Confiteur I don't know how to extricate myself from the loop formed by definition & question in re questions. What is a question? is an impossible que...
I had similar thoughts - there doesn't seem to be an I unique to an individual i.e. if someone else were in my shoes, they'd think/speak/act in exactl...
So, you recommend an apophatic approach. That feels right; after all we're dealing with intuition and that, I suspect, usually means knowing what some...
We were thinking long before we were thinking properly. This gap period between thinking and thinking properly I call the prephilosophical period - it...
:fire: We've built a system of knowledge by first constructing a sacffolding of ideas; metaphysics is a call to examine this scaffolding with the obje...
Animal aggression: An offering to Thanatos (execution) Human aggression: An offering to Thanatos (execution) + An offering to Algos (cruelty/torture) ...
Well, if what you say is true then the law of gravitation as discovered and elucidated by Newton should've been associated with alchemy because Newton...
Are the Jesus miracles doable with modern (bio)tech? For starters... Healing lepers: Dapsone + Clofazamine + Rifampicin Curing blindness: LASIK/Catara...
So, out of 100 universes, 50 have a god and 50 don't! In other words, god isn't a necessary being (true for all worlds). Theists should be leaping wit...
Interesting to note that faith is belief decoupled from justification. We must ensure maximum degrees of freedom - no package deals, all items sold se...
@unelightened That's the standard reply. Not that it doesn't make sense but my concern is this: some species seem to be extremely vulnerable while oth...
It looks like the supernatural refers to a class of things/phenomena that defies natural (read scientific) explanation. The notion of supernatural is ...
Good question! Man proposes, God disposes? How would you explain the situation we're in? We want to help x but we can't seem to; we want to harm y and...
That explains the mess we're in (global warming, pandemics, wars, threat of nuclear armageddon, so and so forth)! I was led to believe that kings/empe...
Well, you would (hyper)focus if you were narrow-minded (missing the forest for the trees). Anyway, I believe Nagarjuna's tetralemma is tailored toward...
@Alkis Piskas Come to think of it, nonhuman animal categories are real categories e.g. poison arrow frogs are near-identical in appearance (brightly c...
How is probability calculated? E = Event n = number of outcomes that satisfy E N = All possible outcomes (sample space), each outcome equiprobable. Th...
Nice! You mean to say religion is infantile, a case of arrested (mental) development! What puzzles me is this: adults don't believe in Santa Claus, th...
An alienated worker is someone who isn't able to participate in society except only as a means of production; you won't see him in cinemas, amusement ...
:fire: Why :snicker: do we attribute intentionality to things? Is there a known psychological concept that explains our proclivity to at all times inc...
Question Chicken-and-Egg Problem Define "question". The above command can be rephrased as a question: What is a question? This, as you can see, is its...
Mathematics can't make sense of fluid turbulence! :snicker: Anyone have an idea why? Is this a case of the nonmathematical nature of reality or is it ...
:smile: So "why does the universe exist?" is a nonsensical question to you. What if I say that the question only seeks an explanation and that doesn't...
Well, what is a parent, what is a child? Going by how people think and talk, and words like "puerile", "infantile", "childish", it's quite obvious as ...
Did a cursory reading of the Wikipedia article on postmodernism. Speaking for myself, I'd say that postmodernism goes a bit too far by rejecting objec...
If one claims "anything goes" (postmodernism as I understand it) it must be clarified as to what end. If I say it doesn't matter whether I eat a slice...
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