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Rambling maybe, but I think idealists are comfy with the notion that knowledge is generally of something, so knowledge always starts with encountering...

I think ever is the negation of a negation. Ever and n'ever (not ever) are interdependent ideas. As Baden pointed out, if you only have one tense, you...

I'd like to comment further on that. Can't now though. Leibniz was a big fan of binary numbering... which consists of one and not-one (none). I wonder...

For Leibniz and Locke, it had implications that reached as far as how we deal with religious intolerance. If there are innate ideas, then we could sit...

Agreed.

You know, honestly, I've long pictured thought as a section of a piano. Emotions and basic drives are the base notes. The intellect is the high notes....

As I said.. I stole it from human origin studies. There are hominins who had the apparatus for speech, but there's no clear evidence of abstract thoug...

Consciousness is always of something. It isn't clear that all thought and ideation are necessarily conscious. I think nativism is counting on the exis...

But space is a relation between objects. Time is a relation between events. Wouldn't you say that a relation is fundamentally an idea?

Leibniz's mature thinking was that principles can't arise from instances of experience (he's pretty close to expressing the problem of induction here,...

I'm curious about how the issue of innate ideas (nativism) is related to metaphysics. Are one's metaphysical commitments actually the driver here? Or ...

I didn't know that. That would be an interesting argument. Why roughly?

So how does that play out in your metaphysics and general take on what you are.. what the universe is.. that sort of thing?

Cool! The closest I ever get to that stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ncVyxQRw70

That could be as well. I think of Shakespeare's Richard 3rd as a dude who can't face the experience of weakness so mutilated his own psyche. The execu...

WTF? The perception of her humanity. We're done here.

You don't need that word to understand what the vision of the free society is. It's helpful, though. Nobody thinks she wanted that particular seat. He...

Huh? As it relates to a discussion of Rosa Parks, freedom is a property of the spirit. We're somewhere downstream from metaphysical issues. I'm not se...

Or maybe the controller and analyst aren't fictional people. They're aspects of your psyche which have a history of doing a fabulous job of protecting...

The answer back-engineers the question. A Roman answer: To do what you were born to do. If you decide that there is no answer, then you just made the ...

Time is a circle. Laying an x-y axis over it, a sine wave can be generated. Add birth and death and we have the arc. Leibniz believed the monad is imm...

In English we identify with feelings. In other languages feelings may be owned (as if stored in an internal suitcase) or they may be upon one as if sa...

Offer them $100 for it. Otherwise some douche will come along and buy it... for maybe less than that.

I am, but I only became aware of that because I pegged something else as infallible: the content of my experience. Interpretations can change... iow: ...

:) For Leibniz, space and time are ideal. Immaterial doesn't mean non-existent.... obviously. But note that when you invoke the concept of an object, ...

You were asking about seeing monads. It would mostly be with the mind's eye. Even unity of consciousness is really something detected by the intellect...

Yep. As I told John, there was a time when I would have strongly supported this view. Witnessing first hand that kids aren't blank slates changed my m...

I wouldn't say never. It's hard to picture it soon, though.

I was thinking about that. Maybe it has to slip up on us in order for it to happen at all. Next in line: President Ramirez or whoever...

Yep.

Yea. We'd have to invent a word for the new level of Stupid where the US provokes China while the US national debt is $19 trillion. I'm not sure what ...

Yes. It's definitely an environment where the child is allowed to express anger. In a family where anger isn't allowed, the child would be shutdown.. ...

I don't know about that. I don't think the executive branch can actually start a trade war. Otherwise, Trump is isolationist. Most of the attempts of ...

Mom is in charge. Notice how the child directs appeals to her. Dad's comments on the child's tone seem to be directed at Mom. Mom is the one laughing ...

Possibly, but I doubt it based on the reaction of the father.

I think your arrogance might just be matched by your naivete... which means it's a sure bet that Uncle Sam wants you. Have you checked into whether yo...

Both these people were products of their times. In another century, Ghandi would have ended up dead in a ditch somewhere. Born a little earlier or lat...

Yea.. I get that. A political theory: There are two kinds of situation: 1. We're facing a crisis of a sort we've never known before. Nobody knows what...

The libertarians would finally be happy?

If you aren't a US citizen, why do you give a flip?

Fortunately Dr Strangelove was on the scene with a post-doomsday plan. The real-life general who wanted to get it over with was Douglas MacArthur. He ...

Cool. My warning comes from learning the hard way that pain, anger, and other difficult emotions are sometimes messengers I'd like to shoot. Analysis ...

If the OP is saying that anger has something to do with identity, I'd agree with that. So would Aeschylus. But like Hanover, I'd warn against trying t...

Probably the most immediate evidence of your monadness is the unity of your consciousness. I was going to start a thread on that topic. but it's still...

Wonderful.

You're correct. Though the human species, for instance, is a pile of monads, there are no causal relationships.

Whereas old hippies have assured me that Jimi Hendrix was an incarnation of the god of music. What prize do you get for that?

Yea. This definition wasn't sufficient for Leibniz. I think I explained that earlier (or did I hallucinate that?) Close, but not quite, Wayfarer. Mona...

Signing every note "curious" sounds like a general confused wonderment. Curious. I'm going to change my name to Balls.

It's valuable to compare Leibniz to Descartes and Spinoza. Descartes proposed two substances where Leibniz allows only one. Can we substitute subject ...