Let's have a look at another example of a concept and if this doesn't get us anywhere we will throw in the towel. This paraphrased excerpt is from a b...
fair enough. To be clear, I’m not using the word ‘concept’ in that sense but with a somewhat different meaning. If that maybe gave you the idea I was ...
Phew is it just me or is there a great deal of anti-Hegel sentiment here! What gives? It’s like going to a physics forum and finding out that everyone...
can you clarify a little more, I’m not sure I’m totally following. You mean if you were to say, ‘x is red,’ someone may think this is invalid because ...
My intent wasn’t to claim that there is no difference and only unity, so if that was what came across it must have been miscommunicated. Yes, what you...
Yes of course computation and proof aren’t the same thing, but to prove involves a lot of showing, that has a lot in common with computation. Most mat...
Here we can see clearly the dichotomy, so if it were unclear before it should be very much clearer now. In our day to day life we have light switches ...
certainly I owe most of what I know about philosophy to others, but we’re here to do philosophy and that’s not easy having to avoid using others’ meth...
Well imagine a perfect programming language so easy to use every citizen could create any program they wanted no matter how complex by simple computat...
@"Gregory" I am taking it that you disagree that in our lives there is this type of opposition I’m referring to? Developing a consumer product require...
@"Gregory" I'm a little confused, are you trying to say that computation and the theorems and axioms of Mathematics are opposed, or that in our societ...
of course, intuition frees us from the baseless dichotomy of the act and the concept. Recourse to intuition overlays the dichotomy with universals tha...
It would be great to see education that focused a little more on the creative side of mathematics. You know, there are many now who understand, elabor...
For this I will appeal to the textbook definition: nar·ra·tive - a spoken or written account of connected events; a story. "the hero of his modest nar...
Narratives are distinctively human. They involve juxtaposition of individual and group ideals with practicality. Their role as a whole masks their imp...
Why are narration and bias connected, is it not possible to narrate in an unbiased way? By the word ‘biased’ I’m taking it to mean being exposed as pr...
There seems to be a growing need for a more intricate vocabulary to discuss this topic. Having two or three words such as ‘racism,’ ‘equity,’ and ‘pre...
@"Ori" Your question seems to me about soul and spirit, which have very different meanings to different kinds of people. You are right to consider it ...
Not that I disagree, but would you care to elaborate on this point? Most importantly, how the individual encumbered by future ends relates to his havi...
It sounds as if you are really asking, ‘are the husbands actions moral, or could they be?’ Moral responsibility or accountability takes morality direc...
Taking your English education as an example. You must run into writing that is full of defects all the time. But if it were common to step in and act,...
Your response sounds reasonable that there exist 'filters' through which academic thought passes to become culturally disseminated: the arts, media, t...
Take the first film example from IANYN. Mr Weiss explains to James Baldwin that we should avoid excessive cataloguing by race. His background being on...
If we believe that an academic should act primarily among other academic-minded individuals, then in most senses wouldn't it mean not to search for tr...
I'm not exactly sure where this syllogism came from, but I don't remember writing anything about it. I wrote this: The idea of chance as something occ...
So you feel it is frustrating to you for others to strive to be as strong as possible. Why is that, do you think it is an overall bad trait? Just bad ...
Fair to say that at a certain level free will, chance, and determinism break down. What if we could determine down to a science what 'causes' you're c...
@"TheMadFool" It sounds like you are both making a similar point if I'm not misreading it. That to a certain extent chance is a phenomena that occurs ...
But is it good that chance play such a role? Or good that we think it does? As opposed to the viewpoint of, say, believing the squirrel to be weak and...
Death by shotgun... seems excessive, but maybe that's just me. As an individual the failure could be weaknesses in one instance are strength in anothe...
Here are a few examples of similarities that have been observed in animals that parallel human weaknesses: 1) Actions that counter animal's individual...
Well if we can manage to both agree that it would likely not be good for those animals not to exist that were 'imperfect': inattentive animals, ones t...
Maybe you could clarify a bit. Are you saying that when an animal makes a wrong judgement about where to hunt, how to catch prey, or falters allowing ...
OK sure, not all. It has the advantage of being convenient though because it places our intellectual coordinates according to a very fixed set of poin...
They tend to have very fixed ideas about things. Anything that interferes with that scientific belief is a threat. You could say that maybe it has com...
I have a sneaking suspicion that this forum is tied in with some other biology-related forum, because everyone on here is a die hard Darwinist. Just t...
It isn't a contradiction to claim that both are somewhat true. Mostly, predators and prey don't obey linear increasing/decreasing rules, but in many c...
Right, and being a die-hard believer in Darwinism as you alluded to earlier, don't you think that there is a reason why our species like others is des...
Let's be realistic though and boil it down to the absolute most weak person. They're not smart, physically fit, they fail at everything they try, no a...
Thanks for sharing that, it seems appropriate. Interesting how the ancients in all their technological inferiority still seem to the ones who have the...
So your main point is to say that the weakness of an animal is of an altogether different kind from the weakness of a human being, is that what you me...
Maybe we're getting a little hung up on the biology analogy. We can all agree that if all predators of a certain species were to perform flawlessly, p...
I suppose the question isn't is weakness good, but is weakness also strength in a dialectical kind of way. Like the same way it could be judged as goo...
I wouldn't call it uniquely human as an observable trait, but certainly as a judgement. We can see animals that possess the equivalent of what we judg...
It seems to me as though the philosophy of ‘keep things as simple as possible, but not more so’ aims ultimately to destroy itself when adopted mechani...
Who would be allowing it? You and me, people with brown hair? If you are referring to 'the globalized masses,' sometimes it feels like the question of...
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