You’re still operating under the assumption that Will_Newsome cares, beyond a certain very low fundamental threshold, what we think about him and/or his theories.
Can someone tell me what my theories are? Maybe it’s the sleep deprivation but I don’t remember having any theories qua theories. I talk about other peoples’ theories sometimes, but mostly to criticize them, e.g. my decision theoretic arguments against naive interpretations of academic theism (of the sort that Mitchell Porter rightly finds misguided).
They don’t have to be your theories in the sense that you originated them, we just mean “your theories” as in the theories/models/beliefs/maps you personally use, and that you often mention in passing in your posts, but without much detail.
For example: what does Aquinas have to do with TDT? That’s not a specific question (though I’d like to hear your answer!) so much as a hint as to the sort of things that come across as empty statements to us; it’s not at all obvious (to me, at least) how you are relating together the various things you mention in a given sentence, or how you are arriving at your conclusions. It’s like there’s a bunch of big invisible “this lemma left as an exercise for the reader” sentences in the middle of your paragraphs.
At the very least, you could provide links back to some of your longer posts which explain your ideas in a step-by-step fashion. Inferential distance, dude.
I don’t understand your writings enough to know for sure. However, for example,
Ultimately I think that academic “the form of the good and the form of being are the same” theism is a less naive perspective on cosmology-morality than atheism is
is a conclusion that surely must have come from some nontrivial body of beliefs. Maybe that’s not what you mean by theory qua theory, but I suspect that’s what Kaj_Sotala meant.
Whatever this underlying framework is, it would be nice to evaluate someday.
You’re still operating under the assumption that Will_Newsome cares, beyond a certain very low fundamental threshold, what we think about him and/or his theories.
Can someone tell me what my theories are? Maybe it’s the sleep deprivation but I don’t remember having any theories qua theories. I talk about other peoples’ theories sometimes, but mostly to criticize them, e.g. my decision theoretic arguments against naive interpretations of academic theism (of the sort that Mitchell Porter rightly finds misguided).
They don’t have to be your theories in the sense that you originated them, we just mean “your theories” as in the theories/models/beliefs/maps you personally use, and that you often mention in passing in your posts, but without much detail.
For example: what does Aquinas have to do with TDT? That’s not a specific question (though I’d like to hear your answer!) so much as a hint as to the sort of things that come across as empty statements to us; it’s not at all obvious (to me, at least) how you are relating together the various things you mention in a given sentence, or how you are arriving at your conclusions. It’s like there’s a bunch of big invisible “this lemma left as an exercise for the reader” sentences in the middle of your paragraphs.
At the very least, you could provide links back to some of your longer posts which explain your ideas in a step-by-step fashion. Inferential distance, dude.
I don’t understand your writings enough to know for sure. However, for example,
is a conclusion that surely must have come from some nontrivial body of beliefs. Maybe that’s not what you mean by theory qua theory, but I suspect that’s what Kaj_Sotala meant.
Whatever this underlying framework is, it would be nice to evaluate someday.