Gregory

I think that the world is never in a stable state, nor anything in it. Our thoughts make it seem stable (phenomenological thoughts) but when thoughts ...

I've gone back and forth my whole life on how to understand God but saying you believe in God is good because this has been confirmed by lesser depres...

Atheists should speak that they believe in God and renew the world. The conflict between believers and atheists causes so much harm. You can still deb...

And read Critique of Practical Reason

If you start calling God your conscience instead of fighting a phantom you could proclaim belief in God and atheism at the same time!

I only experience my own experiences and I can't find a way to understand how others think so I go about trying to "wing it" with life and philosophy....

Everything (logic, religion, metaphysics, ect) is just a way of life. We are like people running on fire and everyone changes their minds many times i...

Jews themselves were persecuted in WWII, but, as you say, they are taking it out on other people. Blacks in America are taking out their anger by riot...

Hamas targets civilians but, of course, the U.S. nuked two cities in order to get their way- Humans are like the "lower" animals when they are in a fi...

Thanks for the thoughts. I'll just say someone who's mind is in constant flux cannot communicate his experience to someone who believes in absolute Tr...

I think Jacobi referred to a "summersault of faith", which I thought was a poignant way to phrase it (did I spell that right lol)

I can't think of anything I can hold on to, consider, and judge to be certain. Life moves too fast, at least for me. But Aquinas's methods are ingenuo...

This is why I don't think relativism refutes itself. Someone can think everything is relative and hold that belief on probable grounds, and that on pr...

I don't totally agree with you. I see no complete certainty in intellectual matters for us on earth. At the back of my mind I suspect it is all just m...

Aquinas says in Contra Gentile that stars, the moon, and the sun are unquantitative. He had very esoteric opinions on "heavenly bodies" as if they wer...

Yes. Ideas are always in flux but we go with the best probabilities as they present themselves to our souls

So for Aquinas substance comes out of matter by form and the appearance of substance is accidents? Then wouldn't essence, nature, and quiddity be just...

I don't think we can know anything for sure and on this Kant's position seems most accurate. But Hegel started with Kant but added Aristotle's and Aqu...

I've found that I've needed some spirituality in my life even though I've always talked about it a lot.

Philosophy for me is fun when it deals with things that are hard to grasp and impossible to know. I am my body but it changes matter all the time yet ...

I agree with your distinctions. Kant said however that we can know phenomena as it presents or appears to us. The noumena is what is unknowable and Aq...

1) you need a conscience to be good 2) God is your conscience 3) you need God to good There are good people in the world.

Modern philosophy is sometimes about total skepticism of truth and so is like Buddhist practice except it doubts its way out of reality instead of doi...

But what if your body goes somewhere else when you die? Maybe the dead body is not your body in the sense that your new body is. Reincarnation happens...

Knowing whether Christianity makes better people or not is hard to decide on because atheists will judge their friends more carefully than a Christian

It's hard to judge people.

Zen experience a Vision of the Cosmos and Hindus have Vision of Eros (for spirituality itself). Atheism is spiritual in a way because it's Buddhism wi...

I don't think doubting that you are doubting is healthy. People try lots of techniques to free their mind but I doubted that I doubted one time earlie...

Reality seems maybe to be more than it seems. Does materialism make too much or too little of reality. The fundamental part is how we see reality at e...

https://historyofphilosophy.net/sextus https://historyofphilosophy.net/pyrrho https://historyofphilosophy.net/skeptics-academy Those are the interesti...

Godel's numbering might not apply to the real world. The real world is mathematical but there might be a theory of everything in term of physics. If t...

I already have read that. The numbers are random and don't form real equation. I was asking for Gödel's theorems stated as verbal paradoxes like Russe...

You provided a statement and have not spoken yet of the internal logic that makes it a proof

Russell's paradox is interesting philosophically, but I showed how this paradox can give two answers (both "in a sense"). Everyone has different expla...

Does the set of all sets that do not contain themselves contain itself. If we say no it is because you get put the set inside itself. What is in the s...

Godel and Russell both had many ideas that were mathematical but had an element of the science of logic in how they move. What Russell said in your qu...

Moves I've made by Hegel in philosophy have been applied to mathematics where they probably don't don't belong. The logical empiricists were stuck on ...

Russel said he took the squiggly part of the barber paradox and used it with sets

If a barber shaves only those who do not shave themselves then the barber doesn't shave himself. That's obvious. If it's stated in more complex terms,...

I told you what I thought of it. It does not mean anything mathematically because it refers back on itself, a move of logic, not math.

Is this what you were referring too? It is not math but philosophy. There is nothing A unless B does not have a relation with itself? This what I'm ta...

So you are saying that Godel's examples of things that are unprovable do not require a loop in them? As I see it, unprovable things can be 1) axoims w...

Apparently even for you Gödel's theorem is hard to put into words. You can't provide what the theorem says, since you say I don't know it properly, in...

Bertrand Russell was famous for his mathematical ideas. But his paradox is false. Group items together, make a circle around them, and you have a set....

Well if all I've studied on this is wrong then we have a similar situation as with Bell's theorem where there is no consensus whatsoever of what theyr...

Ok then

So we have the set of propositions that can be proved and are therefore true. We have the set of propositions that are not true. And we have the set t...

Gödel offered a proof that math is either inconsistent or incomplete and that the dilemma is undecidable. So unless math is bogus, there will be unpro...

Imagine some unprovable proposition. Can it be *understood* intuitively like axioms are and be taken as axioms?

And because the unprovable mathematical ideas would have to axioms known by intuition. If they are a connection of ideas and there is no way to get fr...