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Hume says the opposite.

I don't conceive of 'nothing' as lack. Nor would I say Hegel does.

I do not read it that way. "Absolute Knowing" is more a criticism of Kant's subjective idealism.

That would be Kant. Added: I do not read Hegel as saying the dialectic ends.

I certainly did not allege that.

I see.

Subjectivism is that the thinker determines what is real. Idealism is actually quite a rare philosophy, which is like Berkeley's claim that the physic...

That's subjectivism, not idealism.

I think it does. Why do you think otherwise?

Fine. But I do not consider science to tell philosophy what is real.

Some think philosophy is just stating opinions. They would not think that of physics, but think there is nothing to learn about philosophy.

Sounds fair.

So, time for God to flood again, eh?

Bye.

Philosophy is a shared enterprise. There is nothing wrong with writing things that are personal, but there still needs to be some shared vocabulary.

Philosophy should be rational.

Hegel does mention Buddhism in the chapter I quoted from. What is outside the universe? Nothing. I think that is a meaningful idea.

If you're fine, I am fine.

Good point. Making up words and concepts does not allow for philosophy.

I am not a huge fan of Heidegger but I think he makes a valid point, following Hegel, that we do talk about nothing or nothingness and it is not a mea...

Yes, your exposition is accurate. I think Hegel is correct to point out that, "Nothing comes from nothing," is true only if you privilege being as an ...

Which is the problem. I think Hegel makes a good point, that the negation of being is nonbeing, but that is a fallacy.

Thinking about nothing as an object.

Yes, a wrong definition.

I don't understand why metaphysics gives some people conniption fits. It is like arguing since we cannot determine what is always the right thing to d...

Humans are no more or less moral than anything else in the universe.

Does not matter one way or the other.

I value health; this is a natural need, and a value. I value philosophy--I do not have to.

Both.

No problem. I will just ignore you from now on.

How a debate over 'nothing' split Western philosophy apart "Nothing," it turns out, is really quite something. As in the concept of nothingness. So mu...

And no one who disputes you is allowed? Okay.

Or, thoughts in the mind of God. Another forum of idealism.

Oh.

Could you explain what that means?

Sorry, I do not understand what you're saying here.

Indeed.

Please state it.

I don't know what you mean by "prediction." Leibniz said nothing in the form of a prediction.

Not a prediction. He gave arguments. And he was correct.

Yes. Leibniz saw the incoherence of the idea of absolute time and space in Newton.

Why? Leibniz conceived the relativity of space and time about 200 years before Einstein showed the math.

What message?

Not a joke. A virus can spread by being near people.

Just as long as you never have contact with other humans.

No. Aristotle's Metaphysics (a word he never uses) is about first principles of philosophy--not "Human Nature."

I don't know why people start threads bashing philosophy.

Good. bye bye

Sounds FOX fake news.

Metaphysics is a popular specialty for philosophers at universities.