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Okay. And what does that have to do with method?

What is the "basis of all methods?"

Later.

Sorry, wiki is for losers. tired of people using wiki and dictionaries to discuss philosophy

Leibniz asked why is there something, then argues because God.

Or, nothing exists in the same way something exists.

Yes, why should we expect there to be a universe. There just is.

wow

wow, wiki.

Hearings tonight were damning. Trump should be afraid to walk out in public.

The very idea of the rift is skepticism.

What proof can you provide of your knowledge?

ok

Then why does the brain think about more than survival?

Or, that proposition is false.

I find the whole idea of cognitive bias unconvincing. Even if it is true, so what?

I won't be reading your posts.

An obvious point, to anyone who read Plato.

I am a philosopher and discussing ideas. I suggest you stop making personal attacks.

Goodbye.

I have no idea what that meant.

Written language is different from spoken language. I don't see anything interesting about Derrida's observation.

I don't think Saussure was referring only to spoken language.

Derrida's idea that "presence" is the prevailing idea in Western philosophy is false. It barely makes sense. And, Socrates says speech is superior to ...

That is not true. One of the weaker claims by Derrida.

How is it similar to Brandom?

Sounds right.

Already done by Hume, who I said, was not a skeptic in the contemporary sense.

And plumbing

You are the only one making personal attacks on this thread. I will not reply to another ad hominem attack.

Don't be rude.

Kant is a sceptic. The thing in itself is the structure of scepticism.

Yes.

I have seen many informed discussions about Derrida on this thread.

Correct.

That is what I think, yes.

Makes sense to me.

"But here it may be objected,that the imagination, according to my own confession, being the ultimate judge of all systems of philosophy," Hume, Treat...

Okay, then.

'Here is what I think. Here are the reasons.' Basically what philosophy is.

My definition of skepticism: The knowledge we seek cannot be had.

I read philosophy to maximize the meaning of the text, and to see how it helps my own understanding. To me--and it is in the Treatise--Hume solves the...

The irony is that Hume calls himself a skeptic but I think he is providing a solution to skepticism. Hume is critical of the later Kantian "thing in i...

I think for Hume there really is not that necessity. It is not just about human experience.

Okay, I experience the world. Good so far.

Okay. I never experienced the world as a fact. Not even sure what it means. Reminds me of the 'myth of the given,' by Sellars.

This needs to be explained. I do not know what this means.

I do not know why you're asking me about Husserl, nor do I know what quote you're referring to. But, okay, I'm game.

Hume refers to causation as "constant correspondence." He denies the concept of necessary connection.

In the early 1970's it was common to teach critical thinking. It seems that concept was dropped.