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Fjai. Can action be separate from a reaction. Well no, this is the relation between subject and object and it is my thought that action/cause is the physical world or stimulus there from, in a world of reactionary creatures. This reaction is the basis of evolutionary biology and adaption through na...

Ok, you're taking this on a tangent quite abstract, a little over my head. Well, maybe. But what I set out to investigate was whether is action can be seen separate (separate objects) from reaction, depending on what you focus. The idea of topic and comment (also called theme or rheme) might be one...

If we're to say that we both treated actions/reactions/agents as objects (for example, like vectors), then in a way, the inclusion criteria can be represented as equivalent objects (also like vectors). I think where we diverge is how I'm referring to these objects, from a topic-prominent point of v...

If we're to say that we both treated actions/reactions/agents as objects (for example, like vectors), then in a way, the inclusion criteria can be represented as equivalent objects (also like vectors). I think where we diverge is how I'm referring to these objects, from a topic-prominent point of vi...

Fja1, You've got me there, I am anything but mathematical. If you come up with one that would be meaningful to the argument by all means. Essentially I was just making an interrogation, not yet proposing anything, but ok, let's go. Plainly, the reactive ramifications (of the parametres of a functio...

Fja1, I know very well that action is considered a cause but I believe this action/cause is limited to the world as object to which all reactionary creatures out of their nature must respond. Language is an abstract and as such once removed but then nothing is infallible, but we should in our disce...

Fjai, yours is the most interesting response I've ever received on this. "Surely action is constructible in the logic of language." Well, it is not constructive if there is no will to do so, which would necessarily be a reaction to something. In the statement, "As I drink water, ther...

I invite anyone to give me an example of human action which would not more properly be termed reaction. Even the physical world reacts to the totality of its parts and with this it's ever so slowly changing it affects biological life to react in kind as change. Surely action is constructible in the...

I don't think there can ever be anything really new. If anything, it is always a rediscovery. In exhibiting ancient ideas, we should at least put some effort into setting them up against a new background, not just parroting something that was stated 200 years ago. In reality, the rediscovery is not...

@bobmax I don't know what's really new here. Schopenhauer made similar claims. Niezsche saw them as life-negating, as a reluctance towards confrontation with life and the world. I don't think there can ever be anything really new. If anything, it is always a rediscovery. In exhibiting ancient ideas...

What the tortoise said to Achilles

Funny you're not countering the claim that 'love' is life-negating. All the value of life is given by death. Without death we would be irretrievably lost. Death lifts everything from insignificance. Even if then, I'm pretty sure, no one dies. For the simple reason that no one lives. What about inte...

I don't think there can ever be anything really new. If anything, it is always a rediscovery. Nothing is ever really our doing. It is the demon, who is silent at times and takes over at others. Even the encounters we make determine our thinking. Depending on our predispositions. In my case, the mys...

@bobmax

I don't know what's really new here. Schopenhauer made similar claims. Niezsche saw them as life-negating, as a reluctance towards confrontation with life and the world.

I think love is behind communication. In fact, the other is none other than the beloved. Unattainable as long as the split persists. But precisely the split itself is such as a communication. Which is the continuous search for the One. Existence, communication, confirm the One. If the multiple were...