As for metaphysics, of course it can't be proven that one metaphysics is true, and the others are false, because, for one thing, most are designed to ...
The "simulation" theory is nonsense. Have any of you read anything by or about Frank Tippler? He's been a strong advocate of the simulation theory, bu...
There’s much to say about this, because there are many answers to each of the various arguments. . There are probably many people who have the life-vi...
Which part of the above quotes of what I said sounded passionate? :D But I admit that what I post is sincere, and I realize that that isn't generally ...
There needn't be an emphasis on "getting it right." What's it all for, ultimately, other than itself? There are things you like. If you convince yours...
It's true that you'll never die, but it's got nothing to do with the persistence of your carcass or its atoms. You won't die. You'll go to sleep. "To ...
As for defining consciousness in the physical-story: It seems to me that you're defining it too broadly. I sometimes define consciousness as the prope...
Yes, I posted here because I wanted to find out what answers and objections can be made to the metaphysics that I propose. It "seemed like a good idea...
Actually, metaphysics can be a precise and unambiguous subject, Definite, uncontroversial things can be said, but here the discussion is instead, slop...
The point of that would be to sound fashionable and win arguments by being the loudest and rudest. You're right. I've noticed, and experienced, a blat...
I said I was going to post more thoroughly and systematically about “How can something completely hypothetical seem so non-conditionally real?”. But f...
Some further comments about the "contradiction": "Real" and "Reality" are used with respect to contexts,and need to be interpreted contextually. ...as...
Sorry, you didn't catch me in a contradiction. My position on the matter of whether or not the abstract-facts are "real" has been consistent. I've bee...
You mean because, in the first of those two quotes, I used the word "reality". In that sentence, I didn't mean "reality" literally, and I didn't mean ...
Well, as for the non-if-then facts of our daily lives, I don;t call that part of my metaphysics. The apparent non-conditional facts of our lives are j...
When I spoke of a "practical perception of" non-conditional facts--even though abstract implications are the metaphysical structural, mechanical, basi...
I didn’t say that there are no non-if-then facts in our experience. I said that every fact about the physical world (in our experience, of course) imp...
— jkg20 . But, for Janus, the matter isn’t subject to discussion, but is instead a matter of doctrine. . Janus says: . . Maybe Janus means that, if th...
I try to avoid the word "exist", because it isn't metaphysically defined. But of course abstract facts and objects "are there" in the sense that we ca...
Jkg20 says: Facts consist of relations among, or properties of, things, referred to as “objects”. Objects can be abstract objects, and needn’t have “p...
jkg20 doesn't know what number theory is. He's been misusing that term for some time. Here's a link to an article, from Brown University, explaining w...
The fact that someone is qualified on one subject doesn't mean that they can't be wrong about another subject, topic, issue or question. Michael Ossip...
Agreed. Yes, you’re the central, fundamental and primary component of your life-experience possibility-story. In fact, you’re not just “a component” o...
I refer you to my previous posting in which I showed how the additive-associative axiom implies 2+2=4, by a definition of some counting-numbers in ter...
Yes. ...but not necessarily objectively-existent things. Relations also relate hypothetical, nonexistent things to eachother. Are Slitheytoves and Jab...
I'd said: Yes. Yours is a physical fact. You can go to Paris, and walk into the Capitol buildings from which the country is governed, and painfully st...
Oh, ok--I wasn't trying to evade that question or issue. I just previously didn't understand that it was being raised. I'd said: Without them, how cou...
I've already acknowledged that there are other arithmetical axiom systems, including at least one (that of Peano) in which associativity is a theorem ...
As a particularly simple example of an implication, I gave the Slilthytoves syllogism. As an additional example of an implication, I mentioned that th...
I didn't notice the apostrophe. I've heard of Peano arithmetic, but that wasn't my topic. In answer to your question, the system of axioms that I'm us...
First, definition of some counting-numbers: Let "1" mean the multiplicative identity. Let "2" mean 1 + 1 Let "3" mean 2 + 1 Let "4" mean 3 + 1 By thos...
It's far from clear what you're saying in that post, but: I've complied with Janus's request that I post, as an argument for my metaphysics, premise(s...
Though I answered that, I'd like to also say this: One thing that I haven't found in reply, is a specific substantive and valid disagreement with what...
I didn't mean that you were only making fool of yourself via your gross mis-spelling, and your run-on sentence. I was referring also to your mis-state...
Can you be more specific about what I said that suggests that? You mean reincarnation? From as soon as I began participating in the discussion of rein...
...then shall I count run-on sentences too? Look, the gross mis-spelling, and the run-on sentence in that post are just common sloppinesses that typic...
(I don't use nested quotes, because they don't seem to work. I separately quote what I was quoted saying, and the other person's reply) I'd said: Yes....
Obviously an implication, an implying of one proposition by another, is a fact, and is not a proposition. And, because an implication is a fact, then ...
Maybe we could have saved all that unnecessary quibble if I'd just said "Implication" instead of "Implication Fact" or "If-Then Fact". Or maybe it sho...
My reply to your questions will be along this afternoon, tonight or tomorrow morning. I'll make my best effort to have enough computer-time to send it...
As a precedent for my argument, I cited abstract if-then facts or implication-facts.. You might reply by standing by your previous statement that ther...
I’d said: You said: Abstract propositions such as mathematical theorems can sometimes be proved. Propositions about particulars in our physical surrou...
Of course defining the counting numbers in terms of the multiplicative identity makes use of the multiplicative identity axiom, but that was too obvio...
There is at least one often-discussed system of axioms in which associativity is a theorem instead of an axiom. There's no one right system of axioms....
I’d said: (…but I realize that “valid” and “sound” really apply only to arguments. Strictly speaking then, an implication proposition (such as the tru...
If an "if-then" proposition, an implication-proposition, might not be true, then it can't be called a fact. It's only a proposition. One of the defini...
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