RE: Soul
March 29, 2013 at 5:05 pm
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2013 at 5:09 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(March 29, 2013 at 2:54 pm)LastPoet Wrote:Given my experience here, I would say he's just about right. Even in this thread, radial empiricism seems to be the most applicable tag for the responses. Some of you are eager to point out that the concept of addition is about grouping similar entities and giving a name to the group. No has yet asked themselves the question of how you can identify a set of properties as a whole and call it one thing.(March 29, 2013 at 12:27 am)Tex Wrote: Since I'm dealing with a bunch of radical empiricists.Rule #1: Always assume a strawman about the bunch you are debating(!?) with.
Curious Tex, why do you assume that a soul must be immaterial and not substantial? Is that a necessary property of a soul, because I don't think so.
(March 29, 2013 at 4:57 pm)LastPoet Wrote: ...my philosophy teacher tried to present roughly the same case you are, some odd 18 years ago.And...? You completely refuted it or what?