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Why not just the terms you used? The taken to its logical extreme? It would have the merit of not alluding to already well-used terms which have relat...

I don't believe that the logical form of socialism, taken to its extreme, is a fascist society. I'm not sure what lead you to believe that, @"Question...

Your question reminds me of the Ignmar Berman flick Winter Light. The main character seems to fit the bill -- though granted, this is fiction.

Fair. I wasn't sure which way you were saying.

How so? Frustration is understandable. And even if frustration is expressed it doesn't draw away from the point -- that in order to criticize a text o...

On space for certain I agree with you, though I'd express uncertainty on my part about saying Kant was in line with Leibniz -- though maybe you're jus...

haha! Yup.

Scientific methodologies have been successful. Theories have explained diverse phenomena. What need have we of saying 'reduction'? Physics isn't reduc...

But to reduce myself to anti-reduction would be terribly reductionist, don't you think? ;)

Why does it bugger belief? I don't think that it is common sense or obvious that political power influences the hard sciences. Many people seem to res...

I agree with you on the latter point, now. I just had to read the text again to see why I thought that, and came up short. Thanks for the clarificatio...

I'm reading this article, though, and I don't think he's opposed to the law of inertia. He's opposed to the term "inertial force" -- because a force i...

I decided to track down the quotes I was thinking of in making my assertions. I found that I've made a mistake in saying Newton is the counter-example...

I'm running on memory here, but my understanding was that Newton's principia, ala Kant, was partially a priori synthetic and partially a posteriori. S...

Me too. CoJ is definitely a book I'll be rereading again. I have access to the Opum Postumum, but my eyes kind of glazed over when I tried it, to be h...

I think the tension between the problem of induction and the necessity which we see in the world with Newtonian physics is what's at issue more than a...

Not in any precision. Vaguely, I seem to recall the way he talks about God in that section seemed to at least get very very close to the noumena. I th...

That sounds about right -- of course it's been a long time for me too. We got through the aesthetics, I remember -- we got stuck on the second half on...

Actually, this convo does go back to an old question which I'm still interested in, but not currently pursuing, @"csalisbury" I remember we stalled at...

Sure. It doesn't change my point, though -- that hard sciences are influenced by the workings of power. Suppose a world with 10 true statements in it....

If you need me to reiterate -- this does not effect the truth of said theories. Things are true or not true, regardless of interests. It's just the wi...

It's not specific wars which fund research programs, but states, universities, and corporations. Anyone who has had a go at grant money knows where th...

Yeah, but the people who study the physical world usually get funding to do so by catering to social interests -- as the hard sciences go that usually...

Remain the same, I'd wager.

The funny thing here is that there's a sense in which answering the question is to participate in the activity of philosophy. Only a sense -- I could ...

It seems to me that every state believes what your friend states -- the disagreement isn't that there are some people with whom one must deal violentl...

That was my favorite quote. It hits home, and also points the way to fight against what is not a worthwhile tendency by pointing out how skepticism sh...

Yes and no? When I eat an apple I eat the apple -- I do not eat the concept of the apple. But I know what the apple is by means of conceptualization. ...

I haven't read Julia Kristeva. But I know that Deleuze, for instance, was inspired by the social unrest of 1968 in France in writing Anti-Oedipus. I a...

It's a fair question, though, especially considering you characterizing yourself as one who is at least in pursuit of truth. We may very well be lacki...

I agree with @"Thorongil"'s main point -- that there isn't some kind of ranking of importance between these various words, and they can be used interc...

I don't think I have a specific question that gets under my skin at the moment. A lot of questions that were like that I've sort of come to find a pea...

Maybe so. I could see it doing so, at least, just depending -- but I think the real dispute between Sapientia and I is more along the lines of what it...

This just begs the question, though. It is only an optical illusion if there is an illusion. No, not at all in fact. All you need do is look at someth...

Well, the question was "What colour are the strawberries?" -- and your answer is that they are gray, in reality, but red, in appearance. My answer is ...

Not that it is common, period, but rather that is a necessary part of the scientific project. Insofar that one accepts the findings of science then on...

I'd say that any theory of consciousness, from that same point of view, is not even wrong. That's just where we're at. I wouldn't call this pan-psychi...

I'm not so sure about that. What about other creatures? Non-controversial examples of other creatures which have vision and demonstrate intelligent be...

Not necessarily. Cognition of mental phenomena could depend upon physical inputs, after all -- and then, also, just because there is a single-mind tha...

I believe that the strawberry-image in the picture is red. But what that says about this or that theory of color or perception, I'm less committed on....

I think we're miscommunicating a bit here. To be fair, your argument was a google search. What I mean by 'drops out of the explanation' is that all th...

I'm off to work. I'll get reading and replying this evening.

Cool. Hrmm, not purely accidental I wouldn't think, but accidental. Some people's judgments happen to align, after all -- one could think there is reg...

Thanks for the post. Giving me some food for thought. I sort of suspected that Kant might come up, given the Kant-esque nature of cog-sci. I'm not sur...

I don't think it must be so, only that it seems we are deviating from what we normally do in this particular case if we are saying the strawberry imag...

These explanations, unless I am missing something in them, more or less amount to "your brain turns this reality into this appearance" -- but that doe...

I suppose I would say the way we determine what color quality something has is we look at it -- full stop. I don't think there's a more accurate metho...

Let's just grant that. You still have an argument, unlike the statement "there is no good reason to believe it" -- that is all I'm arguing against.

:D I think the most important skill I bought was the ability to zoom multiple times in the boot store. I used it more than any other skill, and bought...

Well, there's many options, but I would just say that you can't simply shrug off pan-psychism, is all. That "there is no good reason to believe it" --...