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July readings • Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy, vol. 6, Peter Adamson • Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews 1984-1996, Noam Chomsky still reading ...

Excerpt from a very old post: This rambles on some more about (my?) despair ... :zip:

Human stupidity (i.e. incorrigibly maladaptive misuses of intelligence / know-how / judgment which inadvertently do harm to oneself and/or others) is ...

Consider this variation on "moral realism" expressed in an old post: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/679623 Explain how the followin...

Predictions are deduced from models and models consist in explanations of how physical transformations can happen (vide K. Popper, D. Deutsch). Withou...

So then, like Kant, his account of "noumenon" begs the question.

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I don't see how that – panpsychism? – answers my question.

Does Pinter account for what generates the structure and properties of (the) mind(s) which generates the structure and properties of the world / cosmo...

In other words ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/586447

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@"Baden" @"Caldwell" – What's the date to end voting and conclude tbe contest? Fixed or tbd?

You misread me (deliberately or not). Science explains nature (i.e. transformations of phenomena, facts-of-the-matter, states-of-affairs) with testabl...

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Like a neighborhood bar, it's a joint full of those who know what they don't know and suckers who don't know that they don't know. I find it's the suc...

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Nothing but nothing of substance from you and evasiveness like this :point: .

Nope. Just a dialectical rodeo clown tryiing corral (your) bulls*** :sweat:

Unlike @"Agent Smith", self-proclaimed "I'm not a beginner" types like you don't understand much that's not tediously spoon-fed.

"Not a beginner", huh? :rofl: https://second.wiki/wiki/transzendentale_dialektik https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-metaphysics/#:~:text=Hence%2C...

I guess you don't understand my post.

Unbounded. For instance, the Hartle-Hawking No Boundary conjecture (that there wasn't a "big bang" just as there isn't an edge to the Earth (i.e. sphe...

As they say, son, in civilized parts that dog just won't hunt. https://youtu.be/35nh7qkPYXo

I'm with Witty: philosophy describes discursive features and usages while leaving "everything as it is". On the hand, physics endeavors to explain how...

Fuck that. The Mods are mods, not nannies, and members are adults, not inmates or preschoolers. Can't police your antisociality and your other bullshi...

My position is not "must ground itself in the realism of physics". You're interpretation of what I've on this thread, if this is your interpretation, ...

I came across some interesting statements about 'storytelling' (philosophizing) after submitting my story yesterday. Perhaps they are true .

Logical possibilities abound. However, I think it only make sense in philosophy to talk about what has already been established in physics and not to ...

Stop trolling.

IIRC, I favor Putnam over Davidson. (I'm not as conversant in either of their works as I once was in 1990s, so don't ask why.)

Understood. However, I think it's important for each of us to push through all of one's influences and sources to one's own (boring) thoughts, to thin...

Re: @"Streetlight" Once anger gets the better of humor and one's sharp wit dulls to nothing but bitter vitriol, you're no longer a gadfly – just a bor...

I said Plato's 'Early-Middle Dialogues' inspired my interpretation of the MoDo-p0m0 distinction, not that I "propose using Plato's dialogues" otherwis...

Quite a long post, but the secondary sources don't do anything for me. As for the gist of the 'question' you raise, my interpretation, with respect to...

A crack'd pot calls the kettle black again.

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I quoted you, dude. No surprise that you don't know what you mean by that sentence. Are you a bot? :lol:

If you have ever read him, explain why you raise this question. In other words, on what grounds do you doubt that "Aristotle is a metaphysical philoso...

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(Below see excerpts from my posts on old threads.) Physical – (gradually) post-biological. N/A. (Below see excerpts from posts on old threads.)

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Oh, then you can explain it to me. Please do. (NB: It's not a "dilemma"; I contend it's nonsense.)

This perennial "what if" assumes that, in contemporary physics terms, there is "time" independent of – "before" – spacetime, which seems as conceptual...

I would have loved to say that to Heidegger. :fire:

Except for very recently, Street was always a very worthy opponent and an inspiration to read (especially his reading lists). For better or worse, ban...

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Here's why I'm betting on Dems to keep both houses of Congress this fall due the cumulative effect of the following: I've more or less been posting th...

Agreed. We the Sheeple is only the symptom and not the problem. However, Dem voters aren't pushing-back as hard as GOP voters in the last four+ decade...