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Michael Ossipoff

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Yes, but not just. A thing is whatever isn't a modifier or an action (distinct from the word for a modifier or an action, and except when the modifier...
November 14, 2017 at 15:54
A statement is an utterance that tells about a fact. An utterance could be other than a statement. It could be "Oh shit!", or "Hey!". Michael Ossipoff
November 14, 2017 at 15:41
The fact is the state of affairs that the statement tells about. It's neither the statement nor the object. Michael Ossipoff
November 14, 2017 at 15:39
Doesn't a statement tell about and refer to both a fact and a thing? Maybe a fact could be defined as a state of affairs that an utterance tells about...
November 14, 2017 at 15:29
If you meant "thing" as a material thing or material object, then of course a fact isn't that kind of a thing. For the relation between "statement" an...
November 14, 2017 at 15:03
To what I said above, I should add that I guess it wouldn't really be right to call a self-inconsistent impossibility-world a logical system. Maybe a ...
November 13, 2017 at 23:55
Someone here quoted Wittgenstein as saying that there are no facts, only things. But surely facts are things, and so, by "things", he must have meant ...
November 13, 2017 at 22:19
Yes, the person simulated by the computer consisting of many humans has conscious experiences, as does any purposefully-responsive device. For more re...
November 13, 2017 at 20:45
The question implies that the AI is designed to be like us, and so it might very well speculate on origins. Some people suggest that our universe migh...
November 13, 2017 at 02:29
A Clarification: When I said that I engage Materialists, but rarely Atheists, I could clarify that all Materialists are Atheists, and nearly all Athei...
November 13, 2017 at 00:55
No, on the contrary, I defended your question, when someone else criticized it. ...only one of your beliefs. An unsupported belief and assertion about...
November 13, 2017 at 00:44
Other than certain door-to-door denominations (You know who you are), no one is more loud, preachy and evangelistic about his religious beliefs than a...
November 12, 2017 at 22:09
Given the kind of something that most people believe in, it's hardly surprising that some ask why there should be that Something instead of nothing. R...
November 12, 2017 at 20:41
Especially at a philosophy forum, apparent differences often likely have more to do with different definitions and wordings, rather than different sub...
November 06, 2017 at 20:37
You said: . . Yes, that’s what Michael Faraday was referring to, long before Tegmark or Tippler. Some claim that a fact has to be about something, but...
November 04, 2017 at 15:59
I’d said: . . You said: . . Ok, thanks for clarifying that. Of course that’s Atheism. I don't criticize someone else's position--to each their own. …a...
November 03, 2017 at 22:24
I’ve never read about theology, because I don’t think scientific, logical or philosophical conceptual reasoning applies everywhere, so I have no idea ...
November 02, 2017 at 20:41
When you said what I quote at the bottom of this post (especially the last part) I interpreted as you going into the personal-criticizing mode, and it...
November 02, 2017 at 01:28
I’d said: . . You said: . . I don’t understand the question. What should an expectation mean? . (rhetorical question—Don’t bother answering) . You sai...
November 01, 2017 at 16:44
The robot isn't really scared if it's just programmed to say, "I'm scared." But, if some genuine menace (a snake probably wouldn't menace a robot) tri...
October 31, 2017 at 18:15
It's the beginning of death. That's of interest. Michael Ossipoff
October 31, 2017 at 17:54
. I don’t say that based on a better understanding. What do I understand about God? . There’s a feeling that, behind the goodness of what is, there’s ...
October 31, 2017 at 17:35
Yes, consciousness, experience, will, are associated with a body in a physical world. I'm an Idealist, and I feel that the Anti-Realist view makes the...
October 31, 2017 at 05:12
I think people overestimate the degree to which they can understand God. Say you rescue an animal, maybe an insect. If it knows anything about you, it...
October 31, 2017 at 04:19
Of course that's just another (particularly extreme) instance of pursuing a false hope. ...choosing to immediately achieve the ordeal at the end of a ...
October 28, 2017 at 17:32
Sure, when you look at what happens to lot of people in this world. In fact, of course we're all born to die. For every one of us, something eventuall...
