Arcane Sandwich

If that's the import, then what's the export? What does it "get out of it", in economic and/or thermodynamic terms, and/or systemic terms?

Yes, that is a High attitude, and justly so, rightly so. Objectively speaking, of course.

Yes, Dialectics is a pseudoscientific concept that some people have utilized for Evil. And yes, I said what I just said. For there is Evil in the worl...

And yes, I said what I said, even grammatically. I will not edit that part.

@"Wayfarer" my Internet connection is not "cooperating" with me right now, so I'm on another device right now. It might be a fallacy, though. If so, i...

I don't know, friend. It sounds to me like you just said something important, right there. Why do you seem to be so "secretive" about it?

And yet we try to be. To be very far from barbarism in that sense, because that is the Ethical thing to do. We can Romanticize barbarism itself, but t...

Would the following part qualify as the agenda? Then you say: Of course I did. I'm glad that you complied with that request. And all that I am humbly ...

Yes, that is exactly what is going on. This discussion that we're all having here, ever since the Thread started, is an attempt to clarify what is unp...

I mean, that's a bit of a brutal assumption to make in the first place, Bob. I don't have an agenda to begin with. Why would you assume that I have "a...

Yes, it is. But, like North Americans like to say, "that's an opinion, not a fact". And all I'm saying is: "no, mate, that's not an opinion. That is i...

Bob. Honest question. How could I even do that, if the topic of the OP is literally unexplored, at least in a purely bibliographical sense?

Sure, but I don't even have a position to begin with, that's the problem that I've been alluding to. There isn't much work that's already been done in...

And that is fair. That you make such a judgement. It is fair. No Bob, please don't do that. You just said that my OP is unphilosophical, and I said th...

I'm not going anywhere with it, I'm just trying to see if we can reach a common understanding, by slightly enforcing the rules of language. If not, th...

Even if that's true, it does not follow from there that the diplomacy of nations with "gun boats", as you call them, would be more dignified. And yeah...

Sure. Sean Connery wouldn't have acted in it otherwise (or at least I would hope not). I'm really not that passionate about Eco myself. In fact, I am ...

And then it became even more complicated during the Cold War, in which there were several "subset wars", if you will, such as the Vietnam War, for exa...

This theme is something similar to what Umberto Eco intended to portray in his novel The Name of the Rose. A very interesting book, but very difficult...

Hi, allow me to say something about that: there is a sense in which we should not mix up two very different meaning of the very word "part", for it ha...

This is the "wrong part", in my opinion. Just look at the sentence: it's not even grammatical to begin with. Look at that part in the middle, it liter...

Hello, Good Day to Everyone. I will join this discussion at this point, if you don't mind. Let's attempt to leave aside the formalities as much as pos...

Forgive me, I became "lost at this point", so to speak. I sincerely believe (and I might be wrong) that memories are individual. You say "so called". ...

Not quite, at least not if one is not a reductionist, and that is precisely the case of Mario Bunge, for example. He's not the only one to think that,...

You're welcome. And yes, you're free to disagree with the point totally, as you say. That is what Metaphysics is all about (well, that's what Philosop...

Hmmm... You know, that's actually a really good philosophical point that you just made there. By Gods, mate, I've never even thought of it that way. I...

Thank you very much once again, @"ToothyMaw". I'm not that familiar with the work of Peter Singer. I know of him, but I have not read any of his works...

I agree with it, of course. Why? Because consciousness is of the elements of subjectivity. And the world is what is not the subject: it is objectivity...

Ah, but you see, that is the "magical" part of Cosmological Platonism: you don't even need ground to begin with, because the Idea of Good (in that sys...

Then I'll just share my own Philosophy of Mathematics with you all, since I have not done that so far (oddly enough, not one of you even stopped to re...

Thank you very much Tom Storm, I do indeed know how "to muse", in the verb-sense of the term. As in, I am familiar with the human art of music, which ...

Unless there is a good that is non-relative to a set of circumstances. Such a good would be, in that sense, an absolute good, as opposed to a mere rel...

If there is a "Them", then there is an "Us". That, presents itself as different options. Hypothetically: Option 1) Us vs Them Option 2) Them vs Us Opt...

The world of Iron Maiden, you mean? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxnN05vOuSM

"We" as in "who"? The individual members of the species Homo sapiens?

What a Beautiful statement. I mean that Aesthetically, and only in that sense (the aesthetic sense of the term, not the Aesthetic sense of the "word")...

What at odd thing to say. "Hume Guillotine"? Sounds grotesque. Yet I digress. Allow me to ask you this: what is the Kantian Thing In Itself? Have you ...

Yes, IF you have one unit. It does not follow that you do have one unit to begin with. Think of it like the three positions in the Analytic Metaphysic...

Friends, if I may: There is evidently an elephant in the room, and no one is clearly addressing it. Perhaps because you find it somehow awkward (I don...

Hello @"Wayfarer", How are you? Just writing to ask you politely if you've found the time to consider my latest argument, above. All the best, -Arcane...

This is an excellent point. I would even add: when someone plays a game of chess, it would be wrong to think that the chess-player is executing monarc...

Hey Bob, I didn't want to leave you hanging on this one. Here's the answer to this specific question, since it's a good question. An argument can be f...

Hmmm... I think that's false (Hi, excuse me, if I'm allowed to give an opinion as objectively and respectfully as possible) Of course it sounds odd. T...

Thank you very much for your time, Mapping the Medium. I'm out. Peace.

I've always had the impression that the phaneroscopist does something different than what the phenomenologist does. It's quite obvious that they are n...

Hmmm... do I agree with this? No, I think not. That is not what reality is. Reality is the Absolute, in the Hegelian sense of the term. Would they req...

Hmmm... could be. However, you also said this: So let me see if I'm following your lead, here. You're saying, that the OP is unphilosophical. You also...

Well, not quite, you see, because you speak the English language, which has a common etymology with Medieval German. I'll give you one example: Hegel ...

Hi @"ToothyMaw", thanks for your continued participation in this Thread. It is much appreciated. It brings me great joy to read those lines. Philosoph...

No, it does not. DNA, RNA, and body cells already existed before they were discovered. And so did people, and those people were indeed alive, because ...