hks

Your form of skepticism is somewhat extreme and has already been refuted by Descartes and also by the modern British Empiricists.

Surely you know the answer to your own question and therefore you are simply being verbose (as in the fallacy of verbosity).

If you do not dismiss the multitude of archaic superseded ideas then you become awash in detritus. And perhaps you should prove why you disagree with ...

Sounds like you have gotten a great start on experientialism and Empiricism. Keep going. Ultimately you will end up at a mind/body dilemma. Ergo are w...

Not sure I have heard of The Bulletin. Does it quack?

Deception is another reason. When speakers/writers try to deceive they become perfectly UN-clear.

Jesus was talking about the Sanhedrin when he mentioned that.

Inference are by definition NOT deductions. Ergo they are NOT proofs. They are simply refined conjectures. And that is what Science is all about. That...

Your initial definition/proposition is simply a circular logic/affirmation of the consequent fallacy. Try again.

Try fighting Mike Tyson and then the experience would remove all doubt about pain.

For openers (a Poker term), Heidegger is somewhat narrow in his views in that in his book "Being And Time" he states that we can only be sure of our o...

I don't need to give it my best shot. Aquinas has already done so. Have you heard of him perhaps?

If the climate is changing, which it probably is, then the ants, termites, and humans on the Earth have got nothing to do with it and cannot prevent i...

Exactly! Thank you.

If girls hit boys it is insignificant. Sometimes it even means love. Boys will always be boys and hit each other. Ergo some martial arts training from...

If in divinity school, you may want to concentrate on Augustine and Aquinas. Anything pre-Aquinas is going to simply be a challenge against your divin...

For me all of Plato can be distilled down to one metaphor. He states that if you go out into the wilderness and stay there for some length of time the...

Thank you for resolving this for us M/U.

Thanks V for that update and clarification.

Finally the complete story comes out. You should have stated this in your opening posting.

Sounds like a big waste of time to have such a proposal. Politics is always about choosing the lesser of two weevils.

Trump is right about the forest situation in California. The forests there are not being cleared of the undergrowth at all because they do not have th...

Retiring Arizona Senator Jeff Flake has mentioned today (on the news) that there needs to be a GOP primary against Trump. If so, it is possible that T...

We have learned since the Industrial Revolution (in England and in the USA) that Government regulation of business is critical to protect workers and ...

The arguments for and against democracy go back to Herodotus the ancient Greek historian. He presents pro's and con's very clearly. If you have not re...

These word games do not impress me. I do not consider them as true philosophy. They are more like counterfeit philosophy. And I have never been a fan ...

Referring to a dictionary may be ok for an ordinary Joe Blow or Jane Row but for anyone claiming to be a philosopher it is merely a populorum fallacy.

Neither God nor Aristotle wrote your dictionary. You need to think for yourself. Not simply regurgitate your dictionary.

The British speak with a lot of double negatives that are unnecessary. Bad habit.

Can you live without a dictionary ??

That's actually from the Tenakh originally.

If a creation is not beautiful then it is not art. Then it is trash.

That's funny because then she goes around in a dress that does not become her all because you lied to her. Not good. Not ethical either.

Bad writing assumes things. When you assume your know what happens.

We won't know what the mind is compared with the body until we die and our bodies dissolve or vaporize back into their basic chemical elements and com...

That definition as given is flowery. I would define art as anything made to look attractive to its viewer and to command a lot of money in trade.

Sounds like you do not appreciate Economics and probably did not take any such courses in college. If you had taken such courses in college you would ...

Cats are really smart too !!

Whose definition of the term "truth" are you working from? Aristotle defined truth as to say what is, that it is, and to say what is not, that it is n...

The word church in English comes from a Germanic word which comes from the original ancient Greek word which means "of the Savior" however. There is n...

There are so many churches that I would therefore highly recommend and suggest that you treat them all equally and not elevate one or the other by sim...

Parents teach their children to lie by spanking and/or beating them when they tell the truth. Adult men and women lie in order to snag each other into...

I read Bertrand Russell's book and while I do not agree with his atheism and his dismissal of Aquinas I do agree with him that Philosophy must be sepa...

I come to this forum to learn more about other people's views about philosophy. For example there are those who revere Plato. I myself do not however....

Vodka is very popular with Russians and as a mixed drink, especially for American females. I think of vodka as a diluted ("cut") moonshine. While vodk...

I don't think of you as a fictional character. I think of you as a living persona.

How do you like my new avatar? It is a bottle of my favorite tequila! It denotes my personal motto: "Everyone should believe in something. I believe I...

"hks" are my initials. Easy for me to remember. I was named after my father and grandfather. It is definitely not an empty name. Had I become a partne...

Freedom is always limited. It is limited to within your own personal space. You may not morally nor legally violate someone else's space or freedom wi...

I teach children and people not to lie. And if they are not comfortable telling the truth then don't say anything at all. And there is a problem with ...