I've just moved up the hill, and right now my head and the restore literally in the clouds. I will therefore fulminate against the enlightenment as th...
Let us now praise non-existent things. Like the building the architect has drawn, that the builder has not yet built and that the planner may never al...
No, there aren't. But there are two directions one can be going as a person - upwards or downwards. Everyone is swimming or sinking. And to anyone who...
I am a greedy, lazy, dishonest miserable, angry, self-centred, racist, sexist loser. Trump represents me; he tells me he is like me, and is on my side...
I suggest that what we are facing in biblical terms is very much a Tower of Babel situation, not apocalypse or judgement day; it's a breakdown of comm...
I think most physical laws are statistical based. Water is always liquid except when it it freezes or boils. Matter cannot be created or destroyed, ex...
I think science claims that its laws are descriptive rather than prescriptive. Do you think one could regard social rules in the same way? "This is ho...
Do either of you dispute my claim that the logic of propositions is not the same as the logic of commands? Either way, arguing about the trivial illus...
Not much had changed by the end of the 60's when I was studying. Kelly appeared briefly in the undergraduate curriculum, Laing, Janov, Rogers, were fa...
I'm mainly following along quietly, but I did play a little with Kelly's personal construct theory and the construction and analysis of repertory grid...
Shall we call it subjectivity? It is dubious ground you voyage to. One can declare it the source of all meaning and the answer to 'why?' , and another...
Can you articulate at all what is the distinction between inner and outer? It is one of those things that seem so obvious until one tries to specify.....
Being able to ride a bike involves being able to to do whatever it is one has to do to ride and remain upright. I believe I can do whatever it takes ....
This happens to me all the time. I've woken up to the realisation that i have been dreaming so many times now that I take it completely in my stride, ...
(The Hunting of the Snark) Context approximately equals language game, approximately equals background knowledge/prior agreement/protocol/ etc etc. Sh...
Do be careful with computational logic. It doesn't work the same as propositional logic, because instructions are not statements. "A= A+1" Contradicti...
I have never been able to make any sense of the notion, myself. Whence cometh this mysterious power? Given there is a shortage, how can the supply be ...
Hey guys, my mum is long dead and my wife has to keep my philosophy in bounds. But I still get over-excited about things. Go talk to the trees when it...
I'm not proposing anything, I'm doing autobiography, in response to you claiming "Waiting, at this point, means accepting doom as necessary or unavoid...
Kind of you to tell me what I mean, but actually no, it doesn't. But suppose for a moment that doom is unavoidable. What do you propose? Will you wait...
I propose first of all to point out that it is a problem of humanity, and a problem that science and reason cannot deal with. And then I will wait unt...
I don't think that explains the problem at all. We have the will power to create armies and bombs to seek out new fossil fuels to exploit, and all kin...
I disagree, but that is because I bring another idea of human nature to the original table, to the one that it is silly to pretend you are not bringin...
Sure we can, so why don't we? You come up with external solutions to an internal problem, which is why it doesn't happen. When the problem is the worl...
Cool. I think we agree thus far. Stuff and structure. Rows are always rows of somethings, and thus physical, but they are nothing other than the somet...
That's not a problem. I can get a plumber to do the pipes, and an electrician to to the wiring and so on. this is called cooperation and coordination....
Does it? As I read it it simply says that science does not prevent us from destroying ourselves. Lack of education? But why, in this wonderful scienti...
I did. If you are right, what does it mean to talk of 'physical things', as distinct from just 'things'? It seems to me that for 'physical' to have me...
The difficulty with the original position is that one comes to it from somewhere. One brings an idea of human nature. for example: And also an idea of...
When I look at it however, I see that in the country i live in, wealth survives in dynasties ofttimes for many hundreds of years. Typically, social mo...
On the face of it, I would not be surprised if to become wealthy from a poor start requires one to be hard-working, intelligent, ambitious, ruthless, ...
My understanding has been that misanthropy is a distaste for human society, more than a deep understanding of it. As such it would be invidious to dig...
Wow, we agree about something! Now if this was bubonic plague, and everyone who was sick came out in huge pustules, or leprosy, where bits fall off, t...
https://www.itv.com/news/2020-12-01/high-court-rules-children-under-16-can-only-consent-to-puberty-blockers-if-they-understand-treatment It's a cultur...
But you cannot start there in this thread, because in this thread we are problematising "physical objects". That kind of circularity is the vicious ki...
Consider the gas laws for an example of physical understanding. They were derived in the first instance from experimental observations and measurement...
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