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In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
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)...
May 31, 2022 at 23:34
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
:up: :100: :fire:
May 31, 2022 at 23:04
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
:up:
May 31, 2022 at 23:00
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
:up:
May 31, 2022 at 11:00
In: Do animals have morality?  — view comment
:smirk:
May 31, 2022 at 07:00
In: This Existence Entails Being Morally Disqualifying  — view comment
@"schopenhauer1" – Do you agree: 'without certainty, we cannot know anything'? (re: Academic Skeptics, Gorgias, Descartes, Kant(?) et al)
May 31, 2022 at 06:54
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
:fire: ... how we look at (rationally conceive of) the totality of things ... :smirk: In my case, (along with other thinkers) Murdoch & Foot really co...
May 31, 2022 at 06:42
In: On The Origins of Prayer  — view comment
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...
May 31, 2022 at 06:07
In: Wisdom- understood.  — view comment
For example . :eyes:
May 31, 2022 at 05:03
In: On The Origins of Prayer  — view comment
:up: :up: :monkey: :pray:
May 31, 2022 at 04:48
In: Short Story Competition Discussion June 2022  — view comment
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...
May 30, 2022 at 23:28
In: Short Story Competition Discussion June 2022  — view comment
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. ...
May 30, 2022 at 23:04
In: Short Story Competition Discussion June 2022  — view comment
@"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 ...
May 30, 2022 at 22:32
In: Short Story Competition Discussion June 2022  — view comment
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...
May 30, 2022 at 22:19
In: Short Story Competition Discussion June 2022  — view comment
What maths? (Just a very simple, formatted spreadsheet to automate & record the sums :up: ) :smirk:
May 30, 2022 at 22:15
In: Short Story Competition Discussion June 2022  — view comment
@"Michael", @"Caldwell", @"Baden" ... Example (how I conceived the poll might work) story A – three votes (2pt + 2pts + 1pt, total 5pts) story B – two...
May 30, 2022 at 22:05
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
:up:
May 30, 2022 at 19:22
In: To What Extent Can Metaphysics Be Eliminated From Philosophy?  — view comment
:up: "Eliminate" grammar? – the web of conceptual (metaphoric) presuppositions of discursive reasoning? "Eliminate" rational attempts at speculatively...
May 30, 2022 at 19:16
In: Wisdom- understood.  — view comment
:fire:
May 30, 2022 at 18:02
In: Short Story Competition Discussion June 2022  — view comment
:cool: :up:
May 30, 2022 at 18:01
In: Wisdom- understood.  — view comment
When reflectively foolish ... ... like poor Sisyphus' yoga with the boulder .
May 30, 2022 at 08:22
In: What is subjectivity?  — view comment
Anthropocentrism.
May 30, 2022 at 03:30
In: Gensler's Golden Rule  — view comment
May 30, 2022 at 03:10
In: What is subjectivity?  — view comment
:sweat:
May 30, 2022 at 01:41
In: What is subjectivity?  — view comment
As does your lack of deductive skill. Apparently, your "philosophy classes" did nothing for you. :sweat:
May 29, 2022 at 20:31
In: What is subjectivity?  — view comment
Everywhere I am.
May 29, 2022 at 20:29
In: What is subjectivity?  — view comment
Every day.
May 29, 2022 at 20:27
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
:fire: Platonic love(?) Not surprised that you have divined my interpretation of Mr. Withers channeling 'Socrates' paean to Xanthippe / the daimon' (p...
May 29, 2022 at 20:26
In: Action at a distance is realized. Quantum computer.  — view comment
:fire: Thanks for your clarifications!
May 29, 2022 at 20:08
In: What is subjectivity?  — view comment
:up: :lol:
May 29, 2022 at 19:53
In: What is subjectivity?  — view comment
This seems to be your anthropocentric "error". Undefined words, thus an incoherent sentence.
May 29, 2022 at 19:14
In: Do animals have morality?  — view comment
:up:
May 29, 2022 at 19:04
In: Vexing issue of Veganism  — view comment
addendum ...
May 29, 2022 at 18:28
In: Being vegan for ethical reasons.  — view comment
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-...
May 29, 2022 at 18:22
In: Virtue ethics as a subfield of ethics  — view comment
:lol:
May 28, 2022 at 21:30
In: Do animals have morality?  — view comment
:up:
May 28, 2022 at 21:26
In: Do animals have morality?  — view comment
:sweat: Okay, whatever ...
May 28, 2022 at 21:11
In: How to answer the "because evolution" response to hard problem?  — view comment
:up:
May 28, 2022 at 21:10
In: Action at a distance is realized. Quantum computer.  — view comment
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May 28, 2022 at 06:13
In: Do animals have morality?  — view comment
Dictionaries are neither philosophical nor evidentiary. I proffered an argument (link) which you may consider or ignore.
May 28, 2022 at 06:09
In: Genuine Agnosticism and the possibility of Hell  — view comment
: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 ...
May 28, 2022 at 01:31
In: Shouldn't we speak of the reasonable effectiveness of math?  — view comment
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...
May 27, 2022 at 22:31
In: Do animals have morality?  — view comment
Yes.
May 27, 2022 at 22:15
In: The Supernatural and plausibility  — view comment
... which are in turn epistemologically indistinguishable from fictions.
May 27, 2022 at 05:51
In: Tertullian & Popper  — view comment
False.
May 27, 2022 at 05:48
In: Do animals have morality?  — view comment
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...
May 27, 2022 at 05:45
In: Tertullian & Popper  — view comment
I'm amazed you think that (or don't understand critical rationalism). :smirk:
May 27, 2022 at 05:32
In: Do animals have morality?  — view comment
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"...
May 27, 2022 at 04:52
In: Tertullian & Popper  — view comment
You've misquoted Tertullian twice. :halo:
May 27, 2022 at 04:44
In: Dialectical materialism  — view comment
Yep :sweat:
May 27, 2022 at 02:29
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