It's hard to say what'll actually happen - chaos is inherently unpredictable! All I can say, with a fair amount of certainty, is we would be utterly b...
Given that, for various good reasons, all knowledge is suspect, tackling ignorance in an appropriate way (systematic, rational, etc.) is our only opti...
There seems to be no discernible difference between beliefs/believing per se and assumptions/assuming. Let us assume...blah blah blah = Let us believe...
Yep, that makes sense alright! Note however, there must be a psychological term for this, negative experiences are more susceptible to hasty generaliz...
N/A or Mu. Complex questions are a different kettle of fish. They can't be answered without admitting/denying something along with admitting/denying s...
You guys & gals should check this (Environmental Personhood) out! Some excerpts from the Wikipedia entry: If rivers and mountains are persons, a forti...
As per the Oracle of Delphi and Socrates, the quiddity of wisdom is awareness of (one's own) ignorance. That is, in a modern psychological sense, to p...
Question: Do you want to be vegan? Answers: 1. Yes, I want to be vegan (Trying). 2. I am vegan (Accomplished). 3. No, I don't want to be vegan (Refusa...
The media has been deluding itself and its reader/viewership by proclaiming itself to be the guardians of truth. I'm sure aspiring journalists are fed...
We need to find a pattern! Relevant data (to get the show on the road). 1) 231 feet, 3 tonne boats. 2) Age of skippers on such boats. Apposite mathema...
That's only part of Nietzsche's perspective; what about the overall progression from simplex to complex. There were 4 revolutions: 1. Nothing \to Some...
Bravo! A point to make: The Golden Rule makes evolutionary sense, don't it? A species' survival depends on individuals being alike in terms of likes/d...
Could anthropocentrism (the human "perspective") itself be subjectivism? We are, after all, narrating the story of the universe from a human point of ...
:snicker: Paradoxes are an existential threat to epistemology (truth) & logic. When these two are assaulted (successfully), our world comes crashing d...
@Joshs From the excerpts you provide in your post, it looks like Nietzche was mostly interested in how Darwinism knocks off humanity from the pedestal...
:up: IE we're waiting for a breakthrough in battery tech. The transformation that would cause would be dramatic and the person/persons involved would ...
There should be a subdiscipline of logic that studies paradoxes; they're an existential threat to the framework of knowledge we've built for ourselves...
Looks like Plato was making pronouncements on relations. Concepts I'm familiar with that seem relevant: 1. Reflexivity. Equals: 2 = 2. 2. Symmetry. Si...
If only we could reduce the size, weight and increase the life of batteries. Has anyone done a scientific analysis of the exact problem with batteries...
What's the "truth rate" of mathematical (or other) conjectures, herein defined as the percentage of them that have been found to be true? If it's high...
Dialectical materialism: An idea contains the seed of its own negation. An example: Nietzsche says we must strive to be übermenschen. We should be sup...
I'm sure there's someone out there who qualifies as a saint or a bodhisattva, but so long as him/her robbing a bank doesn't violate the laws of nature...
Geothermal energy! :up: We could offload some of our energy production onto Earth's natural heat! That would be great for the ecology but bad for the ...
Indeed, but I wouldn't consider following the herd an übermenschen quality (we're all wannabe supermen). Transcendence! We must leave our humanness be...
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