My favourite is Latin 'negotium' - roughly, 'business', from which 'negotiation' etc - is 'neg..', not, and '...otium', leisure. Work is viewed as the...
Perhaps it's not them. They may have a better grasp of the problem than you. But by 'you peopling' them you'll never find out. What is it with you peo...
A world without humanity would be somewhat like the kind of world we live in because the world was already here when we subsequently arrived to live i...
There are three kinds of midwife. The realist announces the baby's sex according to what it is. The anti-realist announces the sex the way she sees it...
I would say it is because what we find intolerable, but nevertheless have to tolerate, is our inability to persuade others about matters that are so o...
Too much dialogue of the deaf signalled in that article. Analytic philosophy: "You must think like us because that is what 'thinking' is". Critical ra...
But it occurs to me that's not what you are asking. You are not asking how our mathematical intutions relate to experience. You are asking how all our...
I thought it was just me pacing out the central circle of a football pitch toe to heel, circumference then diameter, then spending the rest of the wal...
'If the Bible isn't a magical book, Christianity evaporates. If the Qur'an isn't a magic, Islam evaporates. And when you look at the books and ask you...
I always worry that the anthropic principle explains nothing by explaining too much. The reason the world is just-so is because, if it weren't, then w...
According to my parents, it was the only book that would get me to sleep. The profound impact was that I was not put up for adoption, I suppose. https...
There exist, as you say, many important and mysterious things we cannot explain. It does not follow that, for some important and mysterious thing we c...
True, that's why I described the argument as 'false'. Just to make my opinion perfectly clear, there is genocide occurring in China against the Uyghur...
https://www.thelehrhaus.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/p07xhc68.jpg Well, they are alive. Therefore (compare the false holocaust-denial arguments) the...
Disruption for sake of disruption is no joy, but I'd say disruption can have a role and has a long history in dialectic. "Several times in the course ...
I think you're saying that one condition of perception is material interaction. True enough. No eyes or no light, then no seeing. Then you seem to say...
I hate thought experiments. If I see a fat man on a bridge I run away. I refuse to listen to bat detectors in case they start sharing their experience...
Even if God is omniscient and the rest the question remains: "Does God love X because X is good; or is X good because God loves X?" The problem is eth...
"Infinite infinities equal finite space? How?" Integral calculus is how. I think 3blue1brown's 'essence of calculus' is a really good exploration of t...
As a footnote to some of this discussion, I would say that Aristotle did not subscribe to a theory of truth that could be well described as a 'corresp...
Also, suppose distance had a length. Then if distance got shorter or longer, the whole universe would get bigger or smaller together and no impact. Th...
Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaquaqua with white beard quaquaquaqua it is es...
Well I cannot find the reference if it exists but I've heard attributed to Wittgenstein this illustration of Kant's idea. Imagine this conversation: "...
"Don't you believe the science?" is sometimes a call to shut up when authority speaks. It is sometimes a call for ignorance to shut up when good autho...
The banks used to swagger about the virtues of freedom in financial markets. Then 2008 happened and they rushed to hold on to nanny's skirts. I don't ...
"All I ask is for two things: 1) what metaphysical problems do you think can be resolved by analyzing our language and 2) which metaphysical questions...
Ha ha! I think you've caught me out speculating now. (Remembering an earlier reminder to stick to the text....). But I think it's worth thinking about...
Yes, I was thinking about Protagoras, for example. I was also thinking about the Athenian culture that Plato was unhappy about: the society that put S...
Prejudice is a feature of attitudes, outlook, beliefs. Racism is unjust discriminatory practice and behaviour based on race. It gets complicated becau...
"I always judge people by their character". Zenny, me too. Then sometimes I'm caught out not doing that and having prejudices just like everyone else....
Perhaps a time will come when people will be judged by the content of their character and not by the colour of their skin and when people will attribu...
I was thinking of the problem raised in the last para I wrote. A purely logical basis of arithmetic is apparently not possible. Perhaps psychology has...
Pluralism is nothing but a bunch of distinctions without differences. Reductionism is nothing but over-simplification. This thread is nothing but a ti...
Psychologism is a word that attracts a sneer from some but it's not all bad. "......Husserl’s first published monograph, Philosophy of Arithmetic, whi...
Perhaps each can be the subject of the other and neither is prior. On the one hand, philosophy of perception, concept of mind. On the other, for examp...
"..why do humans have the belief that there is some entity or entities outside of their own species that have influence and determination of their bei...
."..there couldn’t be such a set, because it would have to include itself." Sets can include themselves. E.g. the set of sets with more than one membe...
I think it's the intuitionist train of thought. If no ethical statements are true, then not only is it not true that murder isn't wrong but also: murd...
"Concepts such as 'Beauty' don't exist by themselves, do they ? They arise from the real world - we create such - why ? " This is a viewpoint that Pla...
The 'no pleasure without pain' question is an example of a bigger issue for Plato. No pleasure without pain; no large without little; no beautiful wit...
"If...then..." does not always operate as you might expect. "If p, then q" entails "if not-q, then not-p". But e.g. suppose if you want an eclaire (p)...
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