Tobias

To my shame I must say that I know too little of Dreydegger to really comment but from what I do remember it does sound similar. The wiki quote is als...

indeed, that is what I responded above. No, if we would have no ability to discern change from sameness it would not happen. Just like there is no col...

I do not understand. It certainly notices difference or it would eat everything, but it does not. It does not articulate the difference. Indeed, dogs ...

I guess a dog's brain is hard wired too yes. Actually in dogs we tend to find it much easier to believe and call it ' instinct'. What a dog does not h...

"How can I save my little boy, from Oppenheimer's deadly toy" Russians - Sting I think unadulterated 'fun', aka love, lays at the heart of our being i...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HdK12rj5Nw "Secret Side" - Nico

The lost soul. I have missed the night bus, now I am here.... Back here, actually, to dwell.

The problem, the way I see it at least, is that both are dependent on each other. Thinking ' is' , certainly, We encounter it among all kinds of pheno...

Probably, I am just way more old fashioned. It never was in my curriculum. If anything I subscribe to a perspectivist or constructivist world view. In...

I had to google her... I do not think she would take kindly to my steak loving ways. I take more to Donna Harraway and Simone de Beauvoir. I should al...

Well if there is a beginning to reality, there must have been a state that is defined as 'unreality', coming before reality came into being. However, ...

Does me referring the question to a certain type of analysis say anything about my metaphysical commitments? But no, I am not a metaphysical naturalis...

I do not think so. Neither is law, art or construction. However, there is philosophy of art, philosophy of physics (a sub branch of philosophy of scie...

Hey! I happen to call that having a life!

There must be a 'The Physics Forum' where such issues are vehemently discussed.

Because of my line of work I am offered a PhD thesis, nicely bound and printed, quite often. They are usually an uneventful read, not limited to and m...

I do not hold reality as the sum of all things, it is exactly the opposite I would say. Rasmussen, the author of the paradox seems to hold that idea. ...

Well I would not know how you can perceive 'difference' without a mind wired to see 'difference'. It is also very binary, right, it is the same thing ...

Well, I wonder why I have to accept that the territory is real and somehow the map is not. The whole distinction is a map making exercise, done in ord...

Well they have to, unless you want to go back to pre-kantian days. We need the category of difference to account to perceive things as different to be...

Well, it would take a book probably and I am not going to venture it. Wars of course are fought over resources, however there is always more to it tha...

Do not be condescending or tell me what I should be doing. It is impolite. Yes of course there are. No one took germs and viruses into account before....

Yes, but being equally presupposes thinking. When I say something is, it means it is at issue for me. A rock, a grain of sand, an ocean does not care ...

So the division between the macroscopic and the microscopic always existed without anyone making the distinction? In who's mind, God's?

Of course it is, or did they found some sort of sign saying "macroscopic world" when human kind first emerged? The division is human, the classificati...

Well up until recently there was no wheel either. What is, is limited by what can be thought. that is the thesis of the identity of thinking and being...

I hold the opinion that sexual encounters are entwined with pretty much everything we endeavor in, so amity's claims seems modest to me actually.

:party: :party: @"Amity"! That is a very joyous moment and an overwhelming feeling of freedom. It is off topic but may ask you what your PhD is about?...

Not really, because saying that 'there must be something that exceed the limits of our thought' as you seem to do, is then still conceptualized as a c...

1. Everything must have some explanation (PE). 2. Reality in total cannot have an explanation (PU). 3. Therefore, there is no reality in total. 4. If ...

It is funny, rethinking the story, actually the girl selling tissues is the only sympathetic character. Everyone else 'takes', but even though she hop...

Thank you, really nice to hear :) @"universeness" It is my original work, but now I do wonder how I can protect it. It is based on a dream I had once....

I remembered and posted. I hope I did so in the correct way. And if anyone asks, Elvis made me do it.

I'd gladly submit a story I wrote quite some tie ago. Posted on PF before but buried under the sands of time. Shall I do it here in thread or somewher...

I agree but what would be the causes for that? I agree with this too. I do not think there are subterranean norms idealizing sexual violence between s...

My point exactly. We are all "somebody that we kind of know", even to the most intimate people around us. You at PF see an image of me, that is also m...

I think that is the root of the problem. We have come to compare everything to money. Well, it raises a lot of very thorny questions and none of the c...

What you claim is that war out of self defense is just. That is the problem, when is self defense justified and by what means may a country defend its...

Thanks for the resource!

Yes I would agree, though I would not blame their brains. I would point to the societal forces feeding them this kind of morality. It is the story of ...

Too deterministic and neo-liberal for my taste. It would only work when there is some objective criterion for attraction and only on the assumption ev...

For all of us lovers of the beautiful continental tradition out there! And yes, that includes you @"Ciceronianus", especially you... https://www.youtu...

The theme is rather current. We have turned sexuality into a means of oppression and the vice of this oppression gives rise to violence. Even J.J. Mar...

I like the end of that quote. Reminds me of the song... "Now you're just somebody that I used to know". I think that we are all people that we 'kind o...

Back in the da we discovered a forum law: "The drama of the exit is positively correlated to the speediness of the return", or something like that. So...

Sure. I think the two positions, the metaphysician who fills the gaps and the one that cleans the debris out again, belong together since Plato's dial...

Well, I can only speculate about a psychological answer to your question, not per se a metaphysical one. My prof. on psychology of law taught me that ...

Ohh, come on what's wrong with that?

That assumes a whole lot of intentionality. I doubt such intentionality is there at all. Indeed, in criminology this is called rationalization of crim...

I do not follow threads on the Ukraine crisis written here. I go to TheInternationalrelationsforum.com or Theconflictresolutionforum or Themilitaryhar...