I'm OK too with that. Fear has to do with the future and the unknown (as we say "fear of the unknown"). Terror is fear too, only it is more intense. L...
Hi Javi! (You changed your avatar again! :smile:) I don't think it is difficult to define and understand what freedom is. I have recently replied to a...
From Dictionary.com Horror: "1. An overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering f...
Your points are good.. Well, the subject of "competition" was brought up by @Janus, who said that ""Survival of the fittest" has come to imply competi...
No problem. I did. Thanks for the notice. I don't think this is a popular viewpoint among all people. But it must be certainly popular among criminals...
I know what you mean. Only that I cannot think of any such case, I mean where people have died --certainly not on a large scale-- because of lack of r...
Yes, it can also have this meaning and maybe other meanings too. Only that it's a failed interpretation, because in a competition they all survive, no...
:up: Well, at least someone else besides me noticed and commented on this redundant --and, as you say, obfuscating-- "absolute" thing. As if there is ...
I launched a discussion under the title "'Survival of the Fittest': Its meaning and its implications for our life, about 8 months ago. (See https://th...
Mainly because you wouldn't be able to talk about nothing if there weren'r something. I think that in a way this is what the title of your topic says ...
You are not wrong. And I think you do have a clue, and a correct one. @PL Olcott is simply confused. Besides being rude. I would check more of your re...
BTW, the was an spelling error in my sentence "the context in which a question is asked is mission missing or not clear". Well, depending on the quest...
Hi friend! Long time no see! Check this: When I visited TPF a few minutes ago, I had in mind to check about your recent activity (comments)! How can y...
No, it is wrong to say that a question has a correct answer. It is wrong even to say that a question has any answer at all. A question is asked by a p...
I assume of course that "who" refers to a person. But does a person have a context? I'm afraid that by this word you mean something else, e.g. backgro...
Certainly. But it was the fault of @noAxioms, who has included different replies to and quotes from different people in a single message ... Thank you...
No, you were not the ony one. And, as I see, I wasn't the only one either! :smile: BTW my last comment "It's not about the word "free"! Is this all th...
It's not about the word "free"! Is this all that you got from my whole comment? It's about your whole thesis. I quote it again below: "Consider some h...
Didn't get that, sorry. So, maybe I do miss something ... Let's drop Luke's "picture/description" example and use a simple object in the enviroment: a...
I personally don't attach a label to my "atheism", e.g. agnostic. In fact, I don't even put officially the label "atheist" on myself. I simply don't b...
I don't see any problem or disagree with anything you said, except that my initial comment regarding Lukes questio/statement still applies. That is, y...
(I think you have just disclosed your gender! :smile:) We don't divide a human into two parts. A human has two parts. (Everyone with one's own view on...
You mean, project images from my mind on a screen? You don't know how many times I've thought how amazing that would be! :smile: Indeed. But this does...
Right. (And I guess there are others too in both camps.) All this is quite interesting. (BTW, I'm leaning towards Platon. And I'm a pro-Socrates. Alth...
I believe is right. However, the problem here is that you are talking about a different thing: the difference between an object that exists in the phy...
I guess you refer to planting an acorn in order to grow an oak tree. (What else?) Like planting sperm in an uterus, an action that will (hopefully) re...
This is not quite the same. The question "What is meant by 'poodle'?" applies, as you say, to any case. Your original question though, "What is meant ...
Congrats! You got yourself a perfect circularity! :smile: Or isn't it perfect? Because the question can also go ad infinitum: "What do you mean by "Wh...
It seems that you are talking about something like Nagel's "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" But Nagel refered to life and consciousness. He didn't refer...
Why do you all like to speak theoretically and hypothetically without any examples? Not a single example here. How can one relate all this with realit...
I know, some philosophers do that. But it is certainly wrong. These two things are ralated but they are of a different kind and nature, so it's a bad ...
Nice essay and presentation. I think though that it is somewhat burdened with concepts, -isms and philosophical views. E.g. if one accepts idealism an...
I like Nagel. I have read only a paper of him, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" and I found it quite original and interesting, as a view regarding the n...
The comment of mine to which you responded is one year old. What took you so long? :smile: But since you brought it up, it's always my pleasure to tal...
@Isaiasb does not participate in his own topic! What's the purpose of presenting your position on a subject, ask for comments, etc. if you are not goi...
Interesting topic. (BTW, you might want maybe to edit and complete the title of the topic as follows: "Do science and religion contradict each other?"...
It is real what is real to me. Because it is real to me. :smile: Hint #1: Can you consider something as real if it is real for others but not for you?...
Read it again, more carefully this time, paying attention to the emphases that I have added: "Neither a year nor a kilometer exists as such, i.e. phys...
When have I denied the existence of a kilometer or other unint of measurement? I feel you didn't get anything from all that I said. And I have already...
In its strict and basic sense, freedom is absence of obstacles. Most definitions and descriptions of "freedom" can be reduced to that simple truth. Mo...
What do you mean "apart from him not existing"? If he doesn't exist, how can there be any complaint about him, i.e. about something that doesn't exist...
Because there is no start or end in other of them. Neither any point in the middle. At least we cannot define any of them, therefore we cannot assume ...
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