Jamal

Something about this post feels a little insane, but I've started so I'll finish... ?? ???? (ta onta) is what appears in ancient Greek philosophy. It'...

I vote "question is unclear".

Your summary of Kant is fine, but here you miss the fact that transcendental idealism and empirical realism are complementary. Kant says it explicitly...

Still on mobile so it's a hassle. But I do rather resent being asked for citations. You've been given this information numerous times, often by very k...

Not using the built-in search unfortunately. But there is a way. The Google crawler likes TPF and has indexed most of our content. So you can search G...

There's a difference in pre-modern philosophy, which is what @"Wayfarer" is getting at. Something like... existence partakes of being, the latter bein...

Only if you take the next step, the one that follows: accept that traditionally in philosophy, anything that can be said to be is a being.

Okay let me try to work out what you're thinking... Physicalists and such people reduce the difference between sentient individuals (e.g., humans) and...

Well no, what I have been responding to is your claim that beings are subjects of experience, that things which are not subjects of experience are not...

Sure, but that's not the issue here. I've already agreed that being and existence are different concepts. Again, that doesn't support your attempt to ...

That's a fair point. I confess I'm not interested in the OP and that I'm carrying on a conversation I've been having with @"Wayfarer" for many years. ...

Incidentally, the reason I said "pre- and non-analytic" is that in analytic philosophy, being has pretty much been replaced by existence. What is impo...

:up: To repeat my point for anyone interested: a being in pre- and non-analytic philosophy is anything that is—anything that can be said to be. This i...

I forgot to respond to this. I don't think I've been aggressive. If you look at all my posts here you'll see I've been polite. I have argued forcefull...

Yes, I agree. The problem is that his use is often not in fact reasonable in context. I've demonstrated this in my posts. You might be interested in r...

As a matter of fact I did have some cheese on it and a splash of adjika.

I was showing that when philosophers say that everything that can be said to be is a being (which should be obvious), they are not advancing a metaphy...

I don't understand your point.

Looks like I failed again. You're using the word in the common modern way in conversations about metaphysics, where others are using it in the traditi...

I can't think of another way to put it. Appeals to the obvious or to authority are no good in philosophy, but I'm not making any philosophical point o...

So anything that exists is (also) a being.

But you said that only conscious individuals can be said to be, i.e., to be beings. That's what I'm criticizing, not the difference between being and ...

In other words, Kahn is not supporting you on the specific issue of the use of "being".

I agree with you on that, and I agree with Kahn. There certainly are differences in philosophy between being and existence, although I think they've b...

Well it does seem like you're associating what I've said on the use of "being" with secular materialism, physicalism, etc, the kind of views that are ...

As I say, that’s because it’s the everyday, likely modern, usage. In philosophy, anything which can be said to be is a being.

There’s this from Britannica:

Not easy at the moment because I’m on mobile, but I’ll try later. Heidegger, Aristotle, and the scholastics spring to mind.

Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I’ll just pick out this at the moment: That’s the point: yes, I would, and that’s how it’s always been used in phi...

Breakfast: fried egg sandwich and instant coffee. I don’t really have to justify the instant coffee. Just know that there are reasons.

I guess you probably find it annoying or condescending when people challenge you on this, and I don’t want to be annoying or condescending, but it is ...

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3 to 4 seconds max. An excess of cheese I can handle. An excess of pepper is another matter. I don’t like restaurants that don’t provide me with a lar...

Phew

One of my very favourite musicians. I love his compositions and his co-leadership of Weather Report but I first got to know him through his work with ...

This was my favourite bit, because it reminded me of the ravioli I had yesterday for lunch. Each raviolo was packed with mozzarella and sun-dried toma...

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https://thecookingjar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sweet-heat-meatballs-1.jpg Looks good.

Another one of his you might find useful is "wipe backward from the perineum, toward and past the anus."

Well, a meatball is a meatball, as my Uncle Peter used to say. “It can be good or it can be bad, but it’s a meatball all the same”. Or “meatballs are ...

Everyone wins :up:

Albondigas! :yum:

Biding your time I assume.

Suits you. I saw a dodo skeleton last weekend. I lamented their extinction and silently berated humanity.

Great stuff. I’ll deal with the myth issue in this post and the more difficult stuff some time in the next few days, I hope. I confess I’m vacillating...

Ah yes, I saw that in the news. About the owl, let me enlighten you from the other side of the world. A Eurasian eagle owl--a most impressive bird--es...

I wonder what's happened with that owl that escaped from the zoo in Central Park. I could Google it but I'll wait to get your insider knowledge.

Cool. I've seen ospreys and bald eagles too. Ospreys in Scotland and Canada, and bald eagles in Canada. Warblers, I can take them or leave them. Too m...

I like the goat angle. I think what should happen is that they climb Everest without the guy even knowing he's done it, and he becomes famous cos some...