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Hi Javi. YouTube displays a message saying "The video is unavaible" ...
February 23, 2024 at 17:38
OK. We agree then. :smile:
February 22, 2024 at 11:34
I think I see what you mean here. There is always a whole larger than and surrounding sub-holes. E.g. W2 = W1+B1. And that this goes ad infinitum. Rig...
February 22, 2024 at 06:47
What do you mean by "bounded by"? It normally means having something as its edge or simply an edge around something. What edge do you have in mind? An...
February 21, 2024 at 17:43
Well said, Lionino. :up:
February 13, 2024 at 18:47
This is very true. However, etymology in English --and I believe other languages too-- is often complex and even useless. This is not the case with an...
February 13, 2024 at 17:52
OK. I guess this "something" is "space", right? Like a balloon ... But this seems impossible since space is part of the universe itself; it cannot be ...
February 07, 2024 at 18:56
Well, there are a lot of scenarios on the table. Let astronomers and cosmologists debate about them ... Welcome to TPF! :clap:
February 07, 2024 at 16:34
Right. I see what you mean. Well, the words "exist" and "existence" can be used in different ways. And it can be used strictly (substantially, concret...
February 07, 2024 at 07:06
You cannot start counting 1,2,3,4,... ad infinitum and reach somewhere, anywhere. Infinity has neither a start or an end. Then, counting (natural) num...
February 06, 2024 at 16:45
Right. That's why I added "thought experiment" in parentheses.
February 05, 2024 at 07:31
It was a pun on body-soul dualism! :smile:
February 04, 2024 at 09:57
Unfortunately, I'm not knowledgeable on the subject. But, as I said, there are real paradoxes, which are quite perplexing or structured in a way that ...
February 04, 2024 at 09:55
A substance is something material; it consistse of matter. Time is not physical. It doesn't actually exist. It is a dimension. We use it to measure ch...
February 04, 2024 at 09:22
Maybe Descartes himself could explain all that. (After having been briefed on Start Trek material.) But I'm afraid he would rather say that you have m...
February 03, 2024 at 18:01
This is a statement made by @MoK. I just confirmed it. It is to him/her that you should be addressed.
February 03, 2024 at 17:28
The term "paradox" is overrated and abused. Most "paradoxes" are simply self-contradictory, self-refuting or circular statements or statements based o...
February 03, 2024 at 17:20
P1) Time is needed for any change OK P2) Nothing to something is a change It's not. If it is possible, it is creation. (Nothing cannot be changed sinc...
February 03, 2024 at 16:33
Very interesting interpretation! And a very good example. ... And I was wondering ... where are those in this medium who have even the least interest ...
February 01, 2024 at 18:41
I know what you mean. But see, “obstacles” is something quite general and relative. E.g. on a road empty of other cars (no obstacles), you can drive f...
February 01, 2024 at 13:07
Thanks, Javi.
February 01, 2024 at 12:37
One may be "enslaved" by a lot of --and much more important and powerful-- things besides ego (in the sense of personal drives) and conscience (in a m...
January 31, 2024 at 17:31
But all we know about our "external world" is through our senses and our experiences. Saying that we can't know anything because all we have is our se...
January 25, 2024 at 16:53
I give up. :smile:
January 18, 2024 at 18:53
:up:
January 18, 2024 at 18:50
So, if I understand this well, you are talking about morality in the Universe. And, since you don't specify what kind of things should exist or not, y...
January 18, 2024 at 06:09
Right. :up:
January 17, 2024 at 19:15
Where should we search for that? Morality is a broad term: it can mean conformity to a set of rules of right conduct. It can also mean virtuous conduc...
January 17, 2024 at 18:42
I provided the link as my views on your topic. I will check the summary that you are mentioning and see how I can contribute with something more speci...
January 17, 2024 at 18:05
If I don't believe in the existence of God, any god, because there is no evidence for its existence, what does that makes me? An agnostic, an atheist,...
January 17, 2024 at 17:49
Neuroscience has nothing to do with the mind. Neuroscience deals with the brain. They are two totally different things. Some neuroscientists are well ...
January 17, 2024 at 17:37
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/13401/quantitative-ethics/p1
January 17, 2024 at 17:16
Where were you when I was talking about definitions in philosophy? :smile: One can always reduce things of non-physical nature to something physical. ...
January 07, 2024 at 18:09
:chin: I can hardly hear the guitar! And what I can hear from it, is just scratching a couple of chords ... :grin:
January 04, 2024 at 08:41
I'm certainly not hiding from anything. Neither do I hide anything. I'm a person who opens all his cards on the table and speak openly and clearly. An...
January 03, 2024 at 06:15
Yes, maybe we do.
January 03, 2024 at 06:01
Certainly. Exactly. They acquire a meaning only when they are processed by the mind, i.e. decoded and undestood, This reminds me somehow of the increm...
January 02, 2024 at 17:46
I have not explored the "theory of signs" yet in order to assimilate this ... Exactly. There's no information anywhere, until someone decodes (transla...
January 02, 2024 at 11:16
I never said to stick to common dictionaries as far as philosophy is concerned. Although, good disctionaties include specialized definitions of terms ...
January 01, 2024 at 17:06
But it is this exact these "sign" systems I'm taking about. Initially I thought you meant "symbols", but as you went on, I saw hat you wer really talk...
January 01, 2024 at 10:09
Thank you Lionino for making my life easier by serving to me Banno's reference on the plate. Well, besides W's usual fallacious and unexpected ideas -...
January 01, 2024 at 08:54
Certainly it is. (Only that I would say, "a recurrent question".)
January 01, 2024 at 07:56
So, a Wittgensteinian, eh? Thank you, Banno. I'll have to look all that closer ... Have a great new year!
January 01, 2024 at 07:47
I think that you are talking about how one uses a language in general and not esp. definitions, which is our subject. Because if one does not follow t...
December 31, 2023 at 07:58
BK Kastrup is one of the main --if not the main-- supporter and defender of idealism, more precisely analytic idealism. What creteria are you using to...
December 31, 2023 at 07:17
@"Fooloso4", @"Banno", @"unenlightened", @"NOS4A2", @"Lionino", @"Judaka", @"L'éléphant", @"JuanZu" Here's a video that shows the importance that a kn...
December 30, 2023 at 19:01
I see. That is, like the ink on the paper, the electrons fired on a screen, etc. And like the acoustic waves that words produce when they are uttered....
December 30, 2023 at 08:53
Yes, if you know that the term is causing a confustion. Which usually you don't or don't care about. This is a good idea. What do you mean by "can't l...
December 30, 2023 at 07:32
What are "digital marks on the internet"? E.g. emojis, icons, buttons, etc.? Also, what dou you mean by "a digital philosophy forum"? I can think of t...
December 29, 2023 at 17:50