PROBLEMS IN NATHAN COPPEDGE’S PHILOSOPHY NOTATIONS: This is not a comprehensive analysis, so much as a working list of puzzles, most of which I believe to be relatively new. Although some of the puzzles are similar to previous puzzles, the role especially of visual semantics in my work lends to the possibility that some---if not all---of these problems are original. I have arranged them alphabetically for ease of use. 1st Problem of Space and Time: Continuous events with quantity produce quantity, non-absoluteness, or reality assumptions. 2nd Problem of Space and Time: In consciousness with transpiring objects, objects seem immortal to judgment, whereas the conditions or events of objects seem transient. 3rd Problem of Space and Time / Humean Intermission Problem: Intermissions, minds, and localities produce phenomena such as irrational order, duplicitous differences, and parsing-order exceptions of nature. Aesthetic Temptation: Amphiboly about the meaning of a generic context. Atrix Problem: [An atrix is an ‘ideal construct’ with a conceptual and physical function]. What if such thought-physics is merely an arbitrary formula? Then, apparently, no such system would have more than aesthetic significance. Avant-Garde Significance Fallacy: The idea that meaning lies in the future, and when the future arrives, meaning still lies in the future. A form of hollow realism, but supporting immortality. Basically a postponement fallacy. Burden-of-Proof Conflict: Confusions about material souls and essential language. Circumscription Error: Category apprehension problem that results in small dynamics and fixed contexts. Better to use it than lose it. Classical Compromise: A semantic hypothesis about a claim drawn out because it was believed that some statement had to be made. A form of academic fallacy. Clausal Compromise: Traditional fault of exceptionism. Consiglio [Problem]: Comes in two forms. Ab-Personal: Through abjection, theoretical faults. Ab-Material: Through proof, materialism, or vice versa. Contingency Fallacy of Modal Realism: The dependence on quantity without delineation. Conventional Discriminations: Follow the cycle: rightness, wrongness, analysis, insanity. Cowering Dove Problem: A debate in which the arguers choose a weak solution through cowardice. Deficient Assumption: When the evidence produces no support, or the system is unserviceable. Demon of Translation: What if we don’t know that Descartes’ demon is a devil? It might be a dancer, a soldier, or someone’s mother who is manipulating, or appearing to manipulate us. How arbitrary it is! And yet, not only devils are evil. Error of Commission / Types of: CANVAS (Colloquial, Ambiguous, Neutral, Vague, Assumptions, Science). Error of Conscripted Thought: Arbitrary preference for one medium or authority versus another (unfoundedness). Error of Contravention: Idea that the parts of one thing are the parts of a related thing. (Boundary paradox). Error of Officiation: Assumption that an idea is valid because of it’s framework. Essential List Problem: If the list is integral, is it descriptive? If it is ambiguous, what does that mean mathematically? Apparently, it must be categorical, but then it must be logical, in order to relate with numbers. Existential Failure (Problem With Negativity in Existentialism): In some sense, anomie does not ‘anomize,’ and despair does not despair, and romantic terror is not terribly romantic, etc. Basically, negative negatives result in positives, or they fail to have substance. Extent of Claim Fallacy: When (A) An irrational system, or (B) Applications of an application, or (C) System-as-application are not produced by (1) Systems-utility, (2) Applications utility, or (3) Applications without systems. Fire and Ice (Opposites) Paradox: Two opposites seem unrelated, yet appear to encompass all but neutrality on the subject. Fire Truck Probability Problem (Virtual Realism Paradox): Why aren’t fire trucks always ringing, if there’s always a fire? Glam-Faust Problem: How to prove a soul is sold if only a soul can sell itself away? (Variation on the Balding Man Paradox). Honeypot Defense: Defense of Utilitarianism, stating that pleasure is life, and so the moral life is pleasure. Humbug Problem: Problem of revising a definition to define a critical subject. When this is done, the subject does not remain the same for analysis. Imaginary Sequence Error: An error produced when dimensional typology is assumed to be discrete. For example, in socialism, if there are quantities of citizens, but these citizens cannot have quantities of money, the result is a causal link between various identical pools of money, or identical entities, an ‘imaginary sequence of events’ which has little to do with functional government. Apparently, if government is an all-embracing concept, then so-too socialism must embrace money, or become the only system. But it does neither of these things. So apparently, it consists of conflict. Incoherent Contingency Problem: If epistemological concerns are a product of a natural logical event, epistemology depends on adopting a similar logic to nature. Intermediate Action Problem (Spatula Error of Temptation): Conflations of value, object, and distance prioritize synthetic ethics. Meta Actor Problem: