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Indeed! But it doesn't correspond to the rule that we actually never make contact with reality. Because we do make contact. I just say there is not on...

https://youtu.be/jzD1O_gastA Although by many considered as a clown, he seemed to have some real insight in the workings of science, although he didn'...

I always love to listen to sung poetry. Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girl child in the dark Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsa...

Very true! That's indeed how many conspiracy theories are tried to be upheld, it seems to me. They ignore conflicting evidence or explain it away in s...

The metaphysical realm of Plato is situated in a world that stands in contact with world we live in. The shadows of that extramundane world are cast i...

I imagined exactly that after reading that Musk, mister Tesla himself, got richer a couple of billion dollars in the blink of an eye. Try explain that...

Newton's gravity was even more precise than GR. It made a very precise prediction about Mercury. But Mercury replied not precisely.

You got some pretty strong stuff written all over! I sense a strong feeling of unity radiating from your words. Great!

Great one! Still the question remains where the least, comes from. Maybe it came from, or lies on another great, even in an eternal succession, but ev...

Just make this comment to put 3 related threads happily together, on top and below each other.

You wrote it yourself: "I think separating the study of the nature of things from the study of how we know the nature of things is wrong-headed. They ...

I don't agree with this suggestion. There is a developing in to an ever increasing static in science (I assume that's where you are talking about) tho...

Then this metaphysics needs reconsideration. Why can't that be discussed?

Again, you make a distinction here, and rightly so, but you consider them separate without a connection. You posit the existence of an unknowable trut...

Great! I like all the views you presented! Must have been quite some work to collect them! I think examples can illuminate the distinction.

The litteral meaning is outside of physics, with slight variations on outside, like near, or adjacent. But still connected to it. You can't do much wi...

To make this easier to imagine: in 10exp-36 seconds, about one third of the present extension of the universe came into being. The bang indeed. But in...

Still... The new view on motion, as introduced by Newton, applies to objects existing in an abstract realm in which there is an empty space. Objects i...

Considering the fact that God is governed by the same physical laws as he created we can only draw the irrevocable and irrefutable conclusion that his...

Always good to know one can make a difference! :wink:

There is one! "You" and then "comments".

If the only good exists, then hell would not exist. Nevertheless less, hell exists. If it was God's will that the devil came into being, he must have ...

In the context of relativity, all particles move with a static speed through spacetime. Even a particle at rest moves with the speed of light. Through...

Thanks for this constructive reply! I am digesting it...

Well, it actually does contradict his being good only. He just wants evil to exist for the good to be contrasted with. Good deeds will become meaningl...

So God is bad as well as good?

Isn't the rape the will of the devil?

Only God himself can submit his free will to tyrants. His free will can be taken captive by servants of tyrants he created himself. So occasionally, h...

Saying the mind is a phenomenon has the advantage that no explanations for it are required. No need for a materialistic approach (calling it an illusi...

I'm not sure what you mean by the bias in the scientific method. Do you mean a bias in the scientific approach to nature? Don't you think that this ap...

Creationism is a pseudo-science from your point of view. For those clinging to it it is solid science. And there is no way you can prove them wrong. R...

I just don't feel the need to back myself up. I don't mean you are not friendly or not civil. I just think epistemology has no place in philosophy. Li...

It's no battle we are fighting. It's just how I view it. Epistemology, the knowledge about knowledge, inhibits knowledge.

You don't think but you do. A philosophy can't exist on its own. Maybe for you, but then you misunderstand me.

Indeed. Like I said. But they mustn't be considered apart. Only in relation to the other. Torn apart, they become empty.

Here I disagree.

Here you misunderstood what I read. I wrote you divisions are made. But what's divided should be kept also. It's the mutual interaction between the di...

The Nothing can't challenge God as it has to be created by God in the first place. It can try damn hard though.

Very true! The other four quarks though are virtually absent. If you consider them as mere exitations of the up- and down-quark, then you could say th...

Still, they are very natural. So can be ghosts. Something uncommon to do can be a very natural. Like singing loudly during a seminar where D. Hofstadt...

Don't you think Dawkins's selfish gene and meme view on evolution is a rigid static approach, or model? The model is closely connected even to a dogma...

Wasn't notified about your comment and I assume it's addressed to me. I don't agree as far the methodology is involved. I don't believe in a reality t...

This is a perspective also. It's corresponding to the methodological rule that we never actually make touch-down with reality. That parameters need to...

Not sure I follow...Scientific models can be static as hell. What pre-scientific ideas of the past or pseudo-scientific ideas of the present have as a...

An analysis/critique: True. In ancient Greece they were torn apart and we're left with the mess. So, they are separable, and in that sense no unsepara...

Yeah, this backwardness is usually used in defensive rethorics. What's more fundamental, science or the talk about it? I make no distinction between t...

Old Greece is the origin of the term "philosophy". Meaning love for wisdom. Wisdom about knowing, or talking about the knowing. Not about the knowing ...

Haha! Similar thought passed my mind!

I'm not sure if an experiment can reach a theorem phase, as the theorem phase comes mostly before the experiment phase. When quarks were first thought...

What should I refute? Is refuting showing my face? You wanna be refuted?