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Fine Doubter

['Member']Joined: July 27, 2019 at 13:02Last active: June 07, 2022 at 12:555 discussions195 comments
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Retired clerical officer

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Is there an intent in this piece of yours? Can you explain it? Would you want to explain it?
June 07, 2022 at 12:58
Not so fast. We've established that you are the street interviewer, himself. Now you try to claim that you are "petty"?
June 07, 2022 at 12:53
Yes, and it is manageable, if we manage it. Peirce didn't think anything remotely what Rocco says. And neither does he dismiss sender and medium. Peir...
June 07, 2022 at 12:44
The dumbed down so called "truth" / "falsity" tables were at best a "blind alley" in Susan Haack's opinion. That is all the cynical sophistry and phar...
June 07, 2022 at 12:34
I like what I think you are saying. I have always thought like this since infancy. So many people around me tried to crush this. Metaphors are rather ...
June 07, 2022 at 12:24
M777, this is exactly the point I started by making. In protesting how different you are, you would surely allow for them to be their authentic selves...
June 07, 2022 at 12:06
If an M777 isn't witty, has he still got his wits about him? I didn't watch the experiment but what's to preclude wit? Why would you so heavily imply ...
June 07, 2022 at 11:59
That's good if you do. But your taste and sense of confidence doesn't conflict with some others' at any moment, hence you were probably reading too mu...
June 07, 2022 at 11:44
It mustn't be forgotten meanwhile, that you probably wouldn't answer anyone in the street at all, who asked you any question at all - or you shouldn't...
June 07, 2022 at 11:35
So that it can be.
August 26, 2021 at 17:36
There are numbers in Nature in the form of recursions, which a lot of prominent personalities make great show of "not" understanding. When they are ca...
August 26, 2021 at 11:43
It supports Kant, but others say it opposes him because they only see the cases where it isn't (much) the case. I think developmental experience suppo...
August 26, 2021 at 09:58
Baudrillard is quite cheeky, he knows as well as I do the original is not "artificial" or fake, but he is trying to say that at the level of publicity...
August 26, 2021 at 09:24
For your enjoyment a vector diagram: https://www.friesian.com/images/onto-14.gif I've only just discovered that site, https://www.friesian.com/ (it is...
August 26, 2021 at 08:59
Speculating what gods can do is not the best starting point because I intuit that gods were always meant as a metaphor for a metaphor, even for people...
August 26, 2021 at 08:46
:rofl: It can seem that way because our imagination is the laboratory atop our shoulders. Also since Hume (or Bacon) we have all been taught not to us...
August 26, 2021 at 08:10
In what sense do you mean "create"? Are you talking about awareness in perception? To piece together or discern might be what you mean? I think Phenom...
August 26, 2021 at 07:38
Incommensurability in the sense of using different scales (or spectrums / continuums of scale) to measure has never been sensational. Angels on pinpoi...
August 26, 2021 at 07:25
I've scarcely read this sort of thing anywhere except in SpLD literature (and the odd hint in Husserl commentaries, and, more vaguely, Max Black's com...
August 25, 2021 at 21:37
Some simple ones are 100 or 99 per cent synthetic and the more complex they get the greater the analytical proportion of it. Any educational psycholog...
August 25, 2021 at 18:50
Great analogy! :grin:
August 24, 2021 at 23:03
Not complete removal, so much as simply setting different issues in separate view as much as is needed to avoid conflating and confusing them. For exa...
August 24, 2021 at 23:02
Imposing some "Absolute" on others (which has been done, always accompanied by some form talk of same). Whilst maths for example isn't a complete lang...
August 24, 2021 at 22:36
It's the same world as the only world there is, it isn't a different reality.
August 24, 2021 at 22:31
That was meant as an illustration (sample) of how analogy tells us something about separate things, even though it doesn't tell us exactly the same ab...
August 24, 2021 at 22:29
I think all philosophy, within and across the oeuvres of all writers / thinkers, is in spectrums / continuums. A few have flown a flag of an "ism" - w...
August 24, 2021 at 13:32
The position at 1 is to pause for thought to figure out how many possibilities there are and prioritise them for examination or trial. The position at...
August 24, 2021 at 13:16
Lots of racketeers make money out of the dumbed down so-called "MBTI". In the real one which I've done, your reading of yourself is subjective and you...
August 24, 2021 at 13:04
That's more like Heidegger's version (he traded on his Husserl connection so that most people are too confused to tell them apart). Some flaws in Huss...
August 24, 2021 at 09:57
https://www.julianbaggini.com/ Indeed did I not add three paragraphs in explanation?
August 23, 2021 at 17:24
In the United States combined with other powers, money is the reason chaos has been made greater in societies claiming to have a "god" and my acquaint...
August 23, 2021 at 17:23
Sharing your views is a kind of mutual leading by example. I didn't say change people (that's their job, if and as much or as little as they want to),...
August 23, 2021 at 17:00
If not sending straight from a publisher, I use abebooks.co.uk. I like using overlapping secondary sources to build up my own "pictures" of what vario...
August 23, 2021 at 15:13
That's because I made several interrelated points, which you seem to be getting alright with surface reason, but your despair imposed on others then o...
August 22, 2021 at 07:07
Seriously, this is where your and my leadership comes in, by example. If we examine it ourselves, we can pass it on. Alkis looked like he could help a...
August 22, 2021 at 05:49
You are now actually discussing your own questions! What about if to make yourself useful you could help people become less mechanical by thinking for...
August 22, 2021 at 05:45
This is profound. But huge amounts of research has been done, then unjustly forgotten. Every now and again a new researcher cites older research - exa...
August 22, 2021 at 05:23
Chaos is an ideal, a fiction. Disorder is relative. It means in effect complexity. Complexity scientists (they are called that because they got chucke...
August 22, 2021 at 04:26
This is a very interesting point. And it doesn't help "theism" (or only a little in some people's minds), overall. In my young day "crea-tion" meant (...
August 22, 2021 at 04:02
Wanting to "end" it? With a title like that, I'll get it going! This came to me as I was sat here living my useful life: "epistemology = degrees of be...
August 21, 2021 at 21:13
~~~ continued from previous ~~~ Jack Cummins: "In response to your query about how it is possible to convince someone to act in a way which is 'good' ...
August 21, 2021 at 20:55
John Eriugena brought texts to Aachen in the nick of time before the Vikings (who were "berserk" at the time) destroyed most Irish records.
August 21, 2021 at 19:36
Of course it's enough because if you apply it in your own relationships with others you will be able to convey it by example, especially if you point ...
August 21, 2021 at 19:34
Real metaphysics is the property of all the public (Meinong deals with the optional religious module to this for which you need sound phenomenology, s...
August 21, 2021 at 19:21
But you're out of your depth among agnostics. Thus, Mr Dimosthenis9, we have had the fact that most people replaced "god" already. Some people, with b...
August 21, 2021 at 19:14
But only institutional faith, which is so often a distraction from the real thing, as both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche lamented
August 21, 2021 at 18:29
You have to live in dread of becoming useless :gasp:
August 21, 2021 at 18:26
He is a "Doctor" of it no less. that morals and morale are what's important to God and not religion. a jagganauth is your vaunted "tank" and material ...
August 21, 2021 at 18:24
No, but you might on your own patch.
August 21, 2021 at 13:02
Thank you, I was underestimating the impact of the events around Justinian and the iconoclasts. There was big evil around Cyril of Alexandria (involvi...
August 21, 2021 at 13:00