Amor intellectualis dei. This is why I describe "faith" as make believe – believing the unbelievable (often in order to defend the indefensible) – fal...
Very much so. The so-called "Presocratics" like Thales and Pythagoras who attempt to replace 'mythic-religious stories' about the origins/purposes of ...
I agree. However, do you believe that the original AA for straight, white male, Protestants since 1619 will be completely given up (as a birthright en...
But you stated that "consciousness" is "feeling of mind" "which is a feeling." This circularity makes no sense and renders the OP gibberish. Unless, o...
So, if "God" is not a mystery, that is, not inexplicable to human reason, then why all the mumbo-jumbo about "revealed truth" or "He reveals His prese...
For my 2 shekels ... Of course not. "God" is the ultimate "mystery" (according to Abrahamic (& Vedic) traditions) and a "mystery" does not explain any...
:fire: This statement, which I mostly agree with, has nothing to do with the post from which you've quoted me quoting Rabbi Hillel's "maxim" (which is...
Of course, in the absence of defeasible (or abductive) reasoning, the perennial alternative (crutch / fetish) is Woo-of-the-Gaps. Philosophy, as I und...
The narrative is too cerebral for me to care about the characters. It makes me think of a fractal of simulations – matroyshka-doll "universes" – with ...
I like that. :up: My own peculiar paraphrase: "Theoretical models are increasing in explanatory power, but are reasonable criteria of judgment and/or ...
Well, given that there's been Affirmative Action, in effect, for straight, white male, Protestants (in the main) established in every manifest institu...
Thus, the atavistic prevalence of group / wishful / magical thinking (i.e. faith) over defeasible thinking (i.e. truth-seeking); the cognitive priorit...
"Worldview?" Yes, subjective. Philosophy? Not subjective. (See below.) Wtf – I can't think without using my brain, or without thinking, can you? Gibbe...
:point: Is Bolsonaro next? Putin catching a bullet soon? Federal and/or state indictments of TR45H by this Labor Day for fuck's sake? :shade: An oldie...
The principle of non-contradiction is "subjective"? Logical fallacies are "subjective"? The problem of the criterion is "subjective"? The problem of i...
The recent SCOTUS trashing of stare decisis leaves it to rightwing state legistlatures to impose pro-fetus (anti-child! anti-mother!) criminal and civ...
Yeah. Meaning is use in a language game (vide Wittgenstein). :fire: Composition fallacy. Refuted. (All too easy.) Like I said, kid, the Bishop begins ...
What "self-evident true premises" (A) do you believe Berkeley reasons from and to what sound truth-claims (B) do you believe Berkeley concludes? Speci...
I'm a philosophical naturalist and methodological materialist-physicalist; to my mind, the latter presupposes the former. These are not truths (re: ph...
As for the story itself, only the "workers" are named (thereby dignified) – I like the show of solidarity. The encounter, however, feels rushed or abb...
They may be. If they are factual truth-claims, then there are truth-maker facts to which they correspond. Thus, they're expressions of science, not ph...
Analogously, I see philosophy as the Ship of Theseus (i.e. continuously repairing itself in dry dock by replacing worn-out parts) and science as Neura...
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