It's come to my notice that the moral universe has been expanding, it seems to mirror the Big Bang cosmology ( :chin: ) ever since people began thinki...
If you ask me, the JTB definition of knowledge is perfectly acceptable in the domain of abstract philosophy wherein you axiomatize. However, in the em...
I'm just pointing out the obvious fact that Greeks didn't approve of wisdom and money being exchanged for each other. I suppose they thought selling s...
I have mixed feelings about what you said here. First, donations are usually money but then it differs from a fee in that the former isn't asked for b...
Catu?ko?i The idea is not to get trapped in system (of beliefs). Supposedly, this is the so-called madhyamaka (the middle path) in Buddhism. @"Wayfare...
This is the type of question that separates the wheat from the chaff. Hats off to you! It appears that what we have here is a rather interesting but v...
What I gathered from how sophists and philosophers were treated back when they were part of the Greek cultural scene is that money, not money per se b...
Explain the logic/rationale behind what is essentially dislike, perhaps even hatred, for sophists back when they were part of Greek culture, about 200...
Non sequitur because Cheshire was trying to use an irony, something that gets my juices flowing, in re epistemology, to prove God. What you said has n...
So, you're equating bullshit with sophistry and "acuity" with philosophy and what's being implied (by you) is that ordinary people can't tell the diff...
I still didn't get it. There's merit wherever there's irony. Can you dumb down your argument from epistemic irony for God so that I too may see what y...
Very interesting, you seem to have turned the whole issue of human knowledge vis-à-vis Socrates into a rather unique though not-so-convincing argument...
:fire: As once I said, ideas enslave as much as they emancipate. Ideas/beliefs/philosophies/etc. are the proverbial gilded cage - it's luxurious, yes,...
The OP's question reminds me of the Buddhist Parable Of The Poisoned Arrow. It also brings to mind the butcher's moral puzzle: If people didn't eat me...
I realized that there are two kinds of people: 1. Those who either speak the truth or say interesting things. 2. Those who either speak falsehoods are...
You seem to be implying that only intellectually-challenged people can't tell the difference between Sophists and Philosophers, fixated on money, not ...
I could use some extra money right now but that's beside the point. Something is better than nothing attitude, eh? Why then is it that, to my reckonin...
It all depends on what Socrates' definition of knowledge was. I read somewhere that justified, true, belief (JTB) as knowledge originated with him. So...
Protagoras to the rescue (again): A. Perceived dilemma 1. Either vaccines are mandatory or vaccines are optional 2. If vaccines are mandatory then fre...
:up: I like that idea even though it's kinda like raining on my parade, well, half-a-parade actually. That which you hate and run away from (death) is...
Is it possible, do you think it's plausible, that capitalism is just a way freedom manifests itself and, conversely, could it be that socialism is aut...
Correct the scenario then - make it better, add/delete as it seems fit; remember, you have to be agnostic about some claim and make a decision based o...
Life for life's sake; all else (philosophy, love, honor, beauty, etc.) is an illusion! We've seen through the ruse, eh? We've seen life in its real fo...
I wish I knew that. I always had a problem with the advice to know thyself (temet nosce). There are two way of doing that: 1. Self-reflection but then...
Yes, one way would be that but I was gunning for something a little bit more sophisticated than sitting somebody down and asking fae to answer a barra...
It's just an idea - there are, all said and done, two mutually overlapping words, the physical and the mental, and the many approaches to the former w...
Indeed, from that angle, before one is born (pre-life) is indistinguishable from after one is dead (post-life). The lack of any means of making a dist...
That's what the OP seems to sayiing. :point: Nonexistence 1--->Life--->Nonexistence 2(Death). Almost all studies on nonexistence with regard to life h...
Non sequitur. You haven't proven this :point: life proceeds death, nor does this :point: death precedes life, make any sense. How can death precede li...
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