What about this rock question however: are there rocks in existence when they are never seen? But what if they are heard, or tasted or smelled. Suppos...
So this discussions seems to boil down the idea that we experience the world but can't truly understand it. People who enter my room experience a diff...
What of truth for it's own sake? Why is desire for a knowledge wrong? What if we spent less thoughts on doubts and more on constructing what we can kn...
Oh right, the Construction of Nature book. I had forgotten about it. We did discuss it way back when. I had a thread 'what is phenomena' way back when...
I can see when i ponder billions of years before me that the mind can despair and say "without the warm of a knowing mind, what does it even mean for ...
Kant avoids history and history making perhaps because his noumena is always haunting his phenomena. Without knowledge of what is real except "i think...
But each antinomy has for its subject matter everything we experience in the now: past and future, space and matter, spirituality vs materialism. Coul...
All this is too obvious. Beneath the surface of things there is a paralogical bi-reality. We have matter first. We are matter, we are extended so we a...
Idealism can be tricky. Is that desk there an idea. A large, wooden idea and if i push it over, am i pushing an idea? Is my soul an idea? How does my ...
From the book: "Strictly speaking, for Leibniz it is not possible for two worlds to differ only in a single detail. If one thing is different between ...
Math can only do so much. There is a gap and there isn't a gap. There is separation but not such that there is no smooth motion. Sometimes philosophy ...
As Hegel says in the lesser logic, you must think of the continuous mixed with the discrete in order to understand either one. The continuous is illog...
Isn't it that there are nothing but questions for faith? Certainty does away with faith. Isn't faith reallying a doubting that accepts the state of do...
Any true love should take away any guilt-karma an individual might have. I remember reading that the Duns Scotus school of thought teach that all sin ...
Each digit represents a slice of space hence infinite space. Of all the arguments i've amassed over the years, the one that says "something can't be d...
I'm reading The Best of All Possible Worlds by Stephen Nadler and he says Leibniz was fascinated by the Cartesian revolution in natural philosophy but...
I've recently discovered myself as a radical finitist. Nothing is infinite above, in, or below heaven. I think the concept itself is a self-contradict...
The "simple' is the One of Plato and the noumena of Kant. We create our realities. Many scientists believe the world is not actual until consciousness...
Will and Ideas are ideas. That is, ideas about Idea. We are all on a planet whirling around the "sol invictus", late Roman title for the sun within th...
It's interesting how music arises different "Gods" in the mind in the way art does. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cW4pNx4FjXo&pp=ygUQMzAwMCB5ZWFyIG1lb...
Feelings are something that people exclude from God or Allah. They are "holy" or too "sublime" for feelings, for the mushy. All that is holy is only o...
Sometimes and it gets points for reforming sinners. But for all you know Jesus will come back someday and say "i felt no pain on the cross and i give ...
Science, as Hume proved, is always contingent. Is this quark causing that? Why not that electron thru the quark. The cause of causality is noumena and...
Will and Ideas refer to the metaphysical realities which our psychology comes from. In classical theism, God does not suffer. But classical freedom is...
In the history of Christianity, for example, the orthodoxy emphasized using reason to prove God's existence while the mystics spoke of intuition and b...
It seems to me that there has to be a first pair of humans from which our 7 billion come from. Evolution too strides recklessly through the gates of Z...
"Sublime and Living Will! named by no name, compassed by no thought! I may well raise my soul to Thee, for Thou and I are not divided." J.G. Fichte, T...
I'm not sure i get your point(s). Men and women complete each other because they have what they lack themselves. The physical isn't hard to understand...
My position is that absolute truth is Freedom, Will. That can be the answer to the problem of pain. If God is sitting up there infinitely happy as we ...
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