People don't love others because they subscribe to the idea of it, they love because it's something they feel. You make it sound like an abstraction o...
Those that have attempted to bury philosophy (undertakers) by proclaiming it's death or irrelevance (particularly with regard to metaphysics), have be...
I already said that tit-for-tat doesn't apply in this situation because humans tend to operate on a higher level of cognition than our vegetative frie...
Is photosynthesis also a form of reason? Stretching the definition of reason thin here. Plants do not make a conscious decision about what to eat. Or ...
There is no such thing as a steady state system in computing. What exactly are you talking about? Non-volatile memory? Give an example of a 'steady st...
That doesn't even make sense. ’Normal processes' with the appropriate privilege level must and do have constant read/write access to root. What you ar...
You want to create a system that is completely useless and crippled, because the second any changes are made it reverts back to some previous state? I...
Yeah Yeah. Maybe I am just a westerner but that quote merely describes yet another religion; replete with a hierarchy, a caste system, rules to obey, ...
ha! That is the past though. Surely a correct response to the Zen master would be that there is no umbrella in this present moment. It's only me and y...
Depends where you are on the planet. Having less money in Europe may be fine, but Africa.. then it's a tough and shitty life. And by shitty, I mean sl...
No, the UK is a political union comprised of 4 sovereign countries. This idea about some hypothetical pact between nations is irrelevant. The actual c...
Ultimately, the people of Scotland are the only people who should be allowed to determine their independence. Why should it be in the hands of others?...
What is your logic here? SNP were 1 seat away from a majority. The fact that the whole SNP campaign revolved around a 2nd referendum and that the gree...
Experience is tricky. You don't know what direction your thoughts will take 10 mins from now, and you didn't choose to have the thoughts you had 10 mi...
Facts don't indicate what exactly? Facts cannot indicate anything outside the material realm, since facts are empirically observable phenomenon. For t...
Yes it is the sense of our apparent finitude - the impending death which looms over us all - which drives us to try and make sense of this absurd exis...
That was just an alliterative flourish? 180 Proof painful poet. Do you imagine that any other being on this Earth has made sense of the world, has for...
socrates sad? He is known for his equinimity, his acceptance of death was stoical even. He also had beliefs that you would consider wooo-wooo (maybe h...
Fortunately Brassier doesn't get to decide what philosophy is/isn't allowed to do/be! He would strip it of everything that makes it worthwhile. Whethe...
To answer a question that wasn't addressed to me: yes absolutely. It seems to me that nihilism is the defining character of postmodern Western society...
@"Jack Cummins" So, it is a mystery as to whether the philosophical mysteries are even solvable. But let's imagine that they are actually unsolvable. ...
They are corroborated in the same way as any naturalistic claim. By observation and consensus. You can affirm my experince by having a similar observa...
Experiential grounds. Every single phenomenon we experience arises into/fades out of consciousness. Our thoughts, feelings, percepts.. and literally e...
here's two: When scientists claim there is no god. When scientists claim they are understanding the nature of reality. It would only be right to make ...
Science is great for knowledge of the material realm. Outside of that, other modes of enquiry are needed. The problem is that science oversteps its ma...
How do you determine whether a proposition is true? How were the logical forms discovered? How do you know the law of noncontradiction holds for every...
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