RegularGuy

Belief is a judgment, a decision to affirm or deny something. To say you have to believe or disbelieve is a false dichotomy because one can neither af...

I can’t argue with people who are under the delusion that they make sense, understand logic, and are intelligent when they are none of the aforementio...

This is incoherent, unjustified and may be false. I reject your premises, and your conclusion doesn’t follow.

You’re being a bully because you are presenting a false dichotomy. I’ve explained this. You’re either an ineffective bully, or you don’t understand th...

A belief or disbelief is an active thing. Without empirical evidence or a personal experience, one can withhold judgment, neither believing nor disbel...

Can’t one withhold judgment?

You’re being childish. You’re trying to be a bully, but you haven’t the strength to be effective.

I understand Buddhism as taught by Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) to not have a god, nor to have anything to do with the supernatural. Karma and Dhar...

What does it matter? Just your curiosity? Science deals with the physical world, and unless you’re a physicalist, then you have to maintain that scien...

Scientism doesn’t provide any cogent arguments that science can explain everything. That’s the point. Scientism is the religion. Science includes fiel...

I didn’t know the etymology of “scientism.” I guess I assumed it was a word made up by those who were labeling others who have this unfounded faith in...

I distinguish between science and scientism. Science’s domain is the physical world. Scientists do not have to adhere to scientism, the unfounded fait...

True, but not for followers of scientism.

A mathematician or scientist does not necessarily a good philosopher make. I think it’s their pride that gets in the way. @"Dfpolis", however, is a ph...

Or more accurately, our experience of the physical world. I remain a Kantian until I hear better arguments.

Couldn’t it be the case that mathematics was first derived from empirical experience, and that newer maths were abstracted from these more fundamental...

This is very profound. Who came up with this? Was it you? Also, could you flesh this out for me so I can understand it better: “Every physical object ...

I had a friend, Mike Zielinski, who received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He tried describing to me his dissertati...

LOL We all can’t be John Nash or Alan Turing types. We need guidance from the intellectual elites because we don’t know what’s good for us.

So, what is your recommendation? Do we recognize and learn about and from differences? I know that sounds easy and simplistic, but the reason why @"Ja...

Yeah, that actually seems correct from my personal experience.

This seems to be true in cases of choices that involve small movements, but I don’t think it has been established through experiments that this is tru...

I suppose. That is helpful. I do become less aware not just from fear, though (fear is always lurking under the surface, I think). I obsess over thing...

Well from the context I assume that it means something like “instead of.”

I looked up “orthogonal” and it says “at right angles.” What do you mean here?

I don’t know. My ability to decide to be aware of anything is extremely hampered a lot of the time. I think what I’m aware of at any given moment is d...

Humans can conceive of infinity. No one can perceive infinity.

Yeah, the abortion issue causes extreme emotions in some. Usually I stay away from it.

I agree with this. Your grief is real. I don’t think any of us are denying that or that we don’t sympathize. That said, I personally wouldn’t engage i...

Boom! :up:

:up: But speculative philosophy is a no no. Or so I’ve been told.

Just to clarify, I’m not picking on you. I haven’t read the whole thread as I stopped after the OP and the first few responses. Then I picked it up ag...

What is a bicycle computer?

Well, to me “perfection” is a value-laden term. I agree that atoms are, well, well-designed? Well-conceived? Adequate in their function? None of these...

Haha! So true! Existential despair is a luxury that a lot of people can’t afford.

That’s right. I seem to remember that discussion.

Not sure about Derrida. However, @"fresco" described how meaning could work. How he described its function is not inconsistent with other definitions ...

Interesting. Thanks for bringing that to my attention!

This is opinion, just as Sheik’s is an opinion. Of course opinions can disagree.

Best answer so far.

That indeed is the question.

Have you met someone with, say, gender fluidity? There seem to be a not insignificant number of these people. If you have met some, have you tried to ...

Individuals matter to themselves and the people who rely on them and/or love them. Individuals are not indispensable to the system, as someone else co...

To whom is this a reply?

I understand (I think) what each of you thinks meaning is. What I don’t understand is how you both can’t be right at the same time. I am dumb. We all ...

I think this helps explain your first paragraph, but I would need more of a demonstration or explanation with more examples to fully understand it. Th...

Also, the antithesis that the universe is finite cannot be perceived. That is what makes it an antinomy.

Could you flesh this out for me so I can understand it better?

You’ve given me a lot to think about.

I’m really not at all interested in this debate intellectually. I find it amusing, however.