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L'Unico

['Member']Joined: January 03, 2021 at 12:56Last active: July 26, 2021 at 08:201 discussions16 comments

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In: The man who desires bad, but does good  — view comment
No, wait, this doesn't make any sense. So, your definition of good is "what it should exist". So if a thing should exist, then is good. If not, is bad...
January 05, 2021 at 21:10
In: The man who desires bad, but does good  — view comment
"Good is largely defined as what should be." What do you mean "should be"?
January 05, 2021 at 18:27
In: If Philosophers shouldn't talk about the big stuff in the world, who should?  — view comment
You know what's the problem with your idea? This part: "giving up all their personal political beliefs, just there to think as good as possible" Hi th...
January 05, 2021 at 14:17
In: Nothing! A Conceptual Paradox!  — view comment
Well, I'm sorry we didn't find an agreement. I hope the other readers will find out who is playing with words and who is not. : )
January 05, 2021 at 10:47
In: Nothing! A Conceptual Paradox!  — view comment
But if you take the first literally than it's not equivalent to the second. "Nothing is that which can be conceived by the mind" can be interpreted in...
January 05, 2021 at 08:17
In: Nothing! A Conceptual Paradox!  — view comment
I've already answered your question. There is no paradox. You're just playing with language. "Is Nothing that which can be conceived by the mind?" Thi...
January 05, 2021 at 08:00
In: Nothing! A Conceptual Paradox!  — view comment
Yes, you can separate the referent from the word and from the concept. The word is wathever word you choose to use. The concept is the description of ...
January 04, 2021 at 22:22
In: Nothing! A Conceptual Paradox!  — view comment
But this is in no way in contrast with the simple semiotic theory that I used. Even if the real object is the result of a complex constitutive subject...
January 04, 2021 at 20:25
In: Nothing! A Conceptual Paradox!  — view comment
The concept is the meaning of a word. Now, with abstract objects it's complicated and it really depends on a lot of things, but in the case of real ob...
January 04, 2021 at 19:53
In: Nothing! A Conceptual Paradox!  — view comment
There are many concepts that evokes an image in the mind, a mental representation. As you said, this is the case for an apple. But try, for example, t...
January 04, 2021 at 16:39
In: Nothing! A Conceptual Paradox!  — view comment
Yes, I meant the square root, sorry. It doesn't matter if you say "square root of 2" or "1.41...", the result is the same. There is no referent for ab...
January 04, 2021 at 14:32
In: Nothing! A Conceptual Paradox!  — view comment
Not, that the word "apple" is not the apple is another story. I wasn't talking about the word "apple", but about our CONCEPT of the apple. Is the conc...
January 04, 2021 at 13:04
In: Nothing! A Conceptual Paradox!  — view comment
Yes, in the natural languages the quantifiers are almost always open-ended and have blurry domains. But you can get an idea of the domain in which the...
January 04, 2021 at 10:07
In: Nothing! A Conceptual Paradox!  — view comment
Please, consider the way the word "nothing" is used in the english language. An empty room. There's nothing in that room. Is this a correct use of the...
January 04, 2021 at 09:18
In: I couldn't find any counter arguments against the cosmological argument?  — view comment
That everything has to have a cause to exist is a pretty weak premise, but let's get along with it. I don't understand what is the problem with the hy...
January 03, 2021 at 15:01
In: A Probabilistic Answer To The Fundamental Question Of Metaphysics  — view comment
By showing that the existence of something is more probable than the existence of nothing, you didn't answer the question. Even if the probability of ...
January 03, 2021 at 14:29
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