I cannot argue with that direct contradiction without a great deal of research and data. ditto If you say so. It's an hypothesis, and I understand you...
No. Descartes withdrew the work on physics first, and wrote Meditations afterward. While Galileo was on trial. I don't think Descartes believed subjec...
It's fine from my end. I don't think I've bought into Cartesian assumptions; indeed, wasn't Descartes purpose to establish certainty, to avoid assumpt...
That makes no sense. Capitalism isn't a single entity; it is any number of rationally self interested actors in competition, and it surely has to be c...
Skeptical claims? Isn't that a contradiction in terms? I don't think I'm trying to prove anything about skeptical claims per se. I'm addressing the qu...
If you say so. I don't see what choice there is but to assume the existence of an objective reality when on fire, because otherwise, as I've shown - y...
I tried to get to grips with Wittgenstein and failed. I seem to remember semiotics and algebraic propositional logic. He's a bit much! I'd have learne...
I appreciate you don't claim the proposed scenario is true, but you are saying it's justified to some degree - if you claim that the occurrence of pai...
Wow, it must suck being an evil brain jar demon! Question is, what evidence is there for the existence of such a being? None at all. And it's perverse...
No, it's an argument for the basic veracity of sensory perception, to reality. Apperception is something else again, and knowledge is more than mere a...
So are you saying this evil demon brain jar keeper can induce you to put your hand in the fire? If so, can he induce you keep it there? Or is it by yo...
Okay, but again, it's messy. If the question is 'what's real'? what is the radical skeptic's real reason for dismissing the evidence of the senses? My...
Depends really, I suppose - what you term knowledge. But I generally consider humans distinct from all other animals - as possessing a qualitatively d...
That looks delicious. I've had a bowl of soup so far today. It's lunchtime now, and I'm going to grab some chicken, new potatoes and coleslaw. But I'l...
It's weirder than that. Stroke victims can have serious perceptual disorders; if rendered unable to process sensory information properly it results in...
Similar in the UK; 50 miles of cold hard rock - so no Magma Energy here either. A place in Cornwall called the Eden Project, drilled down 5.3km, and o...
Sure, but 'seeing' is the ideal minimum sensory experience, employed for the sake of philosophical simplicity. If still in doubt, touch it, lick it, t...
Dubious assumptions underlying the phrase "within the boundaries of science." I conceive of science as starting at the fingertips, and extending as fa...
I agree, Descartes is superfluous, and somewhat blameworthy for developing subjectivism to protect himself from the ire of the Church visited on his c...
In the UK - where I live, they put aggressive taxes on tobacco, knowing full well that people were addicted, and would pay whatever the price was. Ene...
I think it important to remember that Descartes' method of radical doubt in Meditations was not carried over into his conclusions. His subjectivism is...
Sam's answer - if we really doubted we'd keep banging into the furniture, has a certain normative value, and is not at all inconsistent with my approa...
Doleo ergo sum? I hurt, therefore I am! What it excludes, is the trap of solipsism - resulting from doubting away the existence of the physical. Pain,...
No. But consider Descartes sat before the fire with his ball of wax; fourth meditation, expounding upon how intellect, rather than the senses or imagi...
I'm not claiming to be Diogenes. I'm only suggesting, that posting this in the shoutbox: So not - why the prospect of limitless clean energy from high...
Literally? No! Figuratively, more of a dog! Interesting character; he would carry a lit lamp around in the daytime, and say he was looking for an hone...
It's a really quite interesting physical principle; the heat difference engine. The temperature underground remains constant as the atmospheric temper...
So not why the prospect of limitless clean energy from high temperature geothermal has been overlooked for forty years, by left and right alike - whil...
Status of the Magma Energy Project Dunn, J. C. (Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM.) Abstract The current magma energy project is assessing the en...
Do you work for Nasa/Sandia Labs as a scientist? No! Have you conducted a seven year long research program into the feasibility of Magma Energy? No! H...
You didn't need to spoon-feed me anything. This is my topic. The question being, why, what, according to Nasa/Sandia Labs, is a promising approach to ...
Yes, sure. But before you go - can I just ask, why the negativity? I mean, I'm describing what I think is a promising potential solution to the climat...
The quantity of energy humans require to meet all our needs is negligible relative to the total heat energy of the Earth. Nasa/Sandia estimated a mini...
Let's define 'it' here. 'It' - is the cost of developing Magma Energy versus Enhanced Geothermal Systems. You say Magma Energy is more expensive than ...
Quite right. Wind and solar are far worse than geothermal, because they're diffuse forms of energy - that need to be gathered from a large area, and c...
I haven't conceded that Magma Energy is a more expensive approach than EGS. That's your claim. Please, show your workings. You'd have to make a lot of...
If only we'd started 40 years ago! compared to what? more expensive than what? Yeah, it's tripled since 2021, according to Bloomberg. Solving the clim...
Flogged to death is hardly a valid critique on a philosophy forum. If it weren't for rehashing Ancient Greek guys' musings, you'd have nothing to talk...
The short answer is, to solve the climate and ecological crisis. A longer answer would reference the sheer scale of the energy available from UDGS; ac...
"Hey boss, we've melted another Tokomak - and they're $20bn a piece. You've got to do better!" Don't worry about it. There's no amount of money the go...
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