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In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
Why don't you ever answer any of my polite, direct, simple questions of your "unorthodoxy & jargon"? Apparently, you are afraid of exposing your own i...
October 09, 2022 at 02:43
In: Is it possible to be morally wrong even if one is convinced to do the right thing?  — view comment
So you cannot differentiate Man from "man-made structures"? :roll: Btw, cite a single case of a "man-made structure" that is separate from nature – un...
October 09, 2022 at 01:57
In: Does Camus make sense?  — view comment
"If Camus makes sense"? I can't make sense out of your question (above).
October 09, 2022 at 01:44
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
Well said, sir! :100: :fire:
October 08, 2022 at 21:36
In: Is there an objective/subjective spectrum?  — view comment
All horizons are "unattainable", and yet – The obstacle, Smith, is the way forward. Amor fati – imagine Sisyphus happy! :death: :flower:
October 08, 2022 at 21:08
In: Does Camus make sense?  — view comment
No question (philosophical or otherwise), just your (mis)reading of speculative essays by a novelist-dramatist. So why start a new thread?
October 08, 2022 at 20:39
In: Pantheism  — view comment
Pandeism, like natural science and unlike anytheism, is not "faith-based" but is a 'story' that's most consistent (so far) with all of the known physi...
October 08, 2022 at 20:08
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
:roll: I don't think so. :up:
October 08, 2022 at 19:50
In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
QED. :rofl:
October 08, 2022 at 19:45
In: Is it possible to be morally wrong even if one is convinced to do the right thing?  — view comment
:roll: Genetic fallacy. Also, human nature is separate from "nature"?
October 08, 2022 at 05:33
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
So, a non-epistemic "true or false"? :chin:
October 08, 2022 at 04:29
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
Problem of the criterion – you're aware of it's significance?
October 08, 2022 at 02:29
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
Yours, of course; not mine, sir.
October 08, 2022 at 02:27
In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
Gnomon's famously – Dunning-Kruger? dogmatically New Ageist? – incorrigible on this point.
October 08, 2022 at 02:26
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
As far as I'm concerned, you've not "proved" anything yet, gmba.
October 08, 2022 at 02:18
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
:smirk:
October 08, 2022 at 01:57
In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
Pedantic fyi – Ludwig Boltzmann & James Clerk Maxwell founded statistical mechanics / thermodynamics in the 19th century.
October 08, 2022 at 01:56
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
:roll:
October 08, 2022 at 01:44
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
The statement is not a contradiction, it's conceptually incoherent (i.e. not even false).
October 08, 2022 at 01:41
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
Instrumentalist? Neo-pragmatist? ...
October 07, 2022 at 23:28
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
:100:
October 07, 2022 at 22:20
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
Interesting (I guess 'analytical') approach. :chin: No doubt true of cataphatic "anti-metaphysics".
October 07, 2022 at 22:01
In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
:100: :up: Spooky, ain't it? – when Gnomon, apokrisis & 180 Proof agree (more or less). :smirk:
October 07, 2022 at 21:19
In: All arguments in favour of Vegetarianism and contra  — view comment
You've misread what I've written.
October 07, 2022 at 20:51
In: All arguments in favour of Vegetarianism and contra  — view comment
Other than existential survival, to have "higher priorities" other than ethics (i.e. cultivating optimal agency/well-being via conduct and relationshi...
October 07, 2022 at 18:02
In: Is it possible to be morally wrong even if one is convinced to do the right thing?  — view comment
:up:
October 07, 2022 at 07:10
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
... but more like (the study of) constants and functions, respectively.
October 07, 2022 at 07:09
In: All arguments in favour of Vegetarianism and contra  — view comment
(I guess) "illuminating!" or "insightful!"
October 07, 2022 at 06:39
In: What is the simplest example of entropy?  — view comment
Process #1.
October 07, 2022 at 04:22
In: Is it possible to be morally wrong even if one is convinced to do the right thing?  — view comment
For sociopaths, no doubt.
October 07, 2022 at 04:16
In: Is there an objective/subjective spectrum?  — view comment
Define, please.
October 07, 2022 at 04:12
In: All arguments in favour of Vegetarianism and contra  — view comment
:fire: :up:
October 07, 2022 at 03:37
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
:clap: :smirk: What? :chin:
October 07, 2022 at 03:25
In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
We are "bags of chemistry" and much more due to the complexity of that chemistry. Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment decenterings https://thephiloso...
October 07, 2022 at 03:08
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
:up:
October 06, 2022 at 20:20
In: Foundational Questions of Physics & Metaphysics  — view comment
It's a science literacy bias (as well as a science numeracy bias), mi amigo. Without that, TPF would be nothing more than Twitter or Reddit. :mask: :p...
October 06, 2022 at 19:32
In: How Objective Morality Disproves An All-Good God  — view comment
Wut :monkey:
October 06, 2022 at 19:27
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
:ok: Hey, I'm not an idealist/solipsist either so ... :sweat:
October 06, 2022 at 19:18
In: Is there an objective/subjective spectrum?  — view comment
No, because we cannot "know anything absolutely". What does "know ... absolutely" even mean? We're not absolute beings with the absolute perspective s...
October 06, 2022 at 19:17
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
:roll: Isn't that still solipsism? As I point out, whether god or my ego, only that "self" is real to itself.
October 06, 2022 at 18:49
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
Berkeley says "to be is to be perceived" and this seems to presuppose "self-perceived being" that cannot perceive other selves only ("ideas of") bodie...
October 06, 2022 at 17:20
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
Brains-in-vat / simulation hypothesis.
October 06, 2022 at 01:21
In: Antinatalism Arguments  — view comment
:up:
October 06, 2022 at 01:11
In: Is it possible to be morally wrong even if one is convinced to do the right thing?  — view comment
Suffering. Yes. One can be mistaken. Yes. There's no such thing as moral statute of limitation. I think it only means that we are morally fallible.
October 06, 2022 at 01:08
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
Reread my last post in which I quoted your hypocrisy.
October 05, 2022 at 20:24
In: Antinatalism Arguments  — view comment
:up: Thus, the incoherent triviality of the OP.
October 05, 2022 at 20:21
In: How Objective Morality Disproves An All-Good God  — view comment
Freedom is beyond good and evil.
October 05, 2022 at 20:18
In: Does quantum physics say nothing is real?  — view comment
:100: :fire: Now look who's talking down ... Projection is a hell of a drug. :roll:
October 05, 2022 at 20:02
In: How Objective Morality Disproves An All-Good God  — view comment
:up: To suffer is to cry-out for help to – solicit silently or not for – other sufferers to help stop or reduce the suffering. The moral fact. Like hu...
October 05, 2022 at 19:51
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
OTD 60 years ago, the Ringo-version of this song was released in the UK ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7uQuX1sOYk4 "Love Me Do" (2:22) A-side singl...
October 05, 2022 at 19:05
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