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Pizdets. :mask: So, at least intellectually, all one can do is pick a (metanarrative) poison – Euro-American fentanyl or Russian novichok? :up:

Some 'closure' for George Floyd's family ... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/24/george-floyd-death-police-officers-guilty-civil-rights Al...

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"If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.." ~Thomas Szasz

"I don't mind about the war. That's one of things I like to watch. If it's a war going on, 'cause then I know if our side's winnin', if our side's los...

:ok: Dismiss my last post. We're only talking past each other.

(1) How do you know that the universe had a "beginning"? (Define "beginning" in this context just so I'm clear what you're talking about, Joe.) (2) Ho...

It's the best tool we have; besides, just because the problem isn't solved yet by science in no way entails that science cannot solve the problem (re:...

Save the homily for those (who probably don't) need it and check out the link in my previous post. Or not.

Define please.

@"Gnomon" :point:

Sounds like knowledge – an explanatory process (e.g. historical, formal & natural sciences) – to me, Joe. It might be the worst cultural ratchet (rack...

:lol: (emphases added) As specifically relates to H, "resolute" (i.e. subjectivist aka "ownmost") "being-towards-death" makes for "authentic Dasein", ...

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Except as idle speculation – no. "Panpsychism / cosmopsychism" (is) just woo-of-the-explanatory-gaps. I'm only interested in Spinoza – tell me what te...

Here's an excerpt from old post ...

To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers

"Money" may be the most ubiquitous fiction on the planet and its an abstraction that has long been far more effective at shaping the concrete world th...

I grok it! :up:

"Credo quia absurdum." :sweat: In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti ... wtf.

Brits (& Aussies?) call that "taking the piss". I.e. Kant's platonic 'transcendental reifications' ... "Universals" do subsist, but until we grasp the...

Caveat: correlation =/= causation ... maps =/= territory... (Just a reminder, gents.)

Maybe. No. No. No. :chin: Rather: cogitatio fit, ergo cogitatio est. (P. Gassendi?)

Yeah, however, some – too few of us – cultivate the courage needed to resist sheltering in the willful ignorance of woo. :pray:

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When they don't, philosophers tend to spout the most egregiously fact-free nonsense liberally spackled with woo-of-the-gaps. To wit: In other words, "...

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@"Baden" @"frank" @"Hanover" In Murica, it ain't a "crime" (yet) to hate the haters ... :victory: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60482214

"To say there are no thoughts" (which is a thought) would be as nonsensical as someone saying 'I do not exist'. Thinking, therfore thinking exists. :s...

In the first instance, bert, "the event" happens "because" the driver responds (by reflex) to a signal which itself does not "cause" the event – it's ...

That's because, there is no signal in the second instance as you say so, on the contrary, my position is consistent.

Yeah, but first you're going to have to explain precisely – not merely assert or quote what others assert as stand-ins for – what you mean, G, by "rea...

Much more an "advocate of" free action than "free will", I'm a compatibilist.

Apparently, our standards of 'evidence' are incompatible which leaves us talking past one another. As a (methodological) naturalist, and not an ideali...

Uh huh, subjective consensus (e.g. "We believe America is the greatest nation on Earth!") is still not a truthmaker (i.e. corroborable or ostensible e...

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Just another winter Monday in Murica ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tyg8aB9qtr8 "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue" (4:52) Satch Plays Fats, ...

Argumentum ad populum fallacy. "People agree" may be a consensus, Count, but that's not corroborable or ostensible evidence (i.e. truthmaking).

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Miscommunication (therefore misunderstanding) between people is inescapable ... I guess?

Addendum to this Thus, my immanentism (or Epicurean-Spinozist (i.e. void-atoms ~ substance-modes) affinities).

Engage in dialogue. Like the "Turing Test" or "Chinese Room", if we dialogue like we understand one other, then for all practical purposes we do under...

Sure it works for you, otherwise I couldn't read or respond to your posts.

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It's a "myth" that works.