@"Antinatalist" I don’t buy any of that. Nor do I find it logically persuasive. Some people REALLY SUFFER therefore having children is bad? That is no...
Sorry, I missed the arguments? What argument? Suffering isn’t necessarily ‘negative’ either. It is ephemeral and allows learning. Learning is ‘sufferi...
Walls are walls because of the empty space between them. What’s your point? I can imagine a space that contains no objects. According Kant space and t...
Guess I’ll have to for the day when you can. Looks like you have an idea but are under the illusion it can make sense to others. There is a sciencephi...
To describe a shape as a ‘square-circle’ is fine. I’m pretty sure we can all conjure up the image of a square with rounded corners. Husserl nails this...
It might help to refer to the issue of ‘hole’ as a ‘part’ of something. A ‘hole’ in something (be it ground, wall or whatever). We cannot say ‘there i...
@"Shawn" My question would now be how do we say something is a fact and does fact mean? There are numerous issues with colloquial language. For exampl...
That would be anthropomorphism of words. The term ‘cold’ has no personal requirements. The three types of antonyms: https://medium.com/@hdi.prateek/wh...
Anthropomorphism is basically a psychological point. You used the term in a context I’ve never seen before. Have you looked into the linguistic uses o...
In an empty way it probably appears that way to some. Kind of reminds me about how I show students they don’t really know how to read. They just ‘read...
As an example, if someone wishes to call a ‘hole’ parasitic I can get onboard with that. The issue remains the dividing line between ‘parasitic’ and ‘...
As in ‘interactions’ where humans imbue ‘objects’/‘items’ with characteristics - or rather as extensions of themselves in some way? Also, the ‘at best...
I believe we’re trying to understand what each other is saying. Once that is resolved, to a good enough degree, I believe we’ll then maybe help each o...
Also, where’s the justification for this approach? I’m suggesting one is required but I’d like to know if you have a reason and whether or not you can...
You’ll have to explain this too (bold), and how it relates to the topic. This might continue, but it’s necessary for me. I’ll add what I can too in or...
Care to rephrase? This subject matter interests me but haven’t really seen the point of this thread yet. Note: I would class ALL objective knowledge a...
I think it would probably help to assess biology and related terms like ‘law’ and ‘ethics’. The underlying principle is our biological make up. For th...
It depends on the context and what exactly you mean by ‘morality’. Generally speaking I’m inclined to answer ‘Yes’ to all three. A more specific quest...
How would you know if you’re too lazy to read/weak to put in the effort and read books? How would those who only read and interpret written works know...
CRISPR - Wait a few decades and it will be perfectly possible to switch back and forth easily enough AND produce eggs/sperm. Either way if woman becom...
@"TheMadFool" fairly recently watched Stephen Fry talk to Jordan Peterson about something like this. Fry’s point being that ‘Reason’ can often make on...
@"Enrique" I was referring to your OP. You don’t seemed to be saying anything concrete. What seems apparent to me, if this is a reflection of posters ...
Freedom requires Responsibility. Many people want Freedom without the Responsibility it bring. They are immature/naive/inexperienced. Coming to terms ...
To add, the ‘word’ is like this. ‘Reality’ is the ultimate box I guess. What it means/is to individuals collectively is to search or to resist searchi...
@"Jack Cummins" My overarching approach here was to view the ‘box’ as an horizon into the unknown and that we get distracted by what is ‘beyond’ when ...
@"fishfry" The smartypants types know quite a bit about how the brain functions and their knowledge can do anyway false assumptions that our rational ...
Not sure what you’re getting at with Heidegger comment or the need for an exclamation mark? I think you missed the point there. I was saying the word ...
Without change time cannot be perceived. Entropy is the base to start from if you’re looking at this in terms of physics. In terms of consciousness ou...
@"Jack Cummins" Message me about your general thoughts/approach on this subject. I think it might be worth have a direct discussion on this (as in jus...
Very Jungian. I would say it is difficult to listen to ourselves. The biases are often consciously held to based on ‘instances’ rather than a more ‘co...
The landscape shifts from country to country. Whatever it is - the prejudice - if it results in the abuse of others it is abhorrent. I don’t put ‘raci...
One term ... ‘Phenomenology’. That’s the best and most succinct thing I can offer at the moment. If you know this in it’s original philosophical form ...
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