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Here's my adjustment. Metaphysical Solipsism : 'true' only by contingent, encrusted, congealed habits in our blabbering Methodological Solipsism : a g...

Fair enough. Are you influenced by Empedocles?

You made me laugh, friend.

I think a softer version of @"Wayfarer"'s point would be something like: our world is intelligible. We can talk about stuff. Our physical theories the...

I'd change this to 'with equal wrong.' 'Mound' and 'mutter' are two sleights of the same con.

You did not actually quote an argument. One of the more famous challenges to math platonism is the question of which set theoretic construction of the...

Thanks! I can relate to where you are coming from. 'No finite thing has genuine being' suggests a similar point to me. Our signs form an interdependen...

I've also pondered the map-territory distinction as part of the map (which deconstructs the distinction.) A softer version interprets the 'territory' ...

Could you elaborate?

I think this also fits with what is perhaps my own misreading of 'the real is rational and the rational is real.' Our shared lifeworld is structured b...

Good reply. Some might question whether eternal beings are sufficiently intelligible. And the existence of these eternal gods seems to function in you...

Cool. I look forward to checking that story out.

Yes. So the more standard pieces are essential to the ghost king. I wouldn't say it is. It plays on the idea of incarnation or possession. I had anoth...

To me a good question is what does it mean to know what a text means? I'd say it's something like weaving it in to the dominant background text of the...

A classic objection to this approach is to ask where the gods come from. If stupid physical laws need a creator, why not those more-complex creators? ...

Well said. For me a big difference between a theological speculation and a scientific hypothesis is that I expect the latter to offer me a map from un...

The brilliance of the theory of evolution is that it makes the emergence of complexity and intelligence from the simple and unintelligent surprisingly...

There's a huge family of chess like games. I toyed with my own variants (still do at times.) Some pieces, like the |||, could only move through other ...

So traditional metaphysics is comparable with physics, biology, and mathematics ? Why not mention astrology, phrenology, and numerology ? Why not theo...

Excellent quote of Derrida, sir.

Let's not forget the intense mentalistic bias of forum philosophers who won't/can't ingest any criticisms thereof, attached for the usual reasons to g...

That kind of comment, like Gloria's famous knife, cuts both ways. Those who are not inclined toward making the effort to understand criticisms of trad...

It does, but I was going for |||. It's a symbol I used for a piece in a chess-like game I once made up.

I'll follow you down this path. It's maps all the way down. 'No finite thing has genuine being,' because the bubbles of our pragmatic babble are syste...

No, I've seen glossolalia, and there's no software for translating it.

Thank you!

The 'objective domain' is perhaps best understood as that realm about which we can reliably make objective (unbiased) claims. Noumena (things in thems...

I see the distinction too, which like most distinctions has its use. 'Rational beings' is presumably reserved for humans? No doubt we are spectacular,...

This is the 'substance abuse' of mutterphysics I mentioned previously (we are too easily imprisoned by our own grammar.) Why indivisible and how mater...

Nice! That inspires this hypothesis: We zijn vlekken in de luiers van drooling reuzen.

Indeed! Another story I've heard (perhaps the most believable of kosmic very tails) is: De wereld schiet uit de schreeuwende anus van Jezus Christus. ...

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I'm laughing too. I love that you took that in the proper spirit.

All anyone really needs is a traffic cone, a bicycle chain, and a pound of unsalted butter.

Look thou in thy wicked Darwinian heart where Jesus guzzles kerosine on a throne made of chocolate and fingernail clippings.

Oh, yes, that's correct. The software is pretty impressive, especially considering that it's just a mountain of statistics in its guts. That's how ord...

How so? Oh, I missed what you're referring to it seems.

I only retranslated the one I wrote. I don't see any that you've written so far.

So your view is that some kind of intelligence had to make this shit, but you don't know/care exactly what kind? And you aren't religious? I really ju...

??? ????. ?? ?????? ???? ?? ???? ???????? ??????? In translating that back to English, I noticed that 'figured' became 'count.' Otherwise it's the sam...

Kastrup is interesting. I've tried to make a similar point. The temptation is to look 'behind' some kind of 'peel.' To me this starts well and goes wr...

Have you considered the atheist objection that the deities of popular religions are not plausible (for ethical reasons among others) ? Are you more co...

Expecting a het is goed om thuis te zijn from @"EugeneW", who denkt dat atheïsme een fart is ?

It matters tho if one switches from 'mind' to 'language,' especially if one is supposed to be engaged upon a super-seance of that aforesaid mind. Noth...

You mention Logos, and I very much relate to a softened version of that. I love Hegel for emphasizing that philosophy is a conversation that triumphs ...

Note that in the original it's not 'acid' but 'as it,' which is meant to stress old metaphors dissolving or being repositioned by new ones or, more ge...

OK, that helps. I can't speak for others, but here's my 'moderate' version of what's (to me) an atheistic scientific worldview: we mostly don't know w...

Here's one more quote from the Blue Book. It's along the lines of questioning the single ego habit and the tale of that grand ol' penisolated ghost.

Here's a quote from Wittgenstein's Blue Book which seems relevant. Part of this suggests to me that good philosophy is often offensively 'unintelligib...