To be accurate, in the first quoted sentences “a cause” should be changed to “causation”—thereby including various types as well as allowing for a plu...
I’m in no way surprised by this. For my part, the main disagreements between us so far concern there being vagueness (potential) devoid of a ready exi...
Though I’ll skip the details, I can very much relate to this understanding. Yes, agreed. It’s what I was looking for with the OP: some process that, w...
Lots of material here. Not sure if all my replies will be worth debating if there are disagreements, and I’m confident enough that there will be. Most...
I’m in a bit of a hurry right now. So a quick reply to a quick reading of your post (may reply in greater detail later on after a rereading): I agree ...
I’m not sure how to here best interpret the term “ideas”—and I have not read Aristotle’s arguments first hand. I so far find it reasonable that at lea...
A guy calls up the city’s unique, Socratic zoo keeper and asks, “What would you term an animal that is half elephant and half rhino?” The zookeeper, s...
I’m on board with your general thought experiment; its good intending. As to your wife’s veto, I believe it may have something to do with a commonsens...
This could be much ado about nothing—and it’s not directly oriented toward your post. Still—as a tangential to the thread—I wanted to express that alt...
(Y) The Monty Python bunch are imo among the best comedians out there. I almost laugh only at the memory of A Fish Called Wanda: “The central message ...
If what wise men say is true about greater knowledge leading to greater awareness of one’s own ignorance, then it must also be true that all the very ...
OK, I’ll defend my previously made argument and see how far it can go. As to (1), true, things are not deterministically set—either biologically or be...
On the philosophical principle of using reasoning in conjunction with one’s ready acquired body of empirical knowledge to establish what is and is not...
Here’re some premises and the resulting conclusions. Where would this go wrong? P1: Antinatalists hold their stance due to a desire for there to not b...
To be honest, this is my intuitive center of gravity as well, so to speak … and I easily project it upon all others. In no way proud of this, when I a...
Yes, yes, all well and good (and very, very nicely stated, too). But how does one answer the rebuttal that, “this is all part of a movement to castrat...
Interesting. To me, for example, the image of a father (an image of masculinity) does bring about inherent notions of tenderness, such as toward his k...
I’m so far unclear as to what this (and the overall thesis) intends to specify. And a lot of topics have been addressed; so the OP may need some furth...
this one: To be clear, the question (and post) was thrown out there in general; not to you in particular. Again, to me, it touches upon what the conce...
Personally, as an aside, I ain’t no real nothing … and am real with myself in so being (yea, deal with the multiple negatives … hopefully, I counted t...
To add some fuel to this fire: This song in part touches upon male homosexuality, so it likely isn’t for the really true macho men out there (unless, ...
Bravo! What, over 30 posts now and no mention yet of size differences as a true measure of a man’s worth!!! Still, shows how far removed this crowd is...
I side with SL on this: Truth cannot contradict truth. As to why one expression over the other, to me it in part has to do with our tendency to projec...
While I’d like it to be this easy, I deeply believe Donald Trump--for example--would hate being around people who act toward him the way he acts towar...
I’m in general agreement. Here’s where it gets even trickier for me: Is the first-person point of view an object/entity, a process/becoming, both, or ...
Thought about it and I’ll give this murky territory a try. I might be coming out of left field with this one. So, some thoughts that I’ll gladly see c...
To my mind, they are. I’ve myself come to similar enough conclusions as yourself. Maybe some of the disagreements in this thread have been due to conf...
In skimming what I previously wrote to you, saw that my use of terms was all over the place—not as sharp as it could have been; things like using the ...
I'm on the verge of blushing here. Not good for my reputation. But hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Cheers. Edit: Btw, I haven’t gotten ...
OK, then in addressing the referents to terms, and in speaking on my own behalf, I currently continue to uphold that while what is reality (and not: w...
Well, all questions can be reduced to philosophical questions. Unless you are unclear on what modern-day notions of empiricism are, then the empirical...
I’d like to give this a try: That daytime follows nighttime follows daytime follows nighttime (etc.) is objective because subjective me and subjective...
As I’ve previously mentioned, I myself don’t have any problem in addressing the term “reality”. My own interpretation of what he’s getting at relies f...
We here agree on what mind consists of (leaving behind possible metaphysical appraisals and expressions of the physical, e.g. Pierce’s notion of effet...
I actually like this option as regard ultimate metaphysical beginnings: the metaphysical beginning is currently unknowable. Still, when claiming that ...
It can well be the one and only uncaused given, for instance. You’ll note that regardless of metaphysics adopted, there will always need to be such an...
I first want to comment on the notion of world peace: World peace seems to be here mentioned, however hypothetically, as though it were some absolute ...
I did a quick reading of both, mostly focusing on Ch. 11. I’ve so far not found any significant disagreements with what he’s written. On the finer sid...
We’re all here biased toward favoring philosophical thought. Most people today think that philosophy lacks any practical value. Kind’a like a lyric I ...
To push the limits a bit, the thought occurred to me that to perceive requires this analytic side (here assumed by me genotypically inherited): either...
We justify our metaphysics differently. To keep things as simple as I can (skipping the justifications for the following conclusions): As I’ve previou...
With my curiosity straying away from the metaphysical for a second: This reminds me of experiments I once learned about where geese (?) chicks were pr...
Boggles the mind why you then bring up notions such as that of the Ein Sof to support your metaphysics. Could easily confuse others as regards what yo...
I’ll only address this part: Here, you confuse awareness with awareness-of. In most, if not all, aspects of life—heck, even in all aspects of out of b...
Lots of questions, to which I don’t currently have an answer to. But why address this as “extra-stuff”. It is no more extra than is the mind-stuff cau...
In what I currently presume to be a parallel stance to your own: There are non-linguistic ways that lesser animals can – and we humans do – associate ...
Personally glad you added Heraclitus into the mix here. If you’ve ever read his fragments, his notion of “Zeus” is to my notion of what I’ve so far te...
With a smiling attitude, you're replies, to me and to others, personally remind me of that popular Metalica tune: something about, "you label me, I la...
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