Michael Ossipoff

...only if you think that the truth of the premises and conclusions is necessary. The truth of an if-then fact is quite independent of whether its pre...

Any discussion about what "exists" is a mess, partly because "exist", "real" and "is" are metaphysically-undefined. For example, here are two frequent...

Casino dice are required by law to be as balanced and perfectly cubic as possible. The pips, in order to have the same density as the rest of the die,...

Sure, but has it ever been (intentionally) done? Would it be able to significantly affect the probabilities of heads and tails? Make the coin of alumi...

As animals, we're purposefully-responsive devices, basically like a mousetrap, refrigerator-lightswitch or thermostat--but differing from those by hav...

The "computer-simulated universe" theory doesn't make any sense. How are transistor-switchings in a computer somewhere supposed to be able to "make" a...

If a child was being beaten in the library, shouldn't you have gone to the scene and interceded, maybe asking the checkout and reference desks to reco...

I don't know about that, but Reality is unknowable, undiscussable, un-describable. Metaphysics doesn't cover or describe Reality. Of course. Metaphysi...

Of course. As I've been saying, it can't be proved that Materialism's world doesn't exist as a brute-fact and an unverifiable, unfalsifiable propositi...

I've never heard of a loaded coin. Loaded dice, sure, the Romans used them. But loaded coin? I've heard of 2-headed or 2-tailed coins. Michael Ossipof...

I'd said: You replied: Nor should you, when I don’t give any justification for what I say. So let me say what I meant, and why I said that. Then, if y...

Yes, any discussion of things that aren't what they are, facts that are both true and false, might be a fun wordgame for some, but contradictory "fact...

Sure, within a particular logical system, I don't think we disagree on anything. Michael Ossipoff

One other comment: I want to emphasize that I claim that metaphysics doesn't cover, describe, explain or govern all of Reality. Metaphysics is the lim...

Of course, but those objects, that stuff needn't be other than hypothetical. ...nothing more than part of the if-then fact, whose "objects" needn't "b...

True. I just meant that it isn't necessary for anyone to actually find and hold up a Slitheytove or Jaberwockey, in order for the if-then fact to be t...

Yes. Good question. I guess "objectively-existent" is something made-up by the Materialist. He'd have to be the one to say what he means by it. After ...

You said: . . You know they do. …in the physical story. . . I don’ t know. Doesn’t it seem as if the first reproducing organism, and its natural-selec...

I didn't say we aren't different from the other animals. Language is one such difference. As for "rationality", I don't think it's present as much as ...

I didn't deny that the kinds of animals differ from eachother in salient ways. I said that we're very different from the other animals (and that they,...

Not really. The metaphysics that I propose doesn't have or need a brute-fact, or any assumptions. There are abstract if-then facts. No one denies that...

Sure, if you don't mind an unnecessary brute-fact (Why is there the concretely, fundamentally, objectively existent world that you believe in?) As I'v...

No one denies that the various animals differ from eachother, and have their own talents, skills, niches. Yes, humans are very different from the othe...

So some people say. But lots of things are said by some people somewhere. To re-quote: True, but a problem only for Materialism. Why? There are abstra...

But you're not going to say what it is? "There is a metaphysical view called Russellian monism according to which physics and mathematics only describ...

You mean I didn't say what kind of animals we are? Regardless of what kind of animals we are, we're animals. Michael Ossipoff

Or there's another option: "Mind" or "Consciousness" separate from and different from the body, that your academic philosophers are so confused about,...

It doesn't have an end, but are you sure that it has a remembered beginning? ...is something that I didn't do. Though reincarnation is implied by my m...

You wrote: . . I’m a Subjective Idealist. . . …from the point of view of their survivors. But as soon as you speak of matters from the point of view o...

Impossible to change or improve, I'd say. All we can do is try to stay out of the rulers' way, and somehow live a quiet and peaceful life. We sometime...

The origin of that individual problem is surely societal, though of course there could be hereditary weakness that would make someone less able to sur...

I'd said; As a Vedantist, that doesn't bother me, though i consider reincarnation a matter of metaphysics, not religion. Oh yes, Like many people, I u...

I'd said: You replied: Of course, because, for one thing, it's rare to remember anything about deep sleep. For another thing, of course the sleep at t...

Will reply tomorrow morning if i don't tonight. Michael Ossipoff

This is just a quick preliminary reply. If this reply misses anything, I'll reply more tomorrow. \ i was just looking at what I considered the 2 possi...

I just assumed that it was a kind of Theism. I don't want to presume to speak for someone else about what their position is. But, if it isn't Theism, ...

You wrote: . . Though I’m a Theist (not fashionable here), I think we should explain things ourselves whenever possible, at the lowest explanatory lev...

Not finding "word salad" in a dictionary, I'll just guess that it means words that don't constitute a sentence, or maybe a sentence that doesn't have ...

But I should add that, though logic isn't fundamental to Reality, it's fundamental to metaphysical-reality, and is what what-metaphysically-is is cons...

No. Though logic is part of Reality, there's no justification for saying that it's fundamental to Reality. Michael Ossipoff.

Who says that you're supposed to be doing all that for some future advantage? What if it's just for itself? It is. It needn't and doesn't have other p...

Wouldn't you agree that whether the good or bad aspects of life predominate depends on whose life it is, and what their circumstances are, and what ha...

I’d said: . . Janus replied: . . “My belief is the default position, so there!” . . Alright, get out the dictionaries—what’s he saying? . Merriam-Webs...

Of course an unverifiable, unfalsifiable brute-fact can't be disproved. That doesn't make it of interest or value. Michael Ossipoff

Someone here said: Well no, because science only studies, investigates and describes (as well as possible) this physical universe and the interactions...

Saying “You’re in a life for a good reason” isn’t the best way to say what I meant. I meant something more like “We’re in life due to an explainable c...

Of course that's good advice, regardless of what, if any, metaphysics you subscribe to. ...and whether or not there's reincarnation. Mad Fool continue...

You won't. If you're reincarnated, you won't know that. You won't remember a past life. If you instead go into the deep-sleep at the end of lives, you...

Part 2 of Reply: . You said: . . Probably not, because it depends on what is meant. There’s a sense in which each of us is the same system that we wer...

Part 1 of Reply: . I’d said: . . You replied: . . I think so, for my metaphysics and for Materialism. I can’t prove that Materialism’s objective funda...