Gregory

You have to have clear evidence they are not human in order to take their lives. Duh! You're apparently, tim, ok killing when there migh possibly be h...

Maybe people over 80 cease to be people. They are "different" . You shouldn't kill a class of people because people don't philosophically think they a...

Relativity says that size and time are relativistic, but so actually an illusion

In that case we wouldn't think we are thinking of truth but would be to an outsider

I don't think computers can fully handle these questions because they deal with uncoutable infinities instead of countable ones

No, but paradox is type of truth. At the bottom of the series might be a paradox, or it might be turtles all the way down and a paradox to consider th...

Truth trumps error

Would you say this about Buddhist or Hindu monks? I'd say the atonement tradition of Christians is far more likely to be "Satanic" than Hegel. The Cro...

Embryos have a full set of DNA and are turning into a mature human. That is enough to say abortion is murder in our communities. Anyone can argue that...

Maybe the staircase times infinity equals the straight line exactly

Everything you can think of is opinion. It's about the best way to live in society. Abortion nowadays is like slavery in the Civil War, except worse. ...

I understand the question and it's stupid as dirt with shit in it. Saying you can kill them before birth but not after is completely arbitrary. It's n...

Can the doctor and the mother kill the child one hour after birth? Who is to say it's human? DNA? A fetus has that

It's not that difficult

A much more reasonably priced book is Nishida's The Logic of the Place of Nothingness and the Religious Worldview. I really like Schopenhauer though b...

If compatabilism is true, than determinism can be victorious. There could never be a random selection of anything. Philosophy, victorious over science...

I thought not. I thought it's indefinite because it's multiplied by an irrational numbers. I don't see how a length can be indefinite though. Is it le...

There is a book on Amazon titled Nothingness in Asian Philosophy, 1st Edition by Jeeloo Liu (Editor) and Douglas Berger (Editor). It's pricey though

If everything is contingent, it's harder to believe in objective truth. I've been moving away from materialistic relativism into Buddhism recently. Bu...

There is only opinion of these matters. It's really about the best way to live and handle this. From your pro-choice perspective, I dont see you havin...

I've yet to see anyone justify the maneuver of moving the odd numbers over to "line up" with the naturals.

I think density is the true cardinality, and when you double the density in order to get the cardinality of the odd to equal that of the naturals you'...

Amazing question.. I believe I'd say that nothingness is necessary and the world contingent, but the contingent has solidity, so if a stick hits my he...

What about a segment with a definite length that is then made into a circle, which suddenly has an irrational number as a factor? Putting the segment ...

Nothingness is neither eternal nor temporal.

Doubling the density of the odd numbers in order to get a cardinality equal to the naturals.

I disagree. Imagine (literally imagine) the dense set of odd numbers lined up in normal fashion with the natural numbers. The latter is greater. You c...

The world has existence, but in what sense does it have truth?

A Schopenhauer thread is a good place to talk about this. Can the genie make a greater genie? If would seem that he could only make an equal or less, ...

Because a doctor is supposed to save lives and a mother is not supposed to kill her kids. I think we should respect fetuses, chimps, Neanderthals, hom...

I don't think science or philosophy will ever be able to say when it becomes a person. Best to error on the side of caution

I'd answer your question in saying that the Buddha was right. Nothingness is holy, the root of matter. Positing spiritual entities makes things worse

An interesting discussion would be about whether there is "random meaming". Necessity might not exist in anything

I have tried to subordinate reason to will. Is there a next step after that? I realized tonight that everything must have a meaning. Even why this par...

Einstein was a mystic. I don't know how he got the predictions right, maybe he was a natural prophet and saw into the future. Aleister Crowley said wh...

Well he thought time was tangible. Nonetheless, 1) he didn't prove he discovered a new substance. 2) clocks can slow without time even existing outsid...

I just wanted to add that Einstein told Henri Bergson at a conference in France that "the Time of the philosophers is dead", so I am not 5'2 objective...

If we are defined as material objects, who is to say the universe is not one object. You might just be the universe's kidney

Well in my very first post on this forum I tried an argument against science itself. I supposed two objects that are materially identical to each and ...

I remember reading about a Catholic saint who was so passive the account said "it seemed he had no will of his own". Buddhists aren't the only ones wh...

Paranormal activity might be possible: https://subtle.energy/list-100-peer-reviewed-papers-offer-scientific-evidence-psi-phenomena/?fbclid=IwAR0blIz3c...

Cognition is prior, no? "An insane man is not he who has lost his reason, but he who has lost everything except his reason." Chesterton again

I appreciate this. In my opinion, though, a number is an idea that is rubbery. You can say 9 is the same as 2 in my mind. Maybe we need to just step b...

Hume found doubtwithin mathematics: "No priestly dogmas, invented on purpose to tame and subdue the rebellious reason of mankind, ever shocked common ...

Strictly speaking, math is just like theoretical physics: it's a branch of philosophy. The only truth is that there is no truth and that this is true....

Indeed, mathematics is 75% invented, 25% discovered. Whether the exponent is 1 or 0, it clearly means something different from having an exponent of 2...

"A healthy mind can accept a paradox." Chesterton

If 2 has the exponent 0, the answer can be 2 or 0. Whether we say it means 2 zero times which would equal zero, or 2 multiplied a zero number of times...

Good job flame2, this is great. I told my geometry teacher in college "if an Indian yogi says one plus one is four, something is going on in his mind,...

Say, how can they even tell there is experience without brain waves. The experience could have in reality happened right before or right after the bra...