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"I'm no Saint" --Zarathustra.

All life is bound together. You can't condemn your childhood without condemning yourself. It all had to be the way it was for you to be who you are. I...

I asked you honor a man's life, not the means of his death. The fact that you confused the two indicates to me that you have trouble distinguishing a ...

Everything that happens leaves traces. One dead soldier left a broken-hearted wife. Another dead soldier's family celebrated because he was an abusive...

Memorializing is sacred territory. Maybe some think of it as a place for condemning or worshiping icons. To me, it's about real people, so we try to d...

So you don't remember.

I'm not proposing that we judge judgment to be bad. I'm pointing out that too much judgment obscures one's vision and so is not conducive to remembran...

I've been reading a book by a leading authority on Homer. It's fascinating the way truth and fiction dance around one another in the words of a heroic...

That also sounds like some explanations of the hermeneutic circle. Is it the same thing?

:up:

I think WW1 was an effort on the part of the great powers of Europe to lower their collective unemployment rate. For the US, getting involved in it wa...

There wasn't a lot of war mongering going on prior to WW1. It was a bizarre event from beginning to end. I mean, if you're going to remember, how abou...

Between 1780 and 1975, about 800,000,000 silver Maria Theresa talers were minted, all bearing the date 1780.

I've wondered what this sense of time really is since, as you say, it's somewhat elastic. Maybe there is an emotional component to the perception of t...

Is mind-time different from real time?

There just isn't any logical argument that allows us to conclude that the world of the future will resemble the world of the past.

Are you sure that's a logical inference?

The usefulness of logic indicates what (about the logicalness of the world)? Or is that just a wrong question?

Idealism tends to get confusing when it comes to the question of what serves as the background if ideas are brought to the foreground. IOW, how do we ...

No inhibitions whatsoever. She just does what comes naturally. :)

James Comey talked about that in his book.

My dog said she was sniffing his butt.

I notice that no one believes logic is not innate. But explore that anyway; what if it's basically community norms?

Sure. Philosophical tradition says that innate knowledge is exercised into existence. If the circumstances for triggering a certain formation never ha...

Is logic part of the concept of world coherence?

thanks for that

No longer? What changed? I think logic can lead to the wrong answer: GIGO. But if logic is part of our make-up because it provides a survival advantag...

Giving an account of why logic is innate would be structured by logic. Is that a problem? Maybe it would be in some cases, but not all? I'm thinking o...

So if everyone could arrive at the same level of emotional maturity, we would all automatically have the ability to distinguish the logical from the i...

So you believe logic is innate?

A monistic materialist will have to show that the immaterial is an illusion. As you say, the immaterial is part of the concept of materiality, so the ...

Like what?

But then why do we teach students to detect illogical arguments?

How dysfunctional?

Media and form are two sides of one coin. I'm not sure about matter separating non-dimensional points. I've never heard of that.

I don't fear dictatorship. I don't think the species is quite ready for real democracy, in part because of the sentiment you expressed. But the gerrym...

Idealism is in the shadows only because the OP is using ancient idealistic language: Matter as the grand companion of Form. Add some phenomenology to ...

You're prescription is to counter subversion of democracy with more subversion? I think that just gets us to dictatorship sooner. Oh. Arkady just said...

It's also easy to dredge up a bloody era of American history with those words. That's why that black guy was staring at you. He was trying to figure o...

A person is the thinker, feeler, believer, actor. Thought has two poles: thinker and thought. Certainly seems so.

Yes. It's frustrating. Maybe they'll change it to popular vote sometime, although my history reading tells me that the US will change into a tyranny e...

Yea, there's a district line in my state that goes right down the middle of a majority black university. It dilutes the young black vote with whites. ...

Spelling rules are prescriptive. :brow: I'm struggling to get some concepts straight. I need more percolation. If you're associating a lack of logic w...

We talk about logic. It's possible to be wrong about what is logical, so does that imply a logic-to-word direction of fit?

Do you think logic, as a set of rules for language use, is descriptive or prescriptive? If it's possible to witness illogical language use, then it ha...

Love never fails.

I was built for love, baby.

That's me and my clones in the picture.

We usually don't try to fix things until it's already destroyed the neighborhood. We can get a collective freak-out going though. Did you see the PBS ...