Sat 13 Feb, 2010 05:15 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy;127869]There are certainly lots of different kinds of things in the world, and electrons are different from rocks, and living things are certainly very different from either of... (view)
Sat 13 Feb, 2010 08:02 am - [QUOTE=paulhanke;127544]... then I think you're using the wrong words to express what you mean ... if each of these presents a different face of a thing and at the same time each are the... (view)
Fri 12 Feb, 2010 12:17 pm - [QUOTE=MMP2506;127521]I didn't say they are different facets of a larger concept, I am saying they are the concept. There is nothing larger than being or perception or existence. They are all... (view)
Fri 12 Feb, 2010 11:47 am - [QUOTE=MMP2506;127502]Because the meaning is the same does not entail that the words are interchangeable. Both words are necessary to display different faces of the same meaning. Don't turn... (view)
Fri 12 Feb, 2010 11:27 am - [QUOTE=kennethamy;127496]Have you any reason for supposing it is true?[/QUOTE]
... no, only a reason for supposing it is possible ... the continued philosophical opposition between materialism and... (view)
Fri 12 Feb, 2010 11:23 am - [QUOTE=MMP2506;127495]Precisely my point, Being is reality is existence is perception is being. We tend to separate all of these concepts, yet I find it reasonable to understand them as different... (view)
Fri 12 Feb, 2010 11:09 am - [QUOTE=kennethamy;127489]What leads you to think so? (Whatever that means).[/QUOTE]
... are you saying it isn't a possibility? ... (view)
Fri 12 Feb, 2010 10:55 am - [QUOTE=kennethamy;127478]Oh. And what do you think that studying a rock will tell you about reality that studying human beings won't? [/QUOTE]
... perhaps that reality contains multiple... (view)
Fri 12 Feb, 2010 10:39 am - [QUOTE=kennethamy;127467]I think you just mean that rocks and human beings are different. And they are. Being real does not seem to have much to do with it.[/QUOTE]
... the point of the difference... (view)
Fri 12 Feb, 2010 10:10 am - [QUOTE=MMP2506;127338]Yes, there can be no one absolute reality because reality is based on perception.[/QUOTE]
... but then, what is perception based on? ...
[QUOTE=MMP2506;127338]The question... (view)
