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Michael Ossipoff

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I’d said: . . You replied: . . Yes, I express that by sayings that they’re parts of your experience. . I suggest that the person and hir (his/her) sur...
January 26, 2018 at 23:27
Yes, .as affairs are now, there are definitely timeless abstract facts. There never was just Nothing and never could be. Well,some people want to say ...
January 25, 2018 at 22:17
But, if logic and mathematics are the same for everyone, everywhere, anytime, even in other universes or possibility-worlds, then doesn't that mean th...
January 25, 2018 at 21:40
You only named 5. Did you leave out Heaven? My understanding is that Heavens and Hells are said to be temporary experiences before reincarnation. I do...
January 25, 2018 at 18:57
The notion of God as a "being", and the notion of "creation" are anthropomorphic. Michael Ossipoff
January 25, 2018 at 18:43
The deep sleep at the end of lives is an arrival into Nothing (but we never experience the absence of experience). ...comfortable, restful, peaceful. ...
January 25, 2018 at 17:28
It's as close to Nothing as anyone could ask for. Michael Ossipoff
January 25, 2018 at 16:51
I regard inevitable abstract facts as the basis of metaphysical reality. (...but not of overall Reality, which isn't explainable, describable discussa...
January 25, 2018 at 16:38
Sorry about the delay, but I wanted to be more specific this time. . I’d said: . . You replied: . . The feeling that’s behind the allegory. . (…a feel...
January 25, 2018 at 15:46
I’d said: . . You replied: . . Dictionaries report common usage. No one believes dictionaries to be the ultimate authority on right and wrong usage. ....
January 24, 2018 at 00:27
1. The "if" premise and "then" conclusion of an if-then fact aren't necessarily facts. If the "if " premise is a fact, then the "then" conclusion is a...
January 23, 2018 at 19:15
I’d said: . . You posted a definition: . . Very good. That’s an improvement, because you’re saying that OED’s definition is your definition of Theism....
January 23, 2018 at 00:13
No. For one thing, as I told Bloodninja, facts, logic, physics and metaphysics don't cover, describe, or govern all of Reality. In fact, even in the m...
January 22, 2018 at 22:16
I’d said: . . You replied: . . No, I haven’t been talking about that time. The time when you’ve completely shut-down won’t be experienced by you. For ...
January 22, 2018 at 22:10
Pseudo says: . . Pseudo can draw conclusions about (specified) Theisms that he’s heard stated or asserted,. …but should tell specifically whom or what...
January 22, 2018 at 03:00
I’d said: . . You replied: . . Alright. You’d said: . . That’s your interpretation, explanation, of the objections that you’ve heard from Theists—thei...
January 21, 2018 at 02:15
Tell us your perfect answer. Anyway, with any metaphysical proposal, there are numerous questions and objections, from various people, to be answered....
January 20, 2018 at 22:51
No, I did. You remembered that. Sure, something in life. I demand a recount! :D Some say that there's something positively good about the absence of t...
January 20, 2018 at 22:39
\ Space isn't nothing. It's part of the physical world, a physical quantity, an attribute of the physical world. And physicists tell us that "empty" s...
January 19, 2018 at 22:01
I’d said: . . You replied: . . I just meant that the end of lives, when we approach Nothing, is a time without those negative things that you mentione...
January 19, 2018 at 21:14
I’d said: . . You asked: . . 1. There are abstract if-then facts. . People can debate whether they’re “real”, whatever that means. (I don’t take a pos...
January 19, 2018 at 20:06
No, because genuine science limits itself to the study and description of the physical world, the relations and interactions among the components of t...
January 19, 2018 at 17:51
I’d said: . . You said: . . Incorrect. You offered a theory to explain their objections. . I’d said: . . You replied: . . So it’s a reasonable conclus...
January 19, 2018 at 17:08
Yes, and Vedanta, and Hinduism in general, too. I claim that there's no memory of past lives (and that, in fact, they're completely indeterminate), an...
January 19, 2018 at 02:32
What I was saying yesterday, I was saying because any discussion about what was before (leading to, resulting in) birth, needs some metaphysical frame...
