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Given the abundant distribution of organic compounds observed in this galaxy alone, I'm confident bio-signatures in the atmospheres of exo-planets wil...

Maybe (above) I'm on to something ... An excerpt below from a recent book about elites prepping to escape the imminent catastrophes which in large par...

Whenever I hear someone equate "astral projection" or "afterlife" with "higher dimensions" what I hear them really saying is "otherworldly" (i.e. woo ...

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I prefer primary sources on Stoic philosophy such as Letters from a Stoic: Seneca's Moral Letters to Lucilius by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (transl. R. Gum...

I thought you were referring to the discipline of philosophy and not what mostly happens on TPF. :up:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analysis/s6.html

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:smirk: :up: For most folks, 'what we can know' and 'what is real' are not enough for them (e.g. "Is this all there is?"); they need more – "god/s", "...

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:up: These are caricatures (as you express them) or coubterfactual thought-experiments, not "extremes".

Non sequitur.

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I recommend • The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy, Bryan Magee • The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Co...

Wtf? IIRC, the "live/dead cat" is only a construct within a thought-experiment that makes explicit some of the ways measurements of quantum phenomena ...

Anthromorphizing compositional fallacy at the very least. And, without a clear conception of "consciousness" either in philosophy or science, the phra...

On the Problem of Empathy: The Collected Works of Edith Stein (vol. 3), Edith Stein

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How could I be "wasting my time here" (or anywhere else) when wherever I am time is already wasting me?

Are yin-yang "opposites"? "a duality"? Heraclitean "flux:? I don't think so. Conflating complementarity (e.g. dialectics) and, say, coincidentia oppos...

You assume "God" learns; however, 'omniscience' precludes having to learn as there cannot be any unknowns for an 'omniscient being'. Your theological ...

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Nope. Just latter-day Socratics (e.g. Absurdists, CBTists, satirists).

"Wonder" did it for the ancients, "faith" did it for medievals, but for us moderns I think despair – intractable, infinite, perplexity – is the draw. ...

I don't see how the "Copernican" centrality of Kant's disembodied – transcendental – categories of reason "pays attention to our embodied ways of rela...

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https://youtu.be/Wjoah9wHVEc "Happy Blues" Live at Ronnie's Scott's (6:00) Ella in London, 1974 writer Ella Fitzgerald performers Ella Fitzgerald w/ t...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g6aXBdrQE14

Non-fiction consists of narratives about social and/or natural facts (e.g. reportage, histories, sciences). Philosophy, however, is a narrative about ...

:clap: :up: :up: So long as my interlocator proposes an alternative yet better question, I'm fine with it (re: poll).

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Good luck finding your own place, mate, especially during winter.

:100: Well said. In other words, kids: E-N-T-R-O-P-Y. :death: :flower:

Thanks for the concern, Jack. Yes, I'm going through some medical treatments lately that have made reading (or writing) fiction more difficult, even u...

I think philosophy is – has in some sense always been – about 'conceptual and moral creativity' insofar as it problematizes – exposes and calls into q...

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