:up: Could it be that it's intelligible, yes, but not in a logical way? How about keeping logical connections intact as you seem to prefer but conside...
In a certain sense, cause-effect is seen as having something to do with personal identity. It's actually quite interesting how humans reason, perhaps ...
It's a mathematical science, isn't it? I wonder, seeing that math seems limited (no contradictions allowed) and not limited (quantum weirdness) by cla...
Wikipedia is ok. It's not the best I'm told (very often) but hey, something's better than nothing, right? Plus, who knows, its detractors, the anti-Wi...
As @"Janus" said, it's all logic which I interpret to mean that just like chaos is order undeciphered, illogic is logic undeciphered. How does that ma...
Did you know that in 2018 about 20,000 people lost their lives in the Syrian civil war and that roughly the same numner of people died by homicide in ...
Wow! You have your very own personal system! Go T Clark, go! You seem to be on top of things. :up: Since you mentioned Taoism & gravity, I read a book...
:ok: You're right. The offense & the punishment, if geometrized into a rectangle, the sides are not in the golden ratio (proportio divina). It looks u...
Yes, we should have a civil war and not just in the US but in every country on earth and on other planets as well. Civil (meaning): adequate in courte...
Is it now? When someone believes s/he has the final solution (vide late Christopher Hitchens) to all our problems, rejecting it would be utter folly o...
Interesting but what about memory impairment associated with depression and trauma. These have been documented or so I'm told. Funnily, this doesn't s...
So the sum total of something remains constant, eternally - what we have now is exactly the amount we had and will have but it transforms, evolves, an...
Pardon the oversight. I hadn't slept well the day before. I see your point how predicates should inform us about search parameters and if the search t...
I actually wanted to know why what I said was stupid. I drew my conclusion from how pollution and environmental degradation go hand in hand with what ...
Use the relevant predicates to make it right? :chin: It matters not to the point which is we can't prove a negative. It's just an example of a positiv...
To tell you the truth, phenomenology is not something new. Logic (Aristotle, Chrysippus) for example is inherently phenomenological for it's the study...
Good observation. Speed can, after a certain point, look like magic. Do you know of so-called idiot savants (hopefully this isn't a pejorative term)? ...
Empty/nonsense books/poetry/music? Can you cite some examples? Yes, own logic: It appears that we can't break our habit of thinking in terms of logic ...
We can't tell the difference between 1. God doesn't exist and 2. God exists but we haven't come across the evidence that He does. Compare the above to...
It's hard to tell the difference between there's nothing and there's something but I can't see it. Anyway, as I said in my OP, it's an uphill task to ...
The OP is right on the money - life, death, nothingness, meaninglessness are what an examined life is about. However, we have to trust Charles Darwin'...
:grin: I drew my conclusion from the fact that we're never taught logic in school though it's kinda like the master key to knowledge. We're supposed t...
The best way to study philosophy: The easy way: Apprenticeship of some kind. You'll learn the ropes faster and it's much easier since you'll be given ...
:up: Interesting to say the least. Did you notice, you must have, that the way science (physics actually) works is weird? The "perfect" mathematical m...
What's pre-understood? If I catch your drift, you seem to be saying something to the effect that we already comprehend/know the world; all that's need...
That's actually Agent TangArine. I don't know where Agent Bruce is. He's probably gettin' his ass kicked by Mr. Anderson! :grin: I better lay low for ...
Entities vs. properties. When we encounter differences, there are two ways of handling them: 1. Posit different entities. For example if, through a pe...
Have a gander here. Alcohol impairs judgment! It also makes you philosophical! :chin: Are all philosophers drunk (on ideas)? Is C_2H_5OH = Ideas? What...
The best way to study philosophy? :chin: You'll havta trust your brain to make the right connections between the different strands of ideas/thoughts t...
Gettier problem, it's about luck and how it can throw a spanner in the works. I didn't realize this but it, if taken seriously, undermines the entire ...
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