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Yea. His ideological descendants will be smug little establishment toads. They rise up, do a little something, retire to comfort and get corrupt. It's...

I voted for Clinton, but I was a little queasy about it. I figured it was a vote for gun control. Oh well. I like the prospect of isolationism... back...

No. I doubt either of us would find value in that. Deuces!

Sounds familiar, but have you ever played around with imagining that this world really is all there is... Consider the knight on the chessboard. He ca...

So you're a physicalist who's maybe a little foggy on how to characterize consciousness. We could say the very same thing of a lot of neuroscientists....

Do you say consciousness reduces to physical stuff or are you eliminative? What is a logical identity.. or a logical x from your POV?

Like some kind of philosophical drive-by. Hmm. Yea. Sorry. I don't remember it ever being easy to sustain discussions on PF. Stuff comes up. You don't...

Oh. I was addressing the way you kept coming back to "reasonable." All we have to do to determine if the anxiety is common sense is to do a poll. Obse...

You did? Especially to a person who just read a bunch of stuff about Leibniz, it's reasonable to imagine that causality here is an illusion. So some r...

Could be. I can't do anything with info on quantum mechanics because the fundamentals of it are word salad to me.

Buddhists say that? That's weird.

Look at post. It nails ten ways from Sunday what I would say about calling "the moment" a recurring object. Observation of time is inextricably linked...

So you're saying that time is discontinuous? If so, what separates the past from the present?

That's a fascinating question, dude. Would you mind if I started a different thread to discuss it?

Oh. I must have my own private Batman.

This thread wouldn't exist if we were all comfortable that sexism isn't a problem. The issue will be around for a few more decades.. maybe a century. ...

Probably. The Tonight Show had a running joke making fun of football players. Apparently a number of the joked upon didn't take it well and developed ...

Batman is a darker figure and on the amoral side... obviously west coast. Where Superman is an alien who is pervasively inexplicable, Batman is rich, ...

K's Abraham is an image of the unique dissolved in the eternal... I guess in this case, the Father. "Great by virtue of impotence... Great by virtue o...

That's kind of odd. You could also pick "centimeter" as your thing. Neither of those could be the ultimate subject of a predicate, so thinking of a mo...

It's not that every moment is a return. You have to name the thing. Sunday. Night. House. Tree. Man. Woman. You should be noticing something Platonic ...

For what it's worth.. an example of return can be found in the elements of this moment... now. Where I am it's Sunday night. Sunday night has returned...

This is the lowest quality thread in the history of threads.

Jesus. No. You're tangling yourself up in the clothes. The whole point is standing there naked. What is the wound in the self?

Actually, I think K's faith is the acceptance N talks about. Anyway... they both talked a lot about the significance of the image of Christ. A mash-up...

Is there any comparison between Deleuze's take on eternal return and Kierkegaard's repetition?

This is cool. For Leibniz, mind comes in layers. Conscious thoughts and experiences are the top layer. Innate ideas are the next layer down and emerge...

Apparently the EU has had problems taking actions to protect itself from terrorism (like keeping track of the movements of known terrorists into, out ...

That was just random weirdness related to the Freud cigar situation. For some reason it makes me laugh. Don't know about a Trump presidency. I'd proba...

Sometimes a penis is just a penis.

I'm glad you liked it. It was a response to something John said in another thread. Unfortunately a bunch of stuff came up and I didn't end up addressi...

Well done, Harry. This is along the lines of objections that existed in Leibniz's time. The concern is that nativism isn't saying anything other than ...

Metaphilosophy, divorced from the social climate of any particular bout of philosophy, seems anchorless to me. I immediately suspect that some crap is...

Yep. So... anyway. I take it that the average member of this forum is pretty comfortable with nativism of the sort that Leibniz advocated (affirming a...

I could tell that he respects her because in the time-frame around the first two debates he kept using the term "big league." Ahhw.... they're so cute...

So far, yes. You have to believe that she's an idiot to say she's innocent. I guess Hanover thinks she's smarter than she pretends. My response to tha...

Totally honestly, dude... a few posts back in our exchange I began to suspect that you're a troll (saying nonsensical stuff just to get a rise out of ...

I don't understand the question, Harry. Could you explain it to me?

Is it wheel-barrow or wheel-bearer?

What is agreement? We shake our heads up and down at one another? Inscrutability of reference addresses reference, not truth, so this is a different i...

Principles are expressed by utterances of sentences. One is free to take it on faith that a particular expression is understood in the same way by two...

So though some humans appear to lack the ability to follow a logical argument (children, for instance), Leibniz's view could be taken to be saying tha...

Sorry, can't help you Harry. I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

No one has denied that reason proceeds from sights, sounds, etc which prompt thought. Thanks.

That one reasons about something is not in dispute. No instance of sensory experience can account for the expectation that logical principles are univ...

Point is that you must have had confidence in basic principles of reasoning in order to accept evolution. Therefore it doesn't make sense to say that ...

Evolutionary justification for confidence? And whence confidence in evolution?

I'm not familiar with modularity in brains. We can tell that math isn't straightforwardly innate because there wouldn't be any such thing as a math cl...

A painting of it would be a blue world with darker blue people running around.. each one free of history and expectation.

Dramas pervasively shape the way people interact. An example is that little Johnny is forced to eat broccoli by his father. An unfinished drama is set...