Common reality between two parts (entities) --two persons, a person and a group, two groups etc.-- is based on agreement between the two parts. And vi...
True. Philosophy has always been an incubator for scientific ideas and theories. True. Right. Agreement is a key element that separates Science from P...
I don't know how people in US think of and treat their culture, and how they "fight" for it. In Greece there's no culture to fight for. The Greek cult...
Good point. Progress however can mean or refer to various things. One is moving towards a destination or end-goal, as you say. Another is evolving tow...
Well, Science works fine with the physical universe and produces great results without have to question its existence. Fortunately! And if some scient...
You are give me too much work to do! I would be satisfied with a simple affirmation or negation oo what I have assumed. Not philosophy. Only people wh...
Thank you for your response to the topic. I assume that either yourself are not sure whether the external world actually exists or not, or you believe...
Thank you for your response to the topic. Why "empirical" knowledge only? Besides from experience --which I consider most important-- knowledge can be...
Thank you for responding to the topic. "Advancing" means making progress, which is the subject of this topic. And the subject of progress in philosoph...
All these are either methods/tools or principles. I have never said that there aren't. In fact, I have referred to them in general when I said "I can ...
There's no objectivity in philosopy. It's all subjective: opinions, viewpoints, arguments etc. Your above statement is based on your reality, your kno...
Sophists had other purposes than establishing truths! I think you know what ... Heractlitus was not taking about abtract ideas like "truth". He was ta...
Thank you for your response to the topic. I think you are talking about the past, and in fact quite far back. I will quote myself from an earlier post...
Thank you for your response to the topic. These too. The may be based in a lot of things --even nonsese-- but not a real interest or quest for truth a...
Even if "philosophy of mathematics" is considred by some a branch of philosophy, I personally don't consider it a philosophy per se. Because we also t...
Thank you for your response to the topic. I agree. Only that I consider it as a result or product of getting involved in the field of philosophy, not ...
Thank you for your response to the topic. You are right as far as philosophical quests are concerned. Doubts should always exist, but they should serv...
Thank you for your response to the topic. Right. But you are almost repeating my words! :smile: I don't know if this is your way of agreeing or you di...
I think this exchange is got quite "personal" and I don't want to burden this thread more. I will reply you with a message to your Profile page. Look ...
Thank you for your long and productive response to the topic. Yes, certainly I remember that science and philosophy were once one thing. I have talked...
Tough is good. :smile: Glad that I posted it. And thanks for responding. I hope that interesting things will pop up, esp. from the more knowledgeable ...
I'm glad that our exchange produced some fruits. Just a tiny note: Macedonians, with Alexander as leader, had created a larger empire than Romans and ...
I am posting this on page 33 of the topic "Is there an external material world?", which is very close to 1000 responses! I really wonder and cannot be...
:up: Well said! We certainly and absolutely need to read more often such general comments about philosophy! The above applies very also to the discuss...
I undestand your point. BTW, in my experience, from the hundreds of texts and dozens of philosophers I have read in my life, starting with Socrates at...
Reverse definition! Well, I don't know exactly what you have in mind saying that. I can think of "social consciousness/awareness" and "ethics". Ethics...
You are talking a lot about intiution(s) but I din't see the words "knowldge" and "consciousness" mentioned at least once. How can you speak about ext...
All this is fine and thank you for the clarification. However, my response was about the meaning, usefulness, etc. of such statements, independenty of...
Allow me to suggest to just forget about the myths of Christianity. I have already expalined why. Do you mean that you failed to get useful responses ...
Oxford LEXICO defines philosophy as "The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academ...
Thank you for appreciating my English. I have worked it out a lot during the last 3-4 years, based on philosophical and other discussions in this and ...
Hi. I'm back. I assume that by "a moral"? you mean "a moral act" or simply "morality". I will also assume that by "cause and effect" in this context y...
Are you so preoccupied with the idea of the pointlessness of existence that you need to distract yourself? Can't you just not think about it? There's ...
BTW, I just realized that my above statement was wrong. And you had the opportunity to easily refute it, if you had paid attention to a detail instead...
No problem, @Banno. I know you mean well. I have never studied Philosopy. I only had a course in College, based on the philosophy of Epictetus. On the...
I wasn't complaining. I just gave you FOUR reasons why I, personally don't use a specialized language. And also because you asked me what kind of logi...
I see, OK, but I'm not familiar with either intuitionist or paraconsistent logic. I never use and never need to use such terms. 1) They render a discu...
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