wide period. One should not take "scholarly consensus" about the order and dates o...
I don't disagree with the quote. However, I do disagree with your formulation that the world is "nothing but social practice," and "social practices a...
Also, the insight that a mind is needed to actualize space and time doesn't require a view like Kant's. For a t to be oriented up or down, or on eithe...
Apparently, Kant had long been interested in incongruous counterparts. Prior to his "critical turn," Kant had used a similar argument to support the N...
I suppose a key difference I see is that Moore is ultimately concerned with the truth. It's not just that he knows he has a body, but also that it's t...
As I noted above, you can't be, strictly speaking, a Kantian and claim that neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and the like are telling you things ab...
I never found Kant's arguments here particularly convincing. It always seemed to me like a strange twist on the Aristotlean conception of space and ti...
What is considered true or false also varies depending on cultural or historical context. Does the fact that many people throughout history thought th...
IMO, the issue is the reduction of logic to "formal logic," the form of argument, without any concern for the matter of an argument (what Scholastics ...
I'll have to check those out. Fantasy can be very hot or miss like that. I'm a big fan of R. Scott Bakker's fantasy novels but I have had a few people...
I agree with your sentiment. It makes sense on the view that the "external" world is intelligible in itself. It does not, however, make sense on the v...
Sure, you can do that if you can compare the territory with the map. But now what is to be done when the territory is unobservable by definition? This...
Well, on the error point, I don't think someone like Berkeley has the same problem here. For Berkeley, we see the world as it is under normal conditio...
Yeah, it's a moniker because Kripkenstein doesn't really seem like Kripke (in his other work) or Wittgenstein, but rather a (by some accounts monstrou...
Is this his "A New History?" That's probably my favorite survey of Western Philosophy (although Durant has the best prose), and the topical organizati...
To be clear, "metaphysical truth" isn't some vague term I've concocted. It's the term used to denote "truth" in the sense that the term has been used ...
If we can never see the world "as it really is," then how shall we explain things like mistakes? For instance, if I mistake my car for one that looks ...
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