Gregory

Substance is not easily defined. Is a pool a substance? A desk? A lamp? Ice with soda? The world is both process and substance, not either-or

For the reader: The reason I use the musket as the example is to put the substance of gunpowder in a historical setting, apart from all the equations....

I used gunpowder exploding to illustrate how objects can't fully be understood through reduction. But I think we are on the same page

All truth does not reside in physics, which is why a theory of everything can not be a theory of everything. There would be much it would not explain ...

Let's suppose they find the algorithm that, in a quantum computer, can predict all that that happened infinitely in the past and into the infinite fut...

Is it clear that a field of study can ever be fully understood by reducing it to another? I am not saying that consciousness is primary in this regard...

Are you saying that infinite possibilities can for certain be coordinated in equations that explain how that have and how they will act in the future?...

Let me just clarify that my point was that a theory of everything would have to account for the energy signature of every substance in the universe. I...

I get where your coming from I guess, but if I say "everything in the universe has a cause" that is an intelligent assertion. I don't think the Prime ...

It doesn't seem clear what exactly Wittgenstein proposed and why the Philosophical Investigations were a reversal. Bertrand Russell said Wittgenstein ...

It is about what reduces pain in life and death as you lay in a hospital bed. Foxnews says today "we're not communists, we don't like being told what ...

As I understand phenomenology, mind is a priori in that it springs from the brain but we also do not know, and can't figure out, which is prior

Girls flock to me but I ignore them because I prefer philosophy. I buy a girl once a month and that's enough for me

Your dumpster argument is black and white

"A singular thing is actual as coming from Concept and posited as something universal in identity with itself... Concept produces itself.. and is what...

Helping people can be a weakness. Save yourself first or you can't save someone else, I say. We all have a conscious and unconscious mind. One of them...

Imo the only thing Augustine "caught sight of" was that he was inauthentic

Ye "Albert the Great" (Albert Magnus) thought of the world as an emanation of God (Leibnizian) into an angelic order and then into the world we know. ...

The Catholic Mass is a type of magic. Thomas Aquinas's tutor (Albert) talked about magic in nature

What comfort did religion give Abraham when it forced him to try to murder his only son? What comfort did it give Issac to know his God authorized his...

Nothingness is left when you take away being, but that is not no thing (Sartre). Being and nothingness are a fabric which makes spacetime to the left ...

"Space and time are modes by which we live, not conditions IN which we live". Kant Actually that was Einstein lol

"Becoming" is a word which resonates with Eastern and Western philosophers, but as you say language is important and Kant's use of the word "phenomena...

Craig says that we can't understand the world without believing in God yet we have to understand the world in order to first have a proof for God so h...

Printing money with no standard helps the rich? That's interesting

I was attempting to put Wittgenstein in some context but I realize a lot of people find him profound and almost Zen. He is just too minimalist for me

Wittgenstein was a positivist, who were people who restricted reason in some type of attempt to find absolute knowledge by finding "all the angles". I...

I should clarify that Wittgenstein makes a lot of sense to a lot of people. Descartes thought he found the one and only set of moral hierarchies and K...

Descartes last book was Passions of the Mind. Underlying all the talk of morals, he seemed concerned whether he WANTED his theory of innate ideas to b...

"Philosophy is conceptually comprehensive cognition..., what is absolutely concrete"- Hegel For me to find states where thinking ceases is reaching th...

Well unlike this thread, artichokes are da bomb

Kant first speaks of antimony ("to contradict ") in his 1763 essay on Negative Magnitude, wherein he juxtaposes logical contradictions with "real cont...

That sounds good

Kant Cognized Accurately

Will doesn't come OUT of nothing. It moves independent of anything. That's the difference in abstract terms

Thanks

There are no simple clean answers, but maybe that proper and how it should be

I take my suffering as a way to grow into moments of happiness

Maybe there should simply be laws for how right people should use their wealth for others. So cooperation. Sean Hannity said wealth causes more proble...

There is corruption when there are too many rich people as well. Capitalists say their right to money is absolute, but what of hippies' "right" to use...

There will never be paradise in this universe. You can't find "no suffering" as long as you breath. To suffer is to struggle and to struggle is good. ...

It's not "other peoples'" money. They live in society

There will always be some capitalism, as there will always be struggle (suffering). That's the way it is. A "better option" is socialism where materia...

Latter schools are defined by their ethos as rebellion against traditionalism Buddhism. This happens in all religions

Sorry for the delay in response. I was told that meditation is like exercise. It about gaining control. Trying to find altered states through it might...

You can't eliminate needs by meditation. That's just nonsense. When a criminal is punished he might thing the punishment is a restriction on his freed...

Try searching Parmenides, Zeno, or Eleatic school and India. They are close in thought, as is Plato (as you remark). Indian art for me is decadent Pla...

More: They "mean", then, doubtless this bit of paper here, which is quite different from that bit over there; but they speak of actual things, externa...

Those who put forward such assertions really themselves say, if we bear in mind what we remarked before, the direct opposite of what they mean: a fact...

In order to communicate, humans developed language which is very universal. The intricacies of inner life are such that we can only speak in general t...