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I don't think the modern world is perfect, by any means, but I'd probably not prefer to live at any other time. Whatever its faults, the modern world ...

That's unfortunate, but it did seem like he/she would probably likely continue to quickly get nasty with people, including you moderators.

It's extremely dubious that previous the previous eras he was "nostalgic" for wouldn't have had just the same issues regarding the "art" and "techne" ...

Factually, or as a goal?

So how would we apply the distinction to living in general in your view?

The distinction is about how materials are thought about, what intentions are, etc. with respect to making things like chairs and paintings. That has ...

I think that Collingwood's art/craft distinction makes sense with respect to aesthetics (which isn't to say that I agree with the distinction he makes...

I want to focus on this first. Isn't this a reference to certainty?

But you wrote "I was reading Collingwood, who distinguishes between three types of living, which are either merely functional, creative (I think this ...

I don't think we know exactly why that's the case yet. We'd simply describe it (primarily mathematically, since that's the preferred language of physi...

I actually spent 10-15 minutes trying to research how Collingwood uses the terms when I first asked, but I never did find anything that explained it. ...

No, you're right. We strictly enforce no challenges, no skepticism, etc. to anything on this philosophy board.

That if we have evidence that things are moving faster than the speed of light, then "Things can't move faster than the speed of light under any circu...

You have no idea what I'm asking when I ask how you'd define guessing? lol

“Creativity is dead,” says Lacan. However, according to Hanfkopf , it is not so much creativity that is dead, but rather the economy, and some would s...

It's making up incoherent nonsense so that we can theory-worship.

Money arose because directly bartering for stuff you want/need was a lot less convenient.

Maybe you could clear this up. What does "creative(ly)" refer to re living?

You just said that space is nothing. But it's doing something.

Well, or I can comment here as I have.

Not if there's empirical evidence of things moving faster than the speed of light.

I didn't realize I'm not allowed to express my opinions on a message board.

But I can't do anything with a "functional/creative" distinction and "it's impossible to live creatively" otherwise. It just sounds like nonsense.

Why re the part I bolded? As I said earlier, if we have evidence that things are moving faster than the speed of light, then "Things can't move faster...

So it's forbidden to define a term then? We have to just guess what people might be referring to, and interpret them however is required to make what ...

I have a beef with us positing nonsense under the rubric of science. Nonsense like "nothing can move faster than the speed of light" while we also say...

If space is nothing, how is it doing anything, such as inflating?

Again, I asked how he defines "creative/creativity." If someone is going to make a distinction between "creative" and "functional" and say things like...

I've not once said anything about galaxies per se. Is space moving?

How would you defining guessing. where you're distinguishing it from other things?

So Collingwood is using Wilde's definition? And he's saying that there's a distinction to be had between "merely" functional living and "completely us...

" inflating apart from each other " isn't motion?

How are they defining "creative/creativity"? (And in contrast with "functional" would be helpful)

So if nothing is moving, how is something moving faster than light? You wrote "Parts of the universe are moving apart from each other atfaster than th...

What does that have to do with whether stretching is moving?

What I asked is if stretching is moving

Nope.

Isn't stretching moving? You don't go with what someone tells you non-critically. Anyone can say something wrong. You need to critically assess anythi...

No, it's not. Repeating that like a mantra doesn't make it so.

It's pretty simple, really. If there's evidence that something in the universe is moving faster than the speed of light (relative to something else, o...

Which would be moving faster than the speed of light. Unless we're somehow trying to argue that "stretching" isn't "moving"?

Then we can't say that parts of the universe are moving apart from each other at faster than the speed of light, lol. It's ridiculous how simple this ...

Either something --some part of the rubber band, say, is moving faster than the speed of light or it isn't. Basically, we're either positing something...

Is it moving faster than the speed of light? If so, then something can move faster than the speed of light, and the speed of light isn't actually a un...

Not necessarily. We might wind up simply with government employees buying islands, buying homes made of diamonds, etc.

If nothing breaks the speed of light limit then nothing is moving apart faster than the speed of light. If something is moving apart faster than the s...

I agree with you on that, because of what "likelihood" is, and considering that I'm a frequentist. I don't buy Bayesian probability. Nevertheless, it'...

First, if this is the case, the speed of light is not actually a (universal) speed limit.

No. I'm not saying anything about likelihood. Empirical claims are not provable. To wonder if we've proved some empirical claim, or to ask for proof, ...

What are you referring to there, exactly?