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Faust Fiore

['Member']Joined: May 29, 2022 at 23:28Last active: February 23, 2024 at 21:11None discussions8 comments

Favourite Philosopher

Ernst Werklempter

Favourite Quotations

"Screw the truth, before the truth screws you!" - Ernst Werklempter

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There are many fancy logical treatments of this paradox. The sentence does not express a statement that has a truth value, which means that it does no...
February 21, 2024 at 22:43
Metaphysics is the result of specific techniques. Like all philosophy, it is not a thing, but a process, an approach. It results from and requires a m...
February 18, 2024 at 17:07
The purpose of education is to describe and instill the values of the elders. Young people need a strong, self-conscious sense of what they are rebell...
June 13, 2022 at 00:11
Descartes did not doubt his existence because he was certain that God would not deceive him. He, in effect, said nothing.
June 11, 2022 at 17:26
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We really all believe that there are causes and effects. Only the philosopher can believe that, because some events are caused, that they all are. Tha...
June 10, 2022 at 22:17
You probably think I'm having a fit because I mistakenly used italics. I meant to emphasize only one word. I can assure you I am not, and was not, hav...
June 08, 2022 at 15:40
You read it wrong. I said that metaphysics is a misunderstanding of language. It requires equivocation of meaning or an error in abstraction, for exam...
June 08, 2022 at 05:04
Science is the isolation of observed variables. Philosophy is a special study of language. Metaphysics is a misunderstanding of language.
June 07, 2022 at 08:10