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Jerry Lee Lewis 1935-2022 the last of the Million Dollar Quartet, "The Killer", has left the building ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GN8VV8CHnrk "W...

Thanks for that quote from Kant, it's new to me. Like with Mann, I can't make sense of Kant's transcendental aesthetic (e.g. that "time" and "space" a...

I cannot make sense of what Thomas Mann means by "the self-realization of time" in the first instance and how in the second instance that is uniquely ...

Like a bull in a psychoceramics shop ... Gnomon, sir, I prefer to categorize your "ravings" :sparkle: more precisely, as I've said previously, as pseu...

:up: H. Sapiens differ from other mammalian species in degree not in kind just as adult humans differ from infant humans in degree rather than in kind...

Yes, that's why I had provided the link The latter refers to efficient causation and the former to teleology (i.e. (occult) purpose).

Not even remotely close to what I've said and I can't say what I mean any clearer than I already have in these posts to which you have responded (but ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cqUhO8IMyIY "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven ..." (4:20) The Best Of Albert King,1986 writer, Don Nix, 1971 Albert King ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cqUhO8IMyIY "Everybody wants to go to Heaven But nobody wants to die" ~Albert King Human (non-tribal) civilization is a ...

DNA identifies organisms as members of specific species. It's "value" is reproductive and as a hereditary genetic archive. Appeal to popularity is fal...

How do you / I know I am not a "Larry"? Gotta play the hand I've been dealt as well as I can, so the question is moot.

Boredom wins. :roll: Only where there is surplus water, food, shelter, oxygen, 'ugly Bettys' and medical supplies. Only when there is an acute scarcit...

1.(In your own words) How so? 2 (Again, in your own words) "Materialistic beliefs" such as? 3. As opposed to "nonphysical Energy"? If so, please cite ...

Check out the links provided here https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/751787 (@ the bottom)

I don't think the survival of our species depends in any way on "the human race ... globally united". In fact, I'd bet against it. And when 'life exte...

"Our reality" consists in every possible "form of how real can be presented". Analogously, chess consists in every game that it is possible to play, w...

Mann seems to assume that immortality lacks "transitoriness" (e.g. personal losses happen, the world is a thermally dissipative mega-structure of coun...

The answer depends on what you mean by "value": to what or to whom? under what circumstances? moral, aesthetic, religious, economic, political, or soc...

Apples and onions. :roll:

I do not understand irrealism as merely "perspecctival" or "subjective perception" but rather, in Nelson Goodman's sense, that the world is a composit...

Category mistake. Those 'qualities' are not comparable. No. They are not comparable.

That's a different question, independent of – not related to – the one raised by the OP. Why don't ask plainly and clearly what you're trying to get a...

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Well okay, then you have my answer:

So you let alt-right racists ' coopting one of the oldest human hand gestures stop you from using an emoji? How woke of you, frank. :mask:

:ok: And your point is —?

Why? If I say "important as sentient life forms", then both are equally important specimens. You categorically rule out "both" as an option, however, ...

Go back to my initial post: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/751604

You posed the "dilemma" but framed it ambiguously enough not to be taken seriously. Try again, make it clear and compelling.

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"Pick one" who "is more important" how,? in what way? for what reason?

When it is raining outside, you cannot "avoid" that it is raining outside "by staying inside". Btw, your example doesn't concern ontology, Banno, whic...

This seems to me the idea raised by the OP. I don't think"the idea of real" is relevant but rather that the term itself "is not usually defined explic...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cHWs3c3YNs4 :fire: :monkey: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LwX59AbLRRs :up:

Addendum to The only context which I took as relevant is the one mentioned in the OP: (mis)usage vis-a-vis onrology on TPF. All the "ordinary language...

:fire: So you cannot cite from where you get :ok: No need to take your OP seriously then since you're just making up context-free shit.

Clear as mud. :shade: I don't see why: you claimed I had "insisted" on something – show me by citing my own words (with a link to put those words into...

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Cite the claim/s you are referring to. Thanks. Clarify what you mean by "a thing ... exists".

From the King James Bible (OT): Also, read the Book of Job. The "free will" theidiocy amounts to nothing more than vacuous and vicious blame-shifting ...

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I applauded @"Fooloso4" pointing out that the OP is mistaken in assuming that interpretations of Hegel's political philosophy are/were (mostly) based ...

It's invalid & trivial. That's what your "argument" is.

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Self-refuted re: (the usual) fatous premises. Thus, dismissed as per @"Sir2u". :yawn: :100:

:sweat: https://youtu.be/Ru3O23zqqaE?list=PLtistsHOEKiyebgKTIWAeMa5ngRgny_yr "Good morning ..." "Woke up / Fell out of bed ..." (mono)

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I gave your OP all the due consideration it warrants; you must've missed it – https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/750919

August-December readings: Due to laser surgery to treat acute retinapathy in early September and again a couple of weeks ago, I'm still reading the fo...

And clearly you're not very smart, Bratshitz. I guess that makes me the straight man in this clown show. :smirk: