Eternity is infinite. But if you can't make sense of the beginning of time, pushing it back forever doesn't give you a more logical explanantion. Ther...
If the model is an infinite casual past, you should be able to plug in any accidental figures to see if it works. An infinity of humans with no start....
An infinite series of, say, dominoes going into the past does indeed need a prime mover or movers (Aristotle) or a Trinity (Aquinas) to keep it well o...
There is no such thing as a "scientific" psychological study. There are way too many factors for that. The establishment says all the time "that's jus...
Maybe I have a high IQ. I think I am very smart so you probably think the study in question is proof enough I don't have a high IQ. Maybe the study on...
Napoleon Hill had perfectly legit reasons to believe that if people tell themselves they are good at something they become good at it through the use ...
This isn't difficult. They claim they can measure intelligence and assign psychological traits to people who aren't. I am saying they don't really hav...
A well ordered infinity runs smoothly. If Godel has really proven that the Liar paradox lies at the heart of mathematics, then a disordered infinity u...
On the Dunning and Kruger thing, is it not obvious they they are defining who is intelligent. Who is to say the IQ test is scientific? To say it is is...
One mistake that math obviously made was to say pi never repeats. It obviously does repeat otherwise all the whole numbers would not remain staggered ...
And to keep this a legit thread, I point out that you can't defend math without recourse to math. So it Is an unproven field of thought. If anyone wan...
Dunning and Kruger are easily refuted. So no smart people know they are smart? Pride can make you dumb, but thinking you are smart can also trigger sm...
Me and Sophia in the corner together? Sounds like a fun time I started with koans when I discovered Zeno. I don't care what math people say. You can d...
I don't think that theorem has much, if anything, to do with compatibilism. I find in my soul freedom and determinism. Things seemed already planned f...
"A deep connection between quantum theory and psychology was extensively discussed in the writings of physicists Pauli, Niels Bohr and Pascual Jordan....
My understanding is that being reveals itself to us (according to Heidegger), while there is nothing to be revealed for a Buddhist Where can I get tho...
I think the paradox would have been more powerful if it said "the set of all sets that DO contain themselves". The barber shaves those and only those ...
Hegel wrote: "Nature has presented itself as the Idea in the form of otherness. Since in nature the Idea is as the negative of itself or is external t...
The essence of Buddhist philosophy of nature is that everything is completely impermanent. These Buddhist thinkers say there is nothing underlying eve...
I don't think goodness is outside us. It IS subjective, but it is real inside us. So it's a legit question whether a compatabilist universe is good if...
My problem with the Christian position on hell is that God creates humanity knowing the majority of them will end up in hell. He might surely have rea...
I got my compatabilism from st. Augustine. I don't see how one can act in a moral way without motive. Thinking otherwise sounds like Enlightenment phi...
Hey friend. I think you were referring to me comment "Saying it is eternally wrong to lie is to make something temporal eternal. It smacks of Platonis...
I am going to be 35 in November (am a Scorpio). Life seems harder and harder to fully understand as one gets older. It's almost as if death is saying ...
Is this even true? I like Hegel and he never defines his terms. He lets you figure the puzzle out for yourself. He wanted clear conceptions though the...
When Heidegger says that we are "ahead of ourselves" (already across the bridge when we start at the beginning), it seems to logical explanation is th...
I don't understand what objective morality means. It seems to me it's all contingent on what the conscience tells each person. We are social animals, ...
I don't think it matters whether committing murder is wrong for all humans. Something at least will always bind a person. The state of someone's consc...
I think objectivity in this discussion would be a viewpoint of oneself that is accurate. Going out of yourself and viewing your self. If nothing is tr...
The point I made earlier is that scientists can only observe how things move. It's all guesswork about where the power is coming from. My new pimple m...
Wow, lots of posts. I was considering in this thread how we feel bound by moral feelings. All of us. What we choose in those situations sets up our ka...
When physicists say "we are working the math" they are admitting they know nothing of philosophy. Cosmology is all guesswork. It's all fiction. The el...
Theism is absurd too. What father would let his daughter be raped as a child for three years simply because she could gain infinite joy from it after ...
words can mean anything, but language works within a social setting. With full stereo vision, a person can literally see space,and we all feel time. T...
How i understand post-structuralism and deconstruction (please don't try to make a distinction or you will break my mind) is that language forms a who...
Its pretty obvious if you study his religious writings that Kant loved what Hume had to write on miracles. Kant put the world in our minds, our heads ...
Kant was trying to deny the resurrection as surely as he was angry with Hume. God could make the world chaotic in our eyes to arouse faith. In a theis...
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