Without looking it up - I've always understood conflation to mean the lazy and presumably unconscious combining of unrelated ideas, like some atheists...
- As with many, experience has retrospectively enabled me to realise that when young I was indefensibly maltreated and sadly deprived (to my obvious d...
The perhaps most revelatory indicator of how incomprehensible to the human mind is the actual nature of our Human Condition? - even if the unthinkable...
Some say that, effectively, great Art enables us to look out of other people’s eyes - thereby permitting even the astonishing feat of enabling you to ...
Some of you guys seem to be admirably informed on the subject of ‘Logic’ - on that at any rate - as it constitutes a technical discipline developed in...
I'll check the site when I've got time! - Hopefully not too denigrating! (Though I guess, one way or another, it likely rather will be and, yes - writ...
Maybe it’s the necessarily abstract nature of this argument that provokes antipathy towards it in some. Anyway - with regard to the proposition previo...
Not quite sure what your problem with that is. Atheists propose everything defining our human situation descends from logical causes, in which case th...
Marchesk - That everything comprising it would descend exclusively from logical causes - as opposed to being characterised by the intervention of, for...
The question was subsequently withdrawn - apparantly because it was considered the hypothesis it involved would be more fitted to forming the basis of...
The mail nipple is of course just a redundant vestige of the nascent process occurring in the womb prior to sexual speciation beginning. We were all o...
- He always objected to being described as a philosopher and would protest the distinction that he was an artist. Like many, I think the way to unders...
Haven’t read the Karamasov one but have read ‘The Idiot’. Only an author with a genuinely powerful personality himself could possibly have so convinvi...
Wonder why there currentlly exists a popular angst - albeit tacit - that some day pretty soon there will be panic in the world? A feeling that the end...
On the subject of philosophy, my own favourite buiscuit is a ginger snap - sometimes wonder though, as I dunk them in my tea, whether this appetite of...
Re some comments on Nietzsche recently: The current fashion for attributing credibility to Nietzche's casuistic ideological ramblings is really just a...
Consoled lately while drinking alcohol – amidst the intrusion of a perennial sense of guilt into the pleasure thereby gained - by the retrospective re...
Aside from the fact that the impetus for a UK referendum on whether to continue with EU membership was provided by neo-Thatcherites - who had, ever si...
Good to see that the Shout Box - complete with its' attitude of disregard for the tiresome proprieties of civilised debate - has been ‘imported’ here ...
Jcop: My post was an attempt to argue in favour of the proposition that the scientific method, capable as it is soly of describing interaction between...
Jkop: We could of course agree that, in order that it be objectively examined, a phenomenon requires to be isolated from all super-imposing effects. S...
The crucial point to recognise regarding the phenomenon of our most irreducable experience - that of our consciousness itself - is that, uniquely, it ...
Hey, ‘My fellow American’ Comrades! Vladimir Putin here! - You know, ‘Tough-guy’ Putin! (Though, as those who really know me and aren’t so dumb as to ...
There is a view regarding the perennial Free Will debate that the main constraint imposed on advancing our ideas concerning this subject arises from t...
Some opine that the situation in principle with which we humans are presented is, when considered objectively, unacceptable. (We know not from where w...
Trouble is, that kind of thing's so ripe for parody! Ex: Seem to remember David Carradine, in his roll as 'Grasshopper', saying something dreadfully l...
Vicariously acquired moral principles -ex the injunctions of the biblical Commandments - serve merely as a utilitarian guide, but fundamentally cannot...
It's moral knowledge - a type of knowledge neither susceptible to being beheld intellectually or to being acquired vicariously (since it is in princip...
Well, Socrates of course set numerous precedents for thinkers but, in my experience anyway, the example of his which many philosophers most eagerly se...
Well, glad you were impressed anyway! Though, to be honest, I personally think my previous post's probably my greatest achievement to date - inasmuch ...
If even the word '' unambiguous' - which I thought conveyed my meaning more accurately than the generic term '' clear' - is deemed pretentious then I ...
I mean that only personal experience can indicate how the situation humans ultimately are in is not one that they could justifiably be required to acc...
That it is, is I think something you can only perceive to be the case through personal experience! Why it is, is I think because everything characteri...
Irreducible means when it's reduced to its basic reality, un camouflaged by pampering technology, - which prevents people being exposed to famine by t...
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