Here is something I just read from whitehead: “The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particula...
I think you do. As I think everyone must. Because to exist, is to have experience and the way one experiences reality is their unique position of God....
Well if you take the position that God is infinite and man is finite, then all of man's different conceptions of God can be thought of as a perspectiv...
It is a measure of metrical feet. It's called scansion. Are you denying that such a thing exists? It's a fundamental aspect of poetry. A line of verse...
Iambic pentameter? It's creativity primarily. The idea of poetry is that setting limits enhances one's creativity, or gives direction to, rather than ...
I prefer to think truth as a multiplicity of paths that each one of us must carve out. Don't know much about krishnamurti. Was he a non-dualist 'think...
The use of generality in mathematics is that it allows abstractions (e.g., thoerem proved about an abstract triangle) to be applied to a multitude of ...
It seems like philosophical discussion follows this movement from the general to precision. You never see a philosopher say, "wait, let's make this a ...
I find it fascinating to explore concepts. To dive deeply; draw out intricacies; problematize; make connections. Some concepts I keep coming back to: ...
Salut. In English when you say perceived by the senses, that refers to a result of perceived empirical sense data (sight, sound, taste etc). For this ...
What you describe is part of the process that is involved in defining concepts. There is a fleshing out. Defining is a becoming that is never finished...
I agree with I have 2 children and would feel like I had failed in my role as a parent - to enable them to live independently and start their own fami...
As Heidegger said, "The real 'movement' of the sciences takes place when thier basic concepts undergo a more or less radical revision which is transpa...
It seems that you were convinced of God already before you prayed. That means that the outcome of the situation, which you prayed about, had to pass t...
Yes but belief sans evidence is a modern derivation that had nothing to do with the word in its original form. Wherever the word pistis appeared in th...
Faith is often taken to be 'blind' belief, without proof or evidence. But in classical Greek pistis (faith) had significations 1: that which gives con...
The only thing I will say now is that I have a bad habit of presenting things in a manner of fact way. I should qualify my posts more often to show th...
Took you 30 seconds to find an article that matches your dogmatic opinion. How many contradicting articles did you reject first? Here's a study that s...
Your first paragraph references mastery over our empirical environment. Your second paragraph assumes we should shoehorn metaphysics into an empiricis...
You're not one of those people who needs empirical evidence before he can get out bed in the morning? I'm not gonna get into the empirical evidence ga...
You make an implicit connection there between dog and man, as if they do or even could have the same way of experiencing meaning. Dogs do not understa...
This is completely wrong. I am a father of two children. My eldest is 4 years old and I can tell you that there is not a day that goes by when he does...
Interesting. Perhaps it's because I read mostly continental stuff, yet this doesn't seem like a unique vision. Maybe this was a bigger deal in the ana...
The wanting to-be a certain person is itself is a becoming. You do not even know what kind of person you will want to be in the future. So my answer w...
Wrong. You see, the thing about certainty (having all the answers) is that it closes the future. If we had all the answers we would cease to exist. A ...
My background is similar. Christian. Picked up a mish mash of everything over the years, but predominately lean towards advaita, non-dualist, Buddhist...
I understand your point more clearly now, though I didn't say anything about feeling nothing. I agree with you that the pain is a measure of the value...
Individual actions are insignificant, but we won't choose to do anything collectively until there is a major, major catastrophe. I imagine the impetus...
I don't think these things are so clearly delineated from one another. They are all entangled. Ontological beliefs permeates through, and informs all ...
Yeah of course that scrap of paper, with those blotchy squiggles, have meaning after all humans are dead. Say a bird grabs the paper and utilises the ...
Through an internal intuitive experience. In same way that motion of the body (raising your arm for example) is experienced from within. It does not r...
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