"When it comes to your own open heart surgery, do you choose a shaman or a surgeon?" This assumes or takes for granted the value of health. Health may...
"Matter does not think, yet water does not flow into arbitrary directions. If opting for something you do not deem reasonable you're not acting ration...
This is an error. Judging what is by the standard of the law of thought, called consistency, or non-contradiction. A performative contradiction result...
That seems upside down. Since, if one asks about free will from experience, it means choices we make all day long, freely. Ergo, it names an undeniabl...
Not sure how anything involving a decision tree, based on blind causal outcomes, could be other than arbitrary. Unless the knowing was extended to mea...
I know Pinker's work. He's like a a guy who wanted to be a porn star, but, instead, we get cheap and meaningless ideology. I like statistics! Wow... I...
I doesn't seem to make sense to say freedom and deliberation are the same, as your notion of freedom implies. If I know, then I am certain of the outc...
This doesn't persuade me at all. I'm with what I've already stated. Math is not usually about motion. So, one must say mechanics. This prepares for th...
When people dance, do they make "decisions"?, not when they are free. Or, the less the more they are free. To know every "factor" sounds the the priva...
In the twinkling of an eye a scientism addict will take one forever off subject. I’m not talking about creation of resistance, but killing good bacter...
Don't you think Kant considers non-estrangement as more free? The true and proper shoemaker is free only because he works according to the laws of sho...
It’s true still now. For instance, the negative view of bacteria, only recently coming to light, which means that antibiotics have caused more deaths ...
"Wouldn't it be wrong to claim that we do know?" Science in the modern interpretation doesn't explain at all, it observes how things happen. That's a ...
Maybe it is verbatim, but the meaning is lost. He's not speaking of maths as such, but about maths of motion: mechanics. His whole philosophy (physics...
Not quite. For the first time we do know. And this is all the difference. Huge bulk and consequence of change! Who is the "we" here? Perhaps only the ...
Yes, in Kant's sense, unconstrained choice-worthiness is freedom. I.e., human bliss. The beautiful, therefor, is the free. For beauty is as such desir...
Expressive answer, dedicated to Chinese language learners: "To have free will is to have the ability to make choices which are not influenced by facto...
"God is illogical. Omnipotency is a stone too heavy to lift. Omnibenevolence is a just the calm before an earthquake. Omniscience makes us autmatons w...
What Galileo said, if I’m not wrong, was something more like, mechanics is the language in which god wrote nature. Anyway, he said it in scholastic La...
"Mathematical proofs and geometric forms are the basis of explanation" For whom? I would say physics doesn't explain at all, it describes what happens...
Of course whatever is is. It's false that 2 + 2 is 4 by nature, since "equal" never occurs in the mathematical sense in nature . Equal means a mathema...
Of course. This reminds one of Tarkovsky and his "rituals". His book was called "Sculpting in Time". However, in the style of Michelangelo's saying, w...
God, in the Catholic tradition, building on the Greeks and several forms of Judaism, and some Persian sources, is the answer to the question about the...
I suppose you are unaware that the price of entering Plato's school was proficiency in mathematics? And that Aristotle understood Plato as a Pythagore...
Everyone may have some difficulties in this area, but some are much more prone to not being in the mood to reason fairly than others; in my experience...
I would object that this misses the practical meaning of "lover of truth". Which is that many can not reason at all, and act on the opinions of those ...
I just made a long post. Edited it. And now it is gone? I answered all that was said, but it was lost, considering all you retailed was from the text ...
As a stranger, I should be more anxious not to offend my hosts, but one's manners are fate. Still, I must ask you to consider my own view. My claim is...
Philosophy was the question: How to Live?. Which makes sense only so far as we really think there is an answer to that question. An apple tree, plante...
Not sure that is the most felicitous way to describe a formula that goes back only several decades. The problem is this formula is "epistemological" i...
I don't think there is anything in Plato that corresponds to "belief" (that is very Christian). Pistis, the lower segment, literally means reliance. W...
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