How awful. You really believe that? What should change? Why should there have to be a purpose? Why is it bad if there isn't one. As we all know, life ...
I got that quote from the Internet, and of course there's something to it, because birth, and what follows it, isn't easy, is often uncomfortable and ...
I looked up the metaphysicses of George Kelly, and of Piaget, but I couldn't find the part where they state what their metaphysicses take as fundament...
I sometimes suggest that it would be impossible to prove that a world or a life-experience story is inconsistent, because there could always be some u...
That would be better, because I didn't want to believe that impersonal abstract logical facts are metaphysically fundamental. But then how do you expl...
Brief preliminary partial reply: Yes, a purely subjective experiential metaphysics would be neater, and, and as you said, i wanted that, and propose i...
Mathematics from logic doesn't sound surprising to me. I've been regarding mathematics as a logical subject. A mathematical theorem is an abstract if-...
Sorry this reply took so long, but it’s a long reply. . . Yes. Experience first. It seems to me that it comes down to our experience (but that's the b...
By my metaphysics, this universe is one of infinitely-many systems of inter-referring abstract if-then facts about hypotheticals. Among the infinity o...
Well, because there are infinitely many systems of inter-referring abstract facts, including life-experience possibility-stories, then, for any partic...
I emphasize that there's no continuum or medium that contains, and is shared in common by, all the abstract facts and systems of inter-referring abstr...
No, I say they're distinct, because they're unrelated to eachother, and completely independent of, and irrelevant to, and inaccessible to, eachother, ...
...if you're a Materialist, and believe that this physical universe is all of reality. I don't think there are many Materialists here. Michael Ossipof...
Of course someone can refer to the "Universe" of all abstract facts. But I'm not talking of arbitrarily dividing it into subsets. There are systems of...
Sorry about this reply being in the afternoon instead of the morning. I've just finished spending the entire morning straightening-out some aggressive...
Then that's different. It isn't that you don't understand what I said. It's that you think that I said something that I didn't support. ...but you reg...
Yes. In fact it's worse than that. You aren't even able to say which statement, word, term or phrase you don't understand the meaning of. Michael Ossi...
What were you wanting it to help with? It's helpful as an explanation. ...an explanation that doesn't make any assumptions or posit any brute-facts. I...
Saying that there are physical things and nonphysical things isn't Dualism if you acknowledge that the "physical" things are just an aspect or descrip...
Perdidi Corpus said: Probably so. In metaphysics, in academic philosophy, and here too, probably due to academic influence, there seems to be a notion...
. Life-Phase: Age 72 . Retired . Background: As my mother used to say, "Don't get me started." :D . Theist. Vedantist. . I’ve like science, but I disa...
. Much or most of it is. But often we state true facts here. Interesting that you should ask, because my metaphysics is an Idealism based on abstract ...
And how's that for an irrefutable argument? :D Thanks for demonstrating that you really don't understand the difference between an opinion and a fact....
Statement 1 implies that you're wrong if you don't think Frank Smith is an asshole. Statement 2 doesn't imply that. Statement1 states or claims a fact...
Incorrect. That opinion was clearly and explicitly stated as an opinion. ...not as a fact intended to correct or criticize everyone who believes somet...
But of course the inbetween-time is the problem, and what a problem it is ...the time during which robots and computers are still under human control....
This notion of machines abruptly, at some point, becoming "sentient" isn't valid. No doubt many kilobytes could be written about what "sentient" means...
The people who prosper most are the unethical, no-conscience, crude, selfish and aggressive people. ...people who don't care how many people have to s...
Let me add to my answer to this question: I don't have management or leadership skills. And, as I said in a previous message: " I'm completely non-pol...
Short answer: I wouldn't run for the office of a Philosopher-King, or any other public office. For one thing, at my age, I wouldn't want the duty and ...
It certainly isn't that the rulers lack the benefit of expert advice. They employ the best experts on psychology, persuasion, advertising, technology,...
Well that was there all along, the idea that the pharohs and kings were divine. The idea that the rulers were purer and better. And now the idea of de...
Calling it like it is isn't contemptuous; it's just frank. The real contempt for the "hoi polloi" is from their owners/herders./milkers/shearers. ...a...
And if good men (try to) do something,then evil men still rule the world. Good people are irrelevant to the overall state of the world (though of cour...
If I contradicted myself, or was in some way inconsistent, then feel free to specify a particular instance. . — Michael Ossipoff It isn't a question o...
It wouldn't make any difference. The population are almost entirely suckers. The rulers have always been exploiting that mostly-sucker population, and...
The limit that you wrote doesn't come through very well in ordinary characters. I'm referring to the limit, as n goes to infinity, of some function of...
What are we? Each of us is an animal. ...more generally, each of us is a purposefully-responsive device. An animal is different from such other purpos...
Every criminal ls the way he is because of heredity, or environment, or a combination of those. That doesn't make him innocent. Many crimes result fro...
That fact it was posted doesn't mean that it's so. I too noticed a post that made that claim that physics says the universe is finite, or that most ph...
Ahh...well maybe not quite :D A review of that conversation, and a more recent post from NoAxioms, show that NoAxioms posted a conclusive demonstratio...
Regarding 2+2=4 in terms of its usual route of proof, 2+2=4 is only a hypothetical fact, not an inevitable fact. It's conditionally a fact. It's a fac...
When I said that, I meant "hypothetical fact" to mean something that's like a fact, except that it's only hypothetically a fact. It isn't necessarily ...
A statement is an utterance that tells (truthfully or falsely) about a fact. A fact is a state-of-affairs, an aspect of the way things are. ...or as S...
Some of them do. ...because the level-1 multiverse notion assumes that this universe is infinite. In an infinite amount of space, with an infinite num...
There’s a modern Western modification of Advaita Vedanta, called (by its critics) “Neo-Advaita”. Google will bring up a number of articles about it, b...
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