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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...
March 13, 2025 at 03:53
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...
March 13, 2025 at 03:23
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...
March 13, 2025 at 03:00
https://www.amazon.com/Kants-Construction-Nature-Metaphysical-Foundations/dp/0521198399 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysical_Foundations_of_Na...
March 13, 2025 at 02:16
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...
March 13, 2025 at 02:10
Do you agree with these passages? Can reason never know full truth? Did Kant fail by going to far into doubt?
March 13, 2025 at 02:08
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 ...
March 13, 2025 at 01:26
Kant avoids history and history making perhaps because his noumena is always haunting his phenomena. Without knowledge of what is real except "i think...
March 12, 2025 at 23:46
But each antinomy has for its subject matter everything we experience in the now: past and future, space and matter, spirituality vs materialism. Coul...
March 12, 2025 at 23:05
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...
March 12, 2025 at 01:30
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 ...
March 11, 2025 at 04:59
Any argument you provide for continuity i can and have countered. Something has to give.
March 08, 2025 at 16:47
In: Leibniz  — view comment
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 ...
March 08, 2025 at 07:15
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 ...
March 07, 2025 at 23:01
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...
March 07, 2025 at 16:03
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...
March 07, 2025 at 06:27
Piety is not a very pretty word. Love is of course a great English word, put together so well. Hope is cozy, but faith seems to have many connotations
March 07, 2025 at 03:50
"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for" Hebrews 11:1 So faith and hope run parallel. Maybe faith is more of mind and hope is more of heart
March 06, 2025 at 23:23
Aquinas reinterprets that because his philosophy demanded that to suffer was a change and God was pure unchanging actuality
March 06, 2025 at 22:56
That's incredibly insightful
March 06, 2025 at 22:35
The question of duality and non-duality arises. What takes precedence, the One or each consciousness living in history?
March 06, 2025 at 22:12
Discrete doesn't get lost in itself but takes the step further
March 06, 2025 at 22:11
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 ...
March 06, 2025 at 20:45
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...
March 06, 2025 at 19:14
Why must motion be infinitily divided? How can you fit infinity in the bounds of anything finite?
March 06, 2025 at 18:24
In: Leibniz  — view comment
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...
March 06, 2025 at 17:00
Infinity is not distinct enough an idea to have an essence.
March 06, 2025 at 14:15
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...
March 06, 2025 at 14:14
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...
March 06, 2025 at 07:31
The "simple" has no space hence it is nowhere. Matter is everywhere there is a where and matter is love.
March 06, 2025 at 07:25
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...
March 06, 2025 at 07:09
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...
March 06, 2025 at 04:30
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...
March 06, 2025 at 02:49
Why do you say "usually"? Just curious
March 05, 2025 at 23:40
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 ...
March 05, 2025 at 23:39
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...
March 05, 2025 at 23:37
That's a beautiful sentiment
March 05, 2025 at 21:39
This does not work because it is against karma and justice to substitute atonment. Get your theology right
March 05, 2025 at 21:38
Will and Ideas refer to the metaphysical realities which our psychology comes from. In classical theism, God does not suffer. But classical freedom is...
March 05, 2025 at 21:36
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...
March 05, 2025 at 21:32
Philosophy trumps science every time. Science is what is dumb
March 05, 2025 at 21:28
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...
March 05, 2025 at 04:32
"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...
March 05, 2025 at 03:12
How does your continuous fluidity doctrine fare against criticism like Kant's second antinomy. There are clearly units
March 05, 2025 at 01:20
https://www.britannica.com/topic/double-truth-theory
March 05, 2025 at 01:18
I have literally never had those thoughts in my head before
March 05, 2025 at 01:15
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...
March 04, 2025 at 22:13
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 ...
March 04, 2025 at 22:10
How can will be without thoughts? Have you considered Platonic Forms?
March 04, 2025 at 20:16
Well for him Will is real, is noumena. Experience is just empirical
March 04, 2025 at 18:38