Wittgenstein would've like us to remember his words: whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. I think if we heeded Wittgenstein, life wou...
While there's a similarity in the sense that both posit some kind of creator the difference between them lies in that in one, simulation, the real wor...
A conglomerate of minds. I wonder if the parts, the sub-minds talk to each other? I think they do since we, the parts, do communicate with each other ...
:chin: That's true and I mentioned this problem in another post. :up: To All Descartes began his musings with radical doubt and realized that doubt mu...
What is the highest doubt that can be entertained? That nothing is real, but even then one can't doubt that there is a doubter, viz yourself that is d...
It is apparent that the cogito argument proves that even if we were to be radically skeptical, there is one thing we can never doubt: we can be certai...
It helps to put art in context; it gives a better picture of its real nature. As you so rightly said, the milieu in which art develops or transforms h...
You have nothing to say on that point?! :chin: :chin: Is there no contradiction in re cogito ergo sum and solipsisim? 1. Solipsisim: doubt the existen...
Ok. I understand that the I can't be inferred to just from the fact that cogitation occurs. Yet, the fact that thinking occurs must mean there's a thi...
Well, in what way do you suppose that the "I" is illusory? To the extent that I've understood, I = personhood, and personhood has to do with memory wh...
How about looking at this from the viewpoint of necessary and contingent truths? If a theory/proposition is necessarily true then it is necessarily un...
I feel that I don't quite fit into the crowd so my working definitions may be idiosyncratic at best or inane at worst. I would like to hear what you t...
I think I already said this before but there's a need to divide art into two categories viz. the subjects of art and the process of art. By subjects o...
Well, it's true that there's a gap between theory and practice - my description of what love is far removed from reality. Yet, aren't we all, all as i...
i]red Yep, I guess Kant's critique of the ontological argument does depend on the analytic-synthetic distinction, the existence of god being, accordin...
What would aesthetics transcending beauty look like? Are you saying there can be disgustingly ugly art too? In my opinion, the most repugnant of acts ...
I recall a particular discussion on the consequences/impact of art and how artists are quick to take credit for the good that results from their work ...
I'm not quite sure about that. To begin with I don't think chaos, as conventionally understood, is about patterns; quite to the contrary, when a syste...
:lol: Sorry. You've been very helpful. I'm like the bad student who's got an exam at 9 AM and partied (hypothetically of course) all night, slept, got...
I hope I'm not taking this out of context but what you say comes close to Deism - that we begin with the natural world and use reason in an attempt to...
Why are you using unusual meanings/definitions on a "simple" matter of whether existence is a predicate or not? I mean, wouldn't that make your interp...
Well, that's what I was unknowingly getting at - beauty as transcendent to everything else. Yet I can't help wondering, moral goodness is utlimately a...
I don't think A = { A } is a syntactic error. It leads to a pardox - Russel's paradox and, if I know anything at all, the axiom of ZFC were crafted in...
I'm concerned about using the term "existence" as a predicate. That is the issue isn't it? In predicate logic we have statements like Mx is predicate ...
Are you applying mathematical logic to the question of whether existence can be predicated or not? I thought in math existential statements used E(x) ...
I thank you for your comments. I'm satisfied with my understanding so far. Existence isn't a predicate as it doesn't add to the essence of concepts, a...
Can the statement "god exists" be expressed in categorical logic or not? I think it can be as follows: all things identical to god are things that exi...
Who knows what art is? Some, I think most, say the most despicable thing a person can do is murder and yet, if current trends are any indication of ou...
The word "random", to me, indicates a systems state where every possible outcome is equi-probable. For instance a die is random if every outcome: 1, 2...
I think love is beyond good and evil. To say love is a moral judgment is to exclude, in my opinion, some individuals from love, based on them lacking/...
You say that there's no such thing as confirmatory evidence but if I'm not wrong that everyday objects fell to the earth and the heavenly bodies revol...
Theory of gravity T1 = all matter are things that attract R1 = all raven are black We have inductive evidence that T1 and R1 are both true Contraposit...
One more thing. There are two types of evidence to wit confirmatory and disconfirmatory. In the case of the claim R1 = all ravens are black, a confima...
I agree. Science isn't immune to meddling or the vested interests of social groups or the prejudices of the scientists themselves. I've heard a lot of...
Well said. Thank you very much for the clarification. Much appreciated. My reasoning is as follows: R1 = all ravens are black Contraposition of R2 = a...
:grin: Thanks for the advice and the clarification. It seems that what I actually meant was that confirming B = all non-black are non-ravens by observ...
Thanks for the fresh and interesting perspective. You seem to be saying god is the source of all being and so god must be/exist. I think this runs int...
They're lacking more than just history. Thanks for the links. I don't know if history is necessary at all. I mean history gives context - a background...
I guess Popper considers the absence of negative evidence i.e. disconfirming observations as better than positive evidence (confirming evidence). As b...
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