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It was in no way my intention to. I anticipate and expect that he will correct me in any way that my statements might misrepresent him. Still, from pa...

I’ve noticed that @"apokrisis" hasn’t responded to a number of your questions, so I’ll do my best to do so in my honest interpretations of his state o...

Thanks for the reply. Yes, there is the connotative issue of modernity vs. primitivity at play, and all that this might imply. Only want to here point...

While I fully agree that objective knowledge - hence either perfectly impartial knowledge or a relatively impartial knowledge that aims toward the for...

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I don't disagree with this, but find it agreeing with my previous post. "Objective knowledge" cannot be interpreted as a (physical) object whose attri...

A very well thought-out OP. I don't know if I should throw this monkey-wrench into the wheels, but I will. For science and philosophy to converge on t...

True, that.

Shit. I once drove on just such a road on my way to Colorado from California. It was very late at night and pitch black. Thing is, I was thinking abou...

This is intended for one and all: Though my current conviction makes me partly dogmatic about the two being equivalent, I’m at the same time curious t...

It's easy to understand why. I don't mean to suggest that I knew him personally; I didn't; still: “Only the good die young,” comes to mind in thinking...

Yes. But in @"apokrisis"'s poignantly expressed questioning: :razz: OK. I'll bugger off now.

An entertaining read. Well … We will someday hold that horizon in our hands, by gosh! We just need to run faster toward it, that’s all. BTW, I am here...

The posturing guru speaketh. Bravo!

It agrees quite well. BTW, I have fond memories of Gould's various takes on sociobiology - albeit with some disagreements in some of the details. I th...

:up: Cool. Thanks

When so loosely understood, what then isn't? Take metaphysics. It is inferred theory and it is tested against a rubric of reason, it has deductive pre...

Yes. In absolutely full agreement. (Ergo the importance of trust and the significance of betrayal (of trust), including that of willful deceptions.) O...

I'll again propose and argue that his attribution is due to inference - much of it unconscious and hence automatic - and not due to (first-person) obs...

OK, to state what should be obvious to those science savvy, such as yourself, one does not - and cannot - empirically test a theory inferred from data...

I didn't say "currently untested". I said "currently untestable". A major difference for those science savy. Ah, I see. My occurrence as a first-perso...

So you're claiming that you (or anyone else) can observe what I'm remembering right now? I won't even push the issue by addressing those good or bad v...

Maybe, but this would be contingent on how one defines and thereby interprets "mind". So how do you define mind? As two examples among many: 1) a body...

Thanks.

As to definitions: Science: any conceivable field of knowledge, including that of theoretical fartology any field of study that is necessarily founded...

Why should it? It’s not like this ultimate beetle in the box called “consciousness”, aka lived experience, in any way matters - all the more so were i...

To try clarify what was suggested, by me at least: If crows can count, then crows (as with apes and other lesser animals) obviously cannot count the w...

Oh wow. Very nice. Its a smaller world than I thought. Glad you liked it.

Even if so, life, generally speaking, can still be often enough shitty ... and by whom would life have been so certified? A shit-loving certifier? :ra...

And for a bit of cultural exchange: All this ongoing talk of bluegrass, strong spirits, and the Celts with their descendants brings to mind a 1997 alb...

Interesting. But I find that a distinction can be made between necessary dyads and unnecessary dyads (however it would be best to lignuistically disti...

Thanks for engaging with what I've previously asked! Yes, you are quite right. (Realized this after posting, but deemed that editing it would be a bit...

That's OK. Thanks

I'm not getting this. Edit: A predator's perceived prey that stands out perceptually isn't separate from the prey's environment? "A quantity" is an un...

I of course accept this, but so far fail to see its significance. Rather than focusing on the absolute exactitude of things in the physical world (whi...

Alright, so you're saying (via your quote) that tomatoes are not quantifiable? As to the "exactness" of what a gallon consists of, this applies to all...

I'm in agreement. Could try to splurge on the idea a little, but am thinking this would only muddle matters. However, in relation to what has been so ...

Yes to the first; no to the second. That said, thanks for the informative reply. What you say of logic makes sense, but then, it also unintentionally ...

I’m currently tired, so my bad if I’m reading you wrong. You reply as though I’m pushing you into buying something and you’re not yet prepared to buy ...

Yea, one way to tersely address this is that the cogency of scientific knowledge is in many ways contingent on the occurrence of numbers but couldn't ...

Yes, its an accurate interpretation of my view. As apokrisis illustrates, these questions will be contingent on one's - hopefully self-consistent and ...

Object identity is not an identical property to that of what the law of identity stipulates. I'd like to rephrase the latter (for better clarity) in t...

Ha! But then on what grounds would - needless to add, insentient - global constraints on what is and can be (the Heraclitean logos, so to speak, since...

Yea, I very much noticed that too. :smile: I find this quote quite beautiful. :up:

Well, OK. Maybe this is nothing worthy of debate. All the same: As a fallibilist, I'm as confident as one can be that no one can ever infallibly settl...

:grin: :up: Fair enough. And since you're at work, I won't push too much in this direction. All the same, even if what you say might be true in regard...

BTW, while I can't speak for apokrisis's metaphysical outlook, Peirce would have it that laws of nature evolve as global habits exactly via globally f...

I've addressed both of them, with a slash for concision of expression, in that the occurrence of both are dependent on basic laws of thought. (edit: t...

Here in reference to the OP’s basic contention: Do you uphold that the basic principles/laws of thought which Aristotle brought to light are emergent ...

Yes, I suppose the issue is to me fully metaphysical regardless of the perspectives one may hold in relation to it. All the same, no worries. I was ju...