A reply to my critics

Abstract

Philosophical inquiry encompasses both the exhibition of linguistic rules and the replacement of defective usage, while speculative metaphysics functions as an informative attempt to unify pervasive features of the world. The perceived conflict between naturalism and religious experience suggests that consciousness might not be strictly epiphenomenal, a possibility supported by the potential relevance of psychical research to the mind-body problem. Within ontology, the limitations of substratum theories favor an interpretation of reality as a system of absolute processes rather than persistent things. Temporal experience, specifically the specious present, is modeled through a two-dimensional time-field where successive phases possess extension in one dimension and instantaneity in another, thereby resolving paradoxes of absolute becoming. The justification of induction rests upon ontological postulates concerning the structure of nature, specifically the principle of limited variety, which grounds the probability of general laws. Human personality is best understood through a compound theory that identifies a psychical factor interacting with a biological brain, rather than through purely behaviorist or materialist frameworks. In the theory of perception, dualist realism provides a more coherent account of sensibilia than direct realism, despite the non-corporeality of sense-data. Finally, moral philosophy must distinguish between the non-natural, dependent status of ethical attributes and the empirical characteristics of actions, acknowledging that while moral judgments are potentially synthetic and necessary, they remain logically distinct from natural descriptions. – AI-generated abstract.