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Quick question: why can't we throw out self reference with regard to Gödel like they did with Russell's paradox?

In this book on Kant I'm reading it quotes him as saying the thing in itself "are nothing in themselves" but "lie at the basis of these appearances". ...

Since I brought up Heidegger, I wanted to clarify that he seems to say time is prior to space, while Kant says "Space is a necessary a priori represen...

Empirical reasoning and logic go hand in hand in our lives. Kant goes ultra introspective in order to find his schemas. We live in this time and age a...

If there is true randomness in the universe, what ever is random is beyond the control of God

All very interesting. It is hard to know what causes force because we only know it's effects. They say gravity is not a force although it hits like a ...

I don't think you've contradicted Heidegger or that Heidegger contradicts Derrida and Husserl. What philosophy was saying since Kant about the union o...

"Insofar as Da-sein temporalizes itself with regard to its being it is the world... The world is neither objectively present nor at hand, but temporal...

https://www.zacharyfruhling.com/philosophy-blog/strong-emergence-is-holism-not-magic The "further reading" is good too

You reject general relativity and set theory because of your ontology, and your ontology rejects emergence. There is the problem. An object has no wei...

So the cosmological argument was mentioned. Matter is able to be explained according to material laws. If an aspect of eternal time and infinite space...

Dividing an object to find a different scheme of physics leads itself to use terms and ideas from old philosophies without, however, accepting their f...

When are you going to sell all your personal items and give them to poverty stricken places around the world?

To an extent, yes

Very interesting. Experiments on Bell's theorem has information moving instantaneously such that we have to question how space, time, or causality wor...

I don't know about the actual philosophy of science proving something apart from work in the field. Quantum mechanics describes a world different from...

Does substantial mean real in that context? If someone didn't believe the world was real he would be a solipsist

I think Nietzsche was a true philosopher but the number of his original ideas are limited. He had a lot to say about each nonetheless

Mercy takes justice out of account

Maybe but Nietzsche has some good points and also his criticism need to be taken with a grain of salt. Mostly I take psychological points from his wri...

So to wrap this thread up, can we say we don't need to know the full adaptive biology of successive species to know that they evolve from each other? ...

I was talking about letting people free when they deserve a punishment. Such is not good for anyone. Concern and kindness is good, but many Christians...

Aquinas said that an essential infinite past is impossible without God because God alone makes it essential, otherwise it is accidental and dependent ...

Black holes are an examples of inconsistency within pockets of our otherwise rational universe. Below the event horizon causality breaks down and all ...

Logical regress is a logical problem. An infinite past is not a logical problem because it doesn't have to have a completion like a thought does. Last...

Yes. I was rereading Hegel and Heidegger today and I'm really annoyed when philosophers hide ideas behind pretention. I try to find the true meaning b...

An infinite regress in the real world would simply be past time encompassing the negative numbers as they move by the laws of physics. You might find ...

I vote that Peirce's works be permanently purged of odd words and replaced with human language

Phenomenology is about the unbreakable connection between the self and the world as long as we are alive. Peirce agrees with this. Kant, Reinhold, Fit...

Thanks for sharing your wisdom on these types of threads

The West needs criticism and suggestions but saying car driving is sinful is going extreme

Phenomenology has been developing since Kant. I don't think Peirce is so different from all those continental thinkers anyway

Risks are not bad. When you swim in the ocean you risk being attacked by jaws. Every society is different. There is no one rule when it comes to safet...

I love Hegel. I've read all his published books (except philosophy of right). You just have to be careful because he is easy to abuse

If one is not careful in reading Hegel he will simply get an interpretation of philosophy that is not less than schizophrenic

Hi. So it seems to me a number is a "unity" and a set is not a noun but more like a verb. It's our action of containing a unity or many unities or uni...

We all get our ideas from giants

There has been debate since ancient Greece and India over when or if something is a pure unity. If it has pure unity does it have parts at all? If som...

The op sounds like Hegelian marxism to me

I'm unclear as to what problems this is causing

People are social and so do share spiritual ideas. But does your logic imply a new religion cannot start? Every religion was once new

Working on math problems is computation. What does this oppose? It is concept as act. I don't know how this relates to technology

Explain further why act and concept might be opposed

A vicious regress is one that must begin at the beginning but starts at the other end. So going from A to B to A when it should go on to C and infinit...

True mathematics takes philosophical intuition. 5+5 is 5 and 5 and we call it ten. But that is naming, not adding to equal something. Mathematics is a...

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Effeminate means a perversion of the feminine, but females are generally more submissive to men than the other way around. But I imagine you think tha...

There is a sexual element to it. Most religions have called the highest god a "He" for a reason, which is that piety is making you know God as Father ...

Feminine means passive. Not that all females are or should. Thats just how people process this. Religious people think they are purified because they ...

He was a power monger