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:fire: Yes, or put another way: if everything is an idea of mind, then mind is an idea of mind ... ad infinitum. Insert arbitrary terminus here (X-of-...

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"By analogy?" Okay, no evidence. Got it.

I agree. Only habits – embodied facts / dispositions – can do that; thus, practice virtues rather than follow rules (norms).

I don't think this follows (or I'm not understanding your comment).

Cite evidence of "minds other than human minds" that does not beg the question of 'what is "mind"?' whether human or not. :chin:

What exactly do you mean by "nondualistic"? I think it had been decisively dismissed back in the 17th c. by Spinoza's dissolution of Descartes' MBP (s...

I know this was a reply to Athena but it applies to me as well. In my case, while deeply pessimistic about human existence, I'm cautiously optimistic ...

:nerd: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AXS8P0HksQo&pp=ygUQMjAwMSBlbmRpbmcgcm9vbQ%3D%3D "My God, it's full of stars!" ~Cmdr. Dave Bowman, last transmissi...

Sure, I'll bite ... ... excerpt from an old post (click on my handle if you're interested in (some of) my reasoning for the above).

No thoughts of your own. Got it. I'm out, Wayf. :shade:

"Enformer"-of-the-gaps, unsound arguments (about your own citations), and continuous strawman & ad hominem replies are among the parade of logical cha...

We're talking past each other again. I've been taking issue with 'transcendental idealism' and you're advocating various Eastern mystical traditions w...

IIRC, the 'idealism' of Parmenides (or Pythagoras) preceeded Plato by a century or so. "As far as I'm concerned" ... i.e. a cop-out. :roll: Such as yo...

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You've lost me.

:fire: Again, thanks for the clarifying response. The question remains though: is "reality itself" ideal? Anyway, your conception of idealism, Wayf, s...

:up: I asked because I'm interested in what you understand your own 'commitment to idealism' to presuppose and imply. I'm familiar enough with many hi...

Thanks for the info. :up:

Is the banning of Agent Smith permanent? (No implicit criticism intended by this question.)

Likewise, I've also learned from Seneca (& Epictetus).

Is mind ontologically separate from / independent of (the) world? Does mind correspond to Being and ideas to Beings (well isn't Being / mind also an "...

More of the same Jabberwocky, @"universeness" – there's just no there there.

Democritus (et al). Thus, I've always had a strong affinity for Epicureanism (second only to Spinozism in recent decades). Well, 'academic philosopher...

Gnomon hasn't done so. I've repeatedly tried to get this out of him for at least the last several months with a short set of questions which he still ...

:ok: Gotcha.

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No question is begged because nonmind is entailed by mind; which is more reasonable to conceive of as the dependent variable of the other is the crux ...

I appreciate the citations and your reflections on (transcendental) idealism. Still, there's that confusion, or conflation, of ontology with epistemol...

I think the predicate "external" in this context is assumed to be synonymous with "independent of any minds". I don't see in what sense you / idealist...

Interesting OP. Suffering; then later, that stupidity is somehow related to suffering. Born into an urban, working class family; an ethnic minority ma...

:roll: You know I do ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/776786 (criticism posted above which still stands) from 2022 ... https://th...

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:clap: :100: This summary observation is very much worth repeating.

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True. However, the jury's still out whether or not emergence like this is (or will attain) substantial 'progress'. :clap: :100: Claiming I don't "list...

Others understood what I wrote. I'm sure their replies are not "unintelligible". Also, an online thesaurus doesn't bite.

The only self-described "new atheist" who impresses me with his approach and arguments is the late particle physicist & philosopher Victor J Stenger. ...

I voted for "non-skeptical realism" because I lack compelling grounds to doubt that the "external world" is real (i.e. ineluctable, subject-invariant,...

:up: I'll miss him.

Universal is not synonymous with conceivable.

My position is that philosophy concerns intelligible-explicable concepts and "god of religion" is neither an intelligible nor explicable concept.

Amor fati.

Theology, I admit, belongs to classical metaphysics; but the "god of the philosophers" is not worshipped or what religious / mystical seekers seek.

No. Religious faith is the focus of the philosophy of religion. "God" is the focus of theology.

That's an understatement ... :smirk:

Make the argument, señor.

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I think 'chess is the possibility-space (i.e. actuality) of all chess games and players are the potential realizers of all chess games' is clearer.

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