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Alkis Piskas

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We could say that time is irreversible, based on common sense and experience. (And Physics laws, I guess, but check https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/docume...
February 06, 2022 at 11:24
Well, don't be (angry)! :smile: Does the existence of God or a Supreme Being make you also angry? Does the existence of ghosts make you also angry? Th...
February 05, 2022 at 18:26
Maybe you mean "Everyone talks about time". Because, if you really mean "Everyone knows what time is" then I guess you also mean or can expect that ev...
February 05, 2022 at 17:38
I didn't say that you said these words. These words are from Wikipedia and Merriam-Webster, resp/ly. The second one is close to what you said: And sin...
January 31, 2022 at 16:27
Saying that "whatever exists is based on matter" is not a paraphrase of "nothing exists except matter". These are quite different things and carry dif...
January 31, 2022 at 08:59
I see the point. Agree. :up: This part is quite inspiring! "Intention" is indeed very important in all that we are talking about. I mention it quite o...
January 30, 2022 at 16:40
(BTW, thanks for your response to the topic! :smile:) No, not for any in your list! :smile: True. I see. Maybe as a way of avoiding the hard term "mat...
January 30, 2022 at 10:13
I could well accept this, but from my experience, there are very few among them who say and/or admit that. (I have already mentioned somewhere in this...
January 30, 2022 at 09:13
(Thanks for your response to the topic.) Yes, there's this interpretation too. "Materialism" (Philosophy) from ... 1) Oxford LEXICO: The theory or bel...
January 30, 2022 at 09:02
(Thanks for your response to the topic.) Yes, this is the conclusive question. But it is good to also know why! :smile:
January 30, 2022 at 08:01
(Thanks for your response to the topic. Although I cannot consider it as a reply to the topic! :smile:) You say you are young and new to philosophy, a...
January 30, 2022 at 07:24
(Thanks for your response to the topic.) Me too. It's good that you brought up "idealism". I din't want to do it myself for not "overloading" the subj...
January 29, 2022 at 18:42
This is an interesting point. But then, naturalism is contrasted with supernaturalism --or, in a simpler way, natural is contrasted with supernatural-...
January 29, 2022 at 18:23
(Thanks for your response to the topic.) I agree. I agree. It's good that you brought up prejudice, which I believe has no place in philosophy, since ...
January 29, 2022 at 12:43
(Thanks for your response to the topic.) Right. I don't believe it either. Contradictions, as you say, and also ambiguities and lack of evidences --th...
January 29, 2022 at 11:29
(Thanks for your response to the topic.) I think you have put the subject into a good perspective and explained well the paradox-like "Materialism mea...
January 29, 2022 at 09:23
(Thanks for your response to the topic.) You seem to have digged into the subject quite well! :smile: Well, I, on the other hand, am not for too many ...
January 29, 2022 at 09:11
:grin: (Thanks for rsponding to the topic!)
January 28, 2022 at 19:59
I know! But the quote by @Ree Zen's that you brought up was an anwer to me and leads back to me! (OK, I'm a little sensitive to being attributed state...
January 27, 2022 at 11:40
(BTW, I have never said or left be implied that Descartes proved the existence of this body, as @Ree Zen mentioned.) Interesting point. However, the e...
January 27, 2022 at 08:51
Please use "Quote" to give me the exact reference to what I have said. Because I don't remember having ever said that Descartes, with this or any othe...
January 27, 2022 at 07:50
:up: I have contributed to 100 topics up to now. Only you and another OP owner have thanked me for that! (There were even a lot (27) of OP owners who ...
January 27, 2022 at 06:55
"Sureness" from Merriam-Webster (My favorite dictionary, Oxford LEXICO, doesn't have it! :sad:) "A state of mind in which one is free from doubt." "Ce...
January 26, 2022 at 18:52
I don't think that my reading was "dishonest" --actually, a more correct word would be "unfair"-- because I didn't read the whole thing. And I didn't ...
January 26, 2022 at 09:05
Knowledge consists of facts, information and skills acquired through experience or education. A belief is an acceptance that something exists or is tr...
January 25, 2022 at 19:17
Yes, I got the idea. It's a very interesting point.
January 24, 2022 at 06:47
Nice topic. But also a dangerous one; it's a field with hidden mines! :smile: Nice quote. Present needs indeed a context. I would put though a stop at...
January 23, 2022 at 18:18
:pray: + :up:
January 23, 2022 at 16:24
OK, D is the winner! Case closed! :sweat:
January 23, 2022 at 13:17
First of all, what do you mean by the "sense of self" and the "self" itself? Also about the concept of "ego", which features in the title of the topic...
January 22, 2022 at 17:08
In what the OP said, I have replaced "Ayes" with "animals", "Bees" with "four legs" and "Seas" with "cats". All the rest is the same. The conclusion (...
January 22, 2022 at 15:15
Certainly. But I have edited my reply and gave you right after I checked the label "possible world" ... Also, I presented a more interesting and reali...
January 22, 2022 at 13:10
:up: Kudos! I wish I had the patience to draw all that! (I only drew it in my mind!) What I found simpler instead was to "draw" it verbally, in my ans...
January 22, 2022 at 11:02
I don't think that the world will ever be morally leveled out ... At least, this what the trends show. Besides, how can it be? The main force and driv...
January 22, 2022 at 10:55
If it is true, well, it is True! That's what I said! :smile: I see what you say: We select one or more cats and say "these (animals) are mammals". Thi...
January 22, 2022 at 09:44
No, you don't. A dollar is a dollar and cents are cents. Also, you cannot use some vending, gambling etc. machines if you don't have the exact amount ...
January 22, 2022 at 08:50
I see. Then yes, most people think first about themselves, etc. But this depends on the culture. It has to do with social conscience. In Greece, for e...
January 21, 2022 at 19:32
What's "Ayes"? I guess it means simply "anyththing" ... Well, I prefer to "translate" your puzzle-problem into something more meaningful: Some animals...
January 21, 2022 at 18:46
Well, they are different things, aren't they? The first one means a state of being comfortable, healthy or happy. The second one is much more general ...
January 21, 2022 at 09:24
Why definitely "self-sacrificial"? Although sometimes you may sacrifice things you would like to do or have for yourself for the sake of others, e.g. ...
January 21, 2022 at 08:04
Of course, you can examine ethics from different angles, in different ways, conceptually, practically, religiously, philosophically, as a field of stu...
January 20, 2022 at 18:44
Ethics is not at all transcendental --not in a Kantian sense or a supernatural or abstract way or exceeding experience. It is something very practical...
January 20, 2022 at 18:08
It's not about communication in general. @"ceativesoul" mentioned "talk about". (Since words here are the main factor.) Otherwise, we can communicate ...
January 20, 2022 at 17:55
Yes, I know about this kind of interpretations. I was once (a very long time ago) involved deeply in Eastern philosophy ...
January 18, 2022 at 18:32
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January 18, 2022 at 18:23
I will reply to your last 3 messages in a while, using private messaging ...
January 18, 2022 at 11:17
:wink: (Just add colons to your "wink")
January 17, 2022 at 16:18
No problem. I got it, anyway! :smile: I don't know if you realized ... We have completely destroyed this topic! :grin:
January 17, 2022 at 14:03
... It was with a small "g" ... :smile: I don't know either ... I guess so. Good. Thanks. :smile: Thanks god, I have been justified, at least partly! ...
January 17, 2022 at 13:53