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Natural selection which humans discovered had given rise to humans et al before and acid rain as a by-product of human industrial activities after. Su...
March 23, 2022 at 02:00
:100: :wink:
March 22, 2022 at 15:16
Witty's critique of 'linguistic betwitchment' consists, after all, of internal criticism (re: ordinary language) since there isn't an external or nonl...
March 22, 2022 at 15:03
Of course he did: nature before humans existed; but also your body before you developed self-awareness or bodily-awareness, and The Bard's "the undisc...
March 22, 2022 at 14:51
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March 22, 2022 at 14:40
Understood. As an Epicurean-Spinozist I should be a strict determinist but I cannot ignore the fact of quantum uncertainty, vacuum fluctuations (re: v...
March 22, 2022 at 14:39
Um, no ... you've misread me or I wasn't clear enough. Your OP thesis refutes itself. "life is meaningless" is therefore also meaningless aka "babytal...
March 22, 2022 at 14:20
'Plodding with aplomb' online has been my goal for a couple of decades now. :smirk:
March 22, 2022 at 06:57
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March 22, 2022 at 06:53
Perhaps Freddy, like old Socrates, is an ironic anti-sophistry sophist ... :smirk:
March 22, 2022 at 05:24
Day 27: Kharkiv, Ukraine ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h8JJfvx-gJU "Goodbye Blue Sky" (2:45) The Wall, 1979 Pink Floyd
March 22, 2022 at 05:14
:up: :up:
March 22, 2022 at 04:34
An online dialectical rodeo-clown's work is never done but, with all the nonstop bulls*** on threads like this one, somebody (bored enough) has gotta ...
March 22, 2022 at 04:30
e.g. Epicurus-Lucretius' 'swirling-swerving atoms'... Spinoza's 'conatus' ... :fire: Perhaps it refers to 'publicly accessible regularities of nature'...
March 22, 2022 at 04:03
You're welcome to your dogmatic stance, gmba! I won't trouble you trying to discuss this topic with you any further, and I appreciate the (time-saving...
March 22, 2022 at 03:34
Clearly, gramps, you're either too illiterate or too addled with age or both, so here's a very short video of Dr. Tyson spelling out the atheistic con...
March 22, 2022 at 03:07
Addendum to ... and in order to show the fly the way out of the Kant-Fichte-Hegel fly-bottle, this break follows: :fire: (emphases added)
March 21, 2022 at 23:02
:fire: No, sir. :shade: :lol: :clap:
March 21, 2022 at 22:41
:cool: :up:
March 21, 2022 at 22:08
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March 21, 2022 at 09:27
:up: :up: Plato calls them "sophists" and in his Dialogues depict Socrates engaging some in dialectics. Off the top of my head (for their egregiously ...
March 21, 2022 at 06:28
I agree. However, I think "the relation" is factual (Witty) and not just virtual (Bergson).
March 21, 2022 at 05:26
"To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both — a philosopher." ~Freddy Zarathustra
March 20, 2022 at 08:42
A self-acknowledged fool obsessively studying, and reflecting upon, foolery in order to unlearn (reduce) immiserating (maladaptive) habits of judgment...
March 20, 2022 at 08:04
:up: :clap: Amen, brother!
March 20, 2022 at 02:29
Genius, "intelligently" is an adverb. :roll:
March 20, 2022 at 02:28
No walk back on my part. You just can't respond intelligently to what I actually wrote. Adios.
March 20, 2022 at 02:20
Reread my posts. I'll reply again when you respond to what I've actually written.
March 19, 2022 at 23:26
As I've pointed out already aka "indirect observations". Science might not grasp the "supernatural" itself but any of its physical effects (e.g. scrip...
March 19, 2022 at 23:18
Tell me/us How You Know this. :chin:
March 19, 2022 at 23:05
News flash: scientists seek "god" or inexplicable ("super-natural") lapses in the constants and regularities of physical reality that are entailed by ...
March 19, 2022 at 22:58
Argument from ignorance fallacy. Apologetic gibberish. Assertion without argument can be dismissed without argument (Hitchen's Razor). Science concern...
March 19, 2022 at 22:36
And as Brentano/Husserl points out "mental ideality" is intentional, that is, always about non-mental reality (i.e. consciousness of what transcends c...
March 19, 2022 at 20:39
Your confusion lies with conflating the second-order meta claim of atheism (theism is not true) with the first-order object claim of theism (there is ...
March 19, 2022 at 19:22
The Captain only maps his 'ocean journey' but not the whole of the ocean. Thinking only reflects its 'errant thoughts of being' but not the whole of b...
March 19, 2022 at 18:59
"Twins" (I know from having 2 sets of uncles who are 'identical') are not the same. "Mind twins" would (could) not be the same either. You, my friend,...
March 19, 2022 at 18:39
“Je est un autre” ~Rimbaud To piggyback on what said, we're not clones and, even if we were, we wouldn't be 'identical' down to at least the cellular ...
March 19, 2022 at 09:16
"Why" questions which are not addressed to some particular person about her intentions / reasons are incoherent. Usually, what's intended are general,...
March 19, 2022 at 08:35
:eyes: :rofl:
March 19, 2022 at 08:10
Apparently, MU, I'm just not as 'smart' or 'full of gnosis' as you. :sparkle: :yawn:
March 19, 2022 at 08:04
You don't. I don't. As I say above 'maps are aspects of the territory used to delineate, or make explicit, other aspects of the territory', so they ar...
March 19, 2022 at 07:39
(1) Whatever cannot be predicted "by" (i.e. is intractably complex to) "humans" is, of course, unpredictable for humans (e.g. chaos theory, the P vers...
March 19, 2022 at 07:30
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QJhSM17a8OA "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (3:09) single, 1950 writers F. Andre & W. Schwandt, 1931 performers Ella Fitzge...
March 19, 2022 at 03:22
This "priority" formulation is a red herring. My point is only that doubt requires grounds just as belief and disbelief do. To clarify, epistemic atti...
March 18, 2022 at 20:36
Well, I'm in good company with other thinkers such as the author of On Certainty. :fire:
March 18, 2022 at 19:44
Ocean is the independent variable, tides are a dependent variable that 'makes explicit' a dynamic aspect of the ocean. "Equally presuppose" makes no s...
March 18, 2022 at 19:34
And you prove this constant once again, lil D-Ker: "stupid is as stupid does". :yawn:
March 18, 2022 at 19:12
Thinking presupposes being like tides presuppose the ocean – nonidentity (e.g. Adorno, Levinas, Zapffe, Rosset, Meillasoux, Brassier). "What is" is th...
March 18, 2022 at 19:04
:up: :eyes: No asymmetric changes, no clocks. :point:
March 18, 2022 at 18:29
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v0rolwpvj_E "Easy Money" (3:17) Rickie Lee Jones, 1979 Rickie Lee Jones
March 18, 2022 at 10:40