javra

Well, to my best understanding, post-modernists can speak fabricated truth to powers that likewise fabricate truths - without there being any right or...

:grin: :up: Yup, it forms part of my axis mundi as well. :smile:

I'm having a hard time understanding this. To not be presumptuous, can you clarify the following: According to radical relativism, is the "scientific ...

As you've expressed in a post elsewhere last time we chatted, you don't care what I think. All the same: 1) I am speaking for myself: it's my establis...

There’s this saying: one can (try to) lead a horse to water, but … We all consciously or unconsciously cling to some form of what Mircea Eliade termed...

I respect many of your views, but: How is that not blatantly incongruous (this in non-dialetheistic systems, if it needs to be said)? Where “truth” is...

For my part, in the world I live, most people need there being an unquestionable authority in their life. Most of those that then in one or another do...

This hinging on the bifurcation I initially mentioned in my original post, here’s a simple argument for (some) mathematical statements having such "tr...

These are far more abstract conceptualizations than that which I was addressing: the semantic which we, currently, in our culture, symbolize by "1" be...

Not sure what you mean by this. Chess has a long history and has had changes over time in different cultures. For example:

Does that to you then imply that something like 1 + 1 = 2 is constructed within specific culture contexts, such that the quantity "1" is arbitrary rat...

While I’m no math wiz either, I think (else presume) I know enough about maths to express the following (may I be corrected where appropriate): Some m...

OK. Understood. To be clear, my own vantage in this discussion wasn't concerned with the issue of whether circles are perfect in the sense you here sp...

Almost makes it sound as though the perfect circle - being here a mathematical abstraction delineated by its mathematical definition and, hence, not o...

Ha. Not that I agree (e.g., there is no one universal exemplar of the perfect unicorn), but, if so, it can then likewise also lead to unicorn based te...

Just wanted to point this out: By entailment: If a perfect circle is no more objective/true/real than is a unicorn, then the number pi is no more obje...

OK. Thanks.

Glad to hear. :up:

I can get that, but then can you clarify what you make out of this statement - or else whether you find it erroneous - with emphasis on the highlighte...

This seems to me to hinge one what one means by "direct" and "indirect" realism, and I acknowledge that opinions can vary greatly. It's a bit lengthy,...

This is very unclear to me. What I expressed in relation to Kant's take on space and time is simply that neither space nor time are of themselves phen...

That's the hitch. A perfect circle is realized in this world by all minds which can comprehend it's, granted non-physical, being and, furthermore, all...

Yes, I fully agree with that. I was only addressing the issue that contradictory claims are not necessarily equally fictional ... as per my example of...

I did say "implicit assertion". Which is corroborated by the following. Abstractions are abstracted from concrete givens, and as far as I know there a...

This being a philosophy forum where debates and disagreements unfold, I just find your implicit assertion that objectively perfect givens do not occur...

I'm not selling anything, you. So to you an apeirogon is not an imperfect circle. Hard to comprehend, but fine. What then is an imperfect circle to yo...

Would an oval then be an "imperfect circle" any more than any polygon? Why, when both are clearly not circles but yet resemble circles each in their o...

I thought you were only interested in perfection's application to morality; that perfection being one and the same with Neo-platonic, if not also Plat...

As a minor contention, while contradiction necessitates that something is fictional or else false in any non-dialetheistic system of logic, contradict...

Cool. :smile: I can respect the hypothesis. Since it concerns a possible human physiological sense, it is then open in principle to scientific investi...

:up: Yes, that was my best hunch. :grin: All the same, not being then fully certain, I stated what I stated as a general fact (it should be noted, wit...

Here's why I so far uphold the statement which you've quoted (any and all metaphysical implications of such perspective being to me irrelevant to the ...

In other words: ... to which can also be added, "ignorance is bliss". All this epitomizing philosophies which argue against an examined life

While I’ve got no issues with the use of metaphor/poetry in speech, wanted to point out the following: The usage of the adjective “perfect” would in t...

To put this as colloquially as I can, metaphysical enquiry is the attempt to figure out what reality is really all about. Then there’s those who look ...

And take all the Dionysian fun out of the term’s usage? I don’t know. When someone I'm enamored with tells me they'll see me at 10 o'clock, I'm gonna ...

Which happens to be different wording for this one standard definition of the adjective "perfect"

My two cents worth: There’s an expression I’ve always found humorous: something being “better than perfect”. A superficial look might deem the express...

Thanks. I'll look into it. :up:

I've struggled with this. I've no decisive answer to give. But I think it noteworthy that lesser animals (or even humans) with a heightened sense of s...

Not at all surprising. Although, as a personal pet peeve, I do dislike the way mathematics-specific concepts sometimes overtake more mainstream philos...

Interesting. Its been a while sine I've read the likes of Lock, Hume, and Kant. Still, I so far take a visualized unicorn, for example, to be a "menta...

To imagine something perceptually--such as by visualization--there is needed both duration (time) and distance (space) to that thus imagined. Abstract...

I'm not disagreeing with what you wrote in the previous post. But I want to point out that there is a subtle difference between what one believes (con...

In fully agreement with this quote, and considering the metaphysical issue of truth's occurrence: Let truth be here tersely understood as: awareness’s...

Though I’m not sure how to parse this in Kantian terms, awareness per se is in no way phenomenal: it has no look, no smell, no sound, etc. But then no...

Which is why I find the esoteric can only always be fallacious by default to those who fall back onto the belief that they live in a fundamentally mea...

Trying to reorient this from the quagmire of defining genocides which have yet to be fulfilled … ---------- Israel paints Palestinians as 'animals' to...

Thanks much for the reply. :grin: I’m myself a perennialist, meaning I choose to belief that most mystical experiences—from the globally shamanic to t...

From what I take to be the Taoist perspective, or at least my own take of it, the good is found in harmony between yin and yang which then serves as a...