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I'm puzzled by your skepticism toward a statement you originally quoted as a general description of question. I think it's a good definition. It makes...
June 09, 2022 at 05:34
I'm trying to get sharp focus on whether question plays a principal role in information transfer -- rather like Messenger RNA. If so, might this be an...
June 09, 2022 at 05:18
What you say is true. On the other hand, can you cite legions of family, friends and acquaintances who frequent this website, ready to spout alternati...
June 09, 2022 at 00:59
The grammar that syntaxes question denotes form & function that operates independent of the sub-textual intentions of the speaker/writer. Placing a fi...
June 08, 2022 at 14:25
Yes.
June 07, 2022 at 17:54
Casual answer - any question Formal answer - Socratic Method > Elenchus
June 07, 2022 at 01:52
:grin: Thank-you!
June 06, 2022 at 20:16
Since I don't know if this refers to the volition choosing a single focus, or the differential in vertical stacking of prioritized activities i.e. mul...
June 06, 2022 at 18:26
I believe, as you suggest, the differentiation of What is a question? and Define question is false. When I define something, I answer the question, Wh...
June 06, 2022 at 18:15
Firstly, the statement normally appears to be nonsense, a point Agent Smith emphasizes. So, of course, in my translation of his paradox into my own pa...
June 06, 2022 at 17:58
Can we generalize the above thus, What is an X? Must we parse it likewise? To ask it, one must know what an X is, but it also indicates the questioner...
June 06, 2022 at 03:37
Serious questions. In light of QM, does the cognitive non-locality of word games signify something empirical?
June 05, 2022 at 14:12
The question of question, as it expresses in your language above, appears as paradox. With this claim I'm asserting that question of question, a two-t...
June 05, 2022 at 00:59
Powerful, shaping influences upon our lives are not always blatant. The short answer to your question is propaganda. My reasoning proceeds from the pr...
June 03, 2022 at 16:00
Well! I must say, you're whacking me arse pretty good with your answers. Is it my fault the public schools give short shrift to critical thinking? The...
May 31, 2022 at 04:43
I'm trying to use homological in a parallel with onomatopoeia as it's used pertaining to verbal language. Onomatopoeia - a word that sounds like the n...
May 29, 2022 at 15:14
What say you to math language holding a homological relationship to the empirical-material world it's modeling? Looking through the lens of a homologi...
May 24, 2022 at 17:36
A feedback loop is a physical-material memory structure of the brain. At the first order level of feedback looping, you get the behaviorism that Chalm...
May 24, 2022 at 17:11
Here's my conjecture,
May 24, 2022 at 16:59
I've already stated my response to your questions above. Here they are again. We're on the same page here, as I've also said something similar, Our fe...
May 24, 2022 at 16:37
Regarding Quote 01 above, do I correctly characterize it as a description of the behaviorism resultant of high-level, automatic, chemical-mechanical p...
May 24, 2022 at 01:54
If I present a proof that a certain claim is false, would you say my proof is invalid because it's not also false? Is not the above statement telling ...
May 23, 2022 at 21:28
Is not the superposition of an elementary particle within quantum mechanics an existential paradox? Is not quantum computing already underway? Is not ...
May 23, 2022 at 15:17
Do you believe class division & the established social order, like human inequality, occur naturally, and thus no need for any type of social engineer...
May 23, 2022 at 04:07
What you describe sounds to me like partial deconstruction of enlightenment scientific method back to modulated animism & also reinvigorated belief in...
May 22, 2022 at 03:27
:up:
May 20, 2022 at 17:17
In each other? Cosmic romance.
May 20, 2022 at 16:19
Yin and Yang dualism!
May 20, 2022 at 16:08
So... you've solved the hard problem. This is good news. Please share your solution with us.
May 20, 2022 at 14:38
Your elaboration of gnarly issues pertaining to the subject/object question shows clear & thoroughgoing scholarship on your part. I find what you've w...
May 20, 2022 at 05:18
If a philosopher is not a Berkeley type idealist, s/he acknowledges the source of ideas being external, objective nature (holistically unified, or not...
May 20, 2022 at 02:19
Leonard Susskind won a debate with Hawking to the effect that 2nd law of thermodynamics is preserved through the singularity, and thus no info is perm...
May 20, 2022 at 01:45
Thanks for the correction. So, as to the following quote, I amend it to, Like Gödel showed us, every basic system of logic will generate moot statemen...
May 20, 2022 at 01:38
No, it doesn't. However, idea & practical phenomenon are not always the same thing, which is the point of seeking experimental verification by literal...
May 19, 2022 at 22:01
You're onto something here! Keep on truckin'
May 19, 2022 at 20:40
:up:
May 19, 2022 at 20:37
I've quoted Joshs above as part of my reply to jgill's question at the top. More than a few philosophers want to comprehend "the cosmos as a perfect u...
May 19, 2022 at 20:35
It's springtime. Fresh air!
May 19, 2022 at 17:15
Thanks for weighing in, Hillary!
May 19, 2022 at 16:35
When a state underwrites private risk with taxpayer money, do we speak truthfully when we say that taxpayer money is queer venture capital via which t...
May 17, 2022 at 09:16
Is there a kernel of truth in my thinking the state taking on private risk is least talked about (albeit most consequential) because it is a critical ...
May 16, 2022 at 22:15
By saying "none," you're saying you condone the double-standard that, for the same crime, has the judge handing down a draconian sentence to a commone...
May 16, 2022 at 04:47
The above read like fast lanes to a nightmare of social instability, with frequent visits to thresholds of disintegration & collapse. Perhaps Nietzsch...
May 13, 2022 at 19:38
In your OP, your responses to the above seem to position you as a supporter of this, as you say, "unpussified" reading of Nietzche. Then, however, you...
May 13, 2022 at 19:26
On point, god must be atheist! I could try to say "stange" is some of my bad French; would anybody buy that? Naw! Di-stinguer has an extra syllable, a...
March 25, 2022 at 13:40
This question digs into some of my currently evolving thinking about ontic boundaries of material objects in the context of an origin story, one of th...
March 25, 2022 at 13:26
I'm thinking about this seriously, with intent to incorporate it into my methodology, when I have a better understanding. Thanks for sharing. It feels...
March 25, 2022 at 12:49
Herein, my word choice of "attack" is unfortunate. In this context, "attack" means "line of attack," or "approach to the solving of a problem," not "a...
March 25, 2022 at 12:42
This sounds like you maybe agree that pessimism-fatalism is a useful frame of mind for conducting philosophy.
March 25, 2022 at 12:35
Thank-you. :grin:
March 25, 2022 at 05:48