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The better question is why would it matter to me how others define either a car or art? Just like every other morning of my life, I woke up this morni...

Why would you presume I am bound by an already existing definition of a car? I am not.

Why is it the question "what is art" always treated as if the questioner is seeking a definition? Has there ever been any useful definition of art? Ha...

If all art suddenly disappeared, why would I have to purchase anything? And I would probably purchase a paint brush and some paint. And as for your po...

you are making my point for me. I feel no more obligation to put forward my definition of art that does the world of art. and why would any of us need...

It is your comparison that does not work. You may rest assured I will never buy a car that fails to meet my definition of a car nor will I ever buy a ...

So who is your highest authority, you or Jesus?

Indeed. But that is not necessarily "as it should be." For Example A Seagull is essentially pushing a correspondence theory of truth that could be fru...

Whether "thingness" can/cannot be attached to the term "truth" fails to enlighten. Though certainly many would consider truth to be a concept and a co...

First, your own logic results in the fair conclusion that infinity is a concept. If infinity is a number and all things mathematical are concepts, the...

low hanging fruit.

"shorthand" must be the new tautology. I maintain the proper distinction here is not between adjective and noun but between meaning and definition. Th...

quote="Gnostic Christian Bishop;378082"]So you might not give final authority to the best authority. Ok. Not the brightest choice, but Ok. You cited a...

I am skeptical as to whether the idea of complete/incomplete has any discernable meaning applied to either the world or the universe.

what is your basis for claiming the infinite is more complete than the finite? it strikes me as counter intuitive.

partially, yes. And for the most part, the degree to which thought is partially mathematical is going to be mostly the same as the degree to which tho...

It is when I think 2 + 2 equals 4.

there is no loss of clarity in going from the adjective triangular to the noun triangle. I suspect there are examples where going from adjective to no...

could you tell me what you mean by "experience." What constitutes an "experience?" And do not most people consider an "experience" as something they c...

I agree. The mass emulation of the leisure class is a mass emulation of the superficial trappings of leisure rather than of leisure.

triangle (the noun).

except you already conceded you know the name Jessica. and even if you did not know the name Jessica, you would not ask what a Jessica was if you had ...

Yes. In addition, I strongly recommend people read Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class. The technology age has a similar democratizing effe...

yes. you must have some understanding of X in order to formulate a question regarding X. all your question can do is give a deeper understanding than ...

and no one ever has been. control is an illusion and the need for it is an addiction.

except physics as we know has not had 500 years to provide adequate answers to reasonable questions.

I was, of course, joking. How could they possibly cover it? They cannot even agree that it is happening. For some, the world is a wonderful place.

politics are a large scale appeals to emotion, not reason.

interesting take. The technology angle reminds me of Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class on steroids. It also made me think of Andy Warhol and how he...

then you must be watching the wrong station.

I am not sure what I mean is the question. I would suggest that based upon the comment, what Schopenhaur would mean is that science is the way we come...

I suspect that knowing and understanding are not synonymous and I would rephrase your question as "how can one formulate a question about truth withou...

I was listening to a discussion on Schopenhaur and someone suggested that he would consider the scientific approach as the communicative structure of ...

well said. and a bit frightening.

good question and of course, the answer is that one cannot. in that sense, truth is that on the basis of which truth is already understood. a sense of...

if I am going to purchase art, then I will decide what art is.

I know that words have meaning and no reasonable person would subscribe to an ideology where they would refer to their self as the "highest authority"...

the question was not about the process I use in making a judgment. Instead, the question was whether I am the "highest authority" regarding my judgmen...

I understand taking a walk as an expression of human consciousness and where one chooses to walk as information about the walker's consciousness. Walk...

I was not as clear as I could have been. The issue is not that of how self-sufficient forms (such as soul and body) interact. Instead, the issue is ho...

Perhaps I could have been more clear. I am thinking of substance ontology in the sense of a substance being "self sufficient." Though Plato, Aristotle...

thank you. I am definitely interested. However and as a technical matter, Fichte himself is certainly post-Cartesian and his own comments beg the issu...

Please cite any pre-Cartesian debate regarding the "mind-body problem."

I feel no obligation to accept your definition of anti-realist. I am unaware that there is any consensus on a definition of an anti-realist. I questio...

I do not see why "physical reality" being three dimensional means that "physical reality" has a monopoly on three dimensional realities.

This is a good point. To ask: is perplexing. Resting a claim to be one's own "highest authority" upon the authority of Thessalonians 5:21 is nonsensic...

I think its called "monism" as opposed to dualism.

depends on the issue.

I like that.

I suspect most people don't.