I’d said: . . You replied: . . Hello? You didn’t only say that Conservation can’t be directly tested using Conservation of Energy alone. . You said th...
You said that Conservation of Energy is a principle. You said that a principle can't be directly tested or used.. Measuring for change in the energy o...
Not compelling enough to disagree with? :D That's a rather self-contradictory statement to leave it with. What's wrong with leaving it with the factua...
...whatever you mean by "get hold of sufficiently". When you said something like that before, I invited you to specify, in particular, which word, ter...
But if we can leave out the silly "fundamentalist" charge, I agree that of course Reality is indeterminate, and not described or explained by Metaphys...
. Resurrection is a different topic. . Reincarnation is incompatible with Materialism because within the beliefs of Materialists, there’s no way that ...
Not if you're only asking about metaphysical reality. If the topic is limited to metaphysical existence, I don't think there's a problem like that, be...
"The protagonist of that story is its essential, central, primary component. ...because a possibility-story is a life-experience possibility-story onl...
It's difficult to converse without specific, explicit definitions. So, if there are many Materialisms, then Materialism advocates need to clarify whic...
You said that Conservation of Energy is a principle, not a law. But there are ways to directly test Conservation of Energy. Hint: Determine whether th...
You're welcome. Let me know any time you have a funny belief that you want checked. Alright, I'll give you more help: You said that Conservation of En...
At SEP, i found where it said that Popper wanted "a criterion for a scientific theory or hypothesis to be scientific, rather than pseudoscientific or ...
I searched Google for Principle of Demarcation. I didn't find it. But I found Principles of Demarcation. (plural) Those were stated to be some princip...
That's a reply to something that i didn't say.. I said that metaphyicses aren't defined in terms of physical law. It is, or should be, obvious, that "...
I didn't say anything about whether it does or not. In the quoted passage, I relayed what I'd read about the difference between the definitions of Mat...
Physicalism has two meanings: science-of-mind Physicalism and metaphysical Physicalism.. Metaphysical Physicalism differs from Materialism by explicit...
So everything that exists is subject to the laws of physics? Sure, if "existent" is taken as synonymous with "physical" Materialism, in other words. M...
Of course. That's what i said about my own experience. And i agreed that, for some reason, we're born into a world with some really harmful, undesirab...
Oops! I was in a hurry when i replied earlier, and I've just realized that I misunderstood, and thought that you were quoting Plato, when you were rea...
That's the conceptual way you look at it now. You're talking adult-learned concepts. But that isn't what life was when you were younger. You know that...
Well obviously life's meaning is subjective. It's for the person whose life it is. I looked up "Salvific", and it means "Having the intent or power to...
So he was a Dualist? For one thing, I don;t believe in Mind separate from body. You're your body. For another thing, it sounds like you're saying that...
It's about doing something for a reason other than because you like it. But there are things that you like. Working for survival is doing something fo...
What secret sources? Let me in on the secret. Why am I the last to hear about it? Must be because I'm fairly new to these forums :D Secret--Do you mea...
When I googled those 3 terms, I found them occurring together, without other alternatives included. But you already knew that. Sometimes the possibili...
But just because your thoughts, and the program-logic and preferences of a Roomba, aren't physical doesn't mean that you and the Roomba have souls. It...
Thoughts, ideas, feelings, wants, fears, aversions, can all be identified with the person's (or other animal's) physical body. A person, or any other ...
--Janus You're right, Janus, reincarnation is incompatible with Materialism. ...you know, Materialism, that disregards (when it doesn't deny) "nonphys...
...because it conflicts with Materialism, the official metaphysics. But Materialism is unsupportable, and reincarnation is metaphysically implied, or ...
The acceleration of the recession-rate of the more distant galaxies is a physical observation of physical things, and so it's physical, though physics...
. If X is inevitable, it doesn’t need explanation. Of course it would be necessary to give an argument that it’s inevitable. . I’d said: . . You repy:...
Sure, with reflecting objects. Something can be green because it emits only or mostly green light, or because it absorbs, from (reflected or transmitt...
Yes, the question "Why is there something instead of nothing" is an often-asked question. Michael Faraday answered that question in 1844. I couldn't f...
If you look at a green Christmas tree light, it looks green, because either it's emitting green light, or because its colored glass is absorbing all t...
Isn't the past/present/future thing a bit artificial? What we call the present--Isn't it really just the recent past and immediate future? No point tr...
Of course. For example, maybe the most notable and dramatic instance these days is the acceleration of the recession-rate of the more distant galaxies...
I’d said: . . You replied: . . Yes, I see what you mean. I just meant that it’s metaphysically unsurprising. But yes, it’s fantastic. But the fact tha...
. Of course, I agree with all of that. The Atheist philosopher’s attribute-less god doesn’t make sense to me either. . Let me just clarify about my Th...
(Sometimes nested quotes don’t seem to work. In this reply I sometimes use them, but sometimes just write the inner quote in ordinary quotation-marks....
There are infinitely many abstract if-then facts. There are infinitely-many inter-referring systems of if-then facts. There are infinitely-many of tho...
Maybe, but explanations of God are a largely Atheist topic. Many Theists don't regard God as an element of metaphysics. Metaphysics is about explanati...
. There are uncontroversial metaphysical statements and arguments. I propose a metaphysics based on those. …an uncontroversial metaphysics. . . If it ...
I'd say it isn't. A proposition can't be true and false. If all Slithytoves are brillig, and all Jabberwockeys are Slithytoves, then all Jaberwockeys ...
(revised reply) I didn't mean that the way it probably sounded. I didn't mean that our interpretation, conclusions or explanation about what we experi...
I’ve missed the definition of “instrumentality” that’s being used here. According to dictionaries, “instrumentality” means “use for a purpose”. . I do...
Revised post (original was canceled): How awful. You really believe that? What should change? Why should there have to be a purpose? Why is it bad if ...
Thank you,, Mr. Science-Worshipper. Yes, that's what they told you in school, and it's true, as far as it goes. No one denies the material account, th...
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