Pantagruel

I like the energy in the Lounge.

Yeah, not that part. ;) Let's not forget the state of medical science, science in general, at that time. But utilizing radical metaphysical doubt to e...

Yes, except that it isn't really "missing," is it? It's right here. That's why I stand by many of Descartes' fundamental insights.

Hmmm. I'm thinking it is evident from the general principles I outlined. I mean, it's either matter, or energy, or...something else. It's that "someth...

You mean "over-mind" isn't accepted clinical usage?

I believe that consciousness itself is subject to a special type of reciprocity relationship, such that its own nature is ultimately determined by the...

Nice! I'm very much interested in reintegrating empiricism into a more holistic perspective. Spencer's First Principles, as dated as it is, still pres...

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Is scientific belief when it promotes itself to the status of scientism subject to the same criticism?

Mischief keeps philosophy interesting.

Yes, I'm definitely exploring the theory-ladeness of the observational viewpoint, and suggesting this contains an embedded teleology. Kind of a 'natur...

I don't think it's circular. The cultural "milieux" precedes and is not dependent on the minds which it subsequently affects.....

Right, so we can't really differentiate between our personal use of concepts and the cultural-collective heritage within which those concepts evolved ...

Is thinking mental reading, or is reading verbalized thinking?

I have long known that if I read aloud, or at least mouth the words, I comprehend almost effortlessly, and far faster and better than if I have to rea...

I'm actually right now updating our provincial AEFI (Adverse Event Following Immunization) form for special tracking of Covid - it now includes a gend...

Yes, unfortunately operating in bad-faith has become almost a sub-culture in our society.

Just out of curiosity, how exactly do you know for certain whether a given statistical trend is representative of an individual choice or a cultural i...

Equal rights mean nothing without equal opportunities to exercise them.

I guess you could view Kant's antinomies as evidence of the paradoxical nature of the relationship between the subjective and the objective....

Ironically, the chapter I read this morning, immediately after posting here, was called "Ultimate Religious Ideas" in Spencer's book First Principles....

Devil's advocate, maybe it's not as important whether there are bad posts as whether there are any good ones? Digital real estate is cheap, and it pro...

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I think that living in a world constitutes "embracing it in its totality," to the extent that is possible. Whether there are a multiplicity of partial...

To a certain extent this is obviously true. As Ernst Cassirer describes it In a certain sense the historian is much more of a linguist than a scientis...

Story of my life.

After I graduated in 1990 I spent 3 years reading and writing every day for 6-8 hours. I was working on something called "The Art of Self-creation" wh...

Think about two propositions: It is wrong to take advantage of someone during negotiations. It is good business to press the advantage in negotiations...

First Principles by Herbert Spencer Wingfield's Hope by Dan Needles

I got the impression I was commenting on topic posted on a philosophy forum. I wasn't aware that this matter had privileged, private status (since nor...

If I may, you said, "when you take it as a problem, it becomes a problem.:" Raul wasn't taking it as a problem and neither was I. That leaves only you...

I don't see where Raul says it is a problem. Statistical populations are a basic fact of reality. Sounds perhaps like you are somehow offended by the ...

I like the systems structured around the rule by an intellectual class specifically cultured for that role, Plato, Comte. They seem quite reasonable t...

I don't get that was specifically said that Jack, although perhaps that is the intent. I do read the wish for a "ruling-class hero" (instead of "worki...

My guess would be it alludes to the wealthy who tend to benefit from the system of inequality and therefore are in a position to exert a strong influe...

Because I think music speaks to the soul, and I love Funk and Soul music, and it kind of speaks to the topic at hand... You Make Your Own Heaven And H...

Well, people have - or can have - a degree of control over their habitual behaviours. The terms "instinct," "sub-conscious," "habit," are all construc...

I really think this is where it is most important. Whether philosophically or socially, our unexcavated beliefs can be among the most powerful, and th...

Yes, I think it is important to excavate the true depths and nuances of "prejudice." Essentially, even something like the phenomenological reduction c...

Interesting. I believe that every human being has particular weaknesses that they are subject to, as well as particular strengths. Very often people m...

I hope you'll be twice as hard on me! ;)

I'd be good with that!

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Objective measurement is only valid within limits. Whether it is the limit of the accuracy of a device or the limit of our current knowledge. And the ...

The Human Place in the Cosmos by Max Scheler

If you were at a concert, yes. Also, what if he was "objectively" out of tune, but so was the entire band, uniformly? Then he would be objectively in ...

You think that "being objective" is typically used in the sense of "possessing objective knowledge?" I'd have to strongly disagree. I'd submit that in...

Maybe not, but that is definitely part of the standard under which democracy operates: Decisions about laws typically involve a combination of validit...

There is a difference between "an objective truth" and "being objective". From a strictly theoretical standpoint, if "being objective" means adopting ...

I think the concept of instrumentality only focuses the question of the interaction between mind and matter. An instrument is an object in which knowl...