That seems to be their fear, that I would exclude too many possible meanings in the interest of clarity. But I was inviting them to present their own ...
That may explain why my innocent attempts to define my personal meaning of relevant terms were rejected as promoting some hidden agenda. My only agend...
That reminds me of Plato's negative attitude toward Sophistry. They seemed to be like lawyers, who are not interested --- or don't believe --- in Trut...
Although I don't speak the language of DoubleSpeak, I still think there must be some kernel of insight or wisdom that appeals to liberal-minded academ...
Where did you find that PoMo review written in PM doublespeak? :razz: Doublespeak : deliberately euphemistic, ambiguous, or obscure language. Term fro...
Last night I saw a YouTube video by philosopher Stephen Hicks, who seems to specialize in analyzing PM from a scientific and analytic perspective. He ...
The answer to your OP question seems to hinge on the definition of "philosophy". And that is the implicit topic of my previous post. Some hold to Aris...
I don't know if Jung was that dogmatic about his pigeonholes of human nature and psychological types. But he was an Analytical psychologist, and categ...
I have also been puzzled by some poster's aversion to defining terms. But I gradually came to suspect that it's due to a recent (20th century) split i...
As I understand it, Information can be both permanent (eternal) and temporal (transitory). I illustrate that BothAnd notion by looking at Shannon's bo...
Apparently you are not alone in your apathy toward a rationalized worldview. Most people on this and other forums prefer to express how they feel abou...
Yes. What happens here is philosophical dialogue. Many of us on this forum have no formal philosophical training, but are autodidacts. It's way of lea...
No. That's why philosophical speculations on ultimate truths and causes are always couched in metaphors. Plato's Forms are not real things, but ideas ...
Debates only decide who's boss, not who's correct. Besides, the opposing opinions in this thread are using different criteria : scientific empirical v...
The only evidence we have about anything prior to the BigBang is what we learn from studying the aftermath : the "creation". In my personal worldview,...
Unfortunately, the term "Deist" has gained some debatable baggage over the years, from its origin as simple (pre-big-bang) acknowledgement that the wo...
I agreed that the First Cause is not "universal", in the sense of limited to the known universe. I was just pointing out that the Logos is ubiquitous,...
I adopted the Deist/Logos worldview simply because the Materialist ethos does not even address the fundamental philosophical question : Why? It tells ...
I wasn't making an argument. Just noting that the "authorities" referred-to are highly-credentialed scientists. So your dismissive remarks, implying t...
I suspect that Amen was assuming you'd Google those names if you were really interested (not just dismissive) in how their expert theories "might appl...
Yes. As I reached adulthood, I became an Agnostic because I no longer believed the Bible was the inspired revelation of an omniscient deity. But I cou...
The males and females in this thread seem to have different feelings about Objectification. For men, it's intended as a complement. A wolf-whistle is ...
Of course, male boorishness is Wrong by modern democratic egalitarian standards. That's why the 16th century notion of a "Gentleman" was invoked by up...
Helpful? That depends on what question you're seeking help with. The OP seemed to be questioning the implicit hypocrisy of a 21st century liberated wo...
I don't claim to understand women, or men for that matter, in terms of inherently irrational sexual relations. But your question seems to be confusing...
Yes. Christianity and Islam have made unbelief, and especially apostasy, into a one-way ticket to Hell. That embedded fear may be why I was so slow to...
Formal Theism is a late development in human religion. For thousands of years, Neanderthals and primitive Homo Sapiens were "slaves" of Nature. They h...
This meta-personal imagination reminds me of Bernardo Kastrup's notion of "The Other" and "Mind At Large" in his book, More Than Allegory. After remin...
Relative Imagination : personal subjective knowledge structured into concepts (words) for communication with other subjective perspectives??? Construc...
You were contemplating a rational voluntary belief in a debatable concept. But that's a calculated cost/benefit approach; it's a gamble. It's the rati...
That was Marx's economic-class-based view. But a more general view of the god/man relationship might be Dominant/Submissive. In other words, the gods ...
That assertion may point to a key difference in our worldviews. Your quote makes it seem that Reality is a figment of my individual imagination (solip...
Back in the day, Reductionism was an innovative method of analysis of Nature. Not only was it required to break-down complex systems into bite-size ch...
Yes. I prefer to carve Nature at its joints (i.e. inherent logical categories). But you seem to think there is no inherent logic to Nature, so all cat...
The Blog Glossary is intended to give an Enformationism flavor to common dictionary words, and to give a pertinent definition of neologisms that are f...
Who's confused? I still don't understand your distaste for "distinctions" and "definitions". Without those analytical steps we would have to deal with...
That is essentially how I imagine the axiomatic G*D of the Enformationism thesis. It's not a god of religion to be worshiped, but a Logos of philosoph...
Unfortunately, I am still a troglodyte who doesn't grok "atemporality". In my thesis, I assume that there is a timeless state (Enfernity) from which s...
I wasn't asking about the definition of a "real" thing. I was requesting a succinct definition of your concept of whatever kind of "thing" these extra...
One topic, relevant to time, that I discuss at length in the blog, is the concept of Timelessness. One of my favorite neologisms is "Enfernity" (Infin...
Most people leave very little record of their existence in the overall narrative (history) of the world, except for the genetic information of their o...
I discuss the notion of Time in many blog posts. But at the time I was writing the Enformationism thesis, it wasn't a big issue. Let me know if you se...
I wasn't talking about a Spiritual paradigm, but a Scientific paradigm. But Enformationism is also a religious paradigm-buster, at least compared to t...
An Effect is a physical change. To Affect, is to make a difference emotionally. For psychologists, "Affect" is how inner emotions are displayed in out...
Most people in Western Civilization have been told that the point of terrestrial life is to qualify for a ticket to eternal life in heaven. When Athei...
I scanned the article, but it doesn't say anything about higher dimensions. I assume you are implying that we know those occult planes, not by outward...
The only absolute in my thesis is the axiomatic BEING from which all finite & relative beings are created. This is Aquinas' Necessary Being. Everythin...
Why are you worrying about an event (the Big Sigh) that won't occur for billions of years. Even if you were alive to witness The End, it would be so g...
The notion of Black Holes was a godsend for sci-fi authors. Like the Warp Drive of Star Trek it allows us to fantasize about escaping the downer limit...
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