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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Yes, the person simulated by the computer consisting of many humans has conscious experiences, as does any purposefully-responsive device. For more re...
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...
A Clarification: When I said that I engage Materialists, but rarely Atheists, I could clarify that all Materialists are Atheists, and nearly all Athei...
No, on the contrary, I defended your question, when someone else criticized it. ...only one of your beliefs. An unsupported belief and assertion about...
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...
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...
Especially at a philosophy forum, apparent differences often likely have more to do with different definitions and wordings, rather than different sub...
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...
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...
I’ve never read about theology, because I don’t think scientific, logical or philosophical conceptual reasoning applies everywhere, so I have no idea ...
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...
I’d said: . . You said: . . I don’t understand the question. What should an expectation mean? . (rhetorical question—Don’t bother answering) . You sai...
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...
. 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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
(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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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. ...
Not all propositions are about things or events in spacetime. When they aren't, when they're timeless propositions, then nonsimultaneaty doesn't apply...
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...
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....
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...
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...
In my view, reincarnation is natural, expected, and metaphysically-implied. Nisargadatta said that maybe sometimes someone can remember some little bi...
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....
Those testimonial reports about past-lives, where people report details of a past life, which are later confirmed by records-checking, aren't convinci...
I claim that the only support for there being reincarnation comes from implication from metaphysics. NDE reports are very compelling evidence of exper...
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...
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...
I just want to add that, though philosophical objectivity and generality suggest against saying that uninhabited universes aren't real/existent--Nonet...
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...
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...
I''m not saying that Experience or Experiencer is a metaphysical substance or entity that exists, independently of anything else, without explanation....
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