Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Diana Nunez. Hello Diana, Thank you so much for telling me this. Alison was more than a friend to me (she was more like a mother figure). Been thinking about her lately, Because of her I started celebrating Holidays and she definitely made …

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Irfan; I have to say your responses rather surprised me. You wrote that “David Potts’s version of Aristotle’s argument ends with the conclusion that there is an unmoved mover, where that unmoved mover is not itself moved. I’l…

In reply to Michael Brazier. Michael; If all we were doing is looking for contradictions or consistency in Aristotle’s work, then DP should not have gone down the path of questioning Aristotle’s premises 1 and 2. But he did. So the rest of us can too. …

In reply to Michael Brazier. There is no coming of the Initial Singularity into existence. The “initial” of it is only our finding that there was no time before it. The Initial Singularity possessed the same mass-energy as the universe has …

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. No, a creator and an uncreated singularity are both equally consistent with the findings of modern physics. What physics tells us is that there is an initial singularity; no measurement or experiment can tell us, even in prin…

In reply to sean samis. 1) If you are looking for a contradiction in Aristotle’s work, you must begin by using words as Aristotle did, not as you would prefer. In this context Aristotle used “natural motions” to mean what we now call …