Here's the deal. When presented with choices, most would say they assess the pros and cons of each option. This involves judging the consequences of e...
A female partner-deity of God would probably align with our conception of the ideal woman (beauty with brains, a good soul). Note for some men, beauty...
Toxic masculinity. I thought that meant threatening to use or actually using physical force to settle differences or arguments. While this is a known ...
I'll take the first bite. Theomorphism: We're the likeness of god, physically and mentally. Not much has been said of god's appearance but the Greeks ...
To the extent that I'm aware, consciousness, as many posters have remarked, has this so-called aboutness i.e. in the simplest of senses holds somethin...
I get what you mean. It's better to leave Aristotle's 4 causes unmolested. I simply wanted to know which of these 4 causes (one/a combination) is bein...
I still feel, time isn't really a factor in re the infinite monkey theorem. Why, as you yourself so graciously pointed out only one monkey would be ne...
One monk's change in heart, once it metastasizes and reaches critical mass initiates an unstoppable chain reaction which is precisely what a Marxist w...
Depression, severe or not, is defined in terms of how debilitating it is (your life just falls to pieces). However, if ever there was a person who han...
:ok: I was under the impression that it's kinda like a lottery. If the right number of people play, one is sure to win (doesn't take an infinite amoun...
You have a point. To be a (good) philosopher embrace complexity (nuance & subtlety) was one advice/suggestion given to viewers by a youtube channel co...
Many a slip betwixt cup and lip. Reminds me the JWST; as Wayfarer replied to a question of mine (vide infra) Infinite monkey theorem: There are so man...
Like I said, art is (has become) a language. "I love you" and "F**k off" are both valid expressions in English, a language, oui? Likewise for art vis-...
If you die young, does that mean you got your wish - eternal youth? If it's all wordplay, genies must exist, not in bottles or lamps, or is that a qui...
Computers can't parse ambiguity, vagueness, metaphor or the like. Coders wil vouch for me that this does get a little exasperating: bugs in a piece of...
You kinda shot yourself in the foot when you said that. I hope it was deliberate but then it looks accidental. Never mind, it doesn't matter, in the l...
Mysticism is, inter alia, the rejection of rationality as a means to truths, herein the divine variety. That however doesn't mean mysticism is irratio...
We must, re William James, believe despite insufficient evidence when a belief in question is (a) 1. Forced (sink/swim). Conversion to Islam by the sw...
What could the trio Socrates, Plato, and Aristotel have against sophists? My guesstimate: Sophists' goal: How to win arguments! Nobly/ignobly doesn't ...
Everyday mode? Is that like a normal person's life? A set of ideas, a method à la Sherlock Holmes, simply put a compass for navigation in the ocean of...
A social existence, is I believe, intended to be a mutually beneficial arrangement. Part of the deal is sacrificing personal freedom or compromising o...
Hi, may I ask you something? Since we're in Aristotelian cause territory, which one of the follwing 1. Material cause 2. Formal cause 3. Efficient cau...
Good to know we see eye to eye on the matter. I'm curious, how did Aristotle define a virtuous person? Did he do so in terms of his aurea mediocritas ...
Indeed, let's first tackle the small fries before we go for the big guy! If I can't get through the door, I sure as hell won't fit through the window....
I'm not a 100% sure about this but knowledge figures prominently in a description of God (omniscience), while beauty (omniaesthetic isn't a god attrib...
This is a deep question for me. Causality, Hume clearly demonstrated, has no deductive necessity to it. There really is no deducitve argument that sho...
Religion, to me, is basically a system designed to address three human concerns: 1. Creation (an explanation of how the world, we, came to be; power/o...
I completely forgot about virtue ethics (no codes). What would a virtuous person do (in such-and-such situation)? Is that like asking (@"Banno") "what...
Do you know anything (else) that's fundamental? Biology claims that cells are fundamental to life. What do you suppose that means? Well, the way I see...
I most humbly beg to differ. These responses have been documented in the animal world, aren't we too, animals? I for one see it as a viable option and...
It depends, to some degree, on how many entities need to be posited/proposed to explain necessetarianism as opposed to contingentarianism. If the univ...
The idea is not to wish for eternal life, rather the wise move is to ask for eternal youth (neoteny). Have you seen what happens to 500 year-old Green...
:up: The "yellow" smell of shit! :grin: Will it work for someone with anosmia? Don't know what shit smells like? Here, it smells yellow! Not really, I...
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