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Now I see why the US likes to export its democratic values, they are way ahead of us.

The 'abstractions' are just the induced 'concrete' experiences that follow some pattern . You are biased to assume that we cannot 'infer' patterns, then every experience would act as though they were EACH absolutely new and unique phenomena without any ability to make sense of anything. We have to ...

The 'abstractions' are just the induced 'concrete' experiences that follow some pattern . You are biased to assume that we cannot 'infer' patterns, then every experience would act as though they were EACH absolutely new and unique phenomena without any ability to make sense of anything. We have to ...

unless of course you can show that abstract objects exist You are talking about them. You are ontologically committed to their existence within the domain of discourse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_commitment Hey no fair, at least give me a chance to point out why you're talking nonsen...

It's not about sorting or organization. Again: 'sets' don't refer to anything in nature, they are purely mental constructs. 'Electrons' do refer to something in nature, they are not purely mental constructs. The 'lack of elephants' doesn't refer to anything in nature, it's a purely mental construct...

Reality is all-there-is which comprised of actuality and potentiality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality Your link mentions 'actuality' and 'potentiality' 0 times. Thus I maintain reality i.e. all-there-is is in flux. Actuality is also in flux - realized from potentiality but within the flux of...

Every claim refers to both physical and mental events. A concept is a mental event which we presume relates to reality according to its referents. If there were no referents we could not conceptualise referents. True, some people fantasise and some people dream. Fantasies and dreams are , we presum...

Genetically engineered viruses require intent to create. Based on what intent or purpose would it be created since a virus would certainly also infect those who created it? There's a considerable difference between chemical weapons and viruses which are usually transmissible where killing yourself ...

Take ANYTHING real. All we can do is to explain what these are as based upon our DESCRIPTION of the phenomena and in ways we hope that other people (where we want to communicate this) can relate using words. The 'descriptions' themselves ARE the abstractions here and there is NO other further means...

Then there is Nothing futher to talk to you about. (pun intended). I DEFINED Totality. You can't undefine my definition. Also, I pointed out that this background encompasses both itself and the foreground. They are 'manifest' real ONLY when the page is written on. The use of logic/math is NOT a mer...

Don't want to diminish the importance and benefits of vaccines becoming available but according to some epidemiologists the Corona virus may be the less insidious introduction for many far more virulent ones to come. It makes sense. Among the worst are jungle viruses long sequestered being released...

It is. I defined Totality as containing all. There is no 'outside' and so even "false" things fit in it regardless. It is just separated from the rest. But regardless, the 'background' AS 'absolutely nothing' is behind all that is as well as all that is not. In set theory, they define all things as...

That you understand what I'm getting at. I presume 'time' as just a part of the whole. I just mentioned to Belinda that the concept Totality that I use refers to anything and all things true or not under this label. In order to make sense of ultimate 'origins' of concepts, we have to remove time an...

You are hooked with some bias: that you assume 'causation' and 'time' as required as a source. You are assuming that 'nothing cannot CAUSE anything'. But what of 'time' itself? You can't use the term 'cause' be cause we are stuck with justification as it relates to time. But then what CAN we use? O...

the US elections over yet? Who won the clown or the puppet?