Subjectivity has been, for obvious reasons, always associated with our senses (look up illusions in Wikipedia). Objectivity, on the other hand, has al...
So your thesis has an antithesis which is as legit as your thesis and should be incorporated into your thesis (BothAnd). Shouldn't you be more welcomi...
I'm not exactly an expert/an authority here señor. Maybe the beliefs I have given my stamp of approval are just a stage in the life of a philosopher. ...
All we had to do to prevent climate change was to follow Aristotle's advice: aureum mediocritas (the golden mean) or nec quid nimis (nothin' to excess...
There were times, when Christendom was at its zenith, when skepticism (religious) meant horrific torture & certain death. The current iteration of rel...
In idealism there can be no time delay between events/objects and their perception because there's no object/event outside of perception to cause such...
It seems we're getting ever closer to the real cause of all our problems viz. ourselves; some call it human nature I believe. The key to our salvation...
Oh! Perhaps relativism is the wrong concept to describe my views then. I value objectivity (a lot). At the very least it promises the truth, it keeps ...
The term I was lookin' for! :up: Danke! Time plays a big role in evolution. If it were possible to prove that our scientific dating methods ( :grin: )...
This gets more and more interesting by the minute. Take the irrational number \sqrt 2. To what decimal place of accuracy must we calculate it to const...
So, we agree then, philosophy ain't about truths. Truths send chills down my spine - they've been associated with objectivity for thousands of years a...
It's quite a riddle this. Given any investigation terminates on one/more undedicables, truth is impossible to get hold of. The only option then is to ...
An amalgamation/mash up of the two has been proposed - God got evolution going! That's the low hanging fruit and everyone zeroed in on it effortlessly...
Well, yep, when people are presented with different perspectives as happens when cultures/religions/ideologies/etc. interact, there usually is a stage...
A good question by all accounts. If the question had been about billiard balls on a billiard table, it would be an easy answer because we can see the ...
I'm thinking Thanos! In one story Thanos saves a young girl from being run over by a bus. Everyone is jubilant at this and so is the girl who, in Star...
In my humble opinion, a thing and its anti-thing should also be included in yin-yang à la Hegelian dialectics. E.g. radical doubt ends up in absolute ...
Will comply (for now)! I just find Gnomon's thesis interesting, that's all. From what I can gather s/he seems to have done his/her homework. Gnomon gi...
In my humble opinion, the idea of causation has evolved since Hume made his claim, that it's simlply the constant conjunction of one event and another...
Phenomenalism is, in a sense, a study of mental images (of things i.e. processed sense data) how things appear to us instead of what things really are...
Situation analysis: Fictional entities don't have moral status. You can't make Sherlock Holmes glad/sad and so ethics is moot, morality is N/A, a cate...
Clearly, the only way out of this bottle (re Wittgenstein) is to assume that nonexistent people do have moral status i.e. they can be harmed/helped. T...
The solution to man-made climate change seems rather simple when viewed in a general sense: Delink the economy from carbon. However, when we get down ...
Two way to answer that question: 1. Everything we claim hasta have a reason (logic, surely you don't object to that), every event has a perfectly good...
The question answers itself! You won't rest until I prove the PSR and that's exactly what the PSR is - there's always a reason/cause/explanation for t...
Expressions I call to the witness box: 1. May be, could be, perhaps, likely, unlikely, hard to say, possibly, probably, who knows? I guess so, etc. 2....
I thought I was off-topic. Anyway, if you'd like to pursue the general idea contained in my previous post, here's an amusing short story: The Twelve F...
:up: Since your idea has, as a component, the yin-yang duality of opposites, you surely expect it to be critiqued/opposed/attacked. That's exactly how...
Possibilities: Something/Nothing Actuality: Something Why (is there something rather than nothing)? PSR (the principle sufficient reason): If x then t...
Epistemic twist on the usual, humdrum, senses & their extension based definition of reality. Knowledge is perhaps the only real stuff the world is mad...
Random question. If particles are just ideas or more idea than rocks are, why don't we see particles that fail the gold standard test of materialism v...
The Father = F The Son = S The Holy Spirit = H There was, I guess, a felt need to violate two of the laws of thought: 1. The law of identity \neq S \n...
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