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:up: :up: e.g. tikkum olam ...

Given that you are not an "absolute" being (or clinically neurotic/paranoid), imo you are "certain about" whatever you lack rational grounds to doubt.

United States of Kakistan 6March25 from Paris, France https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/974404

United States of Kakistan 6March25 from Paris, France https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/974404

https://youtu.be/wmDVrV7QRrU?si=csFMvPxfH76QabQ8

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Afaik, it's impossible for a classical being (with classical sensorium) to be conscious of non-classic (planck-scale) phenomena. Thus, without conscio...

I find that irrationality isn't always incompatible with rationality (e.g. conative/desirous, sublime, absurd, tragicomic ... feelings)

Afaik, faith is "devotional" make-believe (i.e. suspension of disbelief in superstitions, fairytales and/or myths) and, in extremis, delusion (i.e. "l...

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For me it's more fruitful to analogize ethics with medicine because ill-health is an objective biological matter of fact (e.g. loss of homeostasis, di...

– make-believe, not (epistemic) belief. For some g/G is a fetish (of the gaps), for others it's a placebo (anti-anxiety), and for many it's (the) "big...

Yes, and these "repeating patterns of events" remind me of Democritus' "atoms swirling in the void" ... :100:

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Iirc, in philosophy of mind circles, that's the thesis of functionalism (usually favored by non-reductive physicalists and eliminativists).

:sweat: Really? Okay. Pax tibi. (John 20:21)

:up: Which "Christians" have been "arguing about" which "this"? fyi – A dozen years of Catholic schooling and an honor student in religious studies an...

That's (maybe) a definition but not a "religious doctrine".

Why do you – what warrants your belief? And what difference to you/us does that (un/warranted?) belief make? :up: :up: In the context of this discussi...

Even if true (I don't think it is), so what? As Daniel Dennett points out many (most?) people believe they ought to believe – "believe in belief" – in...

Mr. Dunning-Kruger folks! :zip:

:sweat: No, that's false, sir. Modern cosmologists have only found evidence of the planck-scale limit to current physical theories about and observati...

My guess is – since I'm not "wise"– as a general rule: strive to undertake reflective inquiries / practices (e.g. reflective equilibrium) all day ever...

"How" what? I don't know for sure. Certainly they are constrained by them.

:roll: To wit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy) @"punos"

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Not completely (or mostly).

Imho, I think, in order to live every (or most) day(s) in a "fulfilling" way, one has to learn how to enjoy – satisfy oneself with – boredom and being...

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There's very much to admire about Lord Russell's works (& logic-chopping) but his potted and unscholarly A History of ... is certainly not one of them...

i.e. classical atomists' swirling void or (in contemporary physical terms) random – acausal – vacuum fluctuations :fire: From Thales to Heraclitus & D...

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https://www.scimag.news/news-en/68801/budget-cuts-loom-over-the-webb-telescope-can-nasa-save-this-scientific-marvel/ Thanks, DOGEbags! :shade:

So where do I go wrong? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/970076 @"punos" @"PoeticUniverse"

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No. Give me the quick & dirty (no doubt it's worth reading if you mention it).

... what pluralities(?) of voters really want: "trickle down" plutocracy (i.e. Reaganism (B-movie actor –> reality tv performer) on steroids) – strong...

I disagree with your semantic jugglery here, J. I may come back to this "problem" when I have more time later.

And again, as I've pointed out ... For example, having greater scientific efficacy (i.e. unfalsified predictive model) "resolves the disagreement" a c...

A "definition" is a statement without a truth-value and therefore cannot be used to "resolve a disagreement"; rather, in a given discursive context, i...

20February25 "O Canada!" :party: Congrats, Team "Fifty-first State", for overtime defeat of Team DOGEbag! 2025 World Hockey Champs! :clap:

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Demonstrable evidence of "disembodied" subjects / agents? If not, you're merely fantasizing rather than philosophizing.

Yes.

Imo, your habits (biases & pathologies) control you; habitualize yourself wisely.

So "space" is "disembodied" (i.e. non-physical)? What about gravity (re: GR)? :chin: Yes, afaik, makes sense.

So is "experience, or subjectivity" embodied or disembodied? Seems to me easily answerable. If embodied (i.e. mine/yours), then "experience, or subjec...