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I didn't say x = x and if I did, it's exactly what I would say:
January 29, 2023 at 05:38
Theism and Atheism cancel each other out, oui? Unless you mean to say there's theism in atheism and atheism in theism (@"Gnomon" :chin:)
January 29, 2023 at 05:21
:smile:
January 29, 2023 at 05:19
Oh! So you mean to say both our subjective side and our objective side have to be taken into consideration to complete the picture (of reality)? Neith...
January 29, 2023 at 05:18
:ok:
January 29, 2023 at 05:06
Do the math! If the math says x then x it is, oui?
January 28, 2023 at 20:09
As I said we could be, probably are, deluded. The self is non-predicable. It can't be said to be this or that, it just is (patior ergo sum) ... as a/t...
January 28, 2023 at 20:07
Well, looks like you have an agenda mon ami. Go right ahead.
January 28, 2023 at 19:22
In: Emergence  — view comment
I don't understand how people can be receptive to the idea that the universe could be a computer simulation and at the same time deny the possibility ...
January 28, 2023 at 19:16
:ok: I'm tired. You win by default. :smile:
January 28, 2023 at 19:13
The self is not predicable i.e. it can't be said of the self that it is wise or foolish. It is only and nothing more or less than a thinking thing.
January 28, 2023 at 19:12
Not to downplay the tragedy of black lives lost, but I strongly feel that we need to understand the mindset of the men in blue. What goes through the ...
January 28, 2023 at 19:10
Good question! Illusions to the thinker (the true self).
January 28, 2023 at 18:48
Both can't be right because they're mutually contradictory. As part of yin-yang duality, they're mutually annihilatory, not complementary. What we can...
January 28, 2023 at 18:44
As you can see we run into trouble in trying to get a fix on the self - it's in the simplest sense the thinker and I'll leave it at that. As for the e...
January 28, 2023 at 18:34
January 28, 2023 at 18:22
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)! :lol:
January 28, 2023 at 18:13
No, I'm not advocating a Berkeleyan perspective. The self may exist even when not perceived for all we know. However, knowledge (epistemology, not ont...
January 28, 2023 at 18:05
That be true. We could all be delusional, rendering my equation useless. What's the alternative then? As far as I can tell, terium non datur, either I...
January 28, 2023 at 17:08
The crux of the problem is 1. A premise is false (in this case Brown is not the man who'll get the job) and yet 2. The conclusion is true (coincidenta...
January 28, 2023 at 17:01
:blush: I deserved that!
January 28, 2023 at 16:38
Do the math!
January 28, 2023 at 07:13
I don't feel the need for math (fields) to explain/discuss religion unless it clarifies the matter instead of obscuring it (further). In a universe co...
January 28, 2023 at 07:12
There are 3 selves (identities) 1. Who others think you are (So) 2. Who you think you are (Ss) 3. Who you really are (Sr) Sr = So + Ss Do the math! Qu...
January 28, 2023 at 06:51
In: Emergence  — view comment
I read those links to TPF posts you provided. Indeed, if @"Gnomon" claims his Enformationism Theory is scientific then the theory must entail some obs...
January 28, 2023 at 06:30
You're bang on target mon ami!
January 28, 2023 at 06:02
Well, as seems to be most prevalent, the definition of truth philosophy is most concerned about is one that appears in the correspondence theory of tr...
January 28, 2023 at 05:59
Here's what to me is a point in favor of Descartes - at least he was being consistent. We, on the other hand, allegedly love dogs and cats, but meat i...
January 28, 2023 at 05:44
I suspect the OP is trying to correlate the (possibly imaginary) high IQ of chess players (amateurs and pros) with the superior (post-training) analyt...
January 28, 2023 at 05:28
My source is my intuition, but that's not what's important - what is is that you cited some statistical studies to back up your claims. :up: Now the b...
January 28, 2023 at 05:18
Gaslighting. Making someone think s/he's sick when actually not and then prescribing him/her medication to get better? :lol:
January 28, 2023 at 04:38
As a human, I'm inclined to agree, we have both objective and subjective aspirations. However, the objective and the subjective sides tend to contradi...
January 28, 2023 at 04:24
You've identified a particular period of time (now as determined by neoliberalism) as being characterized by the above mentioned phenomena. You'll hav...
January 28, 2023 at 03:56
The death rate now is lower than that in the past. We're getting the longevity bit right; now to work on happiness. The objective: A long, happy life.
January 28, 2023 at 03:51
As a supplement to the OP: Vivisection. From the article above it seems that at least in the medical profession there was an attempt to justify animal...
January 28, 2023 at 03:28
Fair! :up:
January 27, 2023 at 17:20
Well, we haven't even agreed on what God or hell is then, have we? Your idiosyncratic God could exist in your, again, idiosyncratic hell.
January 27, 2023 at 16:56
You know what I realized is absolutely amazing about the US of A? If you can justify (forgive me Agrippa) a proposal well (read profitable) the powers...
January 27, 2023 at 15:53
I did say that homelessness is a problem, just not for the government. The people out on the streets doesn't seem to negatively impact the country's G...
January 27, 2023 at 14:25
So you think the statistics is bull!? Did you know that your mayor's office uses statistics to run the city - that clean water you drink, the neatly a...
January 27, 2023 at 14:16
Statistics show that the death rate for all possible causes has declined in the US for the period 1916 to 2023. What have you to say about that. I con...
January 27, 2023 at 08:17
Homelessness is not that much of a problem; why else can governments ignore it? Being without a house hasn't been correlated with crime/drugs. In fact...
January 27, 2023 at 08:05
At the heart of philosophy is the penis &vagina! :lol:
January 27, 2023 at 07:45
It's quite clear that @"Zettel" has absconded ... after setting the cat among the pigeons. :lol:
January 27, 2023 at 07:42
:smile:
January 27, 2023 at 03:10
There are metaphysical truths (ontology) - do quarks exist? However, we can't know if quarks really exist (epistemology). The particle zoo is a model ...
January 27, 2023 at 01:57
We're off-topic. I agree metaphysics is speculative, but you aren't saying anything new if that's your point.
January 27, 2023 at 01:53
The inconsistency is that God can't be in hell and you're saying He is (re omnipotence). Then you changed tack - you now claim hell is in god (unsuppo...
January 27, 2023 at 01:51
Good enough for me. Very Platonic in character though - as if numbers were people living in a city, maybe they are!
January 27, 2023 at 01:48