TheMadFool

The above post deals more about the link, if any exists, between ethics and aesthetics and I suppose that's something that can't be avoided if one bel...

The words are almost self-explanatory and they give me a fair idea of what Iris Murdoch and you are getting at. Perhaps it was a poor choice of words ...

Give me a moment. Thanks.

My bad. So what are your thoughts on the matter? Does "eye candy" measure up to your view of "deep beauty"? Are they the same thing or are they vastly...

I was considering the possibility that what you call, derogatorily I suppose, "eye candy" could actually be beauty of the deepest kind or if not at le...

I find it unhelpful to approach the subject of morality from a perspective that recognizes differences, big or small, in the moral codes of different ...

There are two kinds of beauty - one superficial but without the negative connotations of that word that our physical senses are attuned to and the oth...

The best answer, given the circumstances, is "we don't know why there's something rather than nothing." Is the question answerable i.e. what do we nee...

Being attracted to something, anything is underpinned by a value judgment and invariably one likes what one thinks is better. Ergo, if you feel attrac...

I don't know how to answer that question without being dishonest. Anyway, I describe myself as fairly curious but not to the point of being the cat th...

The simple answer to what was "before the Big Bang?" is "we don't know." To answer your question though, I refer you to Pierre-Simon Laplace's reply t...

Explain something to me. I'm a bit worried about myself, seriously, because I've never had the experience that seems to lie at the foundation of theis...

It might be worth noting that there's another side to the problem of induction viz. the problem of generalization from a set of particulars - the blac...

I was always and even now am quite disappointed about how the Greeks "got it wrong" because atoms are divisible into quarks as per current-best scienc...

:up: :ok: I believe we're on the same page, more or less.

The principle of uniformity of nature: The future will resemble the past. This apparently simple sentence is the foundation for the sciences. It would...

:up: :ok: It was move from making shit up to making shit consistent

What then is philosophy? Is it, as I think it is, simply a ritualized homage to logic? Does philosophy merely consist of coming up with clever ways of...

It's quite possible that I'm under some kind of illusion but can you name something philosophy has proved? Perhaps I've misread you again but then tha...

So you admit it then? Philosophy hasn't proven anything at all and it's simply an activity that involves the exploration of possible realities i.e. it...

:clap: :up: I applaud your overall outlook/approach to reality but if I'm not mistaken, despite the high regard for logic in philosophy, all that's be...

We can look at it from the perspective of necessary conditions. Can the egg be without my bird? No! Can the egg be without your garden? Yes! Ergo, in ...

Two real people should hopefully clarify the matter with the possibility that they might also have the opposite effect and muddy the waters. Megan Fox...

I see. So, the image doesn't change despite the removal/addition of sand grains from the pile. Do you see any possibility of superimposing my take on ...

I suppose it boils down to having multiple images for a "pile" of sand and removing grains of sand one by one simply switches between one of these ima...

Well, either a number can be expressed as a ratio of two integers or not. If it can be the number is rational and if can't be it's irrational. When th...

I like your solution. The "image" of a pile of sand is different from the "image" of a grain of sand. So then the reason why we refuse to accept that ...

I suppose you're right but if I may say so unpacking "words" and "set of rules" for both language and logic suggests there's a difference between logi...

In my humble opinion, we should maintain a distinction between language and logic. Language is, at the end of the day, just a collection of words and ...

:ok: :up: I think parsimony isn't the only game in town though. Explanatory power which would include completeness also matters, right?

You do. The clock hands start at 12:00 and after 12 hours it returns to 12:00. If I had checked the clock at 12:00 and come back after 12 hours the ha...

All I'm saying is that the concept of a greatest being leads to a contradiction - it's an illogical idea. If God is the greatest being and God exists ...

Not to say that I don't pay taxes but I have no clue about taxes by which I mean I haven't read up on the rationale of taxation as a government policy...

https://youtu.be/cL9MCbtf1Hw The simplest hypothesis is that the clock is broken. Occam's razor could obscure the truth.

I don't understand why you're looking at from the law of the exluded middle angle and not getting right to the point - a contradiction follows from th...

Argument A 1. God is the greatest being 2. If God is the greatest being then nothing can be God's equal in any respect, anywhere and at any time 3. No...

Food for thought... Definition of "conceivable": capable of being imagined or grasped mentally. If god exists as an idea then god is conceivable. An a...

@"Wayfarer"Great post. Not as uplifting as some would've hoped or liked. Thank you for your time. I was driving through the city just a few moments ag...

My humble apologies. Indeed! The everything went off smoothly without a glitch is a testament to the Perseverance Rover's team's mastery of the ins an...

:ok: There seems to be something going on between language and logic. As far as I can tell each is a system in its own right and how can I tell that's...

I'm sure you're in the know about what I'm about to say but I'll say it any way if only to stimulate some discussion. The east-west dichotomy of thoug...

:ok: You seem to have your hands full. I'll get back to you later when it gets a little quieter. G'day.

:ok: Thanks for the thread but I feel something's off somehow, somewhere.

For my money, everything rides on this part of the argument. It's necessary that the greatest being conceivable but nonexistent should lead to a contr...

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Now I feel bad that I threw a difficult question at you. Anyway, it was worth getting your opinion on the matter. How about this: Since defining life ...

I second your view on how there's a enormous gulf between the inanimate and the animate and that our attempt to explain the latter in terms of our kno...

By the way...what is the linguistic turn? :chin:

I thought we were discussing philosophy and its "...failure to create a better world..." Another point worth mentioning is philosophy is left with the...

I must disagree. The point of Libet's little experiment is to demonstrate an, here physical, event that has bearing on free will, happens before the r...