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" :fire: " usually means I find the quote or entire post illuminating. "Philosophy — metaphysics =" sophistry.

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Well, as I've pointed out, metaphysics in the classical / Aristotlean sense of "first philosophy" concerns how we must look at ... not merely, in the ...

IME, natural science itself is 'the search for the supernatural', that is, probing for any gaps in, or exceptions to, 'objectively explainable' phenom...

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Yeah, so are flying spaghetti monsters.

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Why does what we want and don't want with respect to extinctions matter? (And why aren't homo sapiens list on no. 2? (re: the Antropocene e.g. global ...

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I agree.

Okay. Well, to my mind, such "god/s" are impossible (0%). :up:

By "faith" you mean trust, not "hope" or "submission", right? :up:

Define god/s.

I don't think so. I don't find Feyerabend and Haack significantly incompatible or necessarily inconsistent with either enactivism and autopoiesis (nei...

Rorty had jumped on the p0m0 bandwagon by the time I'd first read him and attended a lecture of his in the mid-'80s. My intellectual bias against "ant...

Thanks. I gave up on Hägglund's book about a third of the way through some years ago. I might give Attridge's a go.

Oh yes! :clap: :smirk:

You tag Nietzsche "p0m0" too?

I wouldn't know what precisely because it exceeds my comprehension. I'm sure however, a great many things do. :sweat:

Wtf :lol:

:ok: Good luck with that.

Objective does not mean "valid for everyone". :roll: Again, and without merely repeating yourself (because that doesn't make it so):

IMO, 'folk psychology' from early metacognitive development: magical thinking + anthropomorphization as we – babies – develop a 'theory of mind' and, ...

No problem. That colloquial "why" translates to a more precise, non-intentional, "how" – How did this universe begin? How has this universe developed ...

I already have (by discipline) Also, again, see link to list of various discursive decenterings .

:smirk: An oldie but still a goodie, Smith :point:

Philologists, anthropologists, jurists, historians and poets have demonstrated the contextuality of meanings long before Derrida obscurely belabored t...

Does "pedophilia" cause more needless harm than less? Does "genocide" cause more needless harm than less? Each Yes "definitely condemns" ... and No ra...

Deconstructing Derrida's "text", whatever it means is deferred, no? (i.e. meaning-less, or as Humpty Dumpty says "means whatever I say it means – noth...

:100: :smirk: In other words, p0m0 is GIGO

No doubt they do sometimes. Thus, the oft-mentioned associations (confusions) with "the supernatural" as well.

As far as I can tell, p0m0 suggests "we should live" by transgressing – subverting – every "should" which, of course, is self-refuting (i.e. we could ...

:up: Strawman, non sequitur. Yeah, I know you can't help yourself, G (because conceptual incoherence is your superpower!) :sweat:

Says who?

Tegmark is not a "physicalist", Wayf; his day job consists of theoretical physics & cosmology and he moonlights as a philosopher, promoting a radical ...

:mask: Just my two bit(coin)s ... :100: "A well-regulated militia" did not slaughter 19 children and 2 teachers last week in Uvulde, Texas. Or slaught...

@"Wayfarer" What about Alain Badiou and Max Tegmark – not "robust Plato scholars" but nevertheless contemporary, rigorous 'platonists' in their own ri...

False dichotomy (re: culture).

Only the ones with egos.

Unselfing (i.e. open to not-self / non-identity). :point:

15. picoscale 3-D printing 16. space elevator / skyhook system 17. asteroid terraria 18. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) 19. brain transfer 20. ...

Besides "woo-of-the-gaps", Pandeus also works for me.

For some human animals this (metacognitive curse) is the case; for the rest (most), however, they live like "other animals ... doing what it needs to ...

:chin: Philosophy cannot say (describe) the unsayable and therefore cannot discursively reason about (reason's) unreason; it can, however, make explic...

Not as "cryptic" as your statement. I think my meaning is clear .

I try not to, especially in Bloch's sense.

No. :rofl:

'Hope' is just lipstick on a nightmare.

(Brief) suspension of ego. :up: Yes.