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True.

I know what it's like to be disappointed that no one read my OP, but you're going overboard. Take a breath and chill out.

:up: I think the answer to the OP has been made. Language use is determined by a community. Look at how people use the words. The trans woman in the v...

Do you want me to delete it?

That is an amazing answer. Thank you.

Top tier evidence. Thank you.

This is a really good speech by a trans woman. Early on, she says she's been asked if she feels 100% like a woman. She answers that she feels 100% lik...

I doubt it. :razz:

Locke rejected innate knowledge. Kant accepts that we have knowledge a priori. My question was: how would Kant defend a priori knowledge to Locke? Hum...

I don't think sapere aude conflicts with identifying logic as God. Most rationalists did see God as foundational and indispensable, and accepting apri...

How did Enlightenment thinkers explain apriori knowledge? Like from God?

I guess you're right.

I knew a lady named Bell Pepper. For real.

What is transcendental thinking?

I agree. By stationary, I meant a stationary vantage point from which to watch a person passing through time, so a spot outside of time. I'm just poin...

But the US warned Chavez about the 2002 coup. Isn't that support?

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That song is a little psychotic.

It's happened though. What they used to do was loan money to developing nations and when they couldn't pay it back, the US would go in and re-organize...

It would be art for an ant. They would walk around going, "Wow, it's huge." That's true!!

Notice that he starts with "I am conscious of my existence as determined in time." That is phenomenology. He's pointing out that he experiences himsel...

Take any doodle, enlarge it 400 times, and it becomes art.

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Yea, but if he wanted oil from Venezuela, Trump would just publicly put a gun to Maduro's head and say "Give me a bunch of oil." I think it's actually...

I doubt it.

I think US policy toward South America is to keep it from developing into rival status, so they undermine whatever they can, then when all hell breaks...

Oh cool. So you know it turned into a kleptocracy, and now it's in failed state territory. Do you know why the US is involved now? I haven't even look...

Heidegger redefined metaphysics, or rather replaced the old metaphysics with what he thought was a better use of the word. I think he saw it as rehabi...

A workmate's husband is from Venezuela, so I've heard all about Chavez and so forth. Apparently, conditions there are horrific. That's all I know abou...

Indeed. I struggle with it. I can get meat from free range chickens who had a happy life for a chunk of change. When I compare that to the cheap chick...

Yea. It's about ultimate truth, which is why I brought up gothic cathedrals. Metaphysics is tinged with the idea that we're finding a hidden, but gran...

Watch to the end of this. It's amazing how he gets this idea across. https://youtube.com/shorts/Ld8VRPxScM4?si=sBapQwey6hDR5E0W

That goes without saying.

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So true. Probably the best way to understand metaphysics is to read Otto Von Simpson's book on the philosophy of gothic cathedrals. Ars sine scientia ...

Sure, but I think sending someone who's asked about metaphysics to read Aristotle is nuts. Metaphysics is about the nature of reality. It's pretty sim...

Maybe so. I started with Bertrand Russell's book on the history of philosophy. He's engaging and really funny.

That's not what he was suggesting. He was disagreeing with Wayfarer that the best place to start is by reading Aristotle, which is perspective from tw...

That doesn't even make sense...

I agree. I think Kant constructs a system which is incompatible with solipsism. That's not the same as disproving it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/dS6w8v-ZZD0?si=bIx3qvjUn9GTRLpz

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I had a reality crisis when I was young where I realized I have no way to determine if what I'm experiencing is real. It wasn't armchair philosophy, i...

I think that's true sometimes. But I wouldn't necessarily line up foundationalism with religion. A naturalist is just as committed to an unjustifiable...

I didn't think what you were saying was relativist. :up: I think Quine did something similar. After explaining that there's no fact of the matter abou...

I understand what you're saying. But the opposing point of view goes back a long way. Plato has Socrates say that all philosophers long for death beca...

I think the statisticians would throw those data points out. Clark, you need to throw that joke out and start over.

Well, if you say belief in God and solipsism are metaphysically equivalent, it sounds like you're saying they contain the same metaphysical outlook. I...

Metaphysically? or do you mean epistemically?