Isn't physical typically contrasted by mind and abstracts respectively ...? Mind is not abstract; abstracts may be contingent on mind. Mind could be e...
(I was just discussing this with some other folks) Scientific progress: The Flagellants (superstitious fools) probably made the Black Plague worse. La...
A noble cause shared by many. :) Incidentally, my interest in philosophy was motivated by much the same. I'll just add that philosophy isn't necessari...
Science is more methodological than axiomatic/foundationalist. Something like self-critical, bias-minimizing model ? evidence convergence, where tenta...
You mean realism as opposed to idealism ("mental monism")? May be a bit peripheral here, unless I misunderstand. Well, I'm definitely not going by sol...
Introspection illusions are inconsistent, bad evidence, for a reason. Purely phenomenological experiences are not of something extra-self; qualia are ...
@"ArguingWAristotleTiff", ever had an urge to get into a fistfight with a colleague or a homophobe on a bus or whatever? For the most part people don'...
Stranger Things was cool. With season 1 they did a great job capturing an 80s feel. Africa Should I Stay or Should I Go Whip It Runaway Time After Tim...
Seems to me that change takes time, so as to be classified as change in the first place. Which, together with the mentioned empirical perspective (no ...
The (macro) evidence is what relativity describes most accurately to date. Samples: Tests of general relativity » Perihelion precession of Mercury Gra...
The macro-domain, @"Metaphysician Undercover", as opposed to the micro-domain of quantum mechanics, as mentioned by . Much effort has gone into and is...
, scientific models are descriptions (contrast with prescriptions). Evidence is the justification. I don't really think it's reasonable to ask for a t...
I'm thinking it just means that our language can be confusing. We're not accustomed to tense-less chat. So, the block universe = what was, what is, an...
, in the link, observer A found the lightning strikes occurred simultaneously, and observer B found they didn't. However, after applying the Lorentz t...
Not sure what to make of it. As thought experiments go it's interesting enough. If we were to entertain reified abstracts (à la Platonism), then inert...
@"Henri", this far you've ... made a number of bare assertions, declarations and postulates, shifted the burden of proof, admitted that you can't actu...
Nonsense. Every example of imaginary or fictional things you can come up with, and every example of evident things, comprise evidence. (But was your p...
Another brief story for your reading pleasure: 1400-or-so years ago a warlord walked into a cave in the countryside by himself. He stayed in there for...
Check up on shifting the burden of proof. You have some work ahead apparently, as also suggested earlier: Indeed ... This stuff reads a bit like an ob...
It would seem that we humans sometimes do our best to do away with unnecessary suffering. Maybe we're just better at it than this God you keep mention...
, why do you just defer to The Bible? :o What's wrong with all these texts anyway...? (As an aside, I'm kind of partial towards The Silmarillion mysel...
Does this make sense? Fortunately debilitating depressions hit less than, say, half the world's population.† Therefore they're not necessary condition...
Hey , I notice you didn't quite respond to the dilemma; it consist in two incompatible possibilities. Which one would you like to entertain, the stron...
, the opening post mostly seems like some (self-serving?) postulates without justification. Anyway, we can't talk about atheism without first having t...
Well, the gravitational effect of Mars on you, around the time of your birth, was significantly less than the spoons you were fed with. Likewise for o...
If you can doubt, then doubt can exist. If doubt cannot exist, then you cannot doubt. If you're doubting, then doubt exists. If doubt doesn't exist, t...
@"cincPhil", how would you justify 1 and 2? (They seem kind of creative or inventive, depending on definitions alone.) Note, though, liking freedom an...
On common usage, subjective is roughly mind-dependent, and objective mind-independent. 1: The conditional seems like a non sequitur, and requires just...
Go figure, @"Wayfarer", it's almost like there is no capable, knowing, willing hotel manager. I wonder why. Poor kids. At least St Jude is picking up ...
Deduction alone can only explicate what’s already contained in premises, yes? So, in a sense, of course valid reasoning is begging the question. Thoug...
I already know that I can be the only solipsist, whether solipsism is or is not the case. Solipsism is a performative contradiction, for example: 1. m...
Self-reference is among the usual suspects (read: pitfalls) of idealism. As mentioned somewhere, mind is typically used as an umbrella term, including...
Suppose we've found some adequate and sufficient understanding of something, for now at least. It seems conceivable that we could then come up with nu...
Judge People By Their Looks? We All Do It—Here's How to Do It More Fairly Alexander Todorov (Princeton University) Big Think 9m:20s Typical human tend...
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