October 28, 2017 at 16:53
(Replying to the message quoted below.) I don't think life is that bad. It definitely can have its bad moments, but there are good things. Given that ...
October 28, 2017 at 02:37
I’d said: . . You said: . . Of course that’s an answer that Lawrence Kuhn often got when he interviewed philosophers and physicists, asking them that ...
October 28, 2017 at 01:08
I’d said: . . You said: . . That story is a life. Youre in that story. So you’re in a life. Your life is that story. . Among the infinity of life-expe...
October 27, 2017 at 20:52
Yes, from a distance, a seemingly solid picture,which, upon closer inspection, turns out to consist of something different from what you saw at a dist...
October 27, 2017 at 04:41
True, there isn't anything that nothing is. There's no answer to what nothing is, because it isn't anything. As you said, there can't be an answer to ...
October 27, 2017 at 04:27
Emergence is one of the forms of Spiritualist mumbo-jumbo for trying to explain a "Mind" separate from body. We;re the animal. The animal is unitary. ...
October 26, 2017 at 17:54
Not all propositions are about things or events in spacetime. When they aren't, when they're timeless propositions, then nonsimultaneaty doesn't apply...
October 26, 2017 at 17:44
It seems to me that what basically is, for us, is individual experience. Out life-experience story. ...a possibility-story (as described and defined i...
October 26, 2017 at 17:19
Pointilism allows colors and brilliance that aren't possible with the subtractive combinations of ordinary painting. Michael Ossipoff
October 26, 2017 at 16:50
It isn't a substantive disagreement. Definitional only. Nominalists just use "Exist", "Fact" and "is" with different meaning. Michael Ossipoff
October 26, 2017 at 16:46
I didn't say that reincarnation is certain. I said it's implied, is to be expected. I said "probably". We can agree to disagree about what's probable....
October 26, 2017 at 16:06
I said that there's metaphysical support for reincarnation In an earlier reply to you, I said that past lives are indeterminate, even in principle. Th...
October 26, 2017 at 15:40
I don't disagree with the statement that there's probably reincarnation. I just haven't seen the NDE reports that mentioned past lives. Michael Ossipo...
October 26, 2017 at 14:23
In my view, reincarnation is natural, expected, and metaphysically-implied. Nisargadatta said that maybe sometimes someone can remember some little bi...
October 26, 2017 at 14:18
Lawrence Kuhn defined a whole hierarchy of Nothings. But I guess full Nothing would be if there weren't even abstract facts or other abstract objects....
October 25, 2017 at 22:32
Those testimonial reports about past-lives, where people report details of a past life, which are later confirmed by records-checking, aren't convinci...
October 25, 2017 at 16:12
I claim that the only support for there being reincarnation comes from implication from metaphysics. NDE reports are very compelling evidence of exper...
October 25, 2017 at 15:48
I’d said: . — Michael Ossipoff . You said: . . ??? That’s quite a statement. . The number two is something. It isn’t a material object. It isn’t in sp...
October 25, 2017 at 14:36
Brief preliminary reply: I meant that abstract facts, and other abstract objects are timeless. They aren't in spacetime at all. universes can come and...
October 25, 2017 at 04:23
I just want to add that, though philosophical objectivity and generality suggest against saying that uninhabited universes aren't real/existent--Nonet...
October 24, 2017 at 18:33
Well, I claim that the system of abstract logical facts corresponding to our universe (one of infinitely-many) is inevitable, and so it's its own expl...
October 24, 2017 at 17:33
Well, maybe the first Westerner. But that's impressive, that someone in the West was saying that in 1818. Michael Ossipoff.
October 24, 2017 at 00:56
Ii guess what I meant by that was just that, when I said that having us (experiencers) makes a universe more relevant....to us.... ...that sounds a bi...
October 24, 2017 at 00:51
I''m not saying that Experience or Experiencer is a metaphysical substance or entity that exists, independently of anything else, without explanation....
October 23, 2017 at 03:01