No, that issue isn't central to any evaluation of my metaphysical proposal, because the abstract facts that I speak of aren't tautologies, or facts bl...
I don't appeal to the authority of Michael Faraday. You seem to be suggesting that I'm appealing to Faraday's authority because he's a physicist, and ...
There are many available articles defining validity vs soundness, as those terms are used in logic, and I've never disagreed with anyone here about th...
We aren't speaking the same language. There' s nothing to say to your comment above, other than to refer you to SEP, so that you can find out what the...
Yes, much of what you say seems directly lifted from MetaphysicsNow’s post. Therefore, as my reply to you on those matters, I refer you to my reply (a...
Jack had no choice about what he is. He's despicable. It wasn't his choice to be born or raised to be despicable. But he's still despicable. Let's say...
MetaphysicsNow says: One of us is confusing facts with propositions. MetaphysicsNow quoted me: In the above quotation the following conditional: “If a...
Jack accepted the bribe because he's a sleazy, uncaring crook. Say, just for example, that he was born that way. It isn't Jack's fault that he was bor...
In Tim’s post that I’m replying to here: Not only does he not support anything that he says, but he doesn’t even specify an instance of the alleged er...
It's different. You have legal free-will. You don't have philosophical free-will. Legally: If you're being threatened, the law wouldn't call it your w...
First I'll briefly reply to a few of Tim's questions, and then I'll describe the metaphysical proposal that I'm referring to, and how it implies reinc...
...and you know that....how? If you aren't a computer, then how can you speak for what a computer does or doesn't experience? What does experience mea...
I suppose the Consciousness that you're referring to needn't be unbodily. Some people are claiming that there's some mysterious way that the brain cau...
What it amounts to is that you're using "Consciousness" to refer to something that I don't believe in. You're in good company. A lot of academic philo...
Of course that won't do. I've already clarified that I'm not interested in your impression or unsupported personal opinion. If you want to disagree th...
I’d said: You replied: You could say that about any event, explain it by saying that it’s caused by causality. For example, that could be said about t...
Perhaps I didn't make myself clear in my most recent posting here. I wasn't asking for your impression, or for an unsupported opinion. You said "Yeah,...
The notion of a philosophical zombie is a manifestation of the Spiritualist confusion of academic philosophers. Any device that can do what a person o...
You'd need to be a bit more specific :) On the occasions when I posted about my metaphysics, no one pointed to an assumption or a brute-fact, because ...
I've been away from the forum for a while. Good significance, I'd say. It removes from us the illusory burden of "our" choices. Our only choice-making...
You're conflating two different meanings for "free will". In your Mary & Jack example, of course it can be said that, when coerced by threat, Jack did...
I've deleted my reply, because it duplicates the same answer already given by several other people. Someone identical, or nearly identical, to you is ...
...according to an unverifiable and unfalsifiable belief called "Dualism". The metaphysics that I've proposed here (an Idealism) makes no assumptions,...
Hopefully no one here will claim that all of Reality is knowable, discussable, describable. If he does, then ask him if he really believes that words ...
Then they're self-declaring as Agnostics, not Atheists. "Atheist" means someone who believes &/or asserts that there isn't a God. All of our politicia...
Purple Pond-- Let me first answer a question in the later part of your post: No, if you're referring to the propositions consisting of the "If" premis...
Sure, regret for past mistakes bothers us. I guess it's natural to avoid future similar mistakes. To that end, it's right to analyze and evaluate our ...
We've been in this life for a long time. ...so long that it seems as if it were the most natural, normal and ordinary state of affairs (Of course it i...
Of course everyday conversation is particularly imprecise. That that doesn’t mean that metaphysics must be. Of course I don’t say that all metaphysics...
On the whole, I'm satisfied with my answer to your post. But there are two statements to which I could have replied better, I don't mean for this post...
I’d said: You wrote: Always take your time, and just reply when you have time. I’ve been at a few other forums this week, forums about sundials, calen...
This notion of an "end" consisting of entertaining yourself, is the way you live. Why? Only you know that. Evidently that instrumental living is somet...
I think that the matter of discussability and describabiliy has been resolved. . I’d said: . . . “Real” isn’t metaphysically-defined. I have no idea w...
Death will be like going to sleep. If there isn't reincarnation, then death will finally become sleep. . ...and that doesn't depend on there being an ...
I define "objective" as "perceieved by more than one individual, and, in some (not necessarily specified) manner, more than hypothetical". Michael Oss...
Yes, certainly. But there are two people at these forums who are giving me humungous flak for even suggesting a word for a matter of what is, but isn'...
By the way, I didn't say that words don't accurately and completely describe any reality. I said that words don't accurately and completely describe a...
Yes. If you don't have reason to doubt it, that's because there's reason to believe it's true, and no reason to believe that it isn't true.. Or maybe ...
To each their own :D It must--You say so yourself :D Indeed it is. I didn't bring it up for discussion. (...but it seems to be getting lots of discuss...
Yes. It's completely contradictory. Of course I didn't say it. :D I didn't say that metaphysics is the discussion of all that is. I said that metaphys...
Because there's no assurance that an assumption is right. But it was just a comment, not an assertion, and it isn't something that I'd argue or debate...
By metaphysics I mean general discussion of the limits of what describably, discussably is. By meta-metaphysics, I mean what else is. But I emphasize ...
Then I agree with them. Whether reincarnation, or timeless sleep, it isn't nonexistence or non-being. Only Materialists believe in the non-existence a...
The difference in meanings and interpretations described in your quote was what my story was intended to illustrate. As I said, that was the whole poi...
I didn't mean to go that far. I just meant that I myself want to avoid saying things that can be convincingly disagreed-with, and that a metaphysics t...
That isn't a statement. It's a question. It's meaningless to speak of "contradicting" a question. In any case, light, darkness, space and beings are, ...
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