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In: Is there an external material world ?  — view comment
:up: That depends on what "they" meant by "material".
June 09, 2022 at 04:04
In: What Was Deconstruction?  — view comment
I still prefer Tristan Tzara's playful dada to vaporous "deconstuctionism". More a radical relativist than (philosophical) "skeptic", Derrida's 'rheto...
June 09, 2022 at 03:53
In: Does nothingness exist?  — view comment
Apophatic clarity.
June 08, 2022 at 19:23
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
:smirk: :up: :zip: :fire: Cite an example. :chin: "Testable" in what way/s?
June 08, 2022 at 19:06
In: Q&A: What About It?  — view comment
Without question. :smirk: A question is an expression that consists of a variable? :eyes:
June 08, 2022 at 18:45
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
June 08, 2022 at 06:47
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
:smirk:
June 08, 2022 at 06:34
In: Given a chance, should you choose to let mankind perish?  — view comment
Evolutionary processes (e.g. chrysalis) are prodigeously wasteful – entropic. We're either fit enough to survive 'becoming an extraterrestrial species...
June 08, 2022 at 06:22
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
What do you mean by "worldview" in contrast to (a) metaphysics?
June 08, 2022 at 00:46
In: Does nothingness exist?  — view comment
Leucippus (contra Parmenides et al) millennia before Hegel: "there is only atoms swirling in the void". And donut holes.
June 07, 2022 at 22:53
In: The Metaphysics of Materialism  — view comment
:up:
June 07, 2022 at 22:28
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
:up:
June 07, 2022 at 06:02
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
:smirk: :up: My point exactly. You stand corrected, sir. Again. :wink:
June 07, 2022 at 01:42
In: The Limitations of Philosophy and Argumentation  — view comment
Surely; however, my point is that cognitive / psychological biases (e.g. procreative – survival – instincts) are biological facts, not "assumptions", ...
June 07, 2022 at 01:40
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
No metaphysics (archai) before Plato? But "Platonism" developed out of – in response to – Thales, Anaximander, Pythagorus, Permenides, Heraclitus, Dem...
June 07, 2022 at 00:57
In: What Was Deconstruction?  — view comment
Ditto. :up:
June 07, 2022 at 00:35
In: Has every fruitful avenue of philosophy been explored/talked about already?  — view comment
:groan: No. No. Categorical reasoning is hypothetical reasoning? :sweat:
June 06, 2022 at 20:26
In: The Limitations of Philosophy and Argumentation  — view comment
Well, they're all variations on so there's no need to address any but this (re-quoted) representative example.
June 06, 2022 at 20:11
In: What Was Deconstruction?  — view comment
Okay "scientific" as you're using the term corresponds to what I call 'pre-modern theoria' (i.e. contemplativa). Still, Moliere, this is literary – no...
June 06, 2022 at 20:06
In: What Was Deconstruction?  — view comment
Are you suggesting that 'Kant's philosophy' is "scientific"? Which do you mean – pre-modern theoria or modern hypothetico-deduction? "Scientific" in a...
June 06, 2022 at 18:11
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
:nerd: :up:
June 06, 2022 at 17:55
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/aBQIAWh3YBs "Glass Onion" (2:18) The Beatles, 1968 writers, Lennon-McCartney performers, The Beatles
June 06, 2022 at 15:39
In: What Was Deconstruction?  — view comment
:up:
June 06, 2022 at 14:33
In: The Limitations of Philosophy and Argumentation  — view comment
That's an observation about folk psychology (i.e. cognitive bias), not about a reasoned 'ethical position' or 'existential commitment'.
June 06, 2022 at 14:30
In: Short Story Competition Discussion June 2022  — view comment
Thanks for the link. Here's a reminder (to myself to bug the Moderators) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/641059
June 06, 2022 at 14:12
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
Where did you get this from? In other words, natural scientists (as opposed to "fringe" pseudo-scientists) working on fundamental physics, thermodynam...
