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by Londoner
Tue Apr 18, 2017 9:34 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Who- why- where are we ?
Replies: 238
Views: 51980

Re: Who- why- where are we ?

But according to your position they could quite viably say you are wrong, there is no red or green there and if it were only a matter of saying a word when whatever colour is there for them then they couldn't be colour-blind?(I know there's something wrong with my point here so just chatting.) I do...
by Londoner
Mon Apr 17, 2017 5:03 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Who- why- where are we ?
Replies: 238
Views: 51980

Re: Who- why- where are we ?

Again, I get the issue but how could we explain that we've discovered the colour-blind on this model? I think that those we call colour blind have the problem of distinguishing colours, for example they cannot see a difference between red and green. If they could distinguish between them, but were ...
by Londoner
Mon Apr 17, 2017 11:38 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Who- why- where are we ?
Replies: 238
Views: 51980

Re: Who- why- where are we ?

By accepting Descartes' methodology, which is well known as "Cartesian doubt" or "Cartesian skepticism", you're in fact acknowledging that skepticism does have logical consequences. As I wrote last time, you are using the term 'logical' in a loose way. Because Descartes starts o...
by Londoner
Sun Apr 16, 2017 10:51 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Who- why- where are we ?
Replies: 238
Views: 51980

Re: Who- why- where are we ?

It is difficult to respond if you quote my posts one sentence at a time and give one sentence responses. If I do the same it makes it unintelligible to anyone else and it also means we tend to wander away from the point. That's why I'm not going to respond line by line. And I've said all I have to s...
by Londoner
Sat Apr 15, 2017 11:23 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Who- why- where are we ?
Replies: 238
Views: 51980

Re: Who- why- where are we ?

So you have stated clearly that you have chosen curtain #3: "We cannot know that there is or there isn't a noumenal world behind phenomena." What matters now is if you are consistent with your own line of thought, since that position leads to its logical consecquences, which you should be...
by Londoner
Fri Apr 14, 2017 9:45 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Who- why- where are we ?
Replies: 238
Views: 51980

Re: Who- why- where are we ?

As I was saying to Conde Lucanor, that would only show that we share the same perceptions (and because we do not have insight into other minds we could not even know that for certain), not that our perceptions were in some metaphysical sense 'true'. It would not give us 'certainty about the reality...
by Londoner
Thu Apr 13, 2017 11:41 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Who- why- where are we ?
Replies: 238
Views: 51980

Re: Who- why- where are we ?

We can sum up this to 3 options. Either: 1) There is a noumenal world behind phenomena. 2) There is not a noumenal world behind phenomena. 3) We cannot know that there is or there isn't a noumenal world behind phenomena. I pick 1. What's your pick? It is not like picking a football team to support....
by Londoner
Wed Apr 12, 2017 12:16 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Who- why- where are we ?
Replies: 238
Views: 51980

Re: Who- why- where are we ?

Me: 'What things are and their causal relations' are descriptions of phenomena, not noumena. Not necessarily, since when we are describing phenomena we are referring to how the noumena appears to us. In other words, because things as they appear to us are intrinsically related and depend of things ...
by Londoner
Mon Apr 10, 2017 11:03 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Who- why- where are we ?
Replies: 238
Views: 51980

Re: Who- why- where are we ?

It's becoming increasingly very hard to reconcile your stance on the impossibility of knowledge of noumena and your other stance on how and what things are and their causal relations. ' What things are and their causal relations' are descriptions of phenomena, not noumena. As I'm writing this, acco...
by Londoner
Sun Apr 09, 2017 6:39 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Who- why- where are we ?
Replies: 238
Views: 51980

Re: Who- why- where are we ?

Me: Science looks at the underlying structure, and the underlying structure of a horse - and the way the anatomy of a horse responds to physical forces and in its chemistry it is no different to the underlying structure of anything else in the universe. I don't agree with such a view, but anyway, u...
by Londoner
Sat Apr 08, 2017 10:16 am
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: If God is so merciful, then why did Jesus have to be sacrificed?
Replies: 828
Views: 146914

Re: If God is so merciful, then why did Jesus have to be sacrificed?

1. Whatever I clearly and distinctly perceive to be contained in the idea of something is true of that thing. 2. I clearly and distinctly perceive that necessary existence is contained in the idea of God. 3. Therefore, God exists. Perceiving something within an idea that is true? What if one's perc...
by Londoner
Fri Apr 07, 2017 11:18 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Who- why- where are we ?
Replies: 238
Views: 51980

Re: Who- why- where are we ?

As you may well know, there's actually a whole school of analytic philosophy with its own tradition. I remember Foucault saying "I'm not an analytic philosopher" and he obviously didn't mean that he was incapable of analyzing philosophical problems. Analytic philosophers tend to look at p...
by Londoner
Thu Apr 06, 2017 2:52 pm
Forum: Applied Ethics
Topic: Abortion: whose wishes should predominate?
Replies: 23
Views: 6263

Re: Abortion: whose wishes should predominate?

I would contend that life begins at conception and the life inside a woman's body is not part of her body and therefore not subject to her decisions but has it's own rights to life. I was a bit surprised when someone I know expressed the opinion that life didn't start till birth when the baby took ...
by Londoner
Thu Apr 06, 2017 10:45 am
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Who- why- where are we ?
Replies: 238
Views: 51980

Re: Who- why- where are we ?

See? You end up doing just the same, talking about the analytic or realist position. It isn't much different than talking about the idealist position. And by doctrine it's meant a systematized set of ideas, instead of random singular ideas. It might take some times the meaning of a rigid dogma, bec...
by Londoner
Mon Apr 03, 2017 12:07 pm
Forum: Metaphysics
Topic: Who- why- where are we ?
Replies: 238
Views: 51980

Re: Who- why- where are we ?

I did not actually say that the 'writers'(my startle) were not interested in philosophical ontology. I think that ontological questions are probably very old questions. Creation myths abound. That particular Genesis myth is however an apt explanation for the ontic existence of structure , and so co...