Heat. There are countlessly many more ways to break an egg than to make an egg (which, by implication, breaks more eggs). There are many more ways to ...
For the 'ontology of information' I suggest, to start, D. Deutsch's work on quantum computing (re: constructor theory) and S. Wolfram's work on comput...
Re: "The Euthyphro" – God is irrelevant (vide Epicuus). :fire: If it's a profoundly good or funny book, then I'll need to read it again ... and again ...
:death: :flower: I "judge" a philosophy, as CS Peirce taught, by the habits – particularly, ethical and psychological habits – its reflective inquirie...
I found in this book a persuave argument for 'open-ended development': The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_...
You put your finger on my (the?) subconscious fear/hope ... "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." ~Samuel Beckett :fire: :hearts...
Theorizing "consciousness" is scientific problem and not only, even principally, a philosophical question because philosophy lacks means for empirical...
IME, reason works better than any of the alternatives tried so far. Better for what? At least for (1) producing, using, correcting and transmitting (a...
Nonsense. "Reason" is not a claim; it's a discursive practice that is "justified" only insofar as it works. "Faith?" Well, nothing fails like prayer ....
My condolences to TPF members who are British Commonwealth subjects of King Charles III (hopefully he will abdicate soon and crown young William (or b...
:cool: I prefer Levi-Strauss' neologism entropology (entropy + anthropology) by which I think he proposed 'a study of disorder produced by human (soci...
Okay. So you don't know that "we are the only animals with reasons" (and don"t know that our "reasons" are not ex post facro rationalizations). :sweat...
"P1" is not true, ergo "C" does not follow. :point: e.g. p1. If the round Earth exists, then "nonresistant" flat earthers would not exist. p2. "Nonres...
A more illustrative example of Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef's failure as a moral teacher is this: In other words (intentional or not), do not fight – surren...
The judge's ruling to so "bad", IMO, it is deliberate (i.e. corrupt), and despite being a spectacular display of "incompetence", puts this 41 year old...
How do you know that "we are the only animals with reasons"? (Clearly, you don't know "what it's like to be a bat".) How do you know that our so-calle...
IMO, all this judge has done is expose herself as a Trumpanista tool. The DoJ, I have no doubt, will find one or more viable work-arounds to this cour...
:mask: Re: a dramatic representation of Euro-American, or Northern Hemispheric (predominant driver of "the Anthropocene" via rampant, metastasing indu...
Another facile analogy ... :sparkle: mythos : logos :: magic : logic :fire: ... the latter constitutes the attempt (à la philosophy) to formalize / co...
Labor Day 2022. Individual-1 aka "Agent Orange" aka "Putin's Bitch" had petitioned a Federal Judge, whom Individual-1 had appointed during the last mo...
I don't "mean to imply" anything. Of the choices given, I choose the one which seems most likely the case. However, as I've pointed out already, I thi...
e.g. Neurath's Boat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurath%27s_boat e.g. foundherentism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundherentism e.g. falsifiab...
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