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I don't get the ' precipitated' act part of your thesis. Laws are made on the basis of preventing a behavior, things people do. Bad laws certainly exi...

I feel your pain.

I am glad that you found Badiou useful for you. I am not sure if the following relates to your OP but here it goes: The 'rationalists' tradition devel...

That is an interesting question. Having had to return from it several times, I cannot verify a 'nothing' but the experience is unique. Something like,...

The Evolution of Knowledge, RETHINKING SCIENCE FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE, by Jürgen Renn

Thanks for the excellent overview of the inconsistencies and I agree that something is missing. For myself, the peculiar idea is not so much a threat ...

I have only watched snippets of Dune movies because i think there is something deliberately anti-cinematic about it. The Star Wars stories are histori...

I was hoping to say there is a startling difference between Descartes and Aristotle. I will think about how to present the idea more clearly than the ...

I see how the ideas of causes of motion can serve as a metaphor. Descartes is addressing why things appear to continue to exist from one moment to the...

That would make sense. But the cycle of humiliation and violence wears many different masks. Like the weird theological party within Billiards at Half...

The Jews were blamed for creating a world order that produced the Communists as well as those Capitalists who crafted the Versailles treaty. They were...

I take the 'insensibly' to mean that the principles will be accepted as self-evident and natural before they are recognized as a refutation of Aristot...

Very interesting. I need to ponder before attempting a reply.

What do you make of the emphasis on the 'first person' point of view that started this discussion? Are you cancelling that as not germane to the metho...

I think that emphasis upon factual knowledge comes in some portion from the emphasis upon the confession of belief that is expressed through creeds. C...

I think it is pertinent to the idea of resistance to present evils. So, Merton was a quietest when measured against 'Liberation Theology' and Bonhoffe...

Alain Badiou wrote an interesting study of St. Paul, presenting him as a contemporary in terms of the dynamic where values are lost or established. Ba...

Please cite the text to support this statement.

You were using the idea to make a distinction between what might be a problem of experience between beings who care about it with an object you are co...

There is an irony involved in your citing the arbitrary quality of 'being like a football' since it relies upon the commonly received notion that foot...

Dashiell's image of random snapshots does not reflect the way Chalmers frames what is to be explained: From the quote, it is hard to know what Dashiel...

You applied the Hitchens' argument as a counter to what was presented when the thesis Hitchen's was opposing is not being argued for here. That is put...

Christ on a hand truck, who made you the arbiter of what is gained or lost by others choosing not to discuss some things? At this point, you are putti...

This was going down while I was in a small room first reading philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwqpVg9Bn1E I wish i had gotten out more.

A good observation when considering that Kant wanted to secure the logic of causality in the face of the skepticism of Hume.

The Mitrokhin article is effective in drawing out the differences between the Putin agenda and the focus of right-wing parties elsewhere. It puts the ...

That is a good SEP article, and it helps me sort out some of the confusion I have (and have mixed up previously in this thread) about how 'innate idea...

I am not versed in Goodman but we share enough admiration for Nussbaum to see she works with Rorty's questions while challenging his premises in other...

That survey is an interesting demonstration of the limits of classification. All those "anti-realisms" have the barest of connections to each other. B...

I agree that exploring Wittgenstein's thinking requires a separate discussion. But the "use of language" criteria is clearly important to Wittgenstein...

Only being able to perceive the infinite through a negation of the finite says we experience the finite and our imperfections Yes, I fell into the gap...

The imperfection being experienced does not only come from the uncertainty of what is reported by the senses. The other modes of thinking have him wan...

I don't understand how reference to "the activities, practices, judgments, etc. which are ingrained into us, unreflected upon" relates to the use of t...

That would be the case if the thinking activity is an unbroken circle. But the experience of being imperfect does not permit that: The substance he ca...

Chalmer's language was more directed to reductive models. We don't know what is 'physical' but we can make models based upon what is observed. So, it ...

There is a lot here to consider. I will address the issue of isolation here and think more before addressing who (or what) is the author of our though...

Not being able to "precisely demonstrate" immortality does sound like a lawyer's dodge but the argument for God's existence is based upon the untenabl...

How does 'stopping short of assuming' that constancy of the self pertain to Descartes being sure that he exists because he is thinking? As you observe...

I think Descartes is asking us to accept that the self is a thing despite not being imaginable or described the way other things are. But I would not ...

I think the language is more forceful than that on this point. We are intimately familiar with the "I" but don't "know" it for some reason. The French...

Seeing the act of thinking as a list of activities does not reflect the problem of description that I commented upon upthread. By speaking of an 'inde...

I was agreeing with your stating that Descartes was a departure from Aristotle's model of perception and knowledge of the world but was thinking that ...

That continuity of thinking is clearly central to the meditation and a source of concern. I don't understand what you mean by saying it is "separate f...

I did not mean to put words in your mouth. I hear what you are saying about the limits of definitive statements. I am wondering how that activity is s...

The article assumes a divide between language and the study of what exists which ignores how the problem of language has always been central to the co...

Aristotle had a version of that separation. Descartes kicked off the consequent discussion of what was "mind independent." Maybe the thinking here is ...

So, what do you think about it? Maybe you could quote what was particularly meaningful to you.

I think the 'imagination being related to the nature of the body' comes from Aristotle/Aquinas saying images come from senses interacting with materia...

That nicely cues the work of the Third Meditation, where ideas are defined in the context of the "thinker." Giorgo Agamben makes some interesting obse...

I get that a lot. Let me try this from a different direction. Your OP asserts that people are incarcerated because the system has a faulty idea of why...