TheMadFool

You're right about letting people see what they want to see in a piece of art. Why limit them in any way at all? I'm not qualified enough to make a se...

What do you mean? Information? Well, I don't know but I remember someone remark, "that's too much information". I quite forgot the context but it had ...

In my humble opinion, a fact is a proposition demonstrated as true with logic. It seems, defined thus, that facts constitute what we call knowledge - ...

Much to my regret, no. If artist's statements are more a rule than an exception then it might be a very big hint that the task of making the art speak...

:chin: In what sense does it matter to you Bob? Either affirmation is the same as negation or it it's not. Are you in any way negating the latter and ...

Would it matter to you if I said "yes, you're right" and "no, you're not right" about negation being the same as affirmation? Either way, why?

What exactly is an artist's statement? Is it simply an explanation of the artist's work? Sometimes it's said to be an extension of an artwork which wo...

To begin with I'd like to thank you for the conversation. I too had a view similar to what your espousing here for the possibility remains that either...

I should've posted this in the math section.

I'm coming at this with a blank slate; fishing for sensible opinions on the matter.

:rofl: I lost track of my thoughts.

What do you think is wrong with the idea of the wisdom of the crowd? If there is one.

That's amazing! I wonder if they should do the same with other lost objects. Yes I was thinking about that but the point of the wisdom of the crowd, i...

What would be interpretation that would do full justice to your position? Read God moves in mysterious ways; the relevant abstract is presented for yo...

Thanks. I think I'll follow your advice and read a bit more.

In that statement we see a hidden impulse to flee from reality as expressed in the phrase "stop believing in it" and our abject disappointment vouched...

You've given me good advice. Thanks. Anyway, which of the three choices I gave you in my last post is the correct fit for all what you're saying? Are ...

I don't know what you're on about. What is reality to you? Is it something every philosophy till now conceived must butt against and, if I understand ...

I have a preference for the correpondence theory of truth which to my understanding asserts truth to be a relationship between propositions and realit...

I don't get your analogy of sums of integers. Anyway, it seems that your claims are utilizing a theory of truth. The only theories of truth that I'm f...

I have little to no idea how the world should be but to pain with a broad brush how about making hedonism, a "better" version of it, a first principle...

Of course not. Sorry if anything I wrote sounded like I did.

I think I made a comment relevant to your question on a different thread. What is the essence of religion? Is it cosmology? No, we have a secular full...

I'm going to focus on the above statement to the exclusion of the rest because it bothers me. After death what has meaning? I know people seem to be u...

But you haven't pulled even one oar :smile: and that's on your boat, not mine.

Your views on the issue of evil and even good itself is basically a version of "god works in mysterious ways" which effectively puts god beyond our co...

Now is a temporal concept. What does it mean to say that the now is, as you say, filled with meaning? I thought we were discussing people and the desi...

As far as I can see meaning, whatever it's supposed to be, is a predicate and therefore must have a valid subject, this being life. As you already kno...

You're basically saying that god is beyond our understanding - our perceived potential implied to be insufficient to grasp god's absolute possibility....

So now there's a quality called true and truth. I thought you said they were meaningless?

How would god perceive this universe? What is absolute possibility and perceived potential?

It is a dim view indeed to consider religion to be humanity's comfort object - an immature child's blanket or teddy. Personally I view religion, in th...

Are you in any way claiming the truth of what you say? If you are then, following your guidelines, I'd like you to tell me with reference to what are ...

:ok:

:chin: What is this potential you frequently mention?

What works for you? I'm curious, that's all. You claimed that the notions, if they are different, of true and truth are meaningless. Is this claim tru...

A good observation in my humble opinion. I've never heard people call animals or those mentally handicapped (is this terminology still acceptable?) ig...

Thank you.

:rofl: I'm all over the place.

God works in mysterious ways...I've always wondered on that for it's evident to me from personal experience that it's very, if not impossibly, difficu...

My question is what standard/criterion of truth are you using when you speak/write?

Interesting point of view but you said 'good' instead of just good. Why? Is your, god's 'good' different from good as we recognize it? Less necessary ...

How much of a problem is this, if I understood correctly, regression of definitions? It doesn't seem to be an issue in ordinary discourse. Perhaps lan...

@"Harry Hindu" Thanks for the tip and also reminding me how helpful lexicons have been to me. Also, as you may already know, the dictionary is the smo...

You misunderstood me but that's entirely my fault. I was struggling to get across the fact that the law, as in a legal framework, doesn't figure much ...

If by law you mean a legal framework codified and enforced then it's just the tip of the iceberg. There are other moral laws people follow and it's my...

:ok: Indeed, even if religions claim that the notion of good and evil are derived from the supernatural, a case can be made that these are man-made co...

:smile: Well, I'm not sure I understand you but being "cool" is somewhere in between cold and hot; closer to cold but that doesn't matter since cool i...

Thanks for your valuable comments. Like you said, ignorance is a very important player in the field. Just think, if evolution is true then we began as...

In the beginning I thought that a population of predators/parasites would be necessary to check the herbivore population to prevent a population explo...