Michael Zwingli

This is very true in the modern world, but in my opinion was less true in the distant past. If you lived in late fifth century BCE Athens, a polis whi...

Not at all, I simply mean that I am glad when my comments make somebody happy.

Yes, singing is a good sign...

Haha....unintentional, but I love it!

Yes, that is the nature of an hereditarily aristocratic society. But if you use the Taliban as being representative of male organizational stategy, ar...

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Only, "-archy" only exists within the world because it is inherent within us, proceeding from the aforesaid "libido dominari". We cannot escape it or ...

you raise some important considerations.

You have, in brutal fashion, answered your own question. A complicated heirarchy is not necessary for there to be male dominance. There are different ...

I, as well, embrace the ideal of anarchy (though not modern anarchism, which to my mind arises from the same inspirational motus as fascism, as eviden...

Perhaps egalitarian, as many of the social structures which enable social stratification, and in such small groups the administrative problems demandi...

Perhaps the converse is true. It is just as concievable that patriarchy has it's origin in the particularly pretechnological competitive milieu of pre...

:yikes:

Every time I log on to this site, yet another thread of interest to me catches my eye... Not to usurp the OP, but I think the useful definitions would...

Yes, I did discern that. :wink:

My abiding interest in language and linguistics is one of my failings. Even though I am the perennial lingual dilettante, I find language and (particu...

ah, I see. I think that "culus" should take the ablative here, but my level of certainty is not great. I also seem to remember "ut" introducing a comp...

:rofl: Facit ut culus culo. (ablative, no?)

Of course, I am assuming that by Gus' use of the term "metaphysics" he means the search for first principles/fundamental truths (ens in quantum ens).

That is a bit semantically obscure. Gus himself would have to address that question.

what I mean by that, is that the OP is not restricting the term "metaphysics"/"metaphysical" to a school or period of English poetry, as Sam Johnson d...

yeah, I think that Gus is using the term "metaphysics" in a differing sense than that applied to the historical phenomenon.

These exist. They are called "poetry slams", to be found within most conurbations of any significant size. Generally, most of the poetry is original, ...

thank you for this. It is much needed by myself: lover of poetry, poetical philistine.

Because Afghanistan falls within their presumed geographical "sphere of influence". Every superpower eventually feels compelled to define it's sphere ...

thank you.

This is not too "mushy". In fact, I find it quite coherent. I must admit that I had not considered that, even though I have personally bemoaned the pa...

when you define religion as a "language community", to what do you refer? Perhaps that people within a given religion have a common semantic reference...

Indeed, for all we Indo-Europeans! Old "Dyeus Phter" has had more incarnations over the years than you can shake a stick at. In a roundabout way, this...

How so...how is that thought to work? I am unfamiliar with such a theory.

I must disagree. As evidence: https://news.mit.edu/2017/neuroscientists-identify-brain-circuit-necessary-memory-formation-0406 https://qbi.uq.edu.au/b...

but it is. The human brain stores information in quite a similar way as a computer does, only with a strong biochemical element to the mechanism.

The computing analogy is useful here. Bits and bytes of information are stored on a computer hard drive or other storage device as bipolar charges whi...

See here, where it is perhaps expounded upon more eruditely than can I: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat

The perception of phenomena yields information within the mind, and said data is compiled from that information.

But, Harry, the information and the cause are distinct entities; the reality of the latter need not impart reality to the former. I would define "info...

Hahaha...fair enough, but please don't be afraid to actually criticize my statements. After all, somebody needs to check my thinking, lest (my head ha...

Alkis, let me try to address some of your critiques of my rambling post of earlier. The vast bulk of memory is stored within the brain. Differing aspe...

Yes, of course, but that is an old, tried and true device used by philosophers to illustrate certain points of truth. I notice that I should have said...

Both Russell and Copleston would have profitted from studying Spinoza. Yes.

surely, an important consideration.

This is a profound question. The "inner world" does not reflect the truth of the "outer world", which is truth itself...the truth of physical reality....

A latter day Archimedes, I shout, "eureka!"

ah, I see. That seems to mean I cannot do it on my phone.

Will someone please tell me how to quote a post in replying here?

yes, and the subjective "world" produced by the brain is dependent and a function largely of the body. Prishon, I am new to this site and the software...

I think your statement true, so long as the brain is remembered to be an integral part of "our bodies, the true us". Indeed, the brain is key to who a...

but the brain is not a person. A person is so much more, having an associated "world", which is the sum total of his subjective experiences and sensor...

Alkis, your three essential questions are as follow: "what is thinking?", "how is thought created?", and "where does thought take place?" In response ...

sure, but the impetus to libertarianism has nothing to do with economic prosperity in general or with GDP in particular...the impetus to libertarianis...