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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 ...
September 11, 2022 at 05:30
Only in profundity.
September 11, 2022 at 05:16
Peircean-Deweyan fallibilism rather than Jamesian 'expedience' (or Rortyan 'relativism').
September 11, 2022 at 05:14
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...
September 11, 2022 at 04:57
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 ...
September 10, 2022 at 21:29
:death: :flower: I "judge" a philosophy, as CS Peirce taught, by the habits – particularly, ethical and psychological habits – its reflective inquirie...
September 10, 2022 at 20:44
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_...
September 10, 2022 at 17:20
You put your finger on my (the?) subconscious fear/hope ... "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." ~Samuel Beckett :fire: :hearts...
September 10, 2022 at 02:00
Theorizing "consciousness" is scientific problem and not only, even principally, a philosophical question because philosophy lacks means for empirical...
September 10, 2022 at 01:46
Philosophy concerns ideas. Neuroscience concerns ideation. I see how the latter might inform the former but not the other way around.
September 09, 2022 at 23:12
Pyrrhonian? Academic? Cartesian? Humean? ... Rortyan?
September 09, 2022 at 22:20
Same as "the relationship between" particle physics and chocolate frosting. It's a category mistake to (causally) relate them. :roll:
September 09, 2022 at 22:08
Freddy's "madness" drove his idiosyncratic philosophical genius rather than the other way around. Don't believe the pop psych hype! :smirk:
September 09, 2022 at 22:02
You've lost me.
September 09, 2022 at 21:52
:eyes: Neurath's Boat.
September 09, 2022 at 21:29
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...
September 09, 2022 at 21:26
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September 09, 2022 at 19:25
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 ....
September 09, 2022 at 19:13
:fire:
September 09, 2022 at 18:48
I.e. map =/= territory. Given enough rope, Gnomon might hang you both ...
September 09, 2022 at 18:32
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...
September 08, 2022 at 23:44
:cool: I prefer Levi-Strauss' neologism entropology (entropy + anthropology) by which I think he proposed 'a study of disorder produced by human (soci...
September 08, 2022 at 22:01
Nevermind. Your argument in the OP is not sound.
September 08, 2022 at 21:48
You're mistaken, Smith. P1 in the OP is not true; the conclusion does not follow.
September 08, 2022 at 21:41
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...
September 08, 2022 at 04:18
"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...
September 08, 2022 at 04:12
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...
September 08, 2022 at 02:05
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...
September 08, 2022 at 01:43
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...
September 08, 2022 at 01:04
Explain.
September 08, 2022 at 00:51
:up:
September 08, 2022 at 00:45
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...
September 07, 2022 at 21:32
:mask: Re: a dramatic representation of Euro-American, or Northern Hemispheric (predominant driver of "the Anthropocene" via rampant, metastasing indu...
September 07, 2022 at 21:22
Another facile analogy ... :sparkle: mythos : logos :: magic : logic :fire: ... the latter constitutes the attempt (à la philosophy) to formalize / co...
September 07, 2022 at 07:25
Just an aside:
September 07, 2022 at 04:55
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...
September 07, 2022 at 04:04
Philosophy consists mostly of normative principles (i.e. prescriptions), suppositions (i.e. thought-experiments), evaluations (i.e. interpretations of...
September 07, 2022 at 01:58
September 06, 2022 at 07:03
You stopped making sense at " :up: " ...
September 06, 2022 at 06:21
:fire: Welcome to the Anthropocene. :mask: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/722883
September 05, 2022 at 00:54
I.e. dual-aspect monism (or property dualism). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-aspect_theory
September 04, 2022 at 21:32
:up:
September 04, 2022 at 20:43
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...
September 04, 2022 at 20:10
:chin:
September 04, 2022 at 20:04
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...
September 04, 2022 at 19:54
:fire:
September 04, 2022 at 19:43
:smirk:
September 04, 2022 at 19:38