Hume somehow managed to rip everything apart, tearing everything to shreds, while leaving everything untouched. We can't know the cup is there, so the...
I guess I don't see math as separate from the mapping process in the equation 'math properly mapped=reality.' My equation would be 'a mind mapping=the...
Cuts right to the core of something that we all assume has to be a core, namely math. On the one hand: But on the other hand, maybe: First of all, it ...
I don't think there are forms, floating in an eternal world of the forms, objectified for us to know (by recollection or experience of participating t...
The principal seems to be "Inaction in the face of another one's immorality implicates one in the other one's immorality." If the principal is "inacti...
"The word perfect is used in various ways.." This sounds like subjectivity is at play. "...it just means..." This sounds like objectivity is at play. ...
What's the perfect definition of "perfect"? Wouldn't the perfect definition of perfect, simply be, the definition of perfect? Just the definition of p...
Completely agree with that. Enforcing moral responsibility is an individual by individual thing. So practically speaking if we held whole citizenry re...
I read the article. I certainly get how this discussion needs to be analytical to be precise, but I am not fluent enough in the symbolic language to k...
Holding Trump responsible for insurrection day and trying to topple him through the courts (for now) is holding a leader responsible for actions of th...
It's a good question. Short answer, no. In fact, I would say it would be easier to say a leader is responsible for the crimes of his/her citizens even...
I can't answer that yes or no. I don't believe in aliens, if by believe in, you mean that I think aliens exist even though there is only unexplained p...
Dostoevsky isn't writing criminal statutes. He's talking about conscience, or the internal act of taking responsibility. If we put this in practice, t...
By this reasoning, everyone is responsible for everything. We are all now implicated in all criminal activity we ever heard of but are right now faili...
Isn't the set of all sets equivalent to the set of all members? There aren't actually any sets within the set of all sets. There are only members. For...
How about, it is an objectified version of subjective experience. I agree. Although I would change "presupposition" to simply "assertion." And would a...
Reminds me of "If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there, does it make a sound?" which is Berkeley. But without the context that could take you...
So this conversation, between two brains, conveying the idea of Universal Form, is itself two instances of Brain; (insert appropriate mental/non-physi...
If you describe the human being as a non-physical spirit with a body, the physicalist must say that the thing being identified as a non-physical "spir...
You said: "All is derived from physical matter." Physical matter here being the brain, in this form (for example): Brain; (non-physicals). Where "non-...
"Who are you to choose which mass extinction event is good and which is bad? How dare you fight climate change! How dare you!" Said the three billion ...
So would you say matter is a substance, and motion, space and time are relations between material substances? Or is motion more substantial than relat...
We need a microscope to take measure of tiny things. We need time to take measure of change. You said "Time is needed for any change." It sounded like...
Watch Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Comedians talking about what is funny, how they construct a funny bit. You see them trying ou...
The raw phenomenal experience is of a spatiotemporal world with things relating to things. Whether this phenomenon is informed directly by things in t...
I do think we are speeding way ahead of ourselves with our technology and invention. We have things we have no idea how to use yet - we're like little...
Yes. But a set, by definition, cannot contain itself. The set is the act of containing. The set doesn't come to be until something else (members) are ...
"Time is needed for any change." Although "time" is treated as a substance here, and "change" is really the question here, I can grant this premise. I...
I agree something from nothing is impossible to depict, to logically assert, to know about or conceive of. But I don't agree we can posit "time" as if...
Your own conclusion is the answer to this question. If all sets are contained in the set of all sets (that are not members of themselves and nothing m...
Hard to analogize completely unique things like a fetus (lump of flesh that can become a person), or a pregnancy (now put the lump of flesh that becom...
I greatly appreciate the concise, stark gauntlet you've laid down. I'd rather not be forced to play the adversary and refute your words, but in your s...
I have read Wittgenstein. I think Wittgenstein would agree with me that it is hard to say whether anything I took from him is what he meant. I agree t...
I realized another way to put these nebulous thoughts. You know when your sunglasses are on your head, and you are running out the door, gathering you...
I never really understood how anyone could pick one philosopher out as the most...anything. Most of them (us) admit the basic conclusion is that they ...
Maybe philosophy is paradigm recognition. The search for the paradigm. Thales said to his buddy "See that tree over there?" And his buddy said "yeah, ...
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