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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Then explain why there is the metaphysically-primary, fundamentally existent material reality that you (or at least some people) believe in. . Michael...
That claim of equivalence would need some justification. ...which you haven't supplied. But yes, the observations of Physics don't require or establis...
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...
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...
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...
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...
That's an unsupported belief. Your statement is a statement of the Physicalist belief that reality is material. ...that the material world is primary,...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
. . . 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...
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, ...
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...
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...
. …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 ...
. …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...
Religions have a metaphysics. The metaphysics belonging to or adopted by the religion of Science-Worship is Physicalism. As an alternative to Science-...
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...
. 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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Well, academics have a saying: "Publish or Perish". So maybe, for that reason, it's necessary for academic philosophers to perpetually proliferate phi...
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...
No, I'd been speaking about hypothetical values for hypothetical quantities, and hypothetical relations (physical laws) between those quantities.. It ...
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...
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...
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...
I meant to write, "Certanly not importantly..." Sure, propositions known to be inconsistent are absurdly un-useful, so a conventional definition that ...
Certainly many metaphysicses can be, and are, proposed. ...most of which (such as the one you describe) need various assumptions and brute-facts. Mich...
Yes, and those "objects" (more specifically, certain hypothetical quantities that can be described as object-propertie) are among the hypotheticals th...
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...
And, within a system of inter-related hypothetical if-then facts or statements, those hypotheticals have their validity in their reference and relatio...
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...
Well,at least all facts, statements and propositions, and anything that's a possibility in some hypothetical possibility-world.. (Or an impossibility ...
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