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Well, I strongly believe that reasoning through anything is an awful lot of work. And if the world is deterministic, it's obviously unnecessary work. ...
August 15, 2025 at 01:37
I wouldn't call this "scientific". To be science requires convincing experimental evidence. I can't see how this is relevant. I'm going to die, theref...
August 15, 2025 at 01:30
Let's consider "pixels". You say that there are pixels which have spatial relations between them. But a pixel, which is normally thought of as a funda...
August 14, 2025 at 11:58
Of course, but the question is how. Do they consist of matter, or do they exist in some other way? Sure, but if I have no choice as to whether or not ...
August 14, 2025 at 01:10
But the issue is, how do these things, words in this example, exist in that medium between you and me? Is the concept of "matter" required to explain ...
August 13, 2025 at 11:45
This is the inevitable conclusion when we take the reality of free will, final cause, to its extreme. To allow the reality of choice, we must allow fo...
August 12, 2025 at 12:17
In the newly emerging physics, Newton had done something very interesting with his first law of motion, commonly known as the law of inertia. What New...
August 12, 2025 at 02:25
I don't buy this. He says that it disappears into experience. So the best we can say is that it becomes a part of experience. As such, you would think...
August 12, 2025 at 01:31
I take Berkeley to be arguing that we can do without the concept of matter. We can have a sufficient understanding of the external word, without the c...
August 12, 2025 at 00:44
As I said, the the evidence is experiential. Not long ago atoms were the smallest particles. Quarks have not actually been produced in isolation, beca...
August 11, 2025 at 11:08
You mean the claim of infinite regress? The evidence is experiential. Every proposed fundamental particle has been broken down into further particles ...
August 11, 2025 at 01:49
Wouldn't that be God's fault? How would these lawyers be proposing to solicit God?
August 11, 2025 at 01:34
Science provides no guidance on this. It is a metaphysical question. The fundamental matter/energy assumption falls to infinite regress in scientific ...
August 11, 2025 at 01:13
I think we need to assume Adorno was attempting to be consistent, and not ambiguous or equivocal. So I see the difference as a matter of perspective. ...
August 11, 2025 at 00:54
I don't think it is the case that science depends on the "assumption of a reality that is what it is, independent of us". I believe that idea is a mis...
August 10, 2025 at 12:14
Well, I think you're grasping at straws Pussycat. Invisible straws at that! There is clearly no reason whatsoever, to interpret this as "the roast eat...
August 10, 2025 at 01:28
I don't think it's a matter of seeing that there is a right way and a wrong way of describing things. I think it's a matter of understanding the way t...
August 09, 2025 at 12:16
Yes, at the beginning of that little section, Adorno specifically mentions "the subjective share of intellectual experience". There's a number of inte...
August 09, 2025 at 12:09
Philosophers make up a very small percentage of the population. So your proposed facts are irrelevant.
August 09, 2025 at 02:40
Well, aren't you special.
August 09, 2025 at 02:33
Well perhaps, but I do not see any mention of "danger" or "temptation". Nor do I see that the retreat is "resisted". I see that it is a special reacti...
August 09, 2025 at 02:18
I mentioned what I called the "primary" example: I conclude that it was someone other than you then.
August 08, 2025 at 10:41
It's not a matter of intuition giving us an accurate picture of reality. That's not what I have been arguing. I have been arguing that the picture giv...
August 08, 2025 at 02:06
I don't think that this is the case for Adorno. He clearly distinguishes between the object, and the subject along with theory, and concepts, which ar...
August 08, 2025 at 01:36
This is not really the case. In most instances the goal is to create what happens next, i.e. we want to shape the future, not predict it. The ability ...
August 08, 2025 at 00:40
This I see as self-contradicting. "Correlates" implies a duality, so "the reduction of objects to correlates of thought", is inherently incompatible w...
August 07, 2025 at 11:17
Here's the problem. You describe the unity of the five senses as the faculty of experience, defined as "being able to experience". And, you attribute ...
August 07, 2025 at 10:55
The argument for Platonic realism, is that ideas have existence independent from human minds, as "objects". This is produced from the assumption that ...
August 07, 2025 at 01:14
As I said, you have presuppositions which make no sense. How do you propose that the senses are united into a single faculty called "experience", or "...
August 07, 2025 at 00:17
Not really, Idealism involves a belief that concepts are objects, but not all objects are concepts. So that is not the identity relation referred to b...
August 06, 2025 at 11:13
Clearly then, you misunderstand me. Experience is not a faculty. And, we are born with knowledge, it's known as intuition. This is why you can't under...
August 06, 2025 at 10:43
I don't think anyone believes that objects are identical to concepts. I think the idea is more that concepts identify objects in a sort of relation of...
August 06, 2025 at 01:59
At least I recognize that there is a problem, and I'm acting toward resolution. That's a lot better than you, doing nothing, thinking that everything'...
August 06, 2025 at 00:41
The grounding of reason is necessarily something outside the bounds of reason. This makes it unreasonable or even irrational. The grounding feature, t...
August 05, 2025 at 11:12
This is not a drill!
August 04, 2025 at 11:26
That looks very naive to me. If reality includes more than just what exists, then this part of reality is not part of the universe. How would we estab...
August 04, 2025 at 11:23
Clearly not a case of "equating". But what exactly do you think "identity-thinking" is?
August 04, 2025 at 01:55
Preparing for some orthodontistry? I promise to keep my mouth shut from now on.
August 04, 2025 at 01:48
Well sure, but my point is that the thing referred to here as "it" is a fiction. Therefore all that evidence does nothing for you. It's like pointing ...
August 04, 2025 at 01:38
Consistency doesn't imply truth. We can make very consistent fictions. And even when the story is consistent with empirical sensations, truth is not n...
August 04, 2025 at 00:32
No apology required, I wasn't annoyed at all. How did you get that idea? I was just alluding to lesson #1 in reply to the request you made: First less...
August 03, 2025 at 19:39
Actually, I just looked up the official formula, and you add the number of chirps per minutes to 40, before dividing by 4. So, put your winter coat on...
August 03, 2025 at 13:33
August 03, 2025 at 11:51
Well, the formula does assume that you find a cricket.
August 03, 2025 at 11:44
Count the number of times a cricket chirps in a minute, divide by 4, and add 40 to determine the temperature in Fahrenheit. That's a soap opera law of...
August 03, 2025 at 11:32
Here's the difference between you and I then. You won't go anywhere unless someone, who has already been there, points the way to you, (and gives you ...
August 03, 2025 at 01:06
It's not a matter of changing what we know about the universe, it's a matter of "the universe" being a false conception. There is no such thing. For a...
August 02, 2025 at 16:11
What I said is that the concept "universe" is a misrepresentation of reality. There is much evidence to support this claim, things like spatial expans...
August 02, 2025 at 11:19
According to the concept "universe", there was a universe prior to observers. But many aspects of that concept indicate to us that it is a misrepresen...
August 02, 2025 at 01:51
Nothing beats "Dogs", the best song on the album. Be sure to get stoned and listen with phones. Dragged down by the stone! And when you lose control, ...
August 01, 2025 at 11:02