June 06, 2022 at 14:05
In: Extinction Paradox  — view comment
... the more virus-like it is.
June 06, 2022 at 07:36
In: Q&A: What About It?  — view comment
Generically, a question is an expression that consists of a variable.
June 06, 2022 at 04:27
In: Q&A: What About It?  — view comment
This "question" makes no sense.
June 06, 2022 at 04:19
In: The “hard problem” of suffering  — view comment
De nada, señor. :wink:
June 06, 2022 at 02:48
In: What Was Deconstruction?  — view comment
It seems to me, Derrida (ironically?) calls his own texts (with all others) into question first and foremost ... like, for instance, a version of the ...
June 06, 2022 at 02:45
In: The “hard problem” of suffering  — view comment
Well, that's the wrong question, right? And a scientific (explanatory) problem, in fact, not a philosophical (descriptive, interpretive) question? :ch...
June 06, 2022 at 02:38
In: Antinatalism and the harmfulness of death  — view comment
I advocate intellectual and moral courage (i.e. ataraxia, ekstasis, non serviam, carpe diem, sapere aude, ...) Whether or not this makes me a 'fatalis...
June 06, 2022 at 02:19
In: The “hard problem” of suffering  — view comment
As fsr as I know, most physicalist philosophers and cognitive neuroscientists take the position that there is not – never has been – a "hard problem",...
June 06, 2022 at 00:08
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
:sweat: :up:
June 05, 2022 at 23:59
In: Antinatalism and the harmfulness of death  — view comment
Decadent tripe. Nothing is "justified", existence doesn't require "justification" (e.g. Zapffe, Camus, Cioran, Rosset) – being here now is gratuitous....
June 05, 2022 at 22:59
In: Pantheism  — view comment
:rofl:
June 05, 2022 at 22:54
In: The “hard problem” of suffering  — view comment
"We suffer, therefore I am." (A Levinasian moment.) This is inconsistent with my understanding and life experience, Smith. Suffering entails solicitud...
June 05, 2022 at 22:51
In: Pantheism  — view comment
I fail to see a non-trivial (woo-free) difference between "Enformationism" and the synopsis of "digitalism" featured in this 2002 Wired magazine artic...
June 05, 2022 at 21:52
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
More precisely, IME: Epistemology concerns criteria for deciding how to formulate theoretical models and perform experiments which test theoretical mo...
June 05, 2022 at 21:06
In: The “hard problem” of suffering  — view comment
"It may have been".
June 05, 2022 at 20:40
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
Futilitarianism, Neil Vallelly :up: Not evident, however, to incorrigible "beginners"...
June 05, 2022 at 15:55
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
I don't think metaphysics is theoretical or contributes to the content of natural science; thus, I think, it only reflects on ("the nature" of) theore...
June 05, 2022 at 15:44
In: The “hard problem” of suffering  — view comment
Suffering is not a "problem" – hard or easy – to be "solved" but a reality (i.e. our facticity) to which, to degrees, we are adapted / maladapted (acc...
June 05, 2022 at 15:35
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
¡Si! :point:
June 05, 2022 at 15:07
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
My proposal isn't just "neti neti" ... Take the red pill, mi amigo, and see how deep the rabbit holes – my links – go. :cool:
June 05, 2022 at 14:54
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
I've tried to – I think we must – with this approach (last paragraph) :point: .
June 05, 2022 at 12:19
In: Q&A: What About It?  — view comment
:chin: (These embedded links are questions, no?)
June 05, 2022 at 12:13
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
That's epistemology and logic to me. IME, Smith, 'knowledge-ignorance' occurs before 'reflections on knowledge-ignorance' (i.e. the latter only clarif...
June 05, 2022 at 12:00
In: To the nearest available option, what probability would you put on the existence of god/s?  — view comment
As an antitheist, I'm only agnostic about (nontheistic) pandeism & acosmism
June 05, 2022 at 11:42
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