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Are you a platonist?

:fire: As if "accidental outcomes" (pace Einstein) are not intrinsic to the universe. :smirk: Read Lucretius' De rerum natura or Spinoza's Ethica (par...

I think I have read this article once when Wayfarer had posted the link. This "blind spot", however, isn't a blind spot; the many limits of theoretica...

Since I am a fallibilist, I find "cultural relativism and postmodernism" completely irrelevant as far as the methods of formal, natural, engineering a...

I'm not familiar with Wayf's "blind spot" notion.

Appeal to popularity, again. C'mon, stop with the caricatures. :roll: No, sir! Compatibilism is the most reasonable idea that's consistent with both s...

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As I wrote in my last post I understand yinyang only as complementary and not contradictory in the least since each complement contains – not negates ...

This is "true" mostly for perennialists, platonists, theists, idealists & naive realists.

You've got nothing, man. Don't bother. Consider my questions koans to ponder. :sparkle:

Stop using his "BothAnd" bastardization of yinyang and thereby embarrassing yourself, Smith. Complementarity is not synonymous with contradiction (pac...

:worry: So 'the cause of causality' doesn't precipitate an infinite regress, Smith, or beg the question? Is it your position that randomness is explai...

And the sufficient reason for the PSR?

Your usual non-answer. That's a tell, sir. :yawn:

Why? :roll:

Psychological uncertainty and epistemological uncertainty are very different in my mind.

What grounds does the idealist have to doubt the existence of her hands? Without grounds, it's not reasonable or "right" to do so. I agree with e.g. P...

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:cool: Thanks. "Sugar" was my "Rosebud", a macguffin. Her actual role (off-screen), while a mystery to me as well, I prefer to think is more or less u...

Thanks greatly for the encouragement! Quite insightful. :up:

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Thanks. I wasn't trying to write about 'diabetes complications' per se as much as, more broadly, about diminishing returns on vices (e.g. rich diet, f...

Thanks for that. Still "battling" persistent brain fog from Covid-19 infections last year which makes writing more of struggle now than it's ever been...

I've neither claimed nor implied that.

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Whether or not it's "reasonable" to procreate is moot. In other words, either "reasonable or unreasonable" makes no practical – existential – differen...

Why the question?

Yep. I think she spoke the language. I also knew Estonian and Lithuanian dancers who were fluent in Polish too (both lived in "Hell's Kitchen"). Most ...

"Greenpoint" is also a neighborhood. I was too lazy to look up a subway station name and then realized that detail really wouldn't matter to non-New Y...

@"Tobias" I was so damn jealous after reading this one, I didn't leave a comment – just an upvote "I enjoyed it" – because I didn't want my praise to ...

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"Natalism" needs to be justified? Since when?

Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain is Built, W.A. Harris

"Causing harm" to imaginary people is ... imaginary. You're either incorrigible or delusional. :zip:

Just to clarify: I am an antinatalist (also, pro-euthanasia, pro-abortion, pro-vasectomy/tubal ligation) because the world and society I was born into...

Doesn't the Sorites Paradox call into question "determinateness" as a property or condition of "what exists"? Both sand-grains and sand dunes exist ye...

You're an D-K time-waster. Run along and "child's play" somewhere else, kid. :smirk:

Typical strawman. :ok:

Read Spinoza (re: substance / natura naturans which is both eternal and infinite – the only real, everything else that exists are merely ephemera nece...

You've been dead for a century and a half by the time the bomb goes off, so you don't get to say anything including this "child's play" example. :roll...

No hostility, just the logic of antinatalism's life-denial.

'Possible persons' are imaginary – nonexistent – and, therefore, only subsist (A. Meinong), like every other mere possibility, (D. Lewis) without a mo...

You've lost me. Sound arguments require demonstrably truthful premises.

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So "causation" is caused, huh? :rofl: Buddha (anicca) & Laozi (yinyang), Democritus (atomic swirling) & Heraclitus (everything flows), Boltzmann (ther...

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A "thing" is not-nothingness – specifically, structured nothing.