Whatever A and B create cannot be cause but effect. The effect is whatever arises out of the two.You misread. I mean to ask what is the cause that A and B taken together creates? — Heister Eggcart
If A and B are the basic components of your ontology, then everything else that exists arises out of the two. For example, A is extension and B is thought. The whole realm of extended and thinking things arises out of those two.Which is? — Heister Eggcart
If A and B are the basic components of your ontology, then everything else that exists arises out of the two. — Agustino
Because it is evident that we can think, feel, fear and so on; if you have to doubt yourself, you would still need a mind to be able to do that. You can't experience the mind directly, but it's clear and obviously that the mind exists.If the mind is non-conceptual and non-experiential, then how do you know for certain that it exists?
I disagree, we are not sure for certain that material things exist. So it woule thus be foolish to ask why the would.I think it's more pertinent to ask, "why are there material things?"
Quite obviously the instantiations of those two. In the case of Spinoza, the modes - the particular extended things, or thinking things, etc.What else exists? — Heister Eggcart
Because it is evident that we can think, feel, fear and so on; if you have to doubt yourself, you would still need a mind to be able to do that. You can't experience the mind directly, but it's clear and obviously that the mind exists. — GreyScorpio
I disagree, we are not sure for certain that material things exist. So it woule thus be foolish to ask why the would. — GreyScorpio
Quite obviously the instantiations of those two. In the case of Spinoza, the modes - the particular extended things, or thinking things, etc. — Agustino
Experience for one :POkay, I admit to being no expert on this topic, but if there is only mind and the world, what else is there that comes about as a result of A (mind) and B (the world) having formed a relationship together? — Heister Eggcart
Can there be experience if there is just world and no mind?Yeah but such comes about as a result of the world. — Heister Eggcart
Experience is in the nature of the world and of the mind. — Heister Eggcart
It may be impossible for us to be able to put ourselves in the position of our future locations, but the break in the wall remains doubtful to me; as when you walk around a circular wall you have no idea what is to come, yet you are still able to walk with the same wall adjacent to you. — GreyScorpio
In other words, if there were a break in the 'wall' there would be no intention of us progressing to the future (the broken wall) as it would be detached from existing in time. Though it may be correct that what hasn't happened does not yet exist, but the intention for there to be a future does. — GreyScorpio
Though it may be correct that what hasn't happened does not yet exist, but the intention for there to be a future does. Therefore, it is only logical that there must be a 'wall' for us to continue down to process, as we progress in journeys with a similar was adjacent to us. — GreyScorpio
But the point was that we cannot find this continuity in the wall, we cannot "walk around" the wall because there is a break in it, and that is the present. See, there is a wall to the past of us, and a wall to the future of us, and these two walls have completely different features. — Metaphysician Undercover
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