January 19, 2018 at 02:22
Earlier today I said: "What was there before, and how and why did this life start?" "Before" can be taken to mean "leading to" or "resulting in". So i...
January 18, 2018 at 04:28
What was it like? No, I'm not asking for your experience aferwards, when "it feels like no duration has transpired." I didn't say that you don't exper...
January 18, 2018 at 03:31
Correct. It's the metaphysics that I've been describing here and there. I described it in the post that you're replying to.. You're referring to the "...
January 18, 2018 at 02:33
Agreed. I don't say it quite the way Mark Twain did, but it's of interest. What was there before, and how and why did this life start? More in a few m...
January 17, 2018 at 23:13
Ii doubt that. To me, that sounds pessimistic. Loss, lack,and dread are all firmly part of the world of things and events. As for angst, that's just a...
January 17, 2018 at 22:48
Obviously we should try to explain as much as possible in verbal, discussable terms. Metaphysics is the verbal discussion-topic that takes verbal desc...
January 17, 2018 at 22:04
I’d said: . . Where have I said in my post that theism is undefined? . Just here: . I’d said: . . You commented: . . So you were referring to an “act”...
January 17, 2018 at 21:45
Harry Hindu says: . . I quote that first, because it establishes Harry’s politeness-level, and behavioral-level. …a behavioral-level that’s common amo...
January 16, 2018 at 19:03
I’d said: . . You replied: . . Not clearly defined to you. You’re criticizing an action/activity without a definition of what is believed. . If someon...
January 15, 2018 at 21:45
You said: . . I quoted part of your post because, along with Harry’s post, it was what I was replying to. . . Please note that I didn’t evaluate your ...
January 15, 2018 at 21:31
There's a Mark Twain quote that I like: "I was dead for millions of years before I was born, and it didn't inconvenience me a bit." I like it, but it ...
January 15, 2018 at 20:24
Aggressive public-arguing Atheists tend to be devout believers in the religion of Science-Worship, and in the metaphysics of Materialism (though, acco...
January 15, 2018 at 02:45
What it amounts to is that you're just espousing Anti-Realist metaphysics, as do many of us, including me, ...a metaphysics that is about individual s...
January 15, 2018 at 01:13
Sentience is the property of being a purposefully-responsive device, as are people and other animals. Michael Ossipoff
January 14, 2018 at 23:01
About whether the mass-density in a black hole is infinite, here's a quote from the Internet. Of course I should state the source of the quote, and it...
January 14, 2018 at 22:57
Even during death, you never reach a time when there isn't experience. You don't experience the time after your complete shutdown. Only your survivors...
January 14, 2018 at 00:35
Starting point? A metaphysics should be based on, start from, something inevitable. No brute facts, no assumptions. I suggest that abstract if-then fa...
January 14, 2018 at 00:02
Sometimes it seems to me that there's a bit of exaggeration of science's needs and goals. Though I'm not anti-science, I don't support everything scie...
January 13, 2018 at 23:44
Quite so. Michael Ossipoff
January 13, 2018 at 23:33
— Starthrower Why should metaphysics depend on physics, scientific information about this physical universe? Definite uncontroversial things can be sa...
January 13, 2018 at 23:30
Sure, I'd say that most people who claim to reject metaphysics actually espouse the metaphysics of Materialism. Michael Ossipoff
January 13, 2018 at 23:24
You know that not all Theists believe that God is a "creature", right? A creature is something or someone that has been created. In fact not all Theis...
January 13, 2018 at 23:13
No one ever experiences Nothing. So, in a metaphysics that's about individual experience, there's no such thing. Michael Ossipoff
January 13, 2018 at 06:43
I'd say you're right. Yes, that (probably unconscious) bias, and primarily rhetorical, argument-winning-no-matter-what, purpose seems to always be pre...
January 13, 2018 at 06:40
Sure, there are a small minority of scientists who have allowed themselves to be bought, and hired to say that there's no human-caused climate change....
January 13, 2018 at 00:57