Possibility

Well, you can quantify colour variation in terms of wavelength, but colour is more than wavelength. You’re quantifying a one-dimensional relation by a...

:100: Well put!

Agreed. But check your concern and how you interpret it. There is a tendency to focus on the ‘victim’ as the passive object of our concern, rather tha...

It’s not a symmetry, no. But I do think that some parallels can be drawn (carefully), especially to highlight the question of choice and of how men in...

Yes, I do have a tendency to follow tangents in threads, and if the mods find this a problem, I’d be okay with separating out our discussion, or even ...

I do agree with what you’ve said. My issue is with those in Western cultures telling Muslim women that they shouldn’t wear the chador, or who claim to...

No one here has satisfactorily demonstrated the claim that women are over-represented or men under-represented in academia at all. The OP is about a ‘...

I’m not entirely sure it’s ‘official’ attention - I think this is a misunderstanding. The negative attention uncovered women attract in Muslim countri...

I interpret my father’s question now as a reminder to be self-aware - conscious of how we experience the world. I noticed that much of the ‘happiness’...

@"TheMadFool"@"tim wood"From the women’s perspective: The Habit and the Hijab: An Exploration on Sacred Dress

This goes back to a fear of what we don’t understand. Often we anticipate the possibility of a negative relation and seek to avoid it - not realising ...

It’s the pronunciation ‘mawzlem’ as an adjective that is a little too close to ‘zalim’, literally translated as ‘dark/night’, but also understood to m...

I agree that we shouldn’t get our knickers in a twist by women who choose to wear either. But you’re assuming that ‘showcasing their piety’ is the rea...

I don’t think you can argue that headdress requirements for Muslim women and Christian nuns demonstrate that both religions ‘see eye to eye on the iss...

No offence taken, at all. I figured it was a misunderstanding of the hashtag. I’ve found that people usually are, although most don’t want to be. They...

I think ‘luck’ constitutes our variable relation to an unconsolidated perception of probability/potential in experience. As @"counterpunch" illustrate...

Wha? Apart from the fact that we don’t use that term anymore, no - my mother grew up in the Eurasian Catholic community in Singapore, the only daughte...

I commend you on your honesty here. How do you deal with it when you do catch yourself? Have you found an alternative way of differentiating grades?

I can only imagine the ethical frustration of ER doctors working to patch up a belligerent drunk who crashed his car, while the ten year old passenger...

Most teachers find themselves picking up the slack in the area of parenting more than parents pick up the slack in the area of education. The best edu...

Not at all - and growing up I often wondered why. But as an adult I recognised that both my parents were escaping their childhood, and together they b...

This is a common misunderstanding - that suffering of one kind or another is necessary does not mean that ALL incidents of suffering are inevitable. T...

I was raised not so much to question the ‘social order’ as to recognise multiple hierarchies of value and potential within it. One man’s trash is anot...

I’m of the opinion that as parents we should select an educational system and school that delivers what we’re unable to deliver ourselves - what we do...

I will say first of all that suffering of one kind or another is a necessary aspect of living. To think that we can or should avoid any suffering at a...

My achievements at school told me I was intelligent; but my father told me I was beautiful. I never felt under-appreciated, but my academic results su...

As a parent with teenagers, I’d say there’s not a lot of time spent sitting down and telling stories that spell out wisdom and morality, but I think i...

I would argue that anything judged ‘not beautiful’ lacks an element of truth in the relation between our experience and our understanding of it - wher...

That’s a very broad question, and I get the sense that you have some preconceived ideas already, but don’t want to presume. To be honest, the way I wo...

I’m not saying anything about Christians in general. Those who object to the way Muslim women dress who do identify as ‘Christians’ seem to be present...

My apologies - time gets away from me, and life gets in the way. I wasn’t avoiding the question, just lacking the time to put together a considered re...

I appreciate you digging through the text - the quotes you’ve provided illustrate for me the eisegesis that I’m bringing to the discussion. I guess my...

Don’t get me wrong - just because we aren’t necessarily thinking about the same angle, doesn’t mean we can’t agree on a relational structure. I’m simp...

The difference is that the objection comes from those who object to their faith and their belief in the word of god, and perceive their outward show o...

I can see that, sure - but I would argue that it is this territory that still needs to be mapped if we’re to bridge the gap between philosophy and sci...

Now we’re into a territory where our language and grammar has struggled to keep up with our knowledge. As Rovelli says, “We say that an event ‘is,’ or...

Your insistence that we must be restrained by these categories that define our thinking is a fundamental misunderstanding of creativity, and of art. I...

No - but I realise that I should have been clearer with that statement. Atemporal does not mean eternally ‘unchanged’ - it means ‘existing or consider...

I’ll give it a shot, but it might get complicated. Essentially, it’s a matter of perspective. When you think of temporal ‘things’ in this way, you’re ...

I would confidently dispute that. If you took a look at the twenty most expensive paintings sold, roughly half of them would not be considered ‘beauti...

Aesthetic qualities are the way in which art elements and principles, materials and techniques work together to influence the mood, feeling or meaning...

Not necessarily. We can and do successfully discuss the ‘properties’ of potential ‘things’ all the time. But they’re still fuzzy things lacking in cer...

Not the same thing - and I’m getting a little tired of you clipping my statements to suit your own argument. Aesthetic qualities does NOT equal beauti...

While I would agree with Kant’s statement, I think any assumption that analytic a priori knowledge is the essence of language concepts ignores the pos...

One of - yes I do, but it’s like saying ‘I’m thinking of a number between zero and ninety’. An acute angle is a consolidated concept - the potential o...

I’m okay with that - I’m not after the popular vote. You might want to do a little research on Duchamp before you leap to this conclusion. Duchamp had...

Some art isn’t beautiful, or at least elements of it are disturbing or difficult to face, watch or acknowledge, let alone judge as ‘beautiful’. These ...

I’m not say that creativity per se is art, but that it is a property without which art would not be what it is - ergo, its essence. There are many ski...

Potentially - an actual answer to this question will always be indeterminate, probabilistic or ‘fuzzy’ to some extent.

I’m not trying to distinguish art from non-art; that appears to be your aim, not mine. I’m trying to distinguish between aesthetics and your claim tha...