@"Joshs" Hi, I'm not sure if I understood this part correctly. I don't know if you're saying what it seems to me that you're effectively saying there....
Yes, this is what "transcendental nihilists" (I'm not accusing you of anything, BTW) usually reply to Object-Oriented Ontology. The usual retort is th...
Oh man, forgive me for saying this, but in the last page of this Thread, we really made a hard turn to Wonderland, didn't we? I mean, for a Thread cal...
Indeed. That is indeed what I seem to be arguing. And, here is my humble opinion on that: it's not a topic that's usually discussed in the literature,...
I believe he is saying more or less one of the things that I have been saying in another thread: not everything is possible, not even at the level of ...
Hmmm... ... there is a working theory today, which you have told me that you know, and which you do not accept: OOO. From the POV of OOO, there is a "...
But in Wuxing those are not all of the same elements. In Wuxing, the five elements are: Fire, Water, Wood, Metal, and Earth. The set of elements that ...
I kindly suggest that you imagine these two quotes as if both of them were directed to yourself, by yourself. Then you will understand that you are in...
Well, not to brag, but in one of my novels, I have invented a fictional character who I call "The Antarctic Hegel". As in, this is a character who is ...
Why did you mention the Stoics there, and why did you not mention Epicurus? He was not a Stoic. Epicurean philosophy (Epicurean-ism) is not the same a...
You are welcome, you have no need to thank me. I, in fact, thank you, for allowing me to communicate with you. As I have said elsewhere, I am not a no...
A summary of what we're discussing, in the context of a Thread called "How can one know the ultimate truth about reality?" That's a tall order. I mean...
Life, as biologists understand the term, is a list of criteria that any entity has to have, in other for it to be alive. Among those criteria, the mos...
That example is easy to solve, from a Metaphysical POV: the dragon in that video is not alive. So, it's not fully representative of what I said. I sai...
I apologize. These discussions have to do with my profession (philosophy), and I studied at Academia, and I work in Academia. It is only natural for m...
Then I challenge the latter camp to explain to me, in Plain and Simple English, what this phrase means (these are Heidegger's literal words BTW): rema...
Yes. That is correct. Only material objects have the property of existence. Ideal objects do not have that property. So, ideal objects do not exist. A...
Then the remedy for that is to learn some Game Theory. That, just for starters. They would have to learn other topics as well. No, it does not. I can ...
In my humble opinion, to argue that is to argue about the rules of language themselves. It's a pointless discussion. Imagine if a soccer player began ...
In my humble opinion (I could be wrong), this is what Hesiod called Xaos, and what Heidegger called "Being". This, in my humble opinion, is the idea o...
I honestly don't think that it would depend on what the definition of what the word "demon" means, or even what a demon is in the sense of vulgar idea...
It seems to me that on the topic of the impossibility of permanently satisfying desire, there is an important parallel with the philosophy of Epicurus...
Which is precisely why OOO doesn't even remove it to begin with. It just declares that such essences or quiddities are unknowable, and necessarily so....
Then what did you want to refer to by 'elements'? And you are free to not want to draw an analogy. What does that have to do with anything in a Thread...
All of this can be explained from the POV of Object Oriented Ontology, IMHO. Yes, indeed, it is an equivocation, and to equivocate, in that sense, is ...
I'm not sure that I can do that. The whole point of the OP is that this is "uncharted territory", so to speak. Think of it like an actual geographical...
In Wuxing (Chinese philosophy), there are five elements: Fire, Water, Wood, Metal, and Earth. The classic four elements from ancient Greece are: Water...
Another way to phrase this, if I understood your suggestion correctly, @"Janus": 1st Premise) One follows Man only if one follows the Earth. 2nd Premi...
Yeah, that part of Hegel's thought is pseudoscience. This part of Hegel's thought is also pseudoscience. Because he's wrong about that. History will e...
What do you mean? Is that a reference to the hard problem of consciousness and the metaphysics of qualia, as David Chalmers understands it? Or do you ...
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. It's The Absolute in the Hegelian sense. That, is the ultimate truth about reality. And that answers the OP of th...
So what? Who cares? It's not a big deal, to anyone. Not even to Bungeans, and I'm one of them myself. And so am I. And, I am not Mario Bunge. I'm allo...
I think not, pistis and dianoia are pseudo-scientific concepts. They had their day, let them rest. When a science lives long enough, it turns into a p...
You just described my attitude as "lumpen materialist". So if I'm literally a lumpen materialist, why should I even tackle that case? I am a lumpen af...
Ok. The final Verse of Chapter 25 of the Tao Te Ching, in my honest opinion, literally means the following: First premise) If one follows Man, then on...
This thread is titled " How can one know the ultimate truth about reality?" The title itself is the question of the Thread, and of the Original Post i...
Ok, do you have a moment, then? I could explain it to you, but it's just my point of view. It has errors, I'm sure of it. But it's not without merit, ...
But you see, this is something else that I've been "secretly" arguing about, in other Threads. You know what it feels like? It feels exactly like this...
@"Bob Ross" would you be so kind as to weigh in with your honest opinion, here? In your honest opinion, who is right in this discussion, @"Janus" or m...
They are. Those appeals, I mean. Technically speaking (since we love debating "the semantics of the rules" so much). They're fallacies. I'm not a Thom...
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