I'm not in disagreement with this. I do tend to think that most people, be they theists or atheists, associate the term God with an omnipotent psyche ...
I know Schopenhauer borrowed ideas from the East, but didn't catch him entertaining the notions of Nirvana or Moksha. My point was that stopping all h...
Yes, I recall that statement. What makes his bundle theory of the self imperfect is the presence of what some might term a unified first person point ...
Hey, my bad. I guess I should slow down a bit. You do understand that Hume's bundle theory of the self basically states that there is no such thing as...
You didn't quite reply to my question. But, so to address your latest post via a quote from the former: I didn't initially reply to this aspect of the...
At the risk of being redundant, and assuming in good faith that this is to be interpreted as written, into which of these categories would you put Hum...
Ha, you beat me to it. Haven't read it in a while but in my notes-laden copy of David Hume's "Principal Writings on Religion including Dialogues Conce...
Hmm, a causer does not convey "someone or something that causes"? As an aside, the unmoved mover of old time philosophies - i.e. the uncaused cause - ...
That there must be an event that is uncaused is reasoning that I think can only apply to linear models of the universe. One alternative to this are th...
Granted that the notion of non-hyperbolical paradise is fantasy, I'm still curious - this since many people of diverse backgrounds do hold onto some s...
I greatly like this statement. But I so far also don’t find anything in Hume that would at all contradict its stance. Hume was about prioritizing our ...
One might be overlooking contexts. Hume’s Treatise was in many a way a reply to both Descartes and Berkeley. Understand the logic used by these two pr...
I think I saw Reason once. Far away and hunched over a bit as though engaged in some activity. I approached but then the bastard turned a corner in th...
Yup, that was my intention. So, given that the laws of thought are universal, in this sense alone, we do all think alike. But I get it, you're asking ...
Curios to see where this question leads. It could be a really abrupt dead-end. Do you take the laws of thought to be laws of nature? I'd like to strik...
I don’t find that love and hate mutually necessitate each other. Up and down, or left and right, these are dyads where the presence of one necessitate...
At least 6.3% of global GDP is spent on subsidizing fossil fuels (on welfare for the oil industry). And how much is spent to subsidize renewable energ...
So the scientists of the world really are conspiring against us in diabolical ways? The so called facts of approximately 50% of the planet's tropical ...
Feel like I'm being singled out here. Darn it. :yikes: Well, my limited comprehension on the matter is that there are actual potentials and potential ...
You lose me a bit with your terminology. All the same, from a previous post: In your system of representations, is "Zero" (non-being) the same as "G*D...
Maybe a misstep on my part. In fairness, my point was to illustrate the difference between experience-based epistemology of time, and reasoning based ...
In the context of your full reply, its almost a trick question for me: yes when addressed epistemologically, but no when addressed ontologically - ont...
While I admire the enthusiasm for philosophy you appear to have, I disagree with a number of your premises - as best as I can make them out. I, for ex...
I conceptualize it differently. Something more akin to stratifications along a determinancy-indeterminacy spectrum. But I greatly doubt I'd be able to...
Darn. Did a copy and paste on the web address from a web search and ... buggers. :grin: But I tweaked the address and now it's worked for me in the th...
Thank you for the info! To my ear, though, the second sentence doesn't seem to convey the same connotations as the first - even thought the term autom...
An open ended, somewhat tangential, question regarding proper use of terminology. “Instinct” has two senses: that of a) innate (genotypic) complex beh...
In support of these posts: One big myth about medicine: We know how drugs work - from The Washington Post Its a bit outdated, written in 2015, but I t...
Yea, abstractions we're aware of are conceptual to us. Well, you're the one who brought up temperature fields. I was only using temperature and pressu...
Wanted to add that they also relate by way of causation, specifically they (to the extent they are considered different) bidirectionally cause each ot...
So then I'll ask: if a temperature field and an electromagnetic field occupy the exact same space at the exact same time, in which way are they two di...
Hm, not my field of expertise. To simplify things for shmucks such as myself: I'd imagine that if they do occupy the same space at the same time, it w...
:grin: Fields of what? Na, I'm in general agreement with @"petrichor" on this one. Were two fields to occupy the exact same space at the exact same ti...
As does space. Gravitational singularities - the center of black holes - are currently either considered to be volumeless or unknowable in terms of sp...
Hypothesize with me for a moment that the supposed omega point of existence is that of a universal Moksha, or Nirvana - a non-hyperbolic complete libe...
Might get back to this later. Short on time for now. If we are to entertain ancient concepts, 0 is a representation of a circle. As per Pythagorean ph...
The concept of 1 - of oneness - is however found. Expressions of quantity are obtained, at the very least, via mathematical object(s) in set theory an...
No, I'd say those are complex relations regarding quantity. In other words, they would be pointlessly meaningless - correct me if I'm wrong here - in ...
You might be using language in a very specific sense. In which case, yes, relations between quantities is not a human language used to convey meaning....
I'd say bring it down to Earth a bit. We learn as toddlers about mathematics how? By noticing quantity in reality and the relations between quantities...
I'm in agreement with @"Wayfarer" in that Kant focuses on issues that precede the "epistemic knowledge-justification method" of modern empirical scien...
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