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@"180 Proof" Dialectical Materialism 1. Dialectical. There are two opposing sides. What are they? 2. Materialism. What's that? Muchas gracias in advan...

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@Wayfarer :clap: What a post! Superb! Thanks for the link to Mullah Nasruddin (bookmarked it for later). The belief in the link betwixt madness & the ...

Self-defense is instinctive/hardwired/automatic/unwilled. Is it better to be in control (not flee, not fight, and not freeze) or to lose it (fight, fl...

We need to bring the Occident and the Orient together. They seem to make up for each other's flaws.

The Golden Rule, Gensler's included, has to do with 1. Solipsism (We can only know ourselves, not too well I imagine; Temet nosce) 2. Principle of Uni...

Live as an insane person or Die as a sane person. The choices aren't that great, but before we grumble, let's not forget it could've been worse (no ch...

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For something to pop into existence from nothing 1. There must be, in Aristotelian terms, an efficient cause (primum movens). 2. There must be nothing...

It is interesting, ain't it?, that like Laplace thought, if we mathematize the present, both the past and the future will reveal their secrets to us. ...

So, there I was in my garden :snicker: and I saw this quite hairy jumping spider crawling up the wall. I closed in for a better view, it saw me and it...

:chin: Death instinct vs. Eros (life energy)

The answers to the following questions might provide us some insight into the issue of slavery. 1. Do you want slaves? 2. Do you want be a slave? Bein...

What is it like to be a bat? To answer that question, one has to give an account of the iinner conscious life of a bat. We seem to have been able to i...

Let's give this particular fact, that we're unable to share the subjective component of our experience, a name, shall we? How about The Great Wall of ...

Doctors, I came to know, encounter the subjectivity of experience on a daily basis. A patient walks into the consultation room, sits down, and begins ...

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How would you translate into logic the following statements? 1. Joe Biden exists. 2. Peter Parker doesn't exist. 3. Some dogs exist. 4. All apples exi...

It appears that, from a cursory reading of the Wikipedia article on fuzzy logic, that there are some/many aspects of reality that are spectral in char...

Merci beaucoup, monsieur.

@Varde To each his own. Truth is philosophers were after wisdom; what that is, nobody knows. Like quality in the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Ma...

Good point! I'll give it due consideration. Perhaps, I'm an idiot!

Nothing! :snicker: Thanks for asking the right question.

From a hedonic perspective (what else?), 1. Morality is objective: Pain Bad. Pleasure Good. 2. Morality is subjective: Differences in what is painful ...

Unscrupulously. :snicker:

That's just one facet of philosophy (epistemology). What about logic, ethics, metaphysics, aesthetics, and other branches of the subject? Nevertheless...

:snicker: It just dawned on me, we suck! We havta get it right or else...a world of pain, oui, monsieur?

Thanks for the compliment. Good day.

I'll have to get back to you later. I'm a li'l busy right now. Danke!

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...of the worst! :snicker:

You're just fooling around. Sorry, not interested, I'm not in the mood to play your silly games. Good day.

I'm sorry if you feel that way. What exactly is wrong with what I said? There's very little original material, which I feel bad about, to critique. Yo...

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:snicker: A thousand apologies.

I don't wanna waste other people's time. You get bogged down by replies when there are too many of 'em.

I read your links and as far as I'm concerned, you've hit the bullseye - who would've thought it was that simple and yet so profound? Here's a list I ...

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You maybe onto something. Certain kinds of music can defuse a tense situation. It works the other way round too, aggravate an already very volatile si...

:snicker: Quick, you have a 2 minute window before he does his disappearing act! :pray:

Sorry for butting in, but I don't think people would say such a thing as an infinitely sided polygon = a circle. However, place them side by side and ...

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Update My thesis is this: If there are true paradoxes, EITHER 1. We must switch allegiance from classical logic to some version of paraconsistent logi...

I'm not at all convinced that our dating app :snicker: is doing its job properly. Carbon/radioactive dating apps, how foolproof are they? What about L...

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:chin: Rounding off a number makes no sense? It's taught in schools, to kids.

Answer the question instead of beating around the bush. If 0.0001 rounds off to 0, a fortiori an infinitesimal rounds off to 0, oui? Zeroish.

The alternative, mon ami, is worse: Should the good retaliate (tit-for-tat)? That would be moral suicide, oui? Evil only understands evil, eh?