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Kurt Gödel.
May 18, 2022 at 01:48
:rofl: Whatever, lil troll.
May 18, 2022 at 01:45
Just a thought: Either (A) g/G "created" everything for a reason; therefore, Reason is divine and g/G is not worthy of worship ... or (B) g/G "created...
May 17, 2022 at 22:24
The Case against Death, Ingemar Patrick Linden
May 17, 2022 at 08:17
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May 17, 2022 at 04:26
:sweat: :up:
May 17, 2022 at 04:24
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May 17, 2022 at 04:23
Ah yeah, the Late Great Anthropocene ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/582635 (Locally, I've been an entropologist (and, globally,...
May 17, 2022 at 01:39
:up: aka the argument from poor design ... from which I conclude . And in my more speculative moods ... (this) A cold undead universe ... :fire: ... t...
May 17, 2022 at 00:13
:ok: :roll:
May 16, 2022 at 19:22
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May 16, 2022 at 19:21
Performative contradiction.
May 16, 2022 at 17:56
This statement is incoherent. Spacetime is emergent and "the question of where from" assumes space.
May 16, 2022 at 17:52
It's not either-or but both-and. Trust is risky.
May 16, 2022 at 17:19
How? Tunneling from a false vacuum ... Besides, "String Theory" isn't the only game in town, so (another) false dichotomy on your part. And "creationi...
May 16, 2022 at 17:12
'Quantum gravity' rings any bells?
May 16, 2022 at 16:52
I think you've got the cart before the horse, sir. We first attempt to communicate – coordinate our behaviors for collaborate tasks – and discover tha...
May 16, 2022 at 16:49
Why not? No. No. Yes. Yes. NB: The only "reason for existence" that does not beg the question (i.e. an infinite regress) – that is rational – is that ...
May 16, 2022 at 15:45
:rofl:
May 16, 2022 at 15:37
Arithmetic is objective, yet many are (functionally?) innumerate. Grammar is objective, yet too many are (functionally?) illiterate. This planet is ob...
May 16, 2022 at 08:26
:fire:
May 16, 2022 at 02:33
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May 16, 2022 at 02:32
Another muddle. :sweat: NB: Aristotle didn't "kickstart the fundamentals ..." by a long shot; in the western tradition, that would be Thales / Anaxima...
May 16, 2022 at 02:27
:roll: Once more, explicitly, for the slow ones way in the back ... :clap: :100: Thanks! (Harry needs this spoon-feeding.)
May 16, 2022 at 02:18
Specify what you mean in this context by "metaphysics". IIRC, Aristotle refers to "unity" (i.e. substance), Plotinus-Proclus refers to "the one", Parm...
May 16, 2022 at 01:55
I attempt to incorporate "ugly truths" (i.e. disvalues) in my conception – negative dialectic (i.e. non-identity) – of "the transcendentals" as (where...
May 16, 2022 at 00:41
That seems a muddle (à la "Euthyphro"), Smith. In my conception, one's habits cause one either to flourish (i.e. reduce suffering) or to languish (i.e...
May 16, 2022 at 00:07
Put down that old dog-earred "Nietzsche for Dummies" and go read Freddy's works.
May 15, 2022 at 21:26
I don't see anything but a trivial 'resemblance' of Bentham/Mill's utilitarianism (re: hedonia) and epicureanism (re: aponia).
May 15, 2022 at 21:22
https://youtu.be/UofL8pD69co "Hotter Than That" (2:59) Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, 1927 composer Lillian Hardin https://youtu.be/ZeWMYPVpHMQ "Sa...
May 15, 2022 at 20:15
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May 15, 2022 at 19:41
:roll: Non sequitur. Put down the "Existentialism For Dummies", baker, and go read "the squinter's" work.
May 15, 2022 at 19:01
If not, then what? You seem to repeat my point unless I'm missing something ...
May 15, 2022 at 18:04
Why assume these "principles" are propositional (cognitive) stances? On what grounds – "principle" – does one "really believe" truth if "truth is the ...
May 15, 2022 at 17:53
"The gap" encompasses immanence like the horizon – it's ineluctable. I guess to idealists it's "indispensable" ...
May 15, 2022 at 09:57
Read the texts and judge for yourself. :smirk:
May 15, 2022 at 08:20
E.g. Genesis: 16-33 – Abraham interrogates God (via its angels) about whether or not it's just to punish the innocent along with the "wicked" in its i...
May 15, 2022 at 08:08
I'm not acquainted with "Hindi priorities of transcendentals" but, during the Scholastic Middle Ages in Europe when "the transcendentals" became foci ...
May 15, 2022 at 07:58
"God" (not gods) has always been "on trial" – such, IMO, is the provenance of myths / heresies, ancient philosophies & modern freethought. :fire:
May 15, 2022 at 06:41
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May 15, 2022 at 01:20
Imagine Sisyphus happy. Amor fuckin' fati. :strong: Maladapt it is. :pray:
May 15, 2022 at 01:05
Adequacy of means to ends.
May 15, 2022 at 00:50
I think that is intersubjectivity, not "objectivity". The latter – "shared" or not (known or unknown) is epistemological and the former is sociologica...
May 14, 2022 at 21:07
Thanks, sir. Your essay looks promising, though without a kindle (my home library contains over 2,500 "dead-tree" books) I'm afraid I won't be reading...
May 14, 2022 at 20:23
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tD7v9phroGM https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_on_Trial
May 14, 2022 at 19:58
Yeah, like e.g. patriarchal marriage, debt-peonage, and organized crime.
May 14, 2022 at 19:39
:up: Developmentally, Humans acquired the habit of (make)believing long before, if they ever do, any competence at (critical, defeasible) reasoning. S...
May 14, 2022 at 19:10