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Nov 18, 2021 5 tweets 1 min read Read on X
He thinks this proves that all things are physical, when he himself is explaining that certain non-physical things are have a connection to physical things.

The other error is thinking “reality” = “the physical” — although he doesn’t think this, because of non-physical systems.
1 All formal systems are connected to the physical at at least one point
2 Formal systems exist
3 For X to be connected to Y by a cord, X is not a subset of Y
4 So formal systems are not physical [1, 3]
5 So non-physical entities exist [2, 4]
Further, I add

6 Formal systems contain information
7 ∴ Not all information is physical [5, 6]
Extreme physicalists have a really hard time when they try to claim that non-physical things are ‘really’ physical by positing they are ‘connected’ to the physical.

Because “connected to the physical” ⇏ “is physical.”

The mental is connected to the physical.
“connected to the physical” ⇏ “is physical.”

The mental is connected to the physical.

Neither of these works:

1 The mental is connected to the physical
2 ∴ the physical is mental

1 The mental is connected to the physical
2 ∴ the mental is physical

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Nov 3, 2023
I do not believe in the fact/value distinction nor that the supposed is-ought problem is actually a problem.

And I'm not the only one. Hillary Putnam wrote an entire book about it, and you'd be a fool to simply dismiss him.

Go read it first.
amazon.com/Collapse-Value…
As Putnam notes, the fact/value dichotomy fails because it never manages to actually distinguish the two entirely, due to a kind of necessary entanglement (or kinds) between putative "facts" and "values." Image
What we have is a situation of distinction where in some facts are not values, some facts are values, some values are facts, and some values are not facts.

What we do not have is a fact/value dichotomy which amounts to a metaphysical dualism.

Here's a bit more of Putnam:Image
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Oct 5, 2023
Uses "word salad" in this way, instead of even trying to address my point (which is of course the correct answer).

Blocked.
This is one of my rules. I use language quite carefully. When someone response to something I have said by calling it "word salad," nothing is lost by blocking them.

There is no possibility they are being an honest interlocutor.
Anyone with more that a child's level of acquaintance with theology should understand that talk about God will always be quite unlike talk about anything else, unlike talk about any creature (which everything but God is).
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Sep 18, 2023
This does *seem like* a huge incoherence in transgender ideology.

It seems as if it is absurd on its face to say that children can consent to medical "transition" and a lifetime of medicalization and sterilization, but not consent to smoking a cigarette or having a beer.
And we who are opposed to transgender ideology should continue to press this point in this way.
But, within Gnostic system of transgenderism itself, it doesn't appear this way.

This is because no consent or choice by the child is involved or necessary.
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Sep 9, 2023
An honest atheist (if there were such a thing) might say that he does not believe in an uncreated creator. No!—he must pretend that the concept of an uncreated creator is nonsense!

As if everything that does an action need be susceptible to such an action!
Water drowns men. So what drowns water?

Fire burns up wood. So what burn up fire?

Light illuminates the darkness. So what illuminates light?

A bullet kills a man. What kills a bullet?
And if there is no uncreated creator, then

1 Creation is a brute fact, unintelligible, which rejects the principle of sufficient reason and entails radical absurdism

2 There is an equally irrational infinite regress or vicious circle of creators—equally absurd
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Aug 27, 2023
Both modes have strengths and weaknesses but picture thinking is terrible with abstractions/things that can’t be imaged.

"I think in words" - Jordan Peterson #shorts youtube.com/shorts/Bq2FSSJ…
A lot of picture-thinkers will form an image of what’s being talked about and then think something that only belongs to the image belongs to the idea itself. Which in turn causes them to miss/reject other cases that instantiate the idea but don’t fit their particular image.
Descartes gives an example of the limits of substituting pictures/the imagination from concepts/the intellect:

Consider a chiliagon, a thousand-sided figure with equal sides. Conceptually, this is easy to understand, but it is impossible to picture clearly and distinctly.
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Aug 27, 2023
This is of course wildly false, and depends on an equivocation of the term "natural."

For example, PLASTIC is NATURAL in the sense that it is made of (mostly) carbon.

But it is UNNATURAL is the sense that it is MAN-MADE, ARTIFICIAL.

Plastic does not OCCUR in nature. Image
In THIS case, there are behaviors and states of being that are UNNATURAL to a creature given its NATURE.

For example, diseases are natural, but it does not belong to the nature of an animal TO BE DISEASED.
Nor, to use Aristotle's example, does it belong to the NATURE of human beings to eat dirt or poison.

These are UNNATURAL ACTIONS — given the nature of the organism.

Teeth and the stomach are not FOR eating dirt.
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