This is tantamount to proposing that sensibility thinks, from which follows that given that understanding is the faculty of thought, there are now two thinking faculties in the same system. What a mess that would turn out to be. — Mww
You tell me. Something tastes good, turns out to make you sick, so……what, it really didn’t taste good?
Have it your way. — Mww
I'm not wasting further time on your distortions. — Janus
The principle of relativity states that there is no physical way to differentiate between a body moving at a constant speed and an immobile body. It is of course possible to determine that one body is moving relative to the other, but it is impossible to determine which of them is moving and which is immobile. — https://www.tau.ac.il
In physics, the principle of relativity is the requirement that the equations describing the laws of physics have the same form in all admissible frames of reference. — Wikipedia: Principle of relativity
Of course, because you realize I'm right. — Metaphysician Undercover
…overwhelmingly obvious that I am right. — Metaphysician Undercover
That a principle is useful in application, and therefore can be used in making predictions, does not imply that the principle is "scientific". — Metaphysician Undercover
Because you seem to misunderstand the difference between axioms and scientifically proven hypotheses, Nickolasgaspar, I suggest that you look a little more closely into the difference between what is derived from science, and what is derived from ontology. — Metaphysician Undercover
Of course not. Like Mww above, it becomes overwhelmingly obvious that I am right. When the meaning of what you say is actually analyzed, it is revealed to be an absurdity. — Metaphysician Undercover
There is a deeper non-material reality which we perceive as physical matter in spacetime. (Hoffman's headset metaphor). The deeper reality is not static; it changes. From within our headset, we perceive those changes as evolution. — Art48
Like….the only possible analysis of the one reduces to the other? If I made such a preposterous deduction, I would not be so inclined to admit to having a degree in philosophy. — Mww
I think MU needs a "reality check". — Janus
I've been arguing honestly, but you and I are speaking in completely different ways. — Metaphysician Undercover
That is the honest truth, and it's been obvious since the beginning of this exchange, when you asserted that there is no such thing as a specific scientific method, and insisted that there is a specific method which constitutes the philosophical method — Metaphysician Undercover
And if evolution is nothing more than our perceptions, then it didn't really occur.
The view still undermines itself. — Banno
but if the reality is thought to consist in not mind-independent existents, but ideas in a universal mind — Janus
If that's what idealism needs in order to explain apples, then so much the worse for idealism. — Banno
You give an explicit insult after three posts. Brief, even for you.
The point is simply that not all imagined possibilities are worthy of consideration. But of course, the Jatravartid differ as to the details. — Banno
I beg you to prove unfair. — Nickolasgaspar
I guess we both know why you are avoiding this challenge and to be fair when I lay facts on the table...nobody really want's fight for a lost cause.
Its your right, enjoy whatever this is (but its not philosophy). — Nickolasgaspar
Well this is why we have Logic....Anyone can search the internet for material to back up one's biased opinions. — Metaphysician Undercover
Of course it wasn't. My material render your claims wrong...this is why you are not interested in them.After all this material is only taught in all major Universities....lolYour referenced "academic material" was off topic and not interesting to me. — Metaphysician Undercover
-Sophistry.Sorry Nickolasgaspar. (Now I apologize, so I am somewhat affected by your suffering, or maybe just being polite). — Metaphysician Undercover
-Ignoring Academic knowledge won't make your claims true.The more you beg the less I am inclined toward submission. I will enjoy, while you suffer, but I'll make it perfectly clear, in all honesty, my enjoyment is derived from what I am doing, not from your suffering. There is no "shared experience" here (to quote Janus), because you've had no success in your attempt to communicate. — Metaphysician Undercover
Surely you must understand that subconscious mental activity is just as much a part of the human psyche as conscious mental activity. Why not acknowledge that this subconscious activity involves some form of "judgement" just like conscious mental activity involves judgement? — Metaphysician Undercover
And if evolution is nothing more than our perceptions, then it didn't really occur. — Banno
I think of in terms of ‘the collective mind’ - as members of a species, language group and culture then we inhabit a shared reality. Is there a need to posit a mind other than that? — Wayfarer
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