Yes, they say that it's likely the smallest distance that's physically meaningful to speak of. It's about a hundredth of a millionth of a trillionth o...
A cat knows that if it waits patiently by a gopher hole, then it might get a chance to catch the gopher. A cat doesn't have language. If-then facts ar...
No. I didn't describe the world as statements of if-then facts. I described the world as if-then facts. An if-then fact's "if " premise and its "then"...
Where does SCG(13) come from? The name "SGC" stands for "Sub-Cubic Graph". That name might have something to do with the fact that each vertex of a cu...
In my initial post to this thread, i forgot to mention another large set of combinations: Suppose you have a piece of drawing-paper 2 feet by 1.5 feet...
SCG(13) has TREE(3) beat, big-time. It's difficult to find authoritative, reliable information about this, but it's said that SCG(13) > TREE(TREE(TREE...
Physics, the study of "the physical", is only about the workings of this physical world, and the inter-relations and interactions among its parts. For...
Angry grunting noises, instead of specific objections. Evasive? I've been repeatedly inviting you to give a specific objection to a specific statement...
It was part of a metaphysical proposal. ...in the sense that it's a clarification about something that the proposal doesn't say. It's a statement that...
The abstract if-then facts that I've mentioned as examples, including the Slitheytove & Jaberwockey syllogism, and the fact that, if the additive asso...
I'm talking, here, about the fact that you can't name a speculative statement in my metaphysical proposal. And please note that I didn't say that the ...
Yes, you said that you cannot find any statement in that metaphysics-proposal hat you could agree with. Yes, and that's why I said you should feel fre...
In one posting, Janus said: . . Alright, Janus should feel free to name an unfounded assumption in the metaphysics that I’ve been proposing. . Earlier...
Fine. Then feel free to "name any specific statement in that metaphysical proposal" that you don't agree with. That should be easy, since you've just ...
. Yes. I was just mentioning that someone could argue that there could have obtained exactly one fact: ... a fact that there are no facts other than i...
The world that we experience, and the detailed world that physicists find, when they closely investigate and examine the world, must, of course, be a ...
Sometimes a seemingly difficult question like that is just the result of metaphysical assumptions that aren't valid. For example, the metaphysics of M...
I'm not posting this to advocate that there's reincarnation, but just to answer the above-quoted comment. Certainly reincarnation is incompatible with...
Yes, most metaphysicses seem speculative, or to need assumptions. The metaphysics that I've been proposing isn't speculative, and neither makes nor ne...
. You mean it wouldn’t be meaningful to speak of complete Nothingness being the state-of-affairs, because there wouldn’t be anyone to experience it, k...
Or they might be (are, actually) Spiritualist mumbo-jumbo. An animal is unitary. No separate body and mysterious "Mind", with its mystical speculative...
Quite so, if you believe in a brute-fact, and ask the "Why" of your brute-fact. :D So it depends on what you're saying there is. If you're committed t...
Is there really any question about it? There are numbers. They're abstract objects. They're things. Things are what can be referred to. Things are wha...
Incorrect. Quantum mechanics doesn't say that we can change what we will. But yes, I admit that, at philosophy forums, quantum mechanics has a big pse...
Say you have a choice between two courses of action. Consider each of the two options separately, one at a time, writing down its merits and demerits....
What falsifiable, tested and long-unfalsified scientific theory says that?. A person can train himself/herself to not want so much high-calorie food. ...
Yes, Compatibilism doesn't make sense. There isn't free-will. It has been famously said that we do what we will, but don't will what we will. Our acti...
Conscousness is the property of being a purposefully-responsive device. You can call that a "product of the brain" if you want to word it that way. Bu...
Some people object, to me, "You say that our world just consists of abstract facts, but how does that be real, how does it make our real world?" Well,...
Subjective Idealism, sure. No. The physical world is the setting for your experience. It's a necessary part of your experience. Of course. And of cour...
All that you know about this world is from your experience. ...is part of your experience. That's what your life is. The world surrounding you is mere...
Isn't "Solipsism" just a namecalling word used by advocates of Realism? There's some sort of supposed, pretend-consensus, stigma implied, so that, if ...
I don't know what W would say to that, but, by definition there's no such thing as an untrue fact. If a statement isn't true, it doesn't state a fact....
That's right, as long as it's clarified that "thing" is being used with a restricted meaning that explicitly excludes facts, or is maybe even limited ...
It depends on what kind of an other world you're talking about. Here are two possibilities: 1. Physically-Related Places: If you're talking about a ph...
But our autonomy is already curtailed, denied, if we aren't allowed to make our own life-choices. And that denial of autonomy is causing widespread su...
Obviously, as I too said, people, including disabled people, should have a fair and equal chance in life. Justice, equality, fairness,.opportunity. Bu...
Basically you're right. Certainly, if someone has a disability (old or new, resulting from injury, disease, old-age, or any other cause) that that per...
One thing that there's too much of in these discussions of metaphysics is vague criticism, unspecified disagreement, expression of emotional feelings ...
By the way, I've encountered "physicists" on forums before. One of them (what a coincidence) said that he, too, had a PhD. ...but he miss-spelled PhD....
Sure :D Not if what you've been posting is any indication. I'd said: You replied: No, I don' think so, because I'm not the one expounding on physics, ...
. Gladly. Ask me something specific. And feel free to say, if you feel that the meaning of something I said isn’t clear. But be specific. . . When I l...
By the way, velocity is a vector, and so direction of motion is part of what a velocity specifies. Speed is the scalar magnitude of velocity, but some...
Because this life (or this finite sequence of finite lives) is finite and temporary, and because sleep at the end of lives is final and timeless, cons...
1. There's dreamless sleep. 2. Shakespeare had a good point when he said, "To sleep, perchance to dream." Of course that needn't refer strictly to the...
The notion of "Creation" is over-anthropomorphiic. Yes, there are awful things that happen to people in this world. Because much of it has societal or...
Strictly speaking, of course it won't be "of the universe', because, as one is entering the timeless sleep at the end of life, s/he doesn't remember t...
The problems that you state are indeed problems, under Materialism. They go with the metaphysical belief called Materialism. But they, and Materialism...
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