Modern science is a tool. Though not without its limitations, it is still the most efficacious and prolific tool-developing tool ever developed for se...
I believe you're misremembering, or confusing me with someone else. update: After a quick search of my post history, DJ, I'm batting 1.000 so far. Onl...
July 2022: At least our "British cousins" have (so far) dodged their own bullet. :up: https://youtu.be/lKrLBPmRsrM Recap (in light of treasonous Indiv...
Faith connotes worship. Agnosticism – "I don't know whether or not to worship any god." Atheism – "I don't worship this god, or I don't worship those ...
Ez-pz. :nerd: According to physical laws (SR), "lightspeed" is only possible for massless particles (e.g. photons). Spaceships have mass, therefore "l...
:up: In (Western) philosophy, "mysticism" seems the consequence of reason recognizing its own limits – active attention to the gaps in and between rea...
In his Ethics, Spinoza teaches there are three kinds of knowledge (from the subjective to objective to universal/absolute) • knowledge from imaginatio...
:lol: :up: I lived in Atlanta on and off for over a decade and I never heard that but it sounds right to my carpetbagger ears (especially since the B-...
https://youtu.be/Wjoah9wHVEc "Happy Blues" Live at Ronnie's Scott's (6:00) Ella in London, 1974 writer Ella Fitzgerald performers Ella Fitzgerald w/ t...
:cool: :up: I seem to recall it was my senior year in high school (c1980) when Mr. Waters' gave me this "short sharp shock" ... of recognition(?). I m...
READ FIRST https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_search_of_Mar-a-Lago IFF YOU CAN "HANDLE THE TRUTH." :mask: 1. The "raid" wasn't "unannounced". His res...
:eyes: :roll: :mask: I know this ain't your superpower, NOS, but try to process the following inconvenient truth: • A Trump appointed Federal Prosecut...
Not yet, I just started. I'll let you know. Check out her wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Barad and the synopsis of her "agential realism"....
• Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Karen Barad • Critical Realism: An Introduction to Roy Bha...
I use this well-moderated forum to discuss problematic questions raised or answers given in a variety of topics. Many members do likewise, giving and ...
@"Benkei" – The stated predicates for the 8 August 2022 search and seizure warrant for Individual-1's Florida residence is recovery of evidence of the...
(@"NOS4A2") Hey Trumptards, this is what TREASON looks like: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/12/search-warrant-shows-trump-under-investigation-f...
Yeah, in other words, 'knowing everything' that is true, not-true & unknowable. I don't think knowledge entails "certainty" (Peirce-Dewey, Popper-Tale...
Couldn't we be "wrong" about this conclusion? Doesn't knowledge presuppose the fallibility of knowing? Wouldn't "omniscience" consist in (1) knowing t...
Yeah, but no pardon for state & local crimes or relief from payouts to plaintiffs in dozens of civil lawsuits to come. If all that doesn't make Melani...
@"Benkei" – If Putin's bitch has kept in his unsecure residence "top secret" documents concerning US Nuclear Weapons (or those of foreign powers), the...
Why buy when you can rent the cow? Why rent the cow when you can borrow her milk? Why borrow her milk when you can steal some? But why steal when you ...
Your question makes no sense as I've pointed out. My stuff ain't "complicated", dimo, you're just not paying / refusing to pay attention. NB: philosop...
No. I take "my existence" – that I exist – for granted and "me taking for granted" itself presupposes "my existence" but does not prove it (pace Desca...
Yes, I'm familiar with some of Poincaré's and more of Feynman's works, and while I won't quarrel with these scientific geniuses, I'll point out that t...
One side-effect of split-brain surgery is two distinct minds (i.e. phenomenal self models) with personalities which can diverge over time. Also, split...
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