Logical facts about one proposition implying another obtain lexicographically and (it seems to me, and so I'll suggest it) tautologically. An example ...
When Purple-Pond says that material things are all that there is, then he’s also saying that this physical universe exists in no describable metaphysi...
I don't think much can be disproved. But it I suggest that there's something to what you say. But whose idea is it? I suggest that it's your own idea ...
I don't like or understand the motivation for Hanover's derogatory tone. I suggest:that you accept the fact that you naturally, by inclination, avoid ...
There's no reason to believe that Subjective Idealism isn't true, or in particular, Ontic Structural Subjective idealism. "Solipsism" is variously def...
. …only as wording for describing the metaphysics. I repeatedly emphasize that I can’t prove that it isn’t as Dfopolis says, or as Materialists say. ....
. But I suggest that an intrinsically, independently existent physical world is fiction, not truth. . Then what’s true about this physical world, and ...
Of course no specific size is being referred to. Only the property of being bigger than any specifiable size. No one's claiming otherwise. But remembe...
No one's saying that the universe is expanding into pre-existing space. Galaxies distant from eachother are evidently receding from eachother. You hav...
Then explain that to the PhD physicists and cosmologists who say that the universe might be infinite. As for myself, not being a cosmologist, or even ...
Cosmologists don't agree with you. Maybe this universe had a start, with the Big-Bang. (...and might or might not be spatially-infinite). For this uni...
I don’t want it to seem as if I’ve evaded the below-quoted passage from Purple Pond. It’s just that I didn’t and don’t know what he was saying. Nevert...
. I’ve answered them, but maybe I haven’t answered them clearly enough. So let me make another try: . Your life-experience-story is the story of the e...
Undeniably Reality is some way. Surely best-ness tautologically or lexicographically implies goodness, which implies benevolence. Would one expect Rea...
No one's replied, and so I will: He's right. The societal situation is quite hopeless. There's a tendency for people to want to believe otherwise, bec...
. Alright, if this physical universe (including any physically-inter-related multiverse that it might be part of) is “all that there is” (to use your ...
Sorry. I didn't mean that. I didn't mean to say that you believe that this physical universe is a brute-fact. I just meant that you're saying that, as...
This is just a brief preliminary reply that I'd like to post now, before I answer the rest of this post (I'm answering your posts in chronological ord...
. Well, when I say that there’s no reason to believe something, then the burden is on someone who disagrees, to produce a reason to believe it. . . Th...
. Using your definition, you’re saying that the objective fundamental existence of this physical universe, as the ultimate-reality, all of reality, an...
Just one more obvious thing about the proposal I described, in which the capillary-tubes cylinder is tipped over, to use its gravitational potential e...
Additionally, if you have to grind-up the cellulose to then form it into the tubes, you're separating cellulose CH20 units from eachother. They're obv...
When you separate and free that oxygen in photosynthesis, you're breaking a very strong bond. Oxygen is a highly electronegative element. You're takin...
Anyway, if now, with the pushover capillary-tube cylinder, we're using solar energy to make new cellulose to attract and capillary-raise more water, i...
I don't think it would matter. The important thing is that getting the water our of the capillary-tubes would take as much energy as was gained by let...
Of course energy must be expended to make the capillary material for the capillary-tubes in the cylinder. If you grow the material, solar energy is us...
Hey, I just thought of another impossible perpetual-motion machine using capillary-action: You have this huge cylindrical piece of material that's ful...
It would be impossible. It would violate conservation of energy. Anything doing work (like exerting a force over a distance) must be powered, or have ...
. Of course not. That’s why it ends in an ellipsis (“…”) instead of in a period. . But: . “When I say that our experience-stories consist of complex s...
. Well, I don’t know what it means to say that God isn’t natural, but we can agree to disagree about that. . But of course it’s just that we don’t mea...
(This is just a brief preliminary reply. I'll be replying to both of your recent posts}. When I say that our experience-stories consist of complex sys...
You quote Blue-Pond: . . Nonsense. That’s a definitional truism that no one, of any persuasion, would deny. Reality means “all that is”. . But Materia...
. Yes, it is easier to say than to explain. But I think it’s true, so I’ll try to say why. . (I heard it from Kentucky Buddhist Ken Keyes, in the ‘70s...
. If you were someone else, then you wouldn’t be you. It wouldn’t be meaningful to speak of a “you” who is someone else. . Why are you in a life? You’...
I don't know what you think is wrong with your attitude about the societal-world. It sounds right to me. The societal-world? Write it off. We're here ...
Those sound like great environmental ideas. You've shown something that hadn't occurred to me...how water, energy, and temperature can be dealt with a...
9/29/18 . First two premises that we all agree on: . 1. We find ourselves in the experience of a life in which we’re physical animals in a physical un...
. I don’t know exactly what you mean by spiritual reality, or whether you believe that it’s something that there really is, or just something that oth...
Here's a definition and description of my metaphysics: 9/29/18 First two premises that we all agree on: . 1. We find ourselves in the experience of a ...
You’d said: . I don't know. . I replied: . . You say: . . Then what do you think “brute-fact” means?? . A brute-fact is an alleged fact whose advocate...
That's a non-problem invented by Materialists. We're physical. We're physical animals in a physical world. In other words, our hypothetical life-exper...
Of course that statement quoted from Kim is true. It's true, and it doesn't contradict Subjective Idealism or Theism. In fact, I take it a bit farther...
The physical world is more "natural" than...what? Human-constructed architecture and pavement? I'm not saying that the physical world isn't natural. B...
I should add that I'm not a Fundamentalist or a Biblical Lilteralist. Atheists tend to take those persuasions as the meaning of Theism. No, those are ...
My Theism is largely an impression suggested by metaphysics--by which I mean metaphysics of the describable, Of course the matter of God or Reality is...
Here's something that I said: A tautology just tells another way of saying the same thing. Such a statement is its own proof, and needs no other proof...
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