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Alienation, comrade – compunded by anthropogenic climate change, technocapitalist "progress" (re: automation) is politically incompatible with global ...

You're missing the forest for the trees. Also, I referred to Neurath's Boat (re: anti-foundationalism ) and not the "Ship of Theseus" (re: identity-in...

https://youtu.be/ues7bD6d5aY "Trust My Baby" (2:41) The Real Folk Blues, 1966 (song released 1960) Sonny Boy Williamson II https://youtu.be/Bl1qAw_PvD...

"Yesterday it was my birthday I hung one more year on the line I should be depressed, my life's a mess ...." https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UtEm14zt3Ug...

I usually don't know what I think until I speak – don't ever "shut up" that beautiful mind of yours.

Insoafar as there is corroborable evidence, they are; lacking corroborable evidence, they are not (i.e. indistinguishible from fictions).

And, with respect to "foundationalism" (OP), what's your point?

You've answered your own questions to your satisfaction it seems (with wikis, etc), so, as Plato's Socrates might have done, I'll leave it there.

Addendum to ... Pan-a-theism: The assumption that everything – nature – is godless; therefore, inviolable (i.e. sacred). :fire: :eyes:

I think binary-gender norming is inherently autocratic / theocratic / corporatocratic and is, therefore, incompatible with – subverted by – decentrali...

Biology (sex ~ one's junk at birth) is impersonal and psycho-sociology (how one libidinally relates-represents one's junk to other individuals (sexual...

Acculturation: "monogamy" creates an artificial scarcity that, like prohibitions (i.e. social ideals/idols) of other consensual behaviors, monetizes s...

And the point is ...?

Metaphysics only interprets physics, therefore it is not "science". :yawn:

:fire: Carpe diem! Non serviam. Sapere aude. Amor fati ....Memento mori, memento vivere. :death: :flower:

Maybe; but is also true. :100:

You don't make a case for "science as metaphysics" – besides, the phrase seems incoherent insofar as the latter consists of categorical statements (id...

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Since whether or not there is an "afterlife" is unknowable, I think investing more, or all, value in the merely imaginable instead of in this life is ...

The "PoE" belongs to poly/heno/mono/pan-en/pan-theism (re: The Riddle of Epicurus) and is not raised by deism, pandeism or acosmism.

Time doesn't "run" at all ... Rather, the universe expands – dissipates – as the cosmic thermodynamic gradient (i.e. "arrow of time").

e.g. Pandeists. don't. :smirk:

... only atom rearranging in void ...

"Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare." ~Spinoza Conventions, norms, customs, taboos, discursive practices, institutional facts, markets...

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On the contrary, the (canonical) Gospels are statements for nihilism insofar as they instruct us to prepare for "the resurrection" and "end of days" w...

@"NOS4A2" Mealwhile on Earth Prime .... :rofl: https://youtu.be/O_vAxNjMyfc

Being alive is a "NDE", then you die. :up:

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:fire: "Whatever you want ..." :cool: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7BuQFUhsRM

Yes, the writer knows more about what s/he was trying to convey but then each reader either feeds or starves the orphan tale with their attention to w...

Yes. An old sko0l scientific realist (via methodological naturalism), model-dependent realism seems to me more grounded (i.e. adaptive) than "social c...

@"Jack Cummins" et al – IMHO, Spinoza's dual-aspect ontology¹ =/= "cosmology" ... Nietzsche's dionysian naturalism² =/= "monism" ... as aptly stated :...

Instead of "philosopher" I call myself a freethinker (offline) & dialectical rodeo clown (online).

:100: :fire: :sweat: Poor schop1, "blue in the face" in denial ... It seems "balance and thermodynamics", however, is the reason for "a reason for doi...

"Superheroes" and celebrities.

What a reductionist thing to say? :smirk:

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Winter solstice. :up:

Stop torturing yourself. :sweat:

Every judgment has a cause. However, (according to our best, more precise, completely unfalsified physical theory QFT) the vast vast majority of event...

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Two problems: (1) quantum fluctuations, which are the most abundannt entities / events in nature are a-casual (re: uncertainty principle) and (2) "the...

I gave it a go last year with this proposal ... AFAIK no takers yet here or abroad.

Murder tortures the survivors (i.e. family, friends & lovers of the murder-victim) with open-ended, sudden bereavement. Also, murder undermines / thre...

No.

You're giving philosoohical ideas much more agency than they possess or deserve, Jack. I don't see the point of worrying about them (tools) being misu...

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Wings of the absurd (Zapffe-Camus-Rosset).