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There is no reason to assume that life as we know it was the specific target. The creative process itself is open-ended, and not so much an applicatio...
April 10, 2020 at 06:32
How long is a piece of string? You’re implying that judgement is necessary in every situation in which an outcome or action is predicted, and that onl...
April 10, 2020 at 04:42
Sorry - by ‘shared’, I don’t mean agreed upon in all aspects. A perspective that is shared - as in expressed, discussed, articulated - exists. A ficti...
April 10, 2020 at 03:21
From my own experiences in the (private) education sector, the majority of teachers today are anything but impersonal. Certainly there are regulations...
April 10, 2020 at 02:49
If I knew this memory wipe was approaching, I would enjoy the event and find a way to express that enjoyment in a lasting way: whether that’s in a dia...
April 09, 2020 at 09:53
Patience is a virtuous response to an interaction between an imagined (possible) reality we expect, prefer or desire and the actual reality we observe...
April 09, 2020 at 09:38
This is a rather simplified view of life and death. Life has a complex structure of value and potential that is both positive and negative, but it is ...
April 09, 2020 at 03:35
That’s probably a poor choice of term on my part - we do conceptualise reality, though. My point is that if you’re going for maximum realism, then the...
April 09, 2020 at 03:07
Understanding how a hammer can be used as the handle of a toothbrush and a weapon as much as for driving nails increases the possibilities of the hamm...
April 08, 2020 at 23:38
The way I see it, a duck is more than an arrangement of molecules: it’s an arrangement of temporal relations between molecular, chemical and atomic re...
April 08, 2020 at 16:43
No, I’m a realist. What you fail to see is that the majority of our achievements have come from awareness, connection and collaboration, not from so-c...
April 08, 2020 at 08:06
Not all of this potential. If you take away their genitalia, they’re still men and women, still human beings. The only potential missing is sexual int...
April 08, 2020 at 05:52
First of all, I’m not saying that being impersonal isn’t ‘a bit male’ - I’m saying that it isn’t the essence of masculinity. There is a lot of merit i...
April 08, 2020 at 00:55
How about no dichotomy? There are differences in how we think, but those differences are not drawn accurately along gender lines, and to reduce this d...
April 07, 2020 at 17:41
Yes, I think philosophy is the search for truth, which is a universally shared meaning in how all of reality interrelates. I think you misunderstand m...
April 07, 2020 at 16:33
I think these errors you mention are in the various ways that we structure all the events of our lives in relation to each other - in terms of perceiv...
April 07, 2020 at 15:58
That you see the value/potential of this as ‘domination’ is interesting, and not altogether surprising. First of all, acknowledging that women are not...
April 07, 2020 at 06:31
This is what I’m talking about. There is pain and anger in your words - it helps to recognise and then come out from under that emotion in order to ha...
April 07, 2020 at 01:17
No, it shouldn’t matter to this discussion, which is why I haven’t offered it. I like to think I don’t need to offer it in most situations - so long a...
April 07, 2020 at 00:17
I agree - when it’s as simple as X based on Y. But philosophical discussion is rarely as simple as a two dimensional relation. For me, perspective is ...
April 06, 2020 at 23:56
I understand what you’re saying, but their ‘logic’ is often a result of their background, emotion and values as much as any other relation, as is our ...
April 05, 2020 at 14:52
Perhaps you are blaming, in a way. I’m not sure that it helps to go down the ‘would-a, could-a, should-a’ path in this discussion. I don’t think you c...
April 05, 2020 at 04:12
I think in many ways, the ‘good wife’ was required to absorb or embody those elements of human experience that ‘mankind’ is frequently expected to ‘pu...
April 05, 2020 at 03:16
Exactly.
April 05, 2020 at 02:20
This is certainly a common understanding of what it means to be ‘feminine’. It is also what drives the commentary that wonders what we’re still compla...
April 05, 2020 at 01:53
I think it’s not just an initial impetus, though - if we keep in mind the reasons why we care about the question, then I think we’re less likely to be...
April 04, 2020 at 14:27
I think the idea that we can just ‘put aside’ emotions is a point of contention. There is a difference between being aware of how our emotions affect ...
April 04, 2020 at 00:18
Fair enough - I still think too much is made of attributing ‘feminine’ or ‘masculine’ value to these ways of thinking, as if this ‘holistic’ method is...
April 03, 2020 at 15:30
Not necessarily - this is an assumption based on perception of past experience, and both tribes contributed to a self-fulfilling prophecy in this way....
April 03, 2020 at 15:18
Again, this is a value perspective. What mattered to women in this sense were the relationships, the potentiality, rather than the actuality. So inter...
April 03, 2020 at 09:35
I think we need to be more mindful of what happens when we attribute a masculine-feminine dichotomy to potential/value concepts such as ‘power’. It po...
April 03, 2020 at 09:06
I think there is more complexity to this than you’re making out. I will agree that there are many variables in the way that we think and feel and valu...
April 03, 2020 at 01:13
Not necessarily. It could also be a case of “This world would be perfect, if only...”
April 01, 2020 at 14:49
I’m inclined to agree with Congau here - plus, I think your analogy is too simplified. The decalogue seems more like a set of top-down limitations on ...
April 01, 2020 at 12:39
:up:
April 01, 2020 at 10:43
It seems to me that our perception of ‘things’ depends on which level of awareness we are referring to. There are three-dimensional things or objects,...
April 01, 2020 at 06:54
Ok, maths and physics are not my strength, so bear with me. A laser speed gun does measure how long it takes for the laser to be reflected off the car...
April 01, 2020 at 01:20
Well, I guess my position isn’t neo-positivism at all! I agree that metaphysical statements - those that are irreducible to scientific hypotheses - ar...
March 31, 2020 at 15:02
A lot of what you’re saying is not making complete sense to me in relation to what I’ve written. I will do what I can to clarify from my end. There IS...
March 31, 2020 at 13:38
The measuring event is the act of you (or the measuring device you use) measuring the speed of the passing car. Let’s say that you use a laser speed g...
March 31, 2020 at 00:57
No mathematical concept needed. That dimensions are necessarily spatial is an assumption; they’re a relational structure, applicable to all informatio...
March 30, 2020 at 15:55
The measurement of ‘time’ that we know is a value attributed to the interval between two events. So when we measure time, this is two-dimensional info...
March 30, 2020 at 10:41
First of all, the definition I offered initially was a dictionary definition, but I also provided definitions for both physics and meta- which suggest...
March 30, 2020 at 09:01
I’ve already offered definitions of ‘meta-‘ as well as ‘metaphysics’. Metaphysical information is not JUST human experience - it is from human experie...
March 30, 2020 at 08:09
“Philosophy of science is a sub-field of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science. The central questions of thi...
March 30, 2020 at 07:01
Well, the first three definitions I offered are dictionary definitions. My last sentence states the meaning of metaphysics as I interpret it personall...
March 30, 2020 at 03:42
Those who interpret scientific explanations are invariably not doing science - mostly they’re armchair scientists and dilettantes, popular science jou...
March 29, 2020 at 11:01
Physics: the branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy. Meta-: with, after or beyond; more comprehensive, transc...
March 29, 2020 at 09:06
As far as I can see, Popper considered metaphysics to be relevant to science, but still ‘unscientific’ as such. We can employ metaphysics in the scien...
March 29, 2020 at 08:20
Agreed. Ignorance, isolation or exclusion of metaphysics is not scientific. Having said that, science often attempts to conceal or constrain metaphysi...
March 29, 2020 at 03:12