To give another example, suppose a mother and child are cuddling and both feeling love. The mother says "love", but how does the child know it refers ...
That's very interesting What has passed since you posted that? What is it? What substance does it have? Is it an entity? Is it pure potential? I think...
Heidegger would agree with space-time being the fourth dimension. This way there is not three dimensions spatially, but infinite directions going sphe...
It is false that "what can be said can be said clearly". Truth doesn't work that way. Things can be implied, hinted at, because they so far hidden, so...
Life, as in it's reality, starts with motion. The world is life. There was nothing before the first motions. There was no origin Beautiful phrase, but...
When two people "feel pain", their experiences must be analogies but possibly very different. Same for joy, sorrow, hatred, and humility. We've know t...
I agree. Can anyone state two definite items of thought that has been proven by language theory? Nothing philosophical certainly. I feel like its a ja...
Presentism is A Theory. Eternalism is B Theory. It is easier to reconcile some type of spirituality with the latter. I struggle to reconcile my materi...
"According to the C-theory of time, it is not possible for this Universe to have run in the opposite direction of time, for there is no such thing as ...
To give more analogy, the disagreement between Christians and Mormoms is partially substantial, partially not. Whether we call the world a creation or...
The thought about time being before the "origin" is not a word game. There are substantial thoughts involved. Truth may be insubstantial, but thoughts...
If you can talk more about the difference between the younger and latter Wittgenstein, I'd appreciate it. On the religious question, he sounds Zen. A ...
Was the world more religious or mystical for the early Wittgenstein or more so for the latter man? That is, was the the thing-in-itself more a mystery...
Space and truth are nothing, but I can conceptualize them still. I can abstract from their non-existence something to ponder on. Wittgenstein is too Z...
This is a good topic. Questions like "how many souls do you have" and "what is the relationship between your objective mind and your subjective mind" ...
Modern theory of time itself says there is no difference between eternity and time, the spiritual and the material as well. Very much like Yoruba reli...
I want to add, this alluring, spontaneous self-generation of all (divinity) that Hinduism speaks of is similar to Descartes position (held against the...
Tapas in Hindu religion is thought of as a physical manifestation of Brahma/Atman within the body (especially the stomach). It is called "sexual warm"...
I like that. We seem to be born into the middle of a story and wonder "who did I get in the middle without understanding the beginning and end?". A ph...
Christians are stuck in the "I sin seven times a day and just always do penance" mentality. Maybe they literally sin all the time. Idn. They think eve...
Nice! Good stuff. "he understanding self-projection of Being upon a potentiality-for-being toward a possibility to be... for the sake of which Being i...
That was great, but I think there is something else. Reality is like one of those sparklers on the 4th of July. The colors are Perfect Forms. But ther...
Protagoras is my favorite Greek. One of his works was read by Porphyry in the third century CE, but none survive to this day. People wanted Christian ...
There, it's working :) I don't know what relates to this thread. God can render all human reasoning open to doubt. You sound like Cicero. Is you're wa...
You are just bringing up a cryptic word and thinking it's going to get somewhere in a conversation. Concepts are what count. We have no sure knowledge...
Great stuff man! It seems to me we need a "remoteness from being" in order to appreciate it, if only latter. I am one of those people who are always a...
When thinking about Kant and the world with it's mathematics, it is common sense that 2 plus 2 equals 4 appplies to the world. But there are many stra...
Shots in the dark, since I fell out of the discussion. ) Kant was a doubting Platonist who had a love for nature Plato did not 2) to feel is as noble ...
I believe Zenos paradox applies to a block of stone. Your imagination can draw perfect triangles on marble to. The modern error strayed to far from Pl...
The isolated reason can adopt three positions. 1) 2+2 equals everything but four, so there are no numbers 2) there is only one number 3) regular mathe...
I once found an article on Einstein's response to Zeno. When I went back to it the url was down. Just know it was out there once and you tech savvy gu...
Parmenides said we went from being back to being. Heraclitis implies we come from nothing and go to nothing. Eternal becoming is nothingness. I want t...
Fitche said idealism is the first reality, than the dogmatism of the world. I get the sense that for him we go from a pure set of nothing to infinite ...
I realize now. For Schopenhauer, If consciousness is to your body as the world is to the Forms, then he is saying the same thing as Hegel. Phenomenolo...
The problem is not specifically motion, although that is how Zeno phrased it. The difficulty is space with having no final term while having a spatial...
I want to read Kants's critique of judgment from front to cover. He thinks judgement is between understanding (our caring for the world) and reason ( ...
Imagine an ant moving along infinitesimals on the surface of a ball. To him the moments are discrete, but to the ball they are continuous geodesical p...
0 multiplied by an uncountable infinity (maybe a specific one) equals generic "length." That is the conclusion of Zeno's paradox. TIme maybe not have ...
Sorry. The long Hegel quote is from Phenomenology of Spirit, at the very end the section on phrenology. He was addressing a modern question basically:...
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