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bill harris

['Member']Joined: October 11, 2017 at 06:23Last active: February 13, 2019 at 10:32None discussions12 comments

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In: Is time travel possible if the A theory of time is correct?  — view comment
Although GRT indeed gives the possibility of Time-travel, the fundamental metric of de Sitter indicates that there is far too little energy in our own...
February 06, 2019 at 19:58
In: Is Heidegger describing fundamental reality or human experience?  — view comment
The go-to concept of Existentialism indicates that there is no fundamental reality beyond human experience; Essence precedes Being, etc..everything--e...
February 06, 2019 at 19:48
In: Does epistemic closure mean certainty?  — view comment
Epistemic closure seems to be another word for 'paradigm'. Because all avenues of truth-justification appear certifiably closed, we simply work within...
October 12, 2017 at 04:42
In: The possibility of knowledge of absolute reality  — view comment
In Kant's Crit 3 (Judgment) he wrote that we're hard-wired to form images of the perfect, the absolute, god, freedom, etc. This is simply what the ima...
October 12, 2017 at 04:39
In: The Conflict Between Science and Philosophy With Regards to Time  — view comment
In passing, permit me to add the quote of Einstein that time isn't real (ie it's an outcome); only clocks are real.
October 12, 2017 at 04:33
In: The Conflict Between Science and Philosophy With Regards to Time  — view comment
Bergsonian Time might be best approached from the perspective of Quine: internal states are not real because they're unverifiable. This is sort of wha...
October 12, 2017 at 04:31
In: What did Ayn Rand actually say?  — view comment
The problematic is that in so far as the amerikanz soak her up, she becomes a social problem. think of Hitler with literary pretense. Mein Kampf, anyo...
October 12, 2017 at 04:17
In: The Double Slit Experiment  — view comment
No cosmology is the new name for 'astrophysics'--which is as real a science as there is. Moreover, i'm saying that the philosophical issue is phony (f...
October 12, 2017 at 04:13
In: What did Ayn Rand actually say?  — view comment
No, Rand is far more the laughing stock of academia--ie a representation as to what academics is not.
October 12, 2017 at 04:00
In: What did Ayn Rand actually say?  — view comment
All you're saying is that the owner or a NBA franchise has no idea as to what philosophy is. Bfd. So what's next? his 'opinion' on Global Warming?
October 12, 2017 at 03:57
In: What did Ayn Rand actually say?  — view comment
The landscape is easy: she dressed up basic amerikan kapitalist ideology in filosofikal garb in order to gain intellectual credibility. This is nothin...
October 11, 2017 at 06:51
In: The Double Slit Experiment  — view comment
We now know from cosmology that the primordial state of energy is a wave-- as expressed in Quantum Field Theory. Therefore, the problem becomes, how a...
October 11, 2017 at 06:41
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