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As I see it, the problem is when what is imagined is taken for what is. Plato distinguishes between truth and imagination, dreams and reality. What do...
August 16, 2021 at 23:43
I am speaking specifically about such things as the experience of being dead and the transcendent experience of seeing the unchanging Forms.
August 16, 2021 at 23:37
It is quite revealing that you think what Plato is doing is preaching anything at all.
August 16, 2021 at 23:22
It is not a matter of something preventing it, it is simply that you and I and others here have not had an experience of being dead.
August 16, 2021 at 23:20
It also does not square with the dialogues. The dialogues do not clarify themselves in conversation. The leap from language and discursive thought to ...
August 16, 2021 at 19:35
Calling things you know nothing about "metaphysical realities" illustrates the problem. We know nothing of life before or after death. We know nothing...
August 16, 2021 at 19:16
Since the topic of this thread is the examined life, it is appropriate once again, to examine what it is that you know in distinction from what it is ...
August 16, 2021 at 16:12
There is a split that goes back at least as far as Plato. On the one hand, Socrates' human wisdom is his knowledge of his ignorance, and, on the other...
August 16, 2021 at 15:16
It is very often the case that readers mistake the images Plato creates on the cave wall for their escape from the cave. Good point. Dialectic is mutu...
August 13, 2021 at 17:36
Some think that dialectic is a method that leads to knowledge of the Forms. But how can someone know this unless they have completed the journey? That...
August 13, 2021 at 14:39
To be clear, you are making things less clear. We cannot evaluate the safety of a vaccine without some knowledge of it. When it is said to be safe thi...
August 12, 2021 at 21:14
I think that what you are getting at in the first part is two-fold. One, do not make the all to common mistake of thinking that argument and philosoph...
August 12, 2021 at 20:22
When an assessment is made it cannot measure things that only become evident at a latter date. If it is discovered years later that a drug poses a dan...
August 12, 2021 at 19:09
We are not dealing with quantum mechanics. The measurement does not alter what is being measured. The safety of a product and the determination of its...
August 12, 2021 at 17:08
The degree of certainty of its safety does not make it more safe, it simply makes us more certain that it is safe. It does not miraculously change the...
August 12, 2021 at 14:36
Still looking for something to argue against. What I said was: It sometimes happens that a drug is approved and is later found to cause problems. Whet...
August 12, 2021 at 13:14
Rigorous industry standards have nothing to do with anti-vaxxers. Vaccines are only one class of regulated pharmaceutical products. Shingrix and Garda...
August 11, 2021 at 19:18
It may be rendered more safe if the FDA makes recommendations for changes with regard to labelling, packaging, identification of groups for whom the v...
August 11, 2021 at 18:54
Indeed you are! You are confusing authorization with the widespread professional opinion backed by substantial evidence that the vaccine is safe and e...
August 11, 2021 at 14:43
At this point it is still up to you, but that might change. It is not just me saying this. Peter Marks, Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluatio...
August 10, 2021 at 22:34
Again we are back to your misunderstanding of the term bureaucracy and how this particular bureaucracy works. All of their work is to establish safety...
August 10, 2021 at 20:25
Are you deliberately trying to misconstrue what I've said? What was at issue in my initial comment to @"180 Proof" was the choose of getting the vacci...
August 10, 2021 at 18:59
Nowhere do I say that "the work they're doing is other than safety and efficacy work". Of course the data is related to safety and efficacy, that is w...
August 10, 2021 at 17:53
You repeatedly conflate the question of whether the vaccine has been shown to be safe and effective enough to get vaccinated now with the issue of ful...
August 10, 2021 at 14:00
This is, in my opinion, a romanticized image of ancient philosophy.
August 10, 2021 at 13:08
Once again making claims and then attributing them to me. What I said was: Note the bolding: AT THIS POINT. Is that not clear enough? That is not to d...
August 09, 2021 at 21:22
In that case once again you are disagreeing with a claim of your own making. I said nothing of the sort. What I said is: The problem begins with your ...
August 09, 2021 at 19:53
This is interesting in several respects that I won't go into. I will only mention the idea of the old and venerable. We tend to put more value in what...
August 09, 2021 at 14:37
What needs to be understood is why he is doing this. Again, you need to understand why he is attempting to draw the limits of what can be thought. He ...
August 09, 2021 at 13:49
You are so busy arguing you can't keep track of what you are arguing for or against.
August 09, 2021 at 13:35
Why the need to twist and render hyperbolic every statement? I said several times that they cannot simply rely on an incomplete review. Once again, yo...
August 08, 2021 at 20:18
We have already been through this, but you evidently desire a dance partner. The safety and efficacy have been established. The vaccine has not yet be...
August 08, 2021 at 17:06
Do you mean his or Plato's interest in telling this unlikely "likely tale"? Or the city at war? Or the cause of the cosmos or in action? Do you mean t...
August 08, 2021 at 16:55
We would not have gone through it the first time if not for your penchant for disputation. I said the vaccines were safe and effective. Authoritative ...
August 08, 2021 at 16:31
Regarding safety and efficacy a quick search led to results including the following. Some are of the misguided belief that safety and efficacy will no...
August 08, 2021 at 15:21
Doesn't that depend on one's interests? Someone who takes no interest in talk about gods will see them as separate, with scientific models being appro...
August 08, 2021 at 00:17
What do you think is the relationship between models of the divine and models of the origin of the universe?
August 07, 2021 at 21:00
* Jesse Goodman, a former chief scientist at FDA who’s now at Georgetown University. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/when-will-covid-19-vaccin...
August 07, 2021 at 20:53
You have not given a single reason why you think it will not be approved. Rather than repeat myself I will leave it there.
August 07, 2021 at 18:08
This is your misunderstanding that you attribute to me. The only way it would reduce the risk is if something previously unknown or undisclosed were t...
August 07, 2021 at 17:25
I am not going to chase down what you quoted in another thread. You said earlier in this thread: I think the problem may be your lack of understanding...
August 07, 2021 at 16:28
Perhaps this might help https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-brief-fda-provides-guidance-master-protocols-evaluating-prevention-tre...
August 07, 2021 at 14:45
What do you think this means? The statement continues: Whether a proposition is true or false is determined by reality, by what is the case, a state o...
August 07, 2021 at 14:25
Socrates expected to find something else in Anaxagoras because Anaxagoras says that Mind directs and causes all things. He assumes that Mind is like h...
August 07, 2021 at 13:14
That is your assertion not mine. The investigation has been ongoing from the start. It include both positive and negative reports. I did not say that....
August 06, 2021 at 20:12
For me it is about trying to understanding Wittgenstein. His argument is a priori, but it is not about creating a world, it is about the transcendenta...
August 06, 2021 at 20:04
There is a process in place that must be followed. It still needs to be rigorously documented. That is not a waste of time. That it is is your assumpt...
August 06, 2021 at 19:13
The point is that what the find will confirm that the vaccine is safe and effective. It is sometimes the case that a product is approved and then pull...
August 06, 2021 at 18:22
When you deny that the world does not yet exist for a baby it seems to me that that is exactly the point. If you connect existing to interests and car...
August 06, 2021 at 17:53
The role of the FDA is to verify that products are safe and effective. There is ample evidence that the vaccine is safe and effective. They are still ...
August 06, 2021 at 16:55