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You've mistaken me for someone else, Wayf. I have not claimed or implied that Collingwood "dismisses" metaphysics like Carnap and Ayer. To say (agree)...

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@"schopenhauer1" – Do you agree: 'without certainty, we cannot know anything'? (re: Academic Skeptics, Gorgias, Descartes, Kant(?) et al)

:fire: ... how we look at (rationally conceive of) the totality of things ... :smirk: In my case, (along with other thinkers) Murdoch & Foot really co...

My year and a half of Zen back in the early '80s really had helped me with my flashbacks :sparkle: later in that decade. As for me today, Zzz..., this...

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Yes, I forgot about that little SNAFU as we 'muricans say. I guess I imagined each reader sending a PM after they read each story prompted with the th...

Hmm, but then voting isn't secret – more like a "like" button. The most "likes" wins? :chin: IMO, genre is a marketing label more than anything else. ...

@"Baden" – (1) You put up the poll after the entrants PM their submissions. (2) I will build a spreadsheet (or whatever) and when I'm ready you start ...

I'll gladly do it, just PM each story title with • number of votes (add) • total points (add) I'll do the rest and PM the poll results back pronto! :v...

What maths? (Just a very simple, formatted spreadsheet to automate & record the sums :up: ) :smirk:

@"Michael", @"Caldwell", @"Baden" ... Example (how I conceived the poll might work) story A – three votes (2pt + 2pts + 1pt, total 5pts) story B – two...

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When reflectively foolish ... ... like poor Sisyphus' yoga with the boulder .

Anthropocentrism.

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As does your lack of deductive skill. Apparently, your "philosophy classes" did nothing for you. :sweat:

Everywhere I am.

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:fire: Platonic love(?) Not surprised that you have divined my interpretation of Mr. Withers channeling 'Socrates' paean to Xanthippe / the daimon' (p...

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This seems to be your anthropocentric "error". Undefined words, thus an incoherent sentence.

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Also, this from Solar Foods in Finland https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.euronews.com/next/amp/2022/01/03/protein-made-from-thin-air-could-be-the-food-...

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Dictionaries are neither philosophical nor evidentiary. I proffered an argument (link) which you may consider or ignore.

:up: And you can't rule out the actuality of "the afterlife" either? As far as I know, there isn't any intelligible, factual, evidence to corroborate ...

Nature is undead. . As you say, you've never heard of (Wigner's paper) "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" and you...

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... which are in turn epistemologically indistinguishable from fictions.

False.

Nonetheless we are only animals. As I've pointed out , caring for oneself and one's kind (recognizing that others need care as one needs care) is mora...

I'm amazed you think that (or don't understand critical rationalism). :smirk:

3. We are animals – which delude themselves that they are not, or more than, animals – "not moral agents" ... :chin: What do you mean by "moral agent"...

You've misquoted Tertullian twice. :halo:

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