L'éléphant

I have not been reading this thread. I will comment once I read them.

I used to wonder about the meaning of "instinct" - as in when people say, or experts say, "animals act on instinct, humans on reason". I thought, huma...

:up: Thanks.

I did not omit on purpose the part where Schopenhauer's name appeared. There's nothing in that paragraph that would make it any stronger. Here it is: ...

In the spirit of tradition, I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

As someone who has 16.9K posts, you can do better than this to respond to my response to Magee's claim. But you are maybe consistent in your claim if ...

No disrespect but I'm going to argue against the source. Magee is absentmindedly stupid in some important ways. That's my impression of the passage yo...

Yes, I think we can't separate those two if looking at the poll.

If Kant had said this, then he was just repeating what's already in his premise -- empirical statements are made by humans.

This is a good point. It's easy to mistake the poll as a poll about existence, instead of epistemology or knowledge.

I voted non-skeptical realism because this is the most rational choice for me. Idealism just have too many important unanswered points that resemble a...

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Okay, thank you for the information. At least I know I'm in good company. Noted. :sweat: Yes, I know. That's why I'm thanking @"javra" and @"Wayfarer"...

May I ask what was the response of Darwin when Spencer talked to him about using the phrase. And if Darwin did agree to it, what did Darwin think of "...

Survival of the fittest was incorrectly attributed to Darwin's theory of evolution. This is a form of misrepresentation of his theory. Darwin would no...

Strawman fallacy. Because you allowed it. Revisit the example. Your second comment should be confusion -- "why are you mentioning bla bla when my posi...

That works. It was philosophy, not psychology or medicine, that improved our idea of self. Psychology introduced us to the idea of fear and mental ill...

:sweat: I think you're right.

In fractal dimensionality, as posited in the chaos theory in biochemistry, there is indeed an underlying foundation (as in stable foundation) that sup...

Merci.

Funny thing is, often reality is more accurate than fiction. In an ordinary conversation, we often pre-qualify our statements by saying -- "I left it ...

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You are simplifying the game too much. There is a downside to being a push-over who will accept the tiniest offer -- future events would tend to perpe...

This settles it.

No. I meant to say "with depth" -- meaning, with deeper understanding than the lack of careful thought on your part by saying over 2 millennia and no ...

So, are you saying you did not get the gist of what I just said? Do you really need me to explain to you what I said in english? There are things you ...

Jesus. No disrespect, but if this is all you could say about philosophy, then you don't fit in philosophy. People who summarize the thousands of philo...

You're not seeing this right. I am with the person rejecting the offer. I would reject it, too. "Self-interest" has a price tag, as in, people wouldn'...

I had no idea that this was such a big confusion among some of you. I thought it was intuitive what an "object of perception" is. I took it for grante...

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Most workplaces exist for business-for-profit activities. Some fields are more privileged than others -- the arts, for example, in which artists can d...

Here in lies the problem with Metaphysician Undercover's understanding of what is the "object of perception". Inferring is not the same knowing as see...

Technically incorrect. A decedent's estate is just that. Which begs the question, the dead body should belong to the decedent's estate automatically, ...

Philosophy was never a "popular" pursuit at any given time in history. But it started before atoms were discovered. Speculation, in the classical sens...

You're forgetting one thing -- you can't step outside the universe to observe it. You are always inside the solar system, inside the galaxy, among the...

You don't really mean to say this. The universe is not an object of the senses. You don't actually see the totality of everything. The universe is not...

Surely you haven't read much lesser known philosophers' published works to say that. The forum is abundant with great exegetical posts :up: I enjoy th...

Sandwich au hot-dog will do.

It has nothing to do with being a player. It wasn't "love".

My impression is, the philosophy of science and philosophy of mathematics are not well understood as a philosophy discipline and as a subject matter f...

Yes, astute!

:grin: haha. The observer was wrong. Romantic attraction is neither of these. You feel it right away -- you may not be aware of what's happening, but ...

Yes, use this principle for people you care about. Others, don't give them the time of day.

Before I go on, I want to go back and clarify what I've been trying to argue in response to your statement When I say 'identity', I mean to say the mi...

I think it would help this discussion if we, first, accept the fact the emotions are reactionary, not deliberatively. While reactionary reflex is afte...

As we are talking about "aloneness and significance of other minds" here, I'm going out on a limb and say this: Human development is not as complex as...

Identity is pretty much tied to the development of an individual's cognition (perception and senses) beginning in the womb. Some humans would develop ...

Competence is a measure over a range of tasks and over time. You've tested the AI within a very limited topic and tasks. We can't start assessing its ...

Right subject matter, wrong analysis. When you make known that you're hurt by their actions, you're not bringing them down to whatever sewage you find...