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In: Aliens don’t exist.  — view comment
:up: :up: My own take on the implausibility that "we are alone" :nerd: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/380306
October 13, 2022 at 01:40
In: Right brained thinking in science...  — view comment
:up:
October 13, 2022 at 01:31
In: The Futility of the idea of “True Christian Doctrine”  — view comment
"Eppur si muove." ~Galileo Galilei Thought crime. :eyes: IIRC, Camus drew totalitarian parallels between Communism and Christianity on this basis in T...
October 12, 2022 at 22:55
In: Antinatalism Arguments  — view comment
He can't stop himself; "complaining", you see, expresses schop1's will to live. :death:
October 12, 2022 at 22:48
In: The Futility of the idea of “True Christian Doctrine”  — view comment
IFF a truth is "divine" (i.e. "revealed"), then it should not be open to interpretation; thus, Christian scriptures do not express "the divine, reveal...
October 12, 2022 at 22:35
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Today, a prominent MAGA mouth-breather, insurrectionist & conspiracy propagandist bankrupted himself & his great-grandchildren :clap: https://www.bbc....
October 12, 2022 at 21:50
In: Aliens don’t exist.  — view comment
What if we – DNA, RNA, etc – are "aliens"?
October 12, 2022 at 05:39
In: Does Camus make sense?  — view comment
:fire:
October 12, 2022 at 05:36
In: Nature of the Philosophical Project  — view comment
Really? :chin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_ethics Maybe the problem is I'm not a possibilist (i.e. actualism as well as an probabilist (...
October 12, 2022 at 05:28
In: Nature of the Philosophical Project  — view comment
I think, rather, a context limits what is probable. What? This makes about as much sense as saying the living room floor I'm standing on "causes" me n...
October 12, 2022 at 01:26
In: Nature of the Philosophical Project  — view comment
Montaigne :up:
October 12, 2022 at 01:15
In: Nature of the Philosophical Project  — view comment
No. IIRC, 'First Philosophy' concerns archai, or first principles, of theoria (ontology theology & cosmology) and, by implication, phronesis.
October 11, 2022 at 22:35
In: How Much Is Certain or Uncertain in Life and Philosophy?  — view comment
Referring back to the OP: "uncertainty in philosophy" is doubt; "uncertainty in life" is emotional confusion and/or unquantifiable risk. The latter is...
October 11, 2022 at 22:12
In: How Much Is Certain or Uncertain in Life and Philosophy?  — view comment
However doubt presupposes the indubitable, don't you think?
October 11, 2022 at 21:45
In: Does Camus make sense?  — view comment
Ritual grunt work. Creative self-sabotage. The reflex of respiration is absurd, no? Camus says, in effect, human dignity only manifests in clear-eyed ...
October 11, 2022 at 21:42
In: Nature of the Philosophical Project  — view comment
So Aristotle et al are wrong about 'First Philosophy' being first (i.e. fundamental)?
October 11, 2022 at 21:25
In: How Much Is Certain or Uncertain in Life and Philosophy?  — view comment
From your previous thread on "uncertainty" ...
October 11, 2022 at 19:49
In: Does Camus make sense?  — view comment
:up: :roll:
October 11, 2022 at 19:33
In: How Much Is Certain or Uncertain in Life and Philosophy?  — view comment
:clap:
October 11, 2022 at 18:12
In: Is it possible to be morally wrong even if one is convinced to do the right thing?  — view comment
:up: :death: :flower: Read Laozi & Zhuangzi. Read Epicurus-Lucretius & Seneca-Epictetus. Read Spinoza & Nietzsche. Read P. Foot & M. Nussbaum. Like wa...
October 11, 2022 at 18:01
In: Nature of the Philosophical Project  — view comment
:up:
October 11, 2022 at 09:53
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
:sparkle: :victory: Hey! A dead cat from QM sings"nothing is real" ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5lUZvNljHU8
October 11, 2022 at 09:22
In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
Fyi – On the contrary, scientists build models from which they derive predictions in order to test (falsify) their models. When a model has survived a...
October 11, 2022 at 08:48
In: Luck  — view comment
:clap: :sweat: That's life!
October 11, 2022 at 04:52
In: Does Camus make sense?  — view comment
You have confused philosophy with mathematics. Proposing criteria for judging and methods for "finding the truth" is not itself "finding the truth". P...
