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He's a misanthrope. He'll complain in any event.

It's indubitable, whether it has any use to you or not.

Your approach is odd. It's normal to bring something personal to interpretation, but it's not normal to edit a work based on your views.

I agree. Nobody's perfect.

I mean, you can read his biography. He was an amazing guy besides being a genius.

He's basically right. Descartes was a mathematician. The Church could dictate what math problems could be examined and which ones not. He was offering...

True.

True, although he seemed to be trying to hand the authority of reason to the church. He was obviously addressing his philosophical ideas to them. At t...

The cogito wasn't supposed to be some sort of positive pinnacle. It's the ground: the place where doubt stops. It's only a revelation to people who ha...

Eh, we're all in this together. There's nothing new under the sun.

Last year was nothing compared to what it could have been. Next organism might be much worse. COVID-19 was a lucky test run. Unfortunately we learned ...

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I see. Thank you for your service. :up:

He thinks liquidity is strong?

That's weak emergence, right? Consciousness would be strong.

Wow. Are you a ham radio operator?

I was thinking of antennas. In spite of antenna theory, which is science, antennas were often designed according to whatever worked. That's the differ...

Remember that a set is not a basket that contains things (ignore this if that's not what you meant) A set is supposedly an abstract object. Say you ha...

That's interesting. Knowledge of global warming had been around for decades before the world in general became interested. Which makes me wonder: what...

Considering that we'd probably need a global government and the ability to transition off of hydrocarbon fuel, that's some happy optimism you've got t...

Oh, so it's up to me to save them?

Nobody explained how the scientists are going to save the coral.

Could you explain the reason for rejecting radical emergence?

It could be about obedience or a foreshadowing of the crucifixion.

I think it's traditionally taken by Jews and Christians as an allegory. Fundamentalists take it literally. Yes. Things changed. Jesus was the sacrific...

So back in the day, if you went to war with your neighbor, you were pitting yourself against their gods. Nobody wants to have a philosophy professor f...

True.

I was suggesting that the original story may have been.

Genesis is clearly a mash-up old Sumerian stories. Maybe we just haven't found the original Abraham and Isaac story in the archeological record yet.

I've always figured the story of Abraham was meant to warn against human sacrifice. The Phoenicians were known for engaging in it (although some histo...

True.

Although, there are signs that the global population growth rate is going down. here That would solve a lot of problems. And it's largely due to scien...

The pregnant lady whose husband is in the ICU due to gun shot wound glances at the G-man at the desk waiting for his discharge. She doesn't care about...

Well, there you have it.

It's free anesthesia whose ingredients may include leeway around the issue of facts. That leeway is protected though. There's nothing you can do about...

Religion is also good.

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Cool. That's really two separate threads, though. 1) what Kant was doing with the apriori 2) IIT theory later.

It's what Odin learned when he drank from the well of wisdom. The medal was the hole in his face where he pulled out his right eye to pay the well kee...

Why would we assume a limit for human experience? Isn't it that noting the apriori status of knowledge of time and space seemed to indicate that those...

Yea, ok. I mispoke. I took Janus to be saying that if we talk about it, we're conjuring it, so it's not ineffable anymore. I was trying to explain tha...

FRONTLINE The Healthcare Divide FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the growing inequities in American healthcare exposed by COVID-19. The documentary exami...

You said: This notion that the idea of the in-itself is rendered valueless by virtue of its absence from ordinary conversation is an apparently clever...

Whether we could tell that we're evolving toward increased knowledge is a separate issue. The in-itself is not about ineffability. It's that we don't ...

I didn't suggest it is. I was asking about a gradient or spectrum. Is there some reason to rule that out?

I don't think that's actually a logical imperative. It's one solution to a problem.

But what if we evolved to be able to sense extra dimensions or some such. Could we get closer to knowing reality that way?

Why not get a regular sized donkey?

Some would argue that if "true" only serves a function in language use, it's just meaningless to try to nail down the truth-aptness of unverifiable st...

Makes sense