First, let me suggest an abbreviation: I'd like to abbreviate "in-principle-completely-describable" as "ipcd". Facts needn't be about anything that ex...
It's been said in these forums, and (though I'm not an authority) it seems right to me, that abstract logical facts are demonstrated by showing that t...
No. If a position isn't popular, and you don't agree with it, then let it be advocated by people who do agree with it. There's already too much philos...
. How about my Slitheytoves example: . If there were Slitheytoves and Jaberwockeys, and an attribute called “brillig-ness”, and if all Slithetytoves w...
It's your phrase. So, if I haven't answered your question, it's because I don't know exactly what you mean by it. Tell me what you mean by it, and I'l...
. “Nature” is an unfortunate word to use, because, to many, it refers to this physical universe (…and you’ve used it that way). I don’t think that tel...
. Good point. That’s why my metaphysics is Ontic Structural Subjective Idealism (as opposed to OSR). . (I’m not saying that there aren’t hypothetical ...
Yes, I'd say that. Some discussions like that are just about the relations among named propositions--in particular, the relations among their truths a...
. Yes, it’s nonsense. . …as is the notion of a “philosophical zombie”. . …as is the whole “Hard Problem Of Consciousness” or "Mind-Body Problem" that ...
Yes, and that's why I said that even ordinary everyday experiential reality isn't completely describable. But there can be limited discussions in whic...
Maybe I should call that "completely describable" and "completely describable thing". Something is completely describable if, at least in principle, h...
Yes, and, if "describing" something merely means saying at least one thing about it, that's why I said that, by "describable things", I mean "things t...
I don't claim that anything describable is objectively existent. In fact, I don't think that "objective existence" is even metaphysically-defined. Is ...
. I named a topic. I only said one thing about "gardening practices and situations unique to Madagascars”. I said only I don’t know anything about it....
I'd like to answer this again: What's completely describable is what doesn't have anything about it that can't, in principle, be known and described b...
I don't think that it's unmeaningful to speak of what can defined, and referred to, and can be, in principle, described in all their aspects. (even if...
They wouldn't. Just its facts. Abstract implications in particular. I propose that all that this physical universe consists of, is the setting of your...
...and I've said that I don't assert about the character or nature of Reality as a whole. I don't claim that authority. I only assert about describabl...
But there could also be what one can only minimally speak of. ...can only say one or a few things about, with those statements being necessarily incom...
If so, then there are no reliably, meaningfully, complete descriptions. Okay. ...about whether there's what can't be even partly known and described b...
...such as, to use my example, the smell of mint. And what I said about dictionaries shows that description is a questionable thing anyway. How about ...
You believe that words describe everything? Write down a complete description of the smell of mint, or of what it's like to step on a tack. Additional...
. Yes, it seems fair to say that someone who says that the notion of an objectively-existent physical world has been laid to rest, doesn’t believe in ...
I'm not aware of a census or survey that tells what percentage of physicists are Materialists. Perhaps you're confusing me with someone else, if you t...
I don't claim to be qualified in or have the answers about quantum-mechanics, but, from what I've heard, the uncertainty-principle is a consequence of...
Exactly. Hypothetical things. ...with abstract-implications about hypothetical propositions about hypothetical things. There's no reason to believe th...
. Yes, I didn’t say what I meant. . No metaphysics can be proved, because an unfalsifiable proposition like Materialism can’t, even in principle, be d...
. Yes, it’s very fashionable to bring "information" into philosophy. And don’t forget entropy. . . See above. . . Is there an Idealism that doesn’t? T...
You're assuming that God is omnipotent, and created this physical universe. Not all Theists agree with you on that. You're making an unsupported claim...
. No, not really. . I merely point out that, as Michael Faraday said in 1844, that there’s no particular reason to believe that there are those “objec...
. No one’s suggesting that you not take reality or Reality seriously. It’s just a question of what you think it consists of. Materialists think that a...
Well, things were certainly getting better for the Beatles (...in spite of "The Tax Man"). ...but not societally. But nothing can be done about that. ...
Creation is an anthropmorphic notion. Theism needn't include a belief that God created this physical world. The Gnostics don't believe it, for example...
. Speaking for myself: Theism and Ontic Structural Subjective Idealism. . . …and none of that depends on mind separate from body. There’s no such sepa...
Of course relations are among things, but that doesn't require that the things are other than hypothetical. There are relations among hypothetical thi...
But then "proposition" needs a definition. I suppose, in that definitional-system, "proposition" could be defined as "statement" or "subject of a stat...
Are you a Vedantist? It seems to me that my metaphysics is consistent with what the 3 main branches of Vedanta (describable) metaphysics have in commo...
Answer to the question in the original post: Idealist and Theist. The "Mind-Body Problem", aka the "Hard-Problem of Consciousness" is an artifact of W...
Benevolence. That's all that can be known or said about God. God is Benevolence. If the Atheists don't like that, then it can be said as: Reality is B...
It isn't about how sufficient dictionaries are. It's about whether words can describe Reality. I made no claim that dictionaries are sufficient in suc...
I've already explained to you that I don't regard the character or nature of Reality to be a matter for or argument, assertion, logic, proof or debate...
. As has already been pointed out to you, you talk a lot about science, but seem to have no idea what it is. . Physicists’ theories and evidence-suppo...
Yes, that's a standard requirement, that an assertion should be accompanied by proof, or at least evidence. But, as it has been necessary for me to re...
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