Well yes, but knowing that brain activity is neurons firing and all kinds of cellular activity simply does not tell me whether I should rule that Mrs ...
Hmmm, I always learned it that way and accepted it as a given it seems. I must have gotten it from somewhere because I was quite certain, but well pss...
Epistemology is usually classified as a sub branch of metaphysics. Metaphysics includes the nature of reality, ontology and the nature of knowledge, e...
Well, I side here with the people that make a distinction. Methodology, is the way one gets results i.e. the way one goes about investigating. Epistem...
No it does not, but it does not describe just willy-nilly. It is guided by questions that are considered to be important questions, that is the point....
The scientific method employed by physics is perhaps the most reliable way of pursuing new knowledge of the natural world, but I would not call it fun...
Yes, the question is, why not? Lawyers act as a bulwark against state power, one of the very few we have. They are generally opposed to censorship as ...
I picture NOS in court as a defense attorney in a war crime trial. Prosecutor: Did your client order his troops to train their guns on the innocent vi...
Yep, so there is no crime of instigation or conspiracy. A totally new take on criminal law by none other than our very own NOS4A2. Hmm, if it is all e...
I agree, but neither is puppies and chocolate chip cookies. At least, not when one is asking metaphysical questions. When you eat the chocolate chip c...
Welcome to the phenomenological school of thought! ;) I am not sure though. We do not interact with the ground structure of reality of a day to day ba...
Well, the 'new materialists' are concerned with 'more than human worlds'. It is actually about decentering human experience and human agency from meta...
We do not see the entanglement of existence. It is a judgment about what the real looks like; a conceptualization about the whole of existence is meta...
I am actually wondering if we are not seeing a new metaphysical turn. One indeed based around 'Quantum entanglement'. At least I discussed a book toda...
Nice one 180 proof. I never listened to it from that angle, but indeed. It makes me think of an interesting quasi theological concept: parousia, an al...
Essentially I agree with you. I see a number of tenets in your post that would be important when we want to change things, please correct and me and f...
I think you are right. The superman is not of this earth. It is a vision of the future, something that will be. What the passage indicates is that the...
I agree with you for a very large part. I guess the erosion happened before the onset of the Reagan/ thatcher years and maybe before the onset of the ...
I will not fault you for calling into question whether Mr. Rasputin was indeed involved with the Tsarina, but I take issue with your implication that ...
I think 'concept' is a more apt definition than 'metaphysical object'. Metaphysical object has connotations with 'objective' things like a soul, angel...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPZIG5BHD4 David Bowie's translation of the best song every written about my home town. Well one of the best written ...
Thanks Janus! Well, I do think that, even though the insight is minimal in this reading of Hegel, there is an insight nonetheless. In Hegel the new vi...
It sounds relevant enough to me, and relates to 180's proof's apophatic metaphysics, the thought of determining that there is always something 'more',...
Well, those and God, his son and what they might do to us, hell and damnation, often feature in swearwords. My hunch is that they are connected with b...
First off,, a noob question, how do you get this ? ? I have to use @ if I want to point to someone, but this is far more elegant... Anyway, yeah the M...
Hi @"Moliere" I am not an expert on the relationship between Hegel and Marx. I read a bit of Das Kapital. I think Marx is much more 'social' than Hege...
I do not now your age exactly, but culture is no monolithic entity. My mother is born directly after the second world war. She grew up in the 60s and ...
Here we see the dialectic in full flow. Wishing someone goodnight is at face value a happy wish. However, it also has the connotation something is ove...
Thanks @"Janus", for your wonderful summaries. :cool: :sparkle: I wanted to write something similar about the concept of 'aufhebung'. Being Dutch we h...
My analysis is not that this is 'Prussian', or maybe it is Americanized Prussianism. Such emphasis on 'targets', 'rules' and feedback is often linked ...
Ohhh I did not intend to be disrespectful, but I see now why it seemed that way. I apologize. We had discussions before and you also pointed me to som...
Nietzsche!!! :D The post does not say much. Nietzsche might be popular in the US but only in some circles, literary criticism, as a progenitor post mo...
What is the content of that bill? Waiting until 8th grade or something before talking about homosexuality? Well, that is simple, because it arbitraril...
Shooting a gun causes little more than moving a piece of lead... I do not see how that is relevant. Speech is an act, words are not actors and neither...
That is legally not quite sound. If I persuade someone to kill another human being I am held accountable for instigation, or maybe conspiracy. Words d...
I am not bashing him.... as many on this forum know I am a keen admirer of his thought. Indeed the analytical school lacks a historic eye. Not my prob...
In the passage he states that the consciousness of that real object (no disagreement there) is making the experience, not the material quality of the ...
I do not understand... was that a personal attack on my part? I did think Proof was right, and the section he quoted is apt, but that is not a persona...
I do not understand. What statement needs falsification? That science creates a map of what the world is like? Well, that statement is itself too impr...
Yes it is. Specialization I think. Maybe also the emancipation of both science and philosophy, in different ways, out of religious dogma. I think it i...
No, not at all. I think it is a good division of labour. Sciences maps what the world is like and philosophy brings to the fore the categorizations an...
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