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So Kant doesn't believe in miracles?

1) saying that reality must have cause is very western, thomistic, Kantian,.and wrong. Kant attacked Spinoza as much as Hume. Hume didn't like the God...

One last point, a scientist should say "if memory serves i saw the objects fall at the same rate ten times." To say " objects fall at the same rate" i...

Imo scentists are sorcerers and philosophers are the unbiased thinkers. The former looks for games to play ( that's their psychology), the latter ques...

They say "we just need to change the math a little on that one", admitting that they are changing, not describing, nature, which may be indescribable

The model has plenty of irrelevant math and it's basic.principles are analogies of nature

Women aren't stupid. They are very intuitive with regard to other people

It could be God or anything the human imagination can think of pulling the strings. Scientist think they understand matter, but can't prove that. Kant...

By what standard do you say science is successful. They've gone ape shot of matter and been able to make some things. Who's to say it's successful eno...

I think free will is discrete too

I think consciousness is decrete, not continuous. I.don't like when people ask "what do you mean by consciousness" because it's completely obvious.

Physicists with fat heads are saying this year that mathematics now can prove causation and not simply correlation. Hume disproved this centuries ago....

We don't start with all mathematics in our minds. We figure math out by synthesis. That was kants point. You cannt prove there is math out there Plato...

It sounds like a normal philosophical argument to me. I like it

Free will is always going to be a mystery, although saying so does make Sam Harris mad. I can be sure someone won't change of if I know him well despi...

Does this help illuminate my Heidegger passage?: "All our reasonings concerning matters of fact are founded on a species of Analogy." Hume

"Ontologically, Da-sein is in principle different from everything objectively present and real. It's 'content' is NOT founded in the substantiality of...

I can't cite a passage at the moment (sorry) but as I get to the end of B&Y I keep feeling like his sense of potentiality and reality go backwards, al...

Imo Augustine was dead wrong, as dead wrong as he is dead. The contingent is not inferior to the necessary because life is the best it can be (if we m...

The closest thing to Heideggers thought in the history of philosophy before him was Aristotle's idea of final causality. Instead of saying the prime m...

A triangle cannot be separated from its angles. Matter and form don't exist though as a triangle exists with its angles. Aristotle was trying to make ...

I think Aristotle was wrong to believe the universe could be eternal. You would have to say, if he was right, that there could have been an infinite n...

Traditional philosophy says a substance is the core of the universe; modern philosophy says an action can be the essence of our reality. That's all I ...

I'm almost finished reading Being and Time. I think "care" is properly translated. Caring, or giving a fuck, is the essence of the world

Thanks for the post. I think change is what we experience and Time is a mystical idea we have. With mystical things they are kinda outside us and kind...

In his first published work Hegel, after the the preface and introduction, immediately starts expounding on the "paradox" of time. I personally don't ...

Hume is important to understanding Heidegger too. The reason for existence is consciousness. The universe as a whole doest have a cause, or a meaning ...

I find that Heidegger is a lot like Aristotle in his thinking except that we are the Prime Movers, the final cause which the potentiality of the world...

Would Aristotle say geometry is true because of matter or because of the Prime Mover?

It's impossible for me to be an atheist while on a psychedelic. It's a mystical God though. Anyone who says they can prove there is a God are not talk...

I've done regular DMT and am sure it was the same thing as dreams I had as a kid. Both were similar and great. Same chemical. 5meo dmt is scarier and ...

Nice! I was there a year in 2004-2005 but then left because I lost traditional faith. They told me "its natural to believe in God." I said that maybe ...

The college I went to was Thomas Aquinas college in Santa Paula CA. They believed logic and math to be separate disciplines and that basing math on lo...

Chaos vs symmetry... That's a lot to think about. It's deep. Maybe because I suck at math in trying to make up for it by over thinking this stuff. May...

Interesting stuff. I almost named this thread "the logicism of patterns". A blank canvas seems to have no pattern, but if you draw a triangle on it it...

If only the present exists them information can be rearranged and have destroyed that way. What is the world's substratum? Big debate

Spinoza adopted Descartes's physics

Descartes also wrote on rainbows. I've read that he thought motion, not extension, was the basic principle of the world (motion explains extension). N...

I am willing to bend the rules of logic in a search of my existence, which search might simply end in reading "the sentence" of the Absolute Idea. Ima...

Euclids 7th prop first book is a key to understanding this i think, although I don't understand his proof perfectly. The PT seems to work only when th...

The point of philosophy is to entertain all those thoughts and THEN try to find something true without going back to the scientific viewpoint. The lat...

There is no afterlife for Aristotle. Just an eternal succession of temporal states. All things must pass away he thought, except God or Gods who were ...

I doubt my existence more often than I believe in it. I must be in a different state of mind

Also important is that Aristotle thought God or Gods were ahead of instead of behind Aristotle's eternal universe. His God acted as a final cause inst...

Aristotle thought empty vacuous matter united with natures, combining to be objects in the world. So things are part material part spiritual. But the ...

Even if everything is subsumed under the category of "our thoughts", the world would be just as real, as if it were material. Material, after all, mea...

The self can be doubted, so the regularities of matter can be doubted as well. I can't state anything I know for sure, in words. I feel like I'm climb...

Maybe nothingness is doubting Physics is founded on a static view of the universe that can not be proven over a dynamic view/perspective. Seeing this ...

it's everywhere in his writings on the soul

One of the foundations of physics is use of the distinction between the random and the necessary. Of course there is no way to tell the difference bet...