The problem of supporting a claim if a system is destroyed, criticizing an opponent without a critical theory, or critiquing an opponent when the opponent lacks a theory, even absolutely (Literal Straw Man Problem). My Method Problems: [A] Paroxysmic Problem: If incoherency has a function, it doesn’t exist, because nothing is absolutely incoherent: it would have no scale. [B] Metadoxical Problem: The missing functor problem for logical processes / Wrench in the system problem. [C] Helidoxical Problem: Incoherent-reality-for-systems problem, or seams of reality problem. [D] Ostramathic Problem: Evil may have another name, which represents another system. No Diagrams Fallacy: The assumption that context exists before theory, and that therefore theory doesn’t exist. Non-Dimensional Category Problem: Hypothetically, irrationals might be undetectable. Object-Identity Systems Problem: A systems-materials paradox, essentially a choice amongst four options: (1) Spiritual significance for the soul of the system, (2) A significance for material system, (3) The true /soulful material of matter, or (4) The material soul / deciding what is system. Object Problem: What if materials in general are not inherently rhetorical? Then nothing material would constitute proof! Obvious-Complete Reality Problem: If there is a problem with obviousness, it always emerges in complete reality, according to finite and infinite sets, which represent reality and completeness. But rejecting obviousness doesn’t look much better. Also, the ‘unobvious unobvious’ problem. Opposite Availability Problem: Some think that a third opposite is not available for the first two: I disagree, citing the un-inherency of their claim for semantic systems. Parser Paradox: A parser must prove it is complex, but to be understood it must be simple enough to understand. So it must be a decoration, or code is superficial to computing. Patent Formality Problem: The problem of adopting arbitrary conditions of criticism. Patent Reality Problem: The interchangeability of trickery and evaluation between (genuine) psychic and universal facts. Perambulum Paradox: (A perambulum is a logic found in negating a positive). If the good is good, it’s negation might also be good, but if it’s originally bad, it’s negation is also good, unless all negations are bad. Problem of Assumed Parallels: Favoring conventional opposites. Problem of Equity Reduction: Universal values are more complete than subject categories, which are more complete than finite numbers. Yet many things are numbers, or not? Problems with a Philosophy of Pure Ideas (such as Berkeley‘s Idealism): (A) Indefensible, (B) Non-Integrated, (C) Quixotic, (D) Non-Objective. Prodoxysm Paradox: Functions are resources, so they are functions of functions of resources, so they are functions of functions of functions of resources. Apparently there is an unstated dependence on quantity, together with resources and functions. Projector Assumption in Physics: That observable data represent the largest possible coherency (vis. correspondence), or the smallest possible representations (vis. significance), with implications for information. Singular Category Problem: The necessity of logic, or conflation of desire and logic. Supposition of Probability Paradox: Real objects in virtual space are still real insofar as they are real, but may have only virtual relevance. This is more clear when it is assumed that the reality is a form of probability. Synthetic Reality Problem: Nothing is real if nature is reality and nothing is natural. Technical Media Exception for Technology and Mediums (abversion): When technology is used, a program (such as creative science) may become less technical, while an application (such as a game interface) may become more technical. Theo-Diagram Paradox: Unless the properties of God can be found in a diagram, God cannot be found there (nominalism). Unstated Subscription Fallacy: A thesis which has an undeclared sub-thesis may fail to clarify the relation of sub-theses (whether they are stated or not). Utilitarianism and Authenticity Problems: [A] Mediocre Inauthenticity Problem: It really is mediocre, if it is false, and mediocre, esp. appearances of pleasure. [B] Unfeeling Authenticity / Authentic Pain Problem: It could be authentic, but how would we know? (Clarified by consciousness, but clarified pain more than pleasure?). [C] Inauthentic Pain Problem: Is it pain if it is ‘inauthentic’? (Such as to the cultural relativist?) [D] Inauthentic Pleasure Problem: Is it pleasure if it doesn’t seem real? Wouldn’t it be fake? Or wouldn’t we lack sensation of it? Uselessness of Causal Information Problem: If information occurs through imitating an example or source, then either data is not perfectible, or there is no genuine progress with information. There may be irrational exceptions. Zero Typology Ambiguous Complexity Problem: If zero expresses a contingency, it may consist of more than one axis of contingency. Infinite axes appears to have a simple form, but infinite qualification. It is argued that this zero must be somehow much more complex (dimensionism). Most of these problems are present or are implied in my book The Dimensional Philosopher’s Toolkit (2013). Nathan Coppedge, SCSU 12/11/2013