It seems to me that 2+2=4 is best regarded as a hypothetical fact that's the "then" conclusion of an inevitable abstract if-then fact: Definitions:: "...
Sure, but whatever enlightenment we arrive at is largely from the experience of living yogically, conscientiously, unharmingly, self-responsibly, peac...
Well that's one good reason why I'm glad to have lived as long as I have. For whatever reason(s), a kid just doesn't doesn't have that capability of c...
Tolle's description of that problem was excellent, and a wake-up call. ...how people's internal conceptual narrative about description, evaluation, & ...
It sounds like the same phenomenon. Disconnected things happened--disconnected for lack of any notion of the principle or purpose behind one's life. I...
For its objective, 3rd-person meaning, isn’t awareness the property of being a purposefully-responsive device? That’s also how I define “consciousness...
Is that unusual for SEP, or academic philosophy in general? But the SEP article says that the word "fact" is used with more than one meaning,and so is...
By living un-harmingly, considerately and peacefully.. This universe is only one of infinitely many possibility-worlds, and this life is only one of i...
It seems to me that Western philosophers use "The World" to refer to the all that is, at the metaphysical level. I don't think metaphysics describes a...
Quite so. Though most, nearly all, Atheists are Materialists, believing that the physical world is all of reality, being an Atheist doesn't definition...
. There are Theists who believe that God is a being. There are Theists who believe every statement in the Bible. . Is one of those your “iteration”? ....
What does that mean? Which "iteration" are you talking about? But yes, if Biblical Literalism is an "iteration", and if it's the one that you're talki...
You people have read more theology, and authors like Hegel and Tillich, than I have, but what's been said here, in the quotes and in the discussion, m...
— Michael Ossipoff With what justification? You mean how is it implied by my metaphysics? According to that metaphysics, a person's life-experience po...
Alright yes, I took another look at your post that I was referring to, and you said sets of inevitable abstract logical facts. ...whereas I was talkin...
I've added this edit to my previous post: And if they're more interested in studying English itself, then the English words that they learn would give...
That's all true. But i emphasize that, not only would Angla-Esperanto be easier for English native-speakers, but it would also be easier for people st...
My metaphysics implies that: 1. Someone who was going to be born into a world like this would just be born into a different one, if everyone in this w...
Infinitely-many. That's why it's inevitable that there's one that has the same events and relations as our physical universe. ...and why there's no re...
Well, of course facts are things too. But, from the usage in the Wittgenstein quote, we can take things, for the purpose of this thread, to mean "thin...
And it's true. Or at least the Materialist's "things" or "stuff" would be superfluous if it exists. The proposition of objectively-existent universe, ...
The difference between Theism and Deism is a temporal one. In the larger, meta-metaphysical picture, are you sure that that distinction is meaningful?...
Can I repeat my standard answer on this subject?: P.T. Barnum said that there's a sucker born every minute. W.C. Fields said, "Never give a sucker an ...
Yes, religion isn't about anything physical, and isn't about provable facts, or anything to assert or debate.. Materialism doesn't hold up under exami...
. I’m going to be specific about the resolution regarding Atheism and Materialism, a few paragraphs farther down, after I reply to a few paragraphs of...
Well, listen to the scientists interviewed on Closer to Truth. They pretty much invariably give science as the answer to metaphysical questions. And i...
Part 2 (of 2) of this reply: . Alright, I must admit that I’m not the same person that I was in elementary school, junior high school (pre-secondary s...
Of course not. It's a valid study. In particular, physical science is a valid study and (best yet available) description of physical things and events...
I’m going to send this reply in two parts, in order that I can reply now instead of tomorrow. Part 2 will be along tomorrow. . I don’t believe in a So...
Why should there have to be meaning? Life is for its own sake, because there are things that we like. What more meaning should there be? I don't mean ...
Tegmark . In the article that you linked to, Tegmark says: . . There’s an astounding amount of confusion about consciousness. The Eliminative Physical...
But you know that they are. Not everyone calls them "real" or "existent". (Those two words aren't metaphysically defined, and so people can have diffe...
I don't think there is the ambiguity that Banno spoke of. A statement just plain isn't a fact. It's an utterance that tells about or claims a fact. A ...
What does that prove? The fact that a fact can be about a thing doesn't mean that a fact, itself, isn't a thing too. (That sentence, directly above st...
Let me state my definitions again, starting with "Thing", because some of the other definitions make use of that word: Things are whatever can be refe...
A physical law is a mathematical relation that has been observed and confirmed, between some physical quantity values. The fact that a physical law ha...
I'll just add that of course, the only way that I could clarify the meaning of something that I said would be for someone to, first, specify a particu...
Let me answer this in a briefer way: I've been posting definitions of the terms whose definitions were being discussed. (Things, Statements,and Facts)...
The reason why I spoke of impossible worlds, was because I don't know what kind of a world your simulation would simulate. So, to cover all possibilit...
The question of observer-independence broadens the subject a lot, which is why my reply was so long, and got into another topic. I was addressing the ...
A fact is a state of affairs. A statement is an utterance that tells about a state of affairs. A thing is whatever can be referred to. "The grass is g...
A fact, an action, or a modifier is a thing too. ...which spoils my definition of a thing. Maybe "thing" can't be defined, though we all know what it ...
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