Michael McMahon, Kant, if he were still alive, might ask the following questions: Do atoms, electrons, photons and electromagnetism exist independentl...
Michael McMahon, Antirealism may be understood in both the ontological and the epistemic sense. The belief that nothing material exists outside the mi...
NosaA2, The thing that should be kept in mind is that if we wish to live in a civilized society under a just government, we must abide by the laws. Go...
Riley, I might have added the obvious fact that the generalization I gave as an example was the categorical proposition, “All swans are white” and not...
Riley, The essence of the matter is set forth in the Sanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Id.) as follows: “it is logically impossible to verify a univ...
Banno, Philosophy is not science, yet, by a process of strict logic, it may tell us what science is and is not. This is the philosophical problem of d...
Xtrix, Centuries of experience in the law have taught that expert opinions are a very low grade of evidence. Popper, the greatest philosopher of scien...
Tim Wood, “The fault…is in yourself, that you are an underling.” Tom Storm, Carbon dioxide is not a toxic gas. In fact, it is necessary for all life o...
Prisnhon, If what you say about chaos theory is true, perhaps we should blame climate change on the butterflies who have the temerity to flap their wi...
I will reduce the question of consciousness (C) to its basic form without the use of obscure jargon. Questions: (1) How do we know that the brain prod...
Joshs and Gnomon, I think we have reached the stage of beating a dead horse. However, I will make just a few more observations, first as to Kant’s ont...
Joshs, I disagree slightly with your interpretation of Kant. It is true that he held that ”the physical exists but is unknowable in itself,” as you pu...
To All, Consciousness is a special kind of memory. It is memory, because it is not possible to have a conscious experience in only an instant (in the ...
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