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You found your answer. But you make the distinction: Here is why: Thinking without what is thought is an empty concept. ? We did not think about QM at...
March 22, 2022 at 17:16
You have mentioned this several times, as if it confers a kind of authority. What is your degree in philosophy? An AA or BA or equivalent. Surely if i...
March 22, 2022 at 16:39
A good example of Nietzsche's irony: Nietzsche said he is a complete skeptic when it comes to Plato. Nietzsche’s perspicacious reading of Plato is ins...
March 22, 2022 at 16:24
? My metaphysics? What theory?
March 22, 2022 at 15:44
Wittgenstein attempts to draw the limits of thinking through its expression in language. What lies on the other side of those limits, what can be show...
March 22, 2022 at 15:42
I see no reason why objects need a substratum.
March 22, 2022 at 15:30
There are a few things touched on here in Francesca Stavkakopoulou's "God: An Anatomy". A few key points,(pages 386-387): As the pantheon of gods shri...
March 22, 2022 at 15:26
This assumes the very thing in question.Esse est percipi is a supposition. I see no reason to assume that existence is dependent on the existence of s...
March 22, 2022 at 14:37
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What are you talking about? There is no unstated premise in the distinction between seeing what you eat and eating what you see. Either you eat everyt...
March 22, 2022 at 13:28
Are you claiming that Hegel made the Heideggerian distinction? He distinguishes between pure being and determinate beings. Pure being is not. Of cours...
March 22, 2022 at 13:21
I almost forgot "Todd the Polka King". Here we see both T and D. Some pronounce this Dot. This has caused a great deal of confusion because he had a s...
March 22, 2022 at 02:42
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Do you eat everything you see?
March 22, 2022 at 01:58
I am not going to bother addressing any of this again. Your tenuous connections sinks under their own weight. More importantly all of this is nothing ...
March 22, 2022 at 01:46
Isn't he the guy that is all over the internet and youtube? Shouldn't that disqualify him? Are you a closet internet plagiarizer? And yet, he remains ...
March 22, 2022 at 01:18
Grampa Joe: Does the scientific discovery of dark energy logically reveal an omnipotent power at work? Grandchild: Can you tell me what you think dark...
March 21, 2022 at 21:40
A theoretical particle is by definition thinkable. To theorize is to think. You shift from 'thinkable' to 'observable'. Thinkable, in the context of R...
March 21, 2022 at 18:29
The more you attempt to dig yourself out of the hole you dug the deeper down you go. It follows from your claims that the sun covers "himself" with li...
March 21, 2022 at 18:10
I wonder if there is a connection between an increased emphasis on the difference and distance between man and God. Is there a parallel between the in...
March 21, 2022 at 15:40
In: Sophistry  — view comment
You fail to see your mistake. It does not follow from the claim that we pursue the good that the good is whatever it is we pursue. A little help from ...
March 21, 2022 at 14:22
This is close to explaining the meaning of my username.
March 21, 2022 at 13:34
Things that were not thought of until X point existed before X point. Can we know that there will be an X point for everything that exists? I don't se...
March 21, 2022 at 12:59
Right. The universal is unity of the immediacy, direct and unmediated, of knowing and being, of knowing and for knowing. (Preface to the Phenomenology...
March 21, 2022 at 02:07
One problem with this is that Jesus died on the cross. Angels don't have bodies and don't die. But as you said earlier: I think this is part of the st...
March 20, 2022 at 19:48
That may be, but the concepts of QM and relativity are not found in Hegel. Thinking is not Hegel's concepts of thought. Our thinking in terms of these...
March 20, 2022 at 19:21
That is what I had in mind. A son of man is also ambiguous and fertile ground for imagination. The imagination has always been an essential part of th...
March 20, 2022 at 18:45
How could this emergence happen if nothing happened before we emerged? Obviously we could not say something must have happened if we had not happened ...
March 20, 2022 at 16:08
This is an important point. Confluence and influence. Various stories and beliefs that are for one reason or another embraced, are embellished, altere...
March 20, 2022 at 14:33
Do you think nothing happened before there were humans or something else that was able to discern change? There is no color grue because 'grue' is a w...
March 20, 2022 at 12:39
In: Sophistry  — view comment
Well, consider the source. Enough said.
March 20, 2022 at 00:39
It could not "perfectly well have meant" that. If it did then either the sun speaks, and walks, and gets angry and has hands and face or these things ...
March 20, 2022 at 00:33
Perhaps I misunderstood you. I took the undecidable question to do with whether viruses are alive. The division between living and non-living is probl...
March 19, 2022 at 22:13
Not dogs as a category but dogs having "our categories of thought". Neither the dogs or us need the categories to taste the difference. Change happens...
March 19, 2022 at 21:30
But to note that a dog can taste the difference between cheese and carrot does not mean it's mind: You got here by arguing that things: You now expand...
March 19, 2022 at 20:03
This is a difficult question for me to address for two reasons. First I really do not know much about it, which may have a lot to do with the second r...
March 19, 2022 at 19:33
How can you maintain a distinction were the distinction between living and non-living things cannot be made?
March 19, 2022 at 16:34
Consider the problem of false messiahs. During the messianic age there were many who claimed or were claimed by others to be the messiah. And many who...
March 19, 2022 at 16:22
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Thanks Paine. Somehow it escapes MU's notice that there is the problem of unjust actors and unjust actions in the Republic.
March 19, 2022 at 14:46
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On that we agree, but not for the reason you imagine.
March 19, 2022 at 14:38
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Is your intent to demonstrate your sophistic skills? Republic 509b: (Bloom translation)
March 19, 2022 at 13:17
I checked with my wife. She said it was okay for me to decide Kant was wrong, but it is still up to her whether he gets invited to dinner.
March 19, 2022 at 01:52
My dog can see difference and smell difference and taste difference. Is her mind wired with Kant's categories or some other a priori categories? Parme...
March 19, 2022 at 01:48
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But that does not mean that everything we do is good. That is an assertion. One that is wrong and is not supported by Plato. Sin is fundamental to Chr...
March 18, 2022 at 20:40
Do we see things differently according to a priori categories or did difference become a category as the result of seeing differences? Kant claims the...
March 18, 2022 at 20:08
Perhaps what we have been through means something different to me than it does for you. I can think of nothing that we have been through that would pr...
March 18, 2022 at 19:43
You have got this backwards. They do not conform to a priori categories of thought. It is, rather, that thought was forced to change to accomodate wha...
March 18, 2022 at 19:32
If your interest is in being argumentative, I am not interested. If your interest is in trying to understand views that differ from your own then you ...
March 18, 2022 at 19:09
The divisions are a way of referring to things that existed prior to anyone thinking such things exist. Whether you think the very small and the very ...
March 18, 2022 at 19:04
The wheel is a human invention, the micro and macroscopic world is not.
March 18, 2022 at 18:43
The problem is not with thinking that which is not, although more on that below, but with the assumption that what is is limited by what is thought. U...
March 18, 2022 at 18:25
I agree. The attempt to place morality on firm rational grounds fails.
March 18, 2022 at 18:07