TheMadFool

That sounds suspiciously like science but then you go on to say: Did I miss the point you were making? That aside, I suppose I do catch your drift to ...

:rofl: My apologies Amigo! I'm genuinely curious, what other kinds of "approach" to knowledge are there over and above, beyond, justificationism (I ho...

That resonates with me. Thanks for letting me in on some of your philosophical insights. Much appreciated señora/señorina. Mind if you take a look at ...

:fire: :clap: Yet, isn't sin, understood as immorality/bad independent of god re Euthyphro's dilemma? Nevertheless, your statement brings to the fore ...

:up: We do!

If you can run, surely you can walk.

What do you expect me to do? Read that article you provided a link to. A good exposition by all standards. The writer, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, explains th...

A variation of the trolley problem I see. Like the original the idea is to present a dilemma. The choices on offer are all unacceptable in one way or ...

It's time to issue a challenge to theists and atheists alike? 1. Theist, do you have a watertight argument for the existence of god? No, of course not...

That's true in the sense it hasn't been done but my hunch is it's not impossible and thereby hangs a tale. Why do I think so? Mantras. In the vedic tr...

I concur but only with the caveat that my grasp of reality is wanting in many respects. Just out of curiosity, what else is on your differential diago...

And this isn't :point: ??? :chin: I do appreciate the idea though - very zen, always manages to get my juices flowing but my enthusiasm usually fizzle...

I fully second that motion. No one pointed out that particular possibility to me though, except you of course. That said, I wonder if there's a way of...

Same here. What's up with that? Care to share? You have a way with words that I must confess my envy for. Anyway, good to know writing's on your list ...

Fortunately or...not, the only evidence we could rely on with any degree of certainty would be memory of past lives but then one has to consider the p...

You had to reply didn't you? Nice play on words though. Are you a writer by any chance? You know, like, having written novels, articles, in an officia...

Really? It looked like you two just got started! Thank God!

:rofl: It's all so funny until someone loses an/a eye tooth. Having fun, guys/gals as the case maybe? Carry on!

Excelente Amigo. It appears that confusion comes in two strains, at least to the extent I'm aware, 1. Confusion as incoherence (self-contradiction, in...

Good to know. Reminds me of René Descartes' cogito ergo sum. The proposition, "I think" can't be rejected for to do so requires, most intriguingly, th...

Point made, point noted. Yet, there's this underlying sentiment, a deep desire/wish to know the truth i.e. "...coming up with definitive narrartives a...

I'm going to take a rather formulaic, rather dull, approach to answer your question. The question, "what do you NOT know?" is surprisingly easy to ans...

Why not? Latin isn't my strong suit. This rings a bell - Taoism. I wonder if Laozi's quasi-philosophical work, the Tao Te Ching, was meant to as an ex...

I'm rather poor in logic but I love paradoxes despite not being able to understand them, forget about solving them. That out of the way, what matters ...

The notion of an actual infinite makes zero sense if, as per my assumption, actual means what it seems to mean to wit, completed in one sense or anoth...

Quite shocking news I must say. It was a zen moment for me. We've been so preoccupied with suffering - that's how powerful it is - that we couldn't se...

Of questionable veracity is the claim that there are unicellular organisms, brainless as it were, that are phototropic phototactic.

:ok: I having nothing more to say.

I have doubts regarding what I'm about to say but according to some sources, physics is well on its way to becoming a branch of mathematics. The relat...

I don't know what you said there but if you're interested I'd like to chime in. First off, water is an older concept than H2O. Those who first encount...

The future is unpredictable, like the weather I suppose - bright and sunny one moment, overcast and pouring the next. Nevertheless, there's a noticeab...

What's self-contradictory about it? That there are philosophies, all and sundry, implies that the suffering extant in the world ain't so terrible that...

1. I think 2. If I think then, I am (I exist) Therefore, 3. I am (I exist) Time to send an invitation to Agrippa of Agrippa's trilemma fame aka Münchh...

It applies to every position of course. :chin:

:rofl: Would you like a similar fate to William Wallace (c. 1207 - 1305)? Hanged, drawn, and quartered? Perhaps that might not be to your taste, you m...

No, unfortunately not. Ever heard of a woman in labor coming up with a bright idea? Plus, what's the idea of taking leave from work when one falls ill...

Here's a something you might want to consider. It looks like a paradox but I'll leave that for you to suss out. First things first, I don't claim to k...

I could be wrong but that's not how relativity is to be understood. Difficulty level (hard/easy) is relative if a given problem is easy compared to an...

Sorry to bother you but you seem to be the go-to-person here. So, here goes... Aboutness, the way I understood it, seems to be the fact the the mind c...

:ok: Race according to Wikipedia is a phenotype-based concept - a system of categorization of our species (homo sapiens) premised on differences in (e...

For my money, the notion of virtual murder is not as cut-and-dried as it needs to be for the dilemma to be meaningfully problematic - all dilemmas are...

Excellent question. If intolereance, herein an euphemism for racism, is transmitted like a disease through one's genes then it makes sense that about ...

:ok: Just a random thought of mine. I suppose it's facile enough to be dismissed from the outset.

Well, anitnatalists mean well - they don't want to see people suffer. The girl in the story means well too - she doesn't want the persona non grata to...

I remember reading a story once about this person, a girl I'm not sure, who's planning a party. She makes a list of her friends and other people she w...

Imagine yourself deer hunting with a compound bow. You see a deer but you realize it's not in range. You, as quietly as possible, close in on the hapl...

That's a bummer! Sorry!

Which leads us to the conclusion that time could be an illusion. We have this notion, we've given it a name - time - but what we're actually tracking ...

No! My question to you is this, why (give reasons) did the possibility of reality being an illusion arise in the first place? Why do I ask? If that re...