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March 29, 2025 at 02:27
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March 29, 2025 at 02:23
More of your typical run-on non sequiturs and ad hominems pathetically failing to deflect from my straightforward criticisms (of your "enformer"-of-th...
March 28, 2025 at 22:55
For me, meaning is semantic (i.e. contextual) and purpose is pragmatic (i.e. functional), thereby not synonymous or necessarily dependent on each othe...
March 28, 2025 at 18:35
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March 28, 2025 at 18:26
@"DifferentiatingEgg" re: "ontological realism" ... After Finitude, Quentin Meillassoux Joyful Cruelty, Clément Rosset Ethics, Benedict Spinoza
March 28, 2025 at 07:59
Evidence – how facts (signals) are distinguished from fantasies (noise) – of im-material (i.e. dis-embodied) "Mind" is profoundly lacking. And my Demo...
March 28, 2025 at 00:01
i.e. Woo-of-the-gaps :sparkle: :smirk:
March 27, 2025 at 20:02
Not professionally. Suggest a topic.
March 27, 2025 at 03:10
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March 26, 2025 at 17:24
That's a tautology, nothing implicit is made explicit (i.e. new information is not learned / concluded after the "therefore"). Assertions without argu...
March 26, 2025 at 14:48
A conclusion does not follow from a single statement but from an argument (i.e. string of valid inferences). Make an argument.
March 26, 2025 at 14:21
is, of course, a physical theory. :smirk: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time) Btw, a less speculative version, or alternat...
March 25, 2025 at 21:20
I would prefer not to, but ... https://youtu.be/HOxcdExpsiM?si=wfI2Weh53pRD3VYe
March 25, 2025 at 09:41
@"Gnomon" :cool: :up: :smirk: Btw, Keiji Nishitani's Religion and Nothingness is a great meditation on ...!
March 25, 2025 at 05:48
False (again). :roll: Planck scale pre-spacetime (vacuum) consists of random – a-causal – fluctuations (events), ergo no "first cause"; spacetimes (no...
March 24, 2025 at 23:07
Yes, especially among the urban (& suburban) poor, working & lower middle classes in post-1950s America, where most (black brown & white) children are...
March 24, 2025 at 08:34
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:100: Welcome to TPF. :up:
March 23, 2025 at 12:23
@"Tobias" Re: legacy of absentee / abusive fathers reinforced by pervasive religious-cultural misogyny ... Case and point: :eyes: Be more discriminati...
March 23, 2025 at 02:19
:fire: ... imagine Sisyphus happy. I think the longer one lives the more adaptive habits suffice and the less one needs a "real purpose". I aspire to ...
March 22, 2025 at 12:20
:100: :fire: A latter-day Sisyphus – no doubt your struggle (i.e. love), my friend, is stronger than your suffering – let that be your peace. There ar...
March 21, 2025 at 21:46
No. Soon enough ... it'll be the case again that I/we have never existed. :up: :up: :death: :flower:
March 21, 2025 at 06:29
For us, then, that is nonexistence (i.e. fiction (e.g. ghosts)). 'Cosmogenic speculations' change far more rapidly in response to more precise and mor...
March 19, 2025 at 07:05
:up: :up: Ergo physical divisibility is finite. Clearly, Aristotle did not understand that Democritus' atoms are physical and not just abstract (i.e. ...
March 19, 2025 at 06:32
Physical space is not "infinitely" divisible like abstract space. Like most paradoxes, this one is merely apparent – it's derived from confusing the p...
March 18, 2025 at 23:55
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March 18, 2025 at 23:47
Usually.
March 18, 2025 at 17:49
How do we know that the universe (multiverse) is not "self existent"? :smirk: Suppose the universe (multiverse) itself is, in fact, 'Spinoza-Einstein'...
March 18, 2025 at 07:53
Faith: belief in the unbelievable in order to excuse the inexcusable e.g. "teleological suspension of the ethical"~S.K. (re: cultic/religious practice...
March 18, 2025 at 06:19
No. No – this does not follow (i.e. hasty generalization fallacy). e.g. flourishing via preventing or, as much as practically possible, reducing harm ...
March 17, 2025 at 01:47
:up: Not so. There is far more physical evidence of, for example, cyclical cosmogenesis than for (your) "fiat lux" ... i.e. Aristotle's teleological p...
March 16, 2025 at 23:01
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March 16, 2025 at 02:25
Thanks :flower:
March 15, 2025 at 09:28
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March 15, 2025 at 08:38
:smirk: Waste of grey matter. :pray: are avoided by modern biologists. :up: :up:
March 15, 2025 at 08:31
https://youtu.be/fnYTSa2-T-Y?si=WyTfCua_uRrU7JdX "All I've Got to Do" (2:02) With the Beatles, 1963 lyrics Lennon-McCartney performers The Beatles Re:...
March 14, 2025 at 21:20
i.e. self-availing, self-unfolding, self-emptying :zip:
March 14, 2025 at 09:54
In lucid moments the real cannot be exhausted by the truth.
March 14, 2025 at 05:30
Neither: I adjust my "beliefs" until the "contradiction" dissolves. Well, the consequence of my disbelief in any "higher meaning and purpose" is the m...
March 14, 2025 at 05:06
aka "religious faith" Yes; like when an orchestra disbands, their music stops. :fire:
March 13, 2025 at 20:31
No. If a government agency suspects overpayment of benefits, then they should stop further payments until the dispute is resolved either by mediation ...
March 13, 2025 at 20:14
:up: :up: That's merely empirical, not transcendental – in Kant's system (CPR); your statement doesn't make sense, Wayf.
March 13, 2025 at 10:28
@"Zebeden" False. Some deduce that embodied self-continuity is fundamentally what "I am", and therefore if no embodied continuity (i.e. no substrate f...
March 13, 2025 at 05:03
I doubt this statement is true. No doubt. For different reasons, e.g. Democritus (re: sensory conventions, limitless divisibility of things) and e.g. ...
March 13, 2025 at 03:40
If you haven't already, consider Schopenhauer's critique ... Yes, Kant's antimonies are (it seems to me) a modern reformulation of classical equipolle...
March 13, 2025 at 02:18
The universe necessarily will outlast its "immortal" inhabitants and yet its configuration and composition (i.e. complexity) is not everlasting (re: c...
March 10, 2025 at 09:06
:fire: On the contrary, all impersonal evidence suggests that, even while alive, "self-consciousness" is the river one cannot step in twice. What you/...
March 10, 2025 at 08:25
Babylon (OT). Rome (NT).
March 09, 2025 at 23:04
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March 08, 2025 at 19:03
Your premise seems to refute, or invalidate, itself – to wit: if "certainty does not exist", then it is also uncertain that "certainty does not exist"...
March 08, 2025 at 09:30