I want this thread to consist of less trolling. After your first attempt I decided it was important to have a public record to refer to. From here out...
Yes. "But did you think of this!" is pretty much off topic because, like any natural phenomena, there will be many things that relate to it -- we can ...
Personally I'm fine with either formal or less formal writing. I'm not going to screen essays on that basis, anyways. Part of writing philosophy is ch...
There's a similarity there, but I'm not tempted to universalize based on that. But, yes, this technology -- supposing it's possible -- questions those...
The most disturbing thought that comes to mind is that the nervous system is so unnecessary that the BodyWithOrgans/not-brain is sentient in its own w...
https://www.livescience.com/animals/giant-fungus-like-organism-may-be-a-completely-unknown-branch-of-life I had never heard of this organism before re...
OK that makes sense seeing it like that rather than the muddle I wrote. (While it's interesting to me I claim little knowledge here) That helps me wor...
I think it's because quantum stuff is based on the notion that reality is discrete vs the continuous reality of the block universe; but, yes, if it's ...
I'm not sure, actually... That makes sense by what I said, but then your objection also hits home -- if there's a 1-to-1 mapping then really all I'm d...
In that case I'd say I'm in even less understanding of the difference between the "size" of infinite sets. The way it was explained to me was the diff...
Truth, so I'd put it, is a predicate which applies to sentences. Measurements can be true, but it's not the same as "true" above. I can be a true frie...
Oh, definitely. Or accurately? Precisely? :D I think this lays out a good difference between truth and measurement -- we have to be able to say that t...
Heh. Well, give it some time. Perhaps we'll figure out the non-physical way to measure time :D I can't say I agree with your first statement because "...
I think it's a half-fib when I speak to people who really believe that what you measure is what you get. You're right it's not a "fib" because measure...
Yup. The "accuracy" part of the distinction is what I consider to be a noble fib. Speaking to a person who believes that the gauge they've always used...
Actual measurements fail far above Planck's constants :) One of the concepts I've found hard to teach is the difference scientists attach to "accuracy...
The paradox between discrete and continuous seems a good example, to me on the outside, as something to treat Zeno's paradoxes as genuine paradoxes. T...
Mostly, though, I want people who are interested in the idea to participate; insofar that the "rules" enhance participation then thems the rules we sh...
Not quite. @"Jamal" robbed me of this notion once upon a time -- it's not Newtonian mechanics as much as the basis of natural science which contrasts ...
Heh, fair. I'm familiar, but undecided on the right way to read. My preference is actually for the one-world interpretation, though it may only be a p...
And @"Mww" I don't believe that Hegel cared to understand Kant in the "proper" sense --i.e. in the sense that he'd count as a Kantian -- he only riffs...
I own a copy of Science of Logic by Hegel, but it's huge. It's the A. V. Miller translation. I'm wondering what the ISBN of that book is in your pictu...
I cannot claim to say I always felt this way, but I do now. I believe that all moral systems are flawed. I do not believe that they are futile. I can ...
I think it's important to see that Heidegger never ended Being and Time by his own design. I think he got lost in his own hermeneutic, or perhaps just...
You're making me want to become persnickity in the use of terms :D "Intuition" has a special meaning in Kant, for instance -- it's the form in which t...
Yeahrp. :up: No. There's a lot of lingo there that can be interpreted in various ways. But "No", I think, is the true answer to all of your questions ...
I think that's about right. To continue the metaphor, though, I'd say that we're grasping for something we sense but do not know where it's at -- such...
According to Bertrand Russell it was the transcendental aesthetic, in the CPR. I'd say it's his introduction to the CPR, though. A and B editions make...
I encourage you to participate on that basis, else fall into performative contradiction ;) But, yes -- my thinking is that it ought be a celebration o...
Heh, if Kant was anything he was not an absurdist, in my view. More the opposite -- that everything which can be understood can be understood in logic...
j No. Kant's use of the antinomies was to demonstrate that we do not know such things -- we can rationally argue for both the assertion and the negati...
Does anyone have no expectations? Is that a good basis for understanding irony at all? I can't say what David Moore means. I don't take Quora seriousl...
heh ,no. The thought that came to mind was how if the thread was posited this or the other way @"Banno" would say his bit, and I was thinking how it'd...
To keep my annoying persona, I must say both-and :D I didn't mean that up front though. And find: A refreshing change of pace. I'll take as the origin...
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