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OK, now I see what you mean. Yes I agree that I exist because my parents had a relationship. But they didn't just wish me into existence. They took physical action and I was the result. But this does not address the issue of primacy.
Ok, now I see what you mean. I don't dispute the fact that the actions men take are dependent on their conscious choices.
OK, you're still not getting what I'm asking and that's OK, I understand that these are probably new issues for you. I don't think you are trying to be evasive. I'm going to try one more time. The question was not whether or not this "Godhead" is dependent on anything but what relationship exists between its consciousness and its objects, the things that it is aware of. Do its objects conform to its conscious will or do they exist independent of it?
Um, yeah, it would be kind of hard to argue anything unless you exist.
So nothing that exists has any attributes until we assign them by attacking a word to them? So a tree is not a tree until we call it a tree? That is what you are saying, that nothing is anything in particular except for words, they have identity but not a tree. Name for me one thing that is real but that has no attributes, is nothing in particular.
Yeah, what's wrong with that? When you perceive an apple on a table, is the apple distinct from you or are you one and the same.
Induction is inferring from the particular to the general. Deduction is applying a general principle in order to infer a particular conclusion.
But if they are one, they are not independent. That's is self-contradictory. If God wills water to become wine, will it become wine?
Sorry, I didn't see this response before I replied to your other one and I had asked the very question about water and wine. Thank you very much for answering. Get back to me after you've had some time to chew on it more, please.
very well, you are on the ignore list.From my lying, dishonest, evil point of view, I'd say that an answer to your question may depend upon the conceptual analytic and hermeneutical praxis of the particular theorist you might deign to pose this question to.
Just say'n.
I mean, allow me to lie further and say what isn't true---maybe even push up a bold lie, offered straight in the face of each and every Objectivist of Randian brand who is living in the world: Ayn Rand isn't the only theorist who has pondered the question of identity, essence and existence. But of course, you don't have to heed what I say because I'm saying it.
Maybe just place me on ignore since---well hell---I'm lying bold-faced!!!
Thank you very much for confirming that your worldview affirms the primacy of consciousness. Do you know that you are the first person to do this in over 15 years of discussions with Theists?
