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At most, IME, Descartes only "proved" cogitatio fit, ergo cogitatio est, not that "I exist".

I think conspiratorial rationalizations are never "sufficient ... to justify suffering" and mass murder. :brow:

No. The Shoah was evil. No. The fascists systematic mass murder was against "the desires" (Spinoza's conatus) of their victims & the survivors as well...

And yet the result of physics are only unfalsified explanations, not proven truths.

I don't know of any limit to divisibility except fundamental planck units. "Mind" is a classical phenomenon, ergo divisible. As and others have pointe...

Proofs are only relevant in logic and mathematics, not natural science (vide Hume, Peirce, Dewey, Popper, et al).

Besides, doubting everything without warrant being a performative contradiction (as Peirce points out "a paper doubt"), it only follows from The Cogit...

Natural science isn't in the business of "proofs". You're missing the forest for the trees (thus "pedantic"). :roll:

Ad hominems & non sequiturs are the health of sophistry.

In order to address that very question.

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:clap: :lol: Let's hope so. :vomit:

:chin: By "your absolute truths" I understand statements which I find irrational – even contradictory – to doubt or deny are true. Here's what comes t...

e.g. @"NOS4A2" & US House Minority Leader McCarthy :sweat: :up: As pointed out in this 10 February 2022 article https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2...

Not "given." False dichotomy. 'Partial truths' have survival value; in fact, most of our "truths" are only partial / approximate, ergo fallibilism. Ad...

Fine legal point: the FBI executed a search and seizure warrant; they did not "raid" the residence (as tr45h said in his fundraising social media post...

:nerd: As I mentioned previously, here's a dramatization of anterograde amnesia ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HDWylEQSwFo

Well, my "opinion" happens to agree with "objective truth", so stop whinging about it counter my claims of STFU.

Shit just got real – from Putin's bitch to AG Garland's bitch! :clap: :lol: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/08/trump-fbi-maralago-search-0005044...

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:100: :clap: :cool: Gene Wolfe binging is one my at least once a decade (purgative) rituals.

A more likely candidate "the root of religion" is animism, or it seems to me. A precursor to shamanism, pantheism and (metaphysical) finalism / panpsy...

For my filthy lucre ... Norms are procedural, not representational; they either (mostly) work or they don't, which is a fact (J. Searle ~ institutiona...

"The truth" of what?

I may use this (below) inspired by your story. :victory: :death:

:cool: Same reason that dementia, Alzheimer's and amnesia are weaknesses: "forgetfulness" (not ordinary, functional forgetting as I point out in my la...

IIRC, the gist is that the human brain has a vast though finite number of possible synaptic connections which are "pruned" by lack of use through deve...

You did it for me, Moo.

He's hilarious!

Few things encourage me to, as Beckett says, "I'll go on" like reading the blackest passages of Cioran :cool: :death: :fire: :strong: :smirk:

Exactly! :smirk: (The implication of what you wrote, G-mon. ) Anyway. Yeah, the map =/= territory but that is precisely why the map is useful as a map...

You've confused yourself again. Go try and score points elsewhere, MU.

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:lol: Pax.

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Nice ... On that point, I yield. :sad:

I didn't claim that there are other minds; why would I? Those who are in doubt, or deny there are other minds, are making the extraordinary claim idly...

What is "ridiculous" is assuming a perspective for which there are not any grounds to assume and then use such an groundless assumption as a condition...

:chin: So "human minds" are human minds-dependent "facts"? :

Well then, "newbie", apparently you've not understood the counter-arguments made throughout. Your profs know their business – solipsism is "silly" & "...

Inertia. Besides, why rush the inevitable? Nothing lasts (i.e. entropy, anicca). The "chore" of respirating & metabolizing will end soon. Death is the...

What?

As I've pointed out, your argument doesn't even do that. Non sequitur; I neither claimed nor implied as much. Your / solipsist's reliance on logic, ho...

IIRC, Spinoza points out in Ethica that attributions of chance (or "free will") are a result / symptom of inadequate knowledge of causes. Classical ob...

Why?

:fire: As a categorical statement, the conclusion does not follow from the antecedent hypotheticals. Circular fiat. :roll: Without all of the premises...

Logic is grammar (Witty). If you haven't already, read the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with Aristotle's "first principles" in mind. Not an easy rea...

Apparently. (He probably wouldn't accept your apology.)