Soul

[Tex]

Quantity is not beyond the material. It is a method. It is not a thing. It is simply a method devised by humans to account for amounts and such, much like God is a method by which you get support for hating the things you hate.

And are insults like that your method for dehumanizing the opposition? Because if you need to convince yourself and others to set up predispositions against a group, dehumanizing works wonders.

Anyway, does quantity exist outside of our minds? You say its a method, so is it based within that which is outside of us (not that we can't understand ourselves, but lets just stick with experience)? If it is all in our heads, you cannot say that the quantity of the force between car A as it hit car B affects anything. There isn't actually force there because force, a quantity, is only in our mind. Quantity must be outside of the mind.

So since it is out of the mind, is quantity material or immaterial? If material, it should have physical properties. In an aquarium I can take out the water, I can take out fish, I can add rocks or plants, whatever. In an atom, we can basically do the same thing. We can add electrons, share electrons, move it around from location to location, but if we use reason, we can know that for some things, material qualities are absent. My example all thread has been an unbonded oxygen atom. It has 6 electrons in it's outside shell. We can remove electrons, yes, but we can't remove 6. I don't want to remove or add any electrons, I just want to remove the 6. Not only that, I want to paint the 6 six green. This all sounds ridiculous, and that is the point. Quantity doesn't have these material aspects.

Well, lets just say it has material aspects that we don't know about. That's do-able. The problem is that we know quantity. Quantity doesn't enter through the light in our eyes, nor compressions that the ears pick up. It is not sensed by touch nor any of the senses we have. There is no way that quantity should be known if it is material. Our knowledge of quantity as immaterial allows us to know of our own soul (yes, animals have them too). Quantity must be processed by something that is also immaterial, and I call this a soul. The soul and the brain work simultaneously, so if there are problems with the brain, there will be problems overall.

That should catch you up on 10 pages.

Now what you must do Tex is prove that the common reference for invariant thought operation consists of form only apart from substance.

Not if I assert a hylomorphic metaphysics, which basically is what I'm doing. All I need them to do is recognize that form even exists.