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Michael Ossipoff

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You could additionally ask: "But why am I in this possibility-world? In fact, why am I me, this particular person? Is that by chance?" A life-experien...
July 13, 2017 at 20:51
There's a good reason why this, our own, possibility-world is the one that is actual for usl, and why the others are not actual for us.: It's because ...
July 13, 2017 at 20:24
Thanatos: You said: 1. So, if someone says that there are purple unicorns in Cleveland, Ohio, and I ask them for verification of that claim, then the ...
July 13, 2017 at 20:10
Terrapin: Or, if it would be more helpful, I'll put it this way: First, let me abbreviate "our lives, the physical world, or the observations and expe...
July 13, 2017 at 19:17
Terrapin: Actually, what you said was: No, and I've made no claim to prove that there isn't "stuff", or that Physicalism isn't true. As I've often rep...
July 13, 2017 at 18:47
It's really not difficult, Terrapin: There can be an assumption that one metaphysics true instead of another one. Let's call that an assumption about ...
July 13, 2017 at 18:32
It's well established that the physical world has facts. The physical constants are either constant, or very nearly so. The laws of physics don't seem...
July 13, 2017 at 04:17
Then explain why there is the metaphysically-primary, fundamentally existent material reality that you (or at least some people) believe in. . Michael...
July 13, 2017 at 04:00
That claim of equivalence would need some justification. ...which you haven't supplied. But yes, the observations of Physics don't require or establis...
July 12, 2017 at 22:02
You're confusing two different kinds/levels/orders of assumptions: Have I proven that my metaphysics is correct, and that yours (whatever it may be) i...
July 12, 2017 at 21:48
You continue to repeat your claim that I haven't supported my metaphysical proposal or its explanaion and justification. But you missed one line of my...
July 12, 2017 at 20:40
You’d said: . . . You reply: . . Well, let’s look at what you said: . . You clearly said that facts are our views of the material reality. So the mate...
July 12, 2017 at 20:15
You asked: . . I answered: . . . We’ve already agreed that “exists” can mean what anyone wants it to mean, as long as s/he specifies what s/he means b...
July 12, 2017 at 18:27
Fine, if you're comfortable with an unsupported brute-fact. Michael Ossipoff
July 12, 2017 at 17:02
That's an unsupported belief. Your statement is a statement of the Physicalist belief that reality is material. ...that the material world is primary,...
July 12, 2017 at 16:57
Then he was right. And we have similar statements from physicists Michael Faraday, Frank Tippler, and Max Tegmark. ...from Faraday as early as 1844. S...
July 12, 2017 at 16:37
Sure, that too. Change "body" to "chassis"? No problem. Better, just call it "the physical AI", to avoid philosophy-of-mind issues. ...just as you cou...
July 12, 2017 at 00:19
I've mentioned this elsewhere: I don't usually get into this issue, because it isn't a matter of argument, provability, or convincing anyone. I've arg...
July 11, 2017 at 22:49
I don't know if Scientificism (the religion of Science-Worship) is a system of meaning. For many it's a system of no-meaning. But, either way, it can ...
July 11, 2017 at 22:22
In my previous reply, I gave the terrapin the benefit of the doubt, after his previous violation of conduct-guideliines. ...meaning that I granted to ...
July 11, 2017 at 20:05
Well, maybe you need to flesh-out that statement more. It's easy to make vague criticisms, without giving an example of what you're talking about. Fee...
July 11, 2017 at 19:38
. . . Surely mentioning something that’s existent but irrelevant to me needn’t contradict a statement of mine, unless I’ve said that there’s no such t...
July 11, 2017 at 18:50
With regard to the question "What is an explanation", let me briefly re-cap how this discussion started, and then suggest an answer to that question, ...
July 11, 2017 at 07:02
From Michael Ossipoff: Regarding the post of mine to this discussion-thread, just before this one: It was, of course, posted as an answer to the quest...
July 11, 2017 at 06:48
I've just noticed that I posted a reply to the wrong discussion-thread at this website. I posted a reply to a question in a different discussion-threa...
