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First off, thanks for the thoughtful reply. Your views are much appreciated. Ah, well said. Yes, I find there is distinction to be made between immora...

Humans throughout history have conceived of many different possible worlds. Not all these possible worlds which exist among humans as concepts are wit...

Concepts are crucial to cognition and to understanding of that perceived, but are in themselves extra-empirical. One for example does not perceive the...

Nice exposition of Zeno! Yes, I’m in agreement with you as to the non-discreteness of space.

Thanks! Tricky counterexample. My current best thoughts: Unless the individual will then walk with the explicit intention (and pleasure) of killing so...

On second thought, scratch the example I just gave of Achilles and the tortoise in finite quanta of space. While I still see deeper problems with such...

To the best of my understanding, not within process philosophy. I’ll first try to better explain my own current stance: It's the the very marker you a...

I'm not yet comprehending this to my liking. To my current understanding, an infinite series is the very thing which makes something otherwise perfect...

Funny, I previously assumed that to be self-explanatory. But now that you've pointed that out, yes, sure, of course.

Here's a concrete example that might help out: In one's morning routine, ought one brush one's teeth before brushing one's hair or, otherwise, brush o...

Nice thread and OP! I myself find the issue of blameworthiness/praiseworthiness to basically reduce down to the issue of causation—as in, what cause i...

:blush: Cheers!

Having read much, if not most, of Darwin’s works, I judge that just as Darwin was opposed to the notion of what become known as Social Darwinism, he w...

Yes, per Dawkins, chickens are literally nothing more than an egg’s way of replicating itself. Hence, all phenotypes (both physical and psychological)...

To be laconic about things: no. But then many an ontological perspective would need to be addressed to back this up - perspectives that would amount e...

Interesting perspective! My own slant is that in physical reality there can be no absolutely integral physical being as is symbolized by the number on...

Well, the issue to me was and remains the conflux of pure mathematical thought and empirical reality. There often (although not always) is no tidy coh...

Cool. Thanks. Just to be clear: when it comes to the realm of pure mathematical thought, I can see it both ways and so remain on the fence; but when i...

In that case, I’ll let this thread be. But I confess, to me, this conflux of mathematical thought with “magic” and “extraordinary vision” not bound by...

Just as a polygon with infinite sides of equal length would be empirically indiscernible form a perfect circle—this irrespective of how close one obse...

OK. Thanks again.

Right. What you say could make sense to me, as in the two truths are not separate in the world as is but are instead maybe even indiscernibly entwined...

Thanks for the feedback. I find myself agreeing with much of what you state, but do find currently grave difficulties with what I boldface here: There...

Thanks for the reference. I’ll add it to my library. Though I’ve yet to read the entire work, to quote from page 17: My last post was strictly address...

I'm wanting to explore a technicality and see how, or if, it resonates. (FYI, this correlates with parts of something I'm currently working on.) In an...

Seems reasonable. The “free auto-self-augmentation” to me so far translates into a literal free will to pursue closer proximity to whatever objective ...

Sorry. I missed that connection. OK, but, as you well know, you are not the only English user of that word. Other people do use it in wider contexts t...

If @"TiredThinker" had something else in mind, he can of course provide a different answer. For my part, though: Certainty comes in different degrees ...

Here's what will likely be a controversial post for many regarding the issue of faith. All which follows will assume that “faith” is here interpreted ...

I should start with the observation that we don't share the same ontological models of reality. That mentioned, I think of it this way when I put my o...

My late night answer: This will in large part depend on whether these incorporeal beings are zero dimensional; and to a far lesser extent, on the size...

As I tried to explain, to my thinking quantity can only be represented via math - such that at the very least rudimentary math is a representation of ...

Hmm, I find the issue more intimately entwined with whether or not quantity in fact occurs within the cosmos. I find the stipulation that it does not ...

:grin: Yes, OK. Understandable. BTW. not that I’m saying this is what you were getting at but, I had a hunch this topic might inadvertently awaken tho...

Here evidencing that this is always true would be difficult at best. So I wont engage in such arguments. That said, it is however not impossible or in...

I think it makes a lot of sense. I’ll complement what you’ve written by adding that via vision, for example, our body is other relative to us as first...

Apropos to directional smell, turns out research does evidence directional, else stereo, smell in humans. Given that most other mammals have a keener ...

A well written OP. You’ve touched upon passion vs. reason. Here only want to present the case that Hume’s stipulation that “reason is a slave to the p...

Since you asked: I'd think it a hallucination, or at the very least as not having anything to do with what can take place in the objective world, this...

While I’m here, getting back to the OP: Metaphysics might be viewed as being in part comprised of discerning just how many philosophers it takes to ch...

Yea, my point being about the same.

OK. Thanks. As an example, though I do not uphold the claim of "no atheists in foxholes", I do have evidence that some atheists no longer act accordin...

This can be in full accord to "not necessarily equating". To be clearer, do you find that hypocrisy in what is maintained in praxis and what is profes...

In many a way I agree, but how would you account for discrepancies such as these: I’ve met self-proclaimed non-spiritual atheists that uphold this met...

This is mouth dropping to me. I'll highlight them for you: Having done that, have a nice day.

Are the examples I just provided to this very effect rationally or empirically in any way contradictory to - or else do they in any way not cohere to ...

OK. So your contentions that it is an egregious - by which I understand “outstandingly bad” - generalization comes down to an opinion that you can pro...

Thanks for the corrections. Bad online reference apparently. Yes it now seems to be the latter. A best inference on my part, The axiom was indeed intr...

Thanks for that! :up: The whole article reverberates quite well with me. As what I find to be a somewhat humorous apropos to what's here quoted: One’s...

Tricky question in so far as I too am a construcitivst in many a sense, though by no means a radical relativist. I'll use the notion of scientific pro...