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Yeah, I think Aristotle was along the same lines, if I remember correctly. Socrates also. After all, if you don't praise your own house, it will fall ...

How we perceive scientifically the real world. I mean, if the only means of perception we have is science, but is it? This is scientism, which may be ...

But Tarski's and Godel's theorems work within a very strict - formal - mathematical framework. Do you think we can extrapolate them to the real world?

My point is that there is something wrong here, something fishy going on. :brow:

But this is not how it is used nowadays, is it? Taking a course on philosophy of X, to use alcontali's syntax, does not teach you your ignorance of X....

What is philosophy's purpose? So you are saying that philosophy offers some kind of protection? Do you think it is also used for offensive purposes? O...

So do you think that philosophy has something to do with knowledge, and/or ignorance? And that when we stop being ignorant, then philosophy will die a...

It's a dance, really.

It is being used in quantum mechanics, hoping one day to replace physics! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_quantum_mechanics With category th...

Yeah, it's like they have it in them to be ridiculed, there's something about them. Just like our teachers at school that we used to hang them notes o...

Please do tell! :smile:

What do you mean? Free from empirical data? Free from experience? But then, from where does pure reason get its input? Where does it come from? Ah, I ...

Well, it's semantics, like philosophers nowadays say. Of course, reasoning and intuition are important to our way of thinking. But is that philosophy?...

And in fact what you say, has been proposed, they call it "After-birth abortion". https://jme.bmj.com/content/39/5/261 Abstract Abortion is largely ac...

This is not what I am thinking. It is difficult to describe.. Not "things" that you can understand, in the normal sense of understanding. Let's say ir...

But of course, if there are no philosophical statements, then it is not self-refuting, and Hawking could be right. But I doubt that Hawking knew himse...

It is not only from celebrity physicists that philosophy gets a bashing. Philosophers themselves also appear very critical of philosophy, which seems ...

Yeah, I think that philosophy spent too much time with the sciences, that started to believe and eventually convinced herself that she is one of them....

Do you know the joke with the madman at the square? Philosophy is dead! Philosophy remains dead! And we have killed her! How can we console ourselves,...

But imagine if the bloody thing were dead, and we did not know it, what a tragedy that would be. And if it were so, how to announce it to the academia...

So is it dead and buried? If so, how did it die. Did someone kill it?

Yes, I got what you said the first time, "taking too much time and energy", as it happens to be the case for me too. But when I asked "why did you sto...

2. Hegel admits somewhere, either in the Phenomenology or in the Science of Logic, or you all might have said it yourselves, that the order of how tru...

I haven't really meticulously gone through everything that you discussed, but, from what I read, I think that you came to a standstill with the Phenom...

Supposedly, one could understand all of the above and most possibly discover or rather re-discover the whole of Hegel's philosophy and maybe even more...

Regarding gravity, at the time of Hegel, gravity was thought as an external force acting upon the bodies. Hegel says this is not correct reasoning, bu...

Speaking for my part, I take these goals as a given in order to understand what on earth he was on about. We shall see.

The link I posted is only a brief description/outline. For more details, you should see Hegel's philosophy of nature, the long version. There he start...

But Hegel's philosophy is about the whole, so how could it leave these things behind?? After all, Hegel provides the scientific foundations, and physi...

Yes, sublation, if this is how all things are evolving, then it must also be at the core of the Theory of Evolution, speciation I mean, the way new sp...

Perhaps I wasn't clear, I will post an example. In the Science of Logic, Hegel writes (21.13): In the above, Hegel quotes Aristotle, where the latter ...

Yes, so his philosophy, method or theory has the explanatory power to give an account for all philosophical thoughts throughout history. Meaning for e...

Nevertheless, the idea is a bit grandiose, don't you think?

I don't know whether you know Tomas Szasz: He is best know for the statement: "If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schi...

haha pretty poetic! :)

For sure, there is no single definition of the mystic, or for anything. But we can focus our attention on different meanings for the same word. Which ...

So, to make things clear, you say that a mystic is like the one being portrayed in the following music video, one that "saw the whole of the moon"? ht...

Yes of course, you are right, the first task is to read and understand what is written. I was just commenting on the mystical.

Exactly! Which is why I said "but Hegel was pretty much verbose, unless he kept silent about a lot of stuff". No matter whether Plato or Hegel were re...

I am talking about this sort of thing, as it was laid out by Plato (or his followers) in "The Seventh Letter": http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/seventh_l...

Well! Wittgenstein, being in dire straits and not making head or tails of the situation, not knowing his way about and not relying upon anyone, starte...

A mystic is someone who knows or thinks to know something but refrains from uttering it, for various reasons. Mysticism's main tenet can be summed up ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAenTtTEAhI Maybe, just maybe, using a bit of sophistry, or other techniques, the categorical imperative can be salvag...

Sure as hell Wittgenstein wouldn't allow it, at least the early one, but I am not so certain about the late, I think he would allow any kind of game. ...

I am talking about proof's form in general, a proof of something. For example, a mathematical proof like Fermat's theorem, proof about who the murdere...

Continuing from what I wrote before, let us take the concept of proof and treat it as a tractarian object. We have a name for it, called "proof", in e...

cool, but what about the other series, Legion? You haven't told me.

I think that he was just trying to clarify what the concept of "proof" really is, and what does it do. Wasn't it in this section that he wrote that sq...

Hey Wallows, in regard to these, have you watched the series "Hannibal"? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2243973/

Yes, well, sorry, I like to dissect to see what's inside, don't take it personally! :) https://cimg.tvgcdn.net/i/2009/04/28/8f0a4982-4039-474c-94eb-7e...