July 11, 2017 at 06:24
. …because there isno you, other than the body that you are. . …because you are your body. Your body is all that you are. There isn’t any “you” other ...
July 11, 2017 at 06:16
. …because there is no you, other than the body that you are. . …because you are your body. Your body is all that you are. There isn’t any “you” other...
July 10, 2017 at 23:06
Religions have a metaphysics. The metaphysics belonging to or adopted by the religion of Science-Worship is Physicalism. As an alternative to Science-...
July 10, 2017 at 21:15
The term "Nihilism" has various meanings, but you seem to referring to purposeless and meaninglessness. I agree with those who have been saying that y...
July 10, 2017 at 20:55
. I don’t have a metaphysical definition of it. When I use it with metaphysical meaning, I usually use it with quotes, and emphasize that I’m talking ...
July 10, 2017 at 18:26
Yesterday I let Banno say that it's "moot" whether his cycle of explanations give complete explanations to the elements of the cycle. ...and I merely ...
July 10, 2017 at 15:30
I'd said: ...but I'm going to contradict myself now, on that matter, because maybe you are reachable, with the clearer, undeniable, demonstration whic...
July 10, 2017 at 02:22
Spoken like a fully true-believing Relativist. "Any statement, any standard, is no better than any other, and is only a brute fact" ...presumably just...
July 09, 2017 at 19:28
Didn't I do that? If I understand you correctly, you're saying that, because "real" is undefined, and "real-ness" is a matter of opinion, then Realism...
July 09, 2017 at 19:12
I should have said: "...then yes, A is completely explained or brute, and that makes B and C completely explained too." Michael Ossipoff
July 09, 2017 at 18:16
Incorrect. lt isn't an aesthetic question. I slightly mis-spoke when I said that your {A,B,C} cycle of explanations amounts to saying that A is explai...
July 09, 2017 at 18:11
Well, academics have a saying: "Publish or Perish". So maybe, for that reason, it's necessary for academic philosophers to perpetually proliferate phi...
July 09, 2017 at 17:47
Well, for it all to be facts, it would be a matter of speaking of the quantities, the values, as facts. The matter of what they're the quantities or v...
July 09, 2017 at 17:28
No, I'd been speaking about hypothetical values for hypothetical quantities, and hypothetical relations (physical laws) between those quantities.. It ...
July 09, 2017 at 04:49
That's all very nice, but I was just talking about merit. No doubt there's much creative drama involved, etc. I guess I never doubted that. But the fa...
July 09, 2017 at 04:35
Alright, I used the word "nature" when I said "laws of nature". "Laws of nature" refers to physical laws. The laws of physics are hypothetical relatio...
July 08, 2017 at 21:13
Maybe, if you can tell me what "nature" is. Michael Ossipoff
July 08, 2017 at 21:00
Of course. Such as the hypotheticals that I referred to. Are you claiming that there can't be hypothetical facts about hypotheticals and their relatio...
July 08, 2017 at 20:55
I meant to write, "Certanly not importantly..." Sure, propositions known to be inconsistent are absurdly un-useful, so a conventional definition that ...
July 08, 2017 at 20:48
Certainly many metaphysicses can be, and are, proposed. ...most of which (such as the one you describe) need various assumptions and brute-facts. Mich...
July 08, 2017 at 20:37
Yes, and those "objects" (more specifically, certain hypothetical quantities that can be described as object-propertie) are among the hypotheticals th...
July 08, 2017 at 20:22
Maybe, but ours is of special interest to us. " I don't regard God as an element of metaphysics, subject to the issue of existence, or issues of proof...
July 08, 2017 at 19:40
And, within a system of inter-related hypothetical if-then facts or statements, those hypotheticals have their validity in their reference and relatio...
July 07, 2017 at 20:19
Yes, that's why I was saying that there couldn't have not been systems of inter-related hypothetical if-then facts: Their existence is in relation and...
July 07, 2017 at 19:32
Well,at least all facts, statements and propositions, and anything that's a possibility in some hypothetical possibility-world.. (Or an impossibility ...
July 07, 2017 at 18:57