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Death is one of the immortal topics of philosophy. :) Yeah, I was wondering, it would be so cool, if the dead could tell us whether they are still the...

The problem with death is that, the dead never tell us how they are doing.

I think both ways are all valuable exercises. I am reading with a few different commentaries on the CPR (NKS, H.J. Paton, D.P. Dryer, S. Gardner, W. S...

Why is it fortunate?

0. In the Introduction, Kant says that the Critique is not a doctrine; yet here he calls part of it the Doctrine of Elements (and later the Doctrine o...

One thing for sure is that metaphysics is not the subject itself such as physics, biology, chemistry, astronomy or quantum physics. Metaphysics don't ...

Pencil conceiving death, is a poor analogy. :yawn:

There is a poetry movement called "Imagism" where the poets pursue "Part of the figurative language in a literary work, whereby the author uses vivid ...

Beginning only makes sense, if the beginning had been recorded, faithfully archived, witnessed and experienced. Begin is a word that the subject of be...

I think you need to find out, if the pencil was alive first place. :roll:

Emotion is very much connected to the fear of death. If there were no emotions at all, then there would be no fear of death. I think because of the em...

I dropped the pen from the analogy, as not working very well for me. But picking it up again, looking at it, it depends what type of pen it is. If it ...

must been reading too much of Kant lately :meh: :groan:

But then, no one alive has ever been dead. How do you know it, without ever having been dead?

It shows you that the posts we write here convey meanings, and also emotions which evoke the readers' imaginations. :smirk: Thanks. We had nicely bake...

Nice summary. Thank you. It had a few spelling errors in that paragraph. When I used the spell checking software, it even replaced the words into some...

Merci Arigato ~ :cool:

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sure. That sounds like a true religion.

Living forever means that you come back to life even if you killed yourself. So you can't kill yourself. If you can, you were not to live forever. :D

One must die to be loved? :roll: :chin:

People try to remember the dead. I often wondered, why not remember the living, but the dead?

Sorry couldn't quite make link between the pen drawing its own end, and a living being conceiving its' own death. :)

Judgments presents problems of a serious nature to both psychology and metaphysics. - F. H. Bradley

Could you explain it? Does the pen suppose to have mind to perceive anything?

I did some reading on the NKS commentary to the CPR for this points. NKS summaries 3 different definitions on transcendental of Kant in the CPR. "1. T...

Plato's Theory of Forms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1BGmuZ6PO8

Plato's Understanding of Reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzyo-X7NVLw Plato's Theory of Forms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TissHzEG_JY Plato...

Seems had been a prolific writer too. A nobel prize for literature nominee. :up:

That's deep. :nerd:

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Obviously the LPs were wrong in that regard, but it is still a remarkably significant school of philosophy in other respect. Metaphysics will never di...

Metaphysics was dismissed as non-sense, not worthy of serious philosophical debate, because all metaphysical topics are not able to engage in meaningf...

The analytic and logical methods which were their main tool, were good for checking out linguistic validities in texts, but were not up to the job for...

One of the LP's weakness was refusing to talk about Metaphysics, which made themselves look embracing intolerance and dogmatism.

Can deep sleeps be regarded as NDE? Is the brain supposed to be in total unconscious or semi-conscious state during deep sleep? What are the medical c...

If death means non-existence, then all living beings had been dead for billions years before birth. Life is brief and just a very strange weird absurd...

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Can it be replicated in the lab experiments?

OK, how do you explain the dusts forming into human bodies?

Sure, I think I said it too in one of the posts. It makes sense, and very much inline with Kant's epistemology.

Sure, I would have thought if the dusts formed into planets, then it would need some mass pulling the dusts prior to the formation of the planets. But...

Which sounds like needing even more powerful force of gravity, if it were gravity. But where did the gravity come from?

But gravity would need some mass of matter before it can exert, no? According to your saying, the formation of the matter was done by force of gravity...

What caused that to happen?

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The knowledge and ability were mentioned, because you said that everything is mind. Just to say that, everything is not mind. Never said that we were ...

No, we are not saying everything is mind. We are saying that the math knowledge and ability is in mind, and we apply it to the real world objects. I d...

But who said math is invented? Why do you want invent math? Math is already there in your mind from your previous life and soul according to Plato. Yo...