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I don't know what blah and mah are. I think the Actuality Theory could be refined to accommodate the different things we talk about. Philosophers have...

So again, I said I wanted to discuss the ideas... not philosophers associated with them. I think you're suggesting that this isn't possible.

Heidegger recognized that being is a combo of subject and object. I think you might be right. I'm thinking of aesthetic truth. I'm not quite sure how ...

Sure I do. Snake oil salesmen, politicians, and my own tendency to believe my own bullshit require me to focus on it. Philosophically, it shows up whe...

No, it's not correspondence. I'm saying truth is the object of knowledge (or potentially the object of it) as opposed to a property of statements. Act...

Nothin' important. Just my own brewing psychosis. I've developed a problem with non-Americans, which is really ironic. But somehow, I know that the on...

Dude. Are you an American?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyfvnM4Grik

There is a kind of philosophy that is about how to present a simple idea in as garbled and complex a way as possible. Load on the jargon and make it a...

I think what you're saying is that she didn't have an appealing personality, she had nothing original or even interesting to say, and her books were s...

I don't understand why she's thought of as malignant, but I haven't studied her views in depth. In some ways, her views are in keeping with liberalism...

If you're thinking of the quantum theory sort of "multiple worlds," something strange is going to happen to truth if you have a transcendent vantage p...

Yea... analytic truths. With those, all we can do is think of truth as a property of statements. We can't think of them as situations that may or may ...

Yes and no. Rand didn't think the form of an organism brings its material organization into existence as Aristotle did. Her ethics starts with recogni...

Could you give an example?

What's wrong with "Truth is actuality?" Why doesn't this work?

It's all about atheism, I'm afraid. God died. We're trying to figure out what portion of our interests were affected by that. We love science. We pref...

Thanks, Sapientia. I'm not back, though. There's this person who keeps mulling over the nature of knowledge and it thinks it's me. It feels like it's ...

We could look at properties in terms of sets. The extension of tallness is the set of instances of it. Do you accept the existence of sets?

Aristotle and Rand were both realists. Would Rand's views be undermined by a rejection of metaphysics? Maybe a little. It would take the claws out of ...

Me too. I'd like to get Russell, Whitehead, and Carnap together and put a few questions to them. Maybe put Quine in there too.

Hey, cousin. I just need to go. Just wanted you to know I think you're cool.

Bye dude! I've always thought of you as a little tike. Don't worry.. that's how we old women are. You'll have grey hair and we'll still be seeing the ...

Ah.. Sir2U... you spat in my face when I came to PF, you spit in it again as I leave. May you drink much water so you never run out of sputum, and my ...

I love both the reading group and the idea of an article section. Did we decide against blogs? Also.. If there was a place a person could drop ideas o...

I did too. I thought... that's not a very flattering name.

Sometimes, yes. Moderation in all things, though. In some situations, a project of placing reason on the throne complies with both reason and the pass...

A number of things fascinated me about Chalmers' views, one of them being the notion that we might one day have some knowledge about what it's like to...

Brainy has a shocking memory. Nerves are tiny electrical devices. X-) They're in the wrong rooms, though. Blinky should be in Radar's room.

Sorry, I don't understand what you're asking.

:)

Indirect observation is sufficient in many cases.... seeing evidence of X without directly observing X. Why do you ask this?

I thought you attended the church of Baseball. Ever see Bull Durham?

Well, Bach, the actual guy, doesn't show up on my beauty-meter. What he created does. Same thing with holy people.

It's a kind of person. They're usually identified by names like shaman, priest, priestess, monk, bishop, pope, guru, preacher, imam, and so on. Typica...

I have to find a Muslim holy person. With Christianity, It's not too hard to at least identify the title of a guy who is supposed to be a holyman. I'v...

It's something you feel. In analytical philosophy truth is often understood to be a property of statements or sentences. Correspondence Theory uses th...

This question coincides with my recent ponderings about truth. I don't use one theory, I use several. One of them is aesthetic truth. A statement of t...

Pragmatism is focus on outcomes. A pragmatist accepts a thing as real "for all practical purposes" and finds no value in trying to go beyond that. If ...

My theory of "experience vs interpretation" comes from the fact that I had dreams that came true when I was young. As an older teenager, I decided tha...

I cross myself like a Catholic when I relate some of the stuff I experienced on acid. Never saw a zebra, though. LSD isn't a so-called "true hallucino...

Yes. In fact, I won't ever deny the data of my senses. I saw what I saw. I heard what I heard. I will allow some flexibility with interpretation, thou...

I claim that Moby Dick is a fictional whale (as opposed to a squid). That statement is true. But you're right.. I don't think the scientific community...

LOL. I wonder why we zero in on that.

Imagine that you woke up with amnesia. You find out your name and occupation, but none it means anything to you. You don't know who you are because yo...

So it has some sort of software? Imagine you're walking through a garden and you come upon a statue. As you walk toward it you're startled by a voice....

So with you, there is no understanding. Why would a thing which can't understand... ask for an explanation? I guess I would be posing that question to...

Thanks!

This had occurred to me. Fictional worlds imply unknown truths. But look at the statement: "Hamlet's hair-count was 90,000." Is that statement ever tr...

OK. Let's say someone buys a database of login names and hashed passwords, but decides it's just not possible, given time, to crack the passwords that...