Tobias

I can relate to your experience. I have been a student once too and it happened to me as well. It makes one feel annoyed maybe, but on closer inspecti...

We will talk again after you have presented something of interest on the subject at hand.

What makes you doubt that? You are basically asking questions all the time, so you seek answers, no? I guess you are thinking of yourself as some sort...

I am sorry but I wish you would do the mental jogging yourself. I am not a free philosophy teacher. Read up on it and try to understand what I write i...

Well, it is Hegel's idea that every definition runs into problems as it engenders its own opposition when taken to the extreme, so any definition will...

Well I found the section Proof quoted quite convincing. Funny thing is I thought about just that section when I read the discussion, though I would ha...

Proof is right I think Jackson, ultimately Hegel holds that what we can consider as 'world' is ideal. You are right in a way too though (in true diale...

Hegel was an idealist in the sense that Hegel's though essentially deals with the conceptual and the conceptual apparatus we have of the world essenti...

I am sure you can actually, in the whole post you did :smile: The funny thing is I have no idea whether it is correct or even what you are saying. Tha...

I am not saying they are not interesting or fascinating, or enlightening. I did not find what I was looking, but maybe we were looking for different t...

I am curious how did things turn out with him? I googled him and could not find much. I found a site in which he was quoted and it was said that he at...

No you said scientific based concepts and you provided those three as an example. Little did I know you think there are only three sciences in the wor...

You want to create 'big pictures' based on scientific theory. Well go ahead study cultural sociology, or macro economics or big history. They are alre...

yes but how likely is it really that you are? That is what you have to wonder about. You might feel like A, but if you hear B all the time, you might ...

Seems odd....Some people are more prone to hallucination than others, sure, but the chance of having 5 prone is smaller than one prone. I think you do...

Yes, it is possible, but so can some individual be hallucinating. What is more likely, 5 knowledgeable people hallucinating altogether or 1?

They could be. But because they went through rigorous peer review the chance is lower than your average garden variety theory thought up by whoever.

The interesting thing is that in the previous thread you argued for the independent thinker. However here, what you really seem to want is to limit ph...

I have given you all I could give. Indeed I do not know how to respond to you. You have an opinion, an unwavering one, so what can I do? You indeed do...

In your wonderful, unreasoned, unsubstantiated, detached from the world, entirely independently found opinion. Well, since it is unwavering I wonder w...

No I am telling you they work in unison, probably in a network of equally strong minds, probably now attending a serious philosophy conference. They h...

Indeed! Huh? You are confusing 'a philosophy', a popular, but meaningless usage of the term, with 'philosophy', a certain discipline relating to quest...

Wins what? A philosophical argument? Not at all. This just shows you are pretty hopeless at philosophy.

Philosophy is different from the currently popular but vapid 'having my own philosophy'. It is just a fancy word for 'opinion' in this case.

Philosophy structures thinking. When they start doing philosophy they will do it philosophically. Philosophy also does not have one methodology, gener...

Well, in my opinion they would probably produce less good philosophy. They have at their disposal the philosophical works, but not the training in phi...

I have no idea why he didn't. I have no idea about physics, so what you say here is right over my head. The question whether Einstein did everything b...

He might be such a genius, though I would have to know something about Einstein's biography and I really do not. I do know that at 22 he became a phys...

No it is not perfect indeed... that is why I do understand. The scientists and engineers are not independent of each other. The ones leaving the horse...

At least you are honest, that is more than most. There are two options. One you are a genius and you have figured out something that other amateurs bu...

What happened afterwards?

And I suspect you have published your critique of his work in a physics journal? No geniuses can be wrong, also people with exceptional intellect can ...

No we aren't. A genius is someone of superior intellect or creativity. We can't all be superior, so no we are not all geniuses. As well as talent. Som...

Great and that proves what? I looked him up Erik Verlinde is a prof at the University of Amsterdam. The first publication is this one: "Brouwer, M. M....

Why do you think you are capable of making this judgment about others? Not at all. Scientific progress is made in a community, by discussion with othe...

Well than the bat gods be sound... (I do advice you to refrain from eating more mushrooms).

Bats do not believe in God at least not as far as we know. We believe in God and so picture him in our own terms.

According to Hegel in the Zoroastrian vision God and light were the same. He speaks of 'Lichtwesen', a figure totally unarticulated, only present as l...

How does one do the exploration without relying on stories or explanations from those who came before? Who would be the better shoe maker, those who l...

Just a thumbs up from me. A great threat and analysis and I would love to jump in, but I am unfortunately too short of time to focus on the really ser...

I do need to point out that the correct names are Hegel and Nietzsche... Those philosophers were never very popular in the US actually. Nietzsche bore...

So you agree that God needs to be perfect? The argument is flawed though because perfection is not connected to anything perceivable. Whether you can ...

Only a fraction of all cases brought before the judiciary are criminal cases...

Bollocks. It is not inherent in the definition of the greatest man to exist. It is on the definition of god. the reason being that the greatest man ne...

This looks about right to me... These five categories are all aspects of what a thing is, not just what it accidentally is, but what it essentially is...

It is not at all miscellaneous. There are different schools of thought with a different definition of the object. At the fringes there will be there w...

We are not far off. The difference is one of nuance. I agree with everything here except that I think the last sentence paints a too simple picture. I...

I think we are actually not very far off. My original comment which you reacted to was that "we need fantasy and imagination too to establish our crit...

No, because empirical observation does not come out of nowehere. One needs concepts and categories to give meaning to observation. Therefore, instead ...

I do not dispute this at all. What I dispute your metaphysical jump to an accurate picture of reality. I do not mind the assertion that empircal findi...