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FirecrystalScribe

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I have to admit I fall into the camp that tends to dismiss 1960s French philosophy as a postmodernist dead end. Not because I'm hysterical about it, b...
June 26, 2025 at 21:58
I'm not as familiar with academic philosophy from the last 25 years, but if you look at the late 20th century, there are lots of examples of very crea...
June 26, 2025 at 14:32
In the quote I gave from Tillich he doesn't say anything about God being beyond comprehension or beyond knowing. And if you read the larger context of...
June 02, 2025 at 05:10
I'd like to try to ground this discussion by looking at what Tillich and others actually say about God, rather than oversimplifying their views as say...
June 01, 2025 at 12:36
In computer science an infinite stream is a data structure where you can pull off the front part of an infinite series. For example, you can have the ...
April 28, 2025 at 14:44
This topic makes me think about how for a long time analytic philosophy regarded language as the stuff out of which concepts are made. I was listening...
April 25, 2025 at 18:52
There is a nice mathematical way to cash our the intuition the original poster is gesturing towards. See The continuum as a final coalgebra shows that...
April 24, 2025 at 16:52