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So what's your point with respect to my question (and its context)? IMO, dao = entropy. (YMMV)

It's another way of saying

You're misreading what I wrote. My bad (I guess) for not being clearer. To unpack the statement, all I mean by it is that philosophy – reflective thin...

@"ucarr" ... understanding (logically) comes first.

Apophatic ontology. A much repeated slander that also makes no sense given that philosophical materialism itself is very much a metaphysical position ...

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Yeah, fallibilism – "I could be wrong" about that too. :sweat:

As I recently wrote elsewhere, I

I suspect fallibilism is more suitable for a contemporary kynic (unless you're a 'a deliberately homeless, p0m0 luddite') than (Hellenistic) skepticis...

I was a pyrrhonian back in my wayward youth and still have great regard for that form of skepsis (incorporating its praxis, along with fallibilism, in...

I think so I don't think so. Those aporia (logically) come later ...

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:smirk: You're a kynic, I'm an epicurean.

I don't think so.

:up: Gnomon admits to having trouble comprehending 'ontological immanence' à la Spinoza or e.g. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/6293...

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Less and less the older I get. (Old dog vs new tricks paradox?) IIRC, the last major change was over fifteen years ago – a radical shift in my thinkin...

I'd always assumed so because our minds seem – must be? – inseparable from reality (pace Kant, Descartes, Plato) but I'd also realized that we only ev...

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We don't "see eye-to-eye", amigo, because – as I've pointed out in over half of my near 300 exchances with him – "Enformationism" is conceptually inco...

@"universeness" 1. The "ontological question" at issue is modern (re: Leibniz), not "ancient". 2. The "hypotheses"above are physical models of how (i....

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State religions aka "autocracies" (e.g. China, Russia, North Korea) are manifestly indistinguishable from theocracies (e.g. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghan...

Only 4 out of 613 "Commandments" concern morality, which are not unique to any 'peoples' at any time, so this statement doesn't make much sense.

:smirk: Well, for me, philosophy is inherently absurdist rather than comedic (even though most philosophizers are clowns).

I'm afraid, my friend, your learned patience is probably wasted on them like rain on a Japanese dry garden.

An irreligious theist. I'm saying atheism amounts to a belief about theism – that 'beliefs about god/s' are not true – and is not itself a 'god-belief...

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:pray: Amen.

Btw, I don't know why, but I'm not so impressed by these machine learning tricks. When OpenAi starts asking questions of the answers it gives like "Wh...

@"universeness" @"Agent Smith" :scream: :yikes: :rofl: If this is so, then why do you bother making such a fundamental claim about the physical world ...

I've mentioned neither "all theists" nor "Christian theology", so I fail to see the relevance of your remarks with respect to mine.

So you dispute Planck's quanta? How pre-1900 of you, AP.

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And yet ataraxia (or wu wei) and eudaimonia eludes you, amigo. Maybe your skepticism is postmodern (or Gorgiasian) rather than Pyrrhonian?

Btw, I enjoyed The Matrix (only the first movie) as shallow, comic bookish gnosticism, not really a riff on Bostrom's digital update of Plato's Cave. ...

No I don't. IMO, @"Gnomon" hasn't made a logically valid or conceptually coherent case for his "ideas". This is why I question them.

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Well, don't hold me to this, but I probably won't respond again until @"Gnomon" addresses the questions I've put to him. That Gnomon can't, I believe,...

An atheist simply lacks a theistic worldview. S/he might, however, have a 'Platonic worldview' or 'Buddhistic worldview' or 'animistic worldview' ... ...

True. And yet "Gott mit uns".

Yeah, he clearly wasn't just a (positive) atheist. Spinozism, I think, is much more consistent with both acosmism (sub specie aeternitatis) and pandei...

Flat earthers "disagree" that Earth is round. Just sayin' ...

There's no such squared circle.

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