Zeno wouldn't have made such a vexing, idiotic speculation had he read and groked Democritus. Anyway, Max Planck dispelled Zeno's "infinite divisibili...
For an "omnipotent deity", only itself is "necessary", not the rules of the game it set up (e.g. "necessary evil") or the game itself (e.g. "creation"...
:up: Science is the hypothetical-deductive empirical child (re: how transformations of states-of-affairs happen / can be caused to happen) of metaphys...
Not as evil, I think, as the Abrahamic God must be for giving us a form of "free will" too weak for us to freely – easily – choose in every instance n...
If its creation is ravaged by suffering and its creatures have been made capable of freely making each other and themselves suffer gratuitously, then ...
The PoE is only a problem for an omnibenevolent deity. It does not necesarily follow that a theistic deity is omnibenevolent (e.g. "the God of Abraham...
:up: Perhaps, but I don't think so. I find it more parsimonious and persuasive to hold that (for me, at least) 'metaphysics' consists in the speculati...
Something for you to think for yourself about. Hint: the phrase describes 'chaotic processes' – deterministic parameters and inputs with unpredictable...
March readings • White Debt, Thomas Hardin • A Paradise Built on Hell, Rebecca Solnit • Ignorance and Imagination, Daniel Stoljar • Europe and the Peo...
IMO, Lucifer aka Haasatan is "God's favorite" – raison d'etre – because he alone provides "God" everlasting job (no pun intended) security. "Amen!" :y...
The mammalian brain is well adapted to keeping us alive (long enough to reproduce) and yet is not well adapted to making us happy. It's part of the pr...
IIRC, positivism says only empirical & formal statements are verifiable and therefore 'meaningful'; whereas scientism says only verifiable explanatory...
Good stuff on this topic (I grok text better than video): https://www.cantorsparadise.com/when-alan-turing-and-ludwig-wittgenstein-discussed-the-liar-...
That's dogmatism, not scientism. Scientism says 'only the results of experimentally verified theories and formal theorems "count as knowledge" and all...
"Metaphysical speculation" that proposes suppositions and/or interpretions which are inconsistent with, or contrary to, facts of the matter tend to my...
:100: (Not that you asked or care) For me, philosophy is about exposing (and perhaps rationally reformulating) fallacious arguments, pseudo-questions,...
Fortunately, in fact, Western "culture and philosophy" has been predominantly anti-foundationalist since the late 1500s CE (re: nominalism Copernicus/...
Only "prisons" for those who misconstrue philosophy as justifying dogmas (but otherwise vast horizons wherein philosophy is construed as explicating (...
Mariupol, day 16 ... brought to you by Western oil & gas subsidies (and our money laundering ways!) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kl4wkIPiTcY "Sleep N...
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/665718 Thank fuck it's Friday! :party: "A pox on both their houses" has turned my stomach for its mo...
Not as dry (or long & thorough) as the SEP article but pretty good nonetheless: https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/space/how-to-underst...
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