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It's not that "testimony isn't evidence", it's that "testimony" is mostly unreliable just like introspection. Such subjective accounts of extraordinar...

Philosophical naturalism (i.e. all testable explanations for nature, including the capabilities of natural beings (e.g. body, perception, reason), are...

Fwiw, if mind is mind-dependent, then 'transcendental idealism' is merely i-maginary (à la Spinoza's 'first type of knowledge'); however, if mind is m...

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I don't think "philosophy" has been to blame for mass murders, etc so much as dogmas have (i.e. unthinking, or rationalized, obedience to authority / ...

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“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.” ~Franz Kafka

It's all we can do. ... "But I'm not the only one" ... :fear:

For him, perhaps it was; but nonetheless "matter" is very useful as a working assumption (like e.g. the uniformity of nature, mass, inertia, etc) for ...

Yes, I agree, if only because it makes no sense to conceive of "mind" itself as merely "mind-dependent" (or in Berkeley's sense as "perceived"). Excep...

A lot of "quantum" gassing (as expected of an 'idealist/antirealist/supernaturalist' thread discussion). To paraphrase @"Banno": bad philosophy –> bad...

Another candle snuffed out in the darkness ... https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/middleeast/anas-al-sharif-al-jazeera-reporter-intl @"ucarr" @"Amity" @"T...

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:up: from 2019 ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/355107

Perhaps, as "Schrödinger Cat" as well as e.g. Einstein, Popper, Hawking, Penrose, Deutsch et al suggest, "quantum physics" provides an extremely preci...

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• Evidence of those "millions of individuals"? • "Estimated 400-800 million cases" how and by whom? • "Over 4,000" is a three to five orders of magnit...

Hume? Keynes? Popper? ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction#Formulation_of_the_problem

This is confusing. Maybe you mean 'philosophy speaks about the concept of world'?

Like Spinoza, I "disregard" body-mind (i.e. matter-spirit) substance duality. Conatus is inherent in nature – this worldly – ontologically immanent (D...

I think the primeval idea of "soul" is most rationally conceived of as conatus¹, even though the latter is, like life itself, impersonal and ontologic...

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:up: :up: :up: :fire: Thanks for this. :up: https://philosophynow.org/issues/168/Rescuing_Mind_from_the_Machines

:up: :up: Only some statements "can be justified" (e.g. by how things happen to be) and not facts such as "suffering". As Epicurus points out: one's a...

:sweat: i.e. WOO-of-the-gaps (from ... appeal to ignorance) NB: bad philosophy –> bad physics –> :sparkle:

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If so, then it is not an "objective (mind-independent) process"; otherwise, "thrown into question" is only subjective (i.e. a mere interpretation). Sc...

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Not really. I think "religions disagree" because they seek answers which rationalize or are permissible in accordance with prior conclusions (dogmas)....

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Your 'theory of jurisprudence', Bob, has nothing to do with the Christian metaphysics (magic) of "blood sacrifice" used vicariously to forgive ancestr...

My post-Marxist political stance is Old Left, or prioritizing the economic justice movement (e.g. democratizing workplaces, management & ownership) ov...

:100: This "idea" is just a myth ... since, after all, it doesn't make any sense to say an 'Absolute, Eternal Creator' can "sacrifice" (i.e. suffer a ...

... "the truth" about what?

And yet, no doubt, this "being challenged by science" is an objective process. :zip: .

Greek atomists proposed this "idea" a couple of millennia ago. :chin: So what was Platonism (re: the forms, universals) if not a "great abstraction"? ...

:up: ... i.e. a composition fallacy.

:fire: ... like e.g. disembodied mind. :100:

Of course not, there aren't any compelling reasons (other than wishful thinking / childish habit) to do so. As the song says "If you believe in things...

My high school Jesuit teachers had advised me to pray for the Grace to accept (without comprehending) the sacred Mysteries. Well, I couldn't lobotomiz...

Outbreed and out-vote them. :up: :up: So true. :smirk:

For the US I think the optimal voting age range for federal & state elections (re: legally eligible citizens) is 30-70. :up: :up:

Okay, so from what I can gather from what you're saying, you're using a term "consciousness" without knowing what it means or refers to, which renders...

Specify which "advice" you're referring to – on the whole I think Jesus' teachings were not very coherent and always morally right. Also, imo, many pe...

Yes.