October 11, 2022 at 04:46
In: Nature of the Philosophical Project  — view comment
:cool: I do not conceive of "global constraints" as "causal", perhaps because I'm not convinced that a systems science paradigm provides an adequate f...
October 11, 2022 at 04:21
In: Is it possible to be morally wrong even if one is convinced to do the right thing?  — view comment
Your prior statement below I called into question as incoherent because your statement implies that a practice we humans use to regulate expressions o...
October 11, 2022 at 03:53
In: Nature of the Philosophical Project  — view comment
:roll: "BothAnd", no? :smirk:
October 11, 2022 at 03:22
In: Pantheism  — view comment
Well, since "God" is infinite, the meaning of "life and death" must be infinitesmal, or zero, by comparison. It stands to reason that whether or not o...
October 11, 2022 at 03:19
In: Does Camus make sense?  — view comment
:clap: :up:
October 11, 2022 at 02:56
In: Is it possible to be morally wrong even if one is convinced to do the right thing?  — view comment
Better than your non-answer ...
October 11, 2022 at 02:52
In: Nature of the Philosophical Project  — view comment
To start, the dialectics inherent in any thesis "X is real": not-X is real ad infinitum.
October 11, 2022 at 02:51
In: Nature of the Philosophical Project  — view comment
"Direction" =/= destination (i.e. "finality"). That this sentence ends, for instance, is not the purpose, goal, or meaning of this sentence. Likewise,...
October 11, 2022 at 02:46
In: How Objective Morality Disproves An All-Good God  — view comment
:up:
October 11, 2022 at 02:23
In: Nature of the Philosophical Project  — view comment
:cool: :up: :chin: To paraphrase Leonard Cohen: It has always seemed to me that philosophy is an attempt to make sense of human existence by reflectiv...
October 11, 2022 at 01:18
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
:up: If "it's all simulation and therefore nothing is real", then the simulation is also not real. :smirk:
October 10, 2022 at 23:53
In: Is it possible to be morally wrong even if one is convinced to do the right thing?  — view comment
wtf :sweat:
October 10, 2022 at 23:48
In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
:up:
October 10, 2022 at 23:46
In: How Objective Morality Disproves An All-Good God  — view comment
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/740227
October 10, 2022 at 20:25
In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
Nothing but fear. :rofl:
October 10, 2022 at 03:49
In: How Much Is Certain or Uncertain in Life and Philosophy?  — view comment
Known knowns are a minute subset of known unknowns which are an infiniesmal subset of unknown unknowns. –180 Proof's Law "The future's uncertain And t...
October 10, 2022 at 03:41
In: Is there an objective/subjective spectrum?  — view comment
Deleuze wrote two on him: Spinoza: Practical Philosophy and Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza. Which one are you referring to? (Btw, youll get more...
October 10, 2022 at 02:57
In: Antinatalism Arguments  — view comment
:up:
October 09, 2022 at 16:51
In: Is there an objective/subjective spectrum?  — view comment
I'm saving up my woo-woos for this https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/746676 :smirk:
October 09, 2022 at 16:12
In: The Earth is ...  — view comment
Arda is flat. :sparkle: Middle Earth is round (after "The Downfall of Númenor" in the 2nd Age). "Earth" (today) is actually the 6th Age / 7th Age of M...
October 09, 2022 at 16:01
In: Is there an objective/subjective spectrum?  — view comment
Yes! :gasp: For me, it's Spinoza's dissolution of the MBP with property dualism.
October 09, 2022 at 15:38
In: Does Camus make sense?  — view comment
Camus is not an existentialist like Sartre or Kierkegaard and his notion of – encounter with – the Absurd is not derived from "the death of God" or "m...
October 09, 2022 at 15:17
In: Antinatalism Arguments  — view comment
:up: So what ... :roll:
October 09, 2022 at 15:09
In: Is there an objective/subjective spectrum?  — view comment
That's clear as mud.
October 09, 2022 at 05:52
In: Is there an objective/subjective spectrum?  — view comment
Some folly, however, is significant folly. Remember, padawan: the path is often the goal, the journey is the destination. :fire:
October 09, 2022 at 02:48
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