Re: [Fis] Collier's Metaphysics

2013-05-27 Thread John Collier
Another vapid criticism with no argument. Give me an idea, Jerry, give me an idea. You obviously think I don't have it, so it would be rude of you to just say this sort of thing and refrain. List some things that are involved with metaphysics that I have missed. Otherwise I will have to assume

Re: [Fis] Collier's Metaphysics

2013-05-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 May 2013, at 08:08, John Collier wrote: Another vapid criticism with no argument. Give me an idea, Jerry, give me an idea. You obviously think I don't have it, so it would be rude of you to just say this sort of thing and refrain. List some things that are involved with metaphysics

Re: [Fis] Collier's Metaphysics

2013-05-26 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
John: On May 26, 2013, at 10:26 AM, John Collier wrote: Your notion of metaphysics appears to so extremely narrowly restricted that you can exempt your own highly metaphysical writings from your definition of metaphysics. In fact, the traditional usage of the term metaphysics is not

Re: [Fis] Collier's Metaphysics

2013-05-26 Thread Bob Logan
Bruno - An interesting definition of God, omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. And equally mysterious. Turing emulable and Robinson Arithmetic. How does one derive an understanding of the real world (the acoustic world) from axioms. The scientific method of observation, generalization,

Re: [Fis] Collier's Metaphysics. Bit from It

2013-05-26 Thread Joseph Brenner
: Sunday, May 26, 2013 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [Fis] Collier's Metaphysics Bruno - An interesting definition of God, omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. And equally mysterious. Turing emulable and Robinson Arithmetic. How does one derive an understanding of the real world (the acoustic world

Re: [Fis] Collier's Metaphysics

2013-05-26 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
On May 26, 2013, at 10:46 AM, John Collier wrote: I don't have much idea. I concur. Jerry___ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis