Here is the Tao that can be told, and it shows the eternal Tao (the Tao that cannot be told) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Yin_a...
Who says that it's just poetry? It can be science instead. Be cooperative, instead of intentionally trying to cause a disturbance in this Thread. I am...
Are you sure about that? It sounds to me that one can speak "around" it, one can allude to it, indirectly. Because it reveals itself to you, in a non-...
Hmmm... Nature = "what is natural". From the following: 1) Tao = great. 2) If Tao = Nature, then: 3) Nature = great. However, 4) "The Tao that can be ...
@"Wayfarer", @"T Clark", what does the following phrase mean: "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao." It's the exact same words in the two ...
Hmmm... Ok, I will cite another English version of chapter 25, because it is the best that I can do, under these circumstances, which I cannot transce...
No one is arguing the contrary. You're accusing me of something, and I don't even know what you're accusing me of, to begin with. But it doesn't matte...
Here's a recent metal band that I think is quite good, they have that jazzy, avant-garde thing going on, like a few bands before them (think Atheist, ...
I believe that is because we, the public, are also trying to think through this problem under complicated conditions, because we don't have all of the...
No one has. Indeed. Think of that, this way: everyone involved in that problem is operating with partial information. No actor there has complete info...
@"Bob Ross" why are you even advancing a new "Thomistic" argument, if Thomas Aquinas himself already advanced five? So what if they're meant for the l...
Yes, it is. Chinese culture is a Warrior culture to the core. We cannot understand it because, in that sense, we are barbarians compared to them. The ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTayLS2rWMs EDIT: EDIT 2: EDIT 3: Who is to say that the King is not instead Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, the ...
The Primitive Customs of the Hummingbird Our Father, the Absolute First created himself from the primordial darkness. He created the divine soles of h...
And how are we, here, different from laymen? One does not cease to be a layman when one philosophizes, as much as one would like to believe the contra...
They don't like me. They translated one of my papers on Meillassoux and Badiou, and they laughed at what I said. And what's even worse is that they sa...
Yes, I'm familiar with his work, I had to study it at the Uni, it was part of the curricula. I don't agree with Eliade's views. I'm more sympathetic t...
The King is one of them. Who is to say that the King is not the Great Chinggis Khaan? Knees be knelt and heads be bowed, if the Great (Tao) Chinggis K...
I agree, 100%. I tend to associate this passage with what Hesiod says in his Theogony about Xaos (Chaos). I also relate it to the Primitive Customs of...
Is it? Perhaps it is the real world instead. Perhaps Nature is Reality Itself. Tao (Greatness) is simply a manifestation of Nature. The preceding vers...
Well, look at it from a methodological POV: if you have no substances in your ontology, what element is doing the work that the classical substances a...
Bob, I say this with no disrespect, I don't even understand what's Thomistic about your argument to begin with. Thomas Aquinas famously stated five ar...
I can respect that. You disagree with substances on a conceptual level, because they have no methodological role to play in your ontology. In other wo...
@"Wayfarer" you are formally and officially invited to state your opinion on such matters. As everyone is. EDIT: @"Moliere" this might interest you, g...
Being Tao, Greatness itself flows It flows far away. Having gone far, Greatness itself returns. EDIT: The audiovisual material for this comment is the...
You can do what I do: just accept substances. It's like, you're not going to turn into a fascist just because you have a concept of substance in your ...
Sounds like a smart thing to say. I'm not sure that I agree with it, but OK. But the point of Moore's argument is that he has two hands. Solipsism say...
Exactly. No, it does not. Unless, of course, you wish to distinguish conceptual existence from real existence, and to treat each as a different first-...
But these problems are not exclusive to Object-Oriented Ontology, they also arise in the analytic metaphysics of Ordinary Objects. And they also arise...
The word "scientism" originally had a negative connotation, and then some people (like Mario Bunge) started using it in a positive sense. For example,...
Kant also predates Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose Transcendentalism is far beyond anything that Kant could ever dream. The way I see it, a Kantian thing-i...
Did you read Eco's Kant and the Platypus? I think that Eco says nonsense sometimes. Terminator 2, essentially. Skynet, and all that. Ok, so who is Sar...
If I were to phrase my argument differently, I would ask @"Bob Ross" the following questions: do you really need 40 odd premises to begin with? It's n...
I agree, which is why I said this: A simple syllogism that aims to prove that God exists is much, much more difficult to formulate than an argument th...
My sentiments on Harman's philosophy (and he knows this himself, since we've been exchanging emails for almost 10 years now) are mixed, precisely beca...
And I'm using real-world counter-examples to prove that they don't. Numbers are fictions, and no fictions have causal efficacy. If you want to say tha...
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