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Like e.g. gravity? QM? neoDarwinian evolution? germ theory of disease? "Just theories", huh? :roll: Does anyone philosophically assume that liquid com...

Because "beyond the grave" all is forgotten.

A handy rule-of-thumb ... Magician re: pseudo-problem —> pseudoscience Sophist re: dogma —> pseudo-questions Philosopher re: answers —> questions :chi...

Well, I stand corrected (in part at least). Nonetheless, for my filthy lucre, s-salamander, I'll stick with the following critical works on Kantianism...

Since when is learning from (i.e. adapting an old concept to) new information (and 'better' explanations) a "problem" for philosophy?

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Absolutely! :up: Weather Report, Steps Ahead, Michael Brecker, Mike Stern, VSOP, ... oh yeah, back in the 80s I was (still am) a huge late 60s to late...

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If by "us" what is implied is "the transcendental mind" (or "ego" as per Husserl) instead of 'the phenomenal mind', then that aspect of "us" is not "p...

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Magical thinking :sparkle: :point:

got them Monday blues again, y'all ... Happy V_D ? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt57ou77Y9M "I Can't Hold Out (Talk to Me Baby)" (2:12) A-side single...

:up: "The world seems cruel" only to those who absurdly expect the world to care for them. Play the cards you're dealt as well as you're able until yo...

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So "we worship only" the unworthy – ergo the world we've made for ourselvse these last dozen or so millennia. :mask:

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:ok: The ignorance manifest by this statement is stunning. Good job, G! :sparkle:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5NfaMyWPysQ "Within You, Without You" (5:28) Instrumental The Beatles Anthology 2, 1996 composer, G. Harrison, w/ G. Mar...

I agree with Einstein: "Spinoza's God" (maybe!) As I've recently replied to you .

You've not demonstrated that any arguments I HAVE MADE with respect to "physicalism" are unsound or that my distinction of "methodological" & "philoso...

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I believe I've already answered this . If we can, we ought to improve upon even our "adaptive illusions" when necessary, no?

If unlearning (i.e. problematizing) givens & dogmas is the philosopher's way of life and, on the other hand, teaching (i.e. training for uses of) give...

"A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man." ~Malcolm X

I don't recall that you asked me a question I haven't addressed.

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These abstracts are, in fact, generated – via autopoiesis – in ecologies of (human) brains. You don't really believe, Wayf, abstractions can be "reduc...

:up: :up: I suppose that depends on how comparatively maladaptive any of our "illusions" happen to be. This opportunes replacing old illusions with co...

Irrelevancy of an appeal to popularity. 'Meaning is use' – deconstruct my (eccentric? heterodox? idiosyncratic?) usage of the term / concept in the co...

Mass literacy, not just "literature", had pacified religions in the modern, secular, West for, at most, a few centuries, but mass vidiocy in recent de...

Misdirecttion surely exists. :sparkle: 'Mass media' surely uses misdirection to spread misinformation and to compound-reinforce miseducation.

The most charitable definition of "omnipotence" I've found is this: the ability of (a) being to do anything that is not impossible, or self-contradict...

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In sum: "equality" without power-sharing only camouflages and perpetuates systemic inequalities; Biden's appointment of a well-qualified black woman j...

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Perhaps. Nonetheless your "point" is irrelevant as well.

Why must there have been a "first" individual and not a group of thinkers in dialogue from which the practice emerged and then became (for one or more...

To begin with, I discern that "the difference" between lovers and friends is the latter seek to enjoy mutual independency and the former seek the pass...

Okay, no shame in it, you simply do not know – no one, in fact, knows – that Thales "had no predecessors." Appeal to ignorance. Neither you nor anyone...

How do you know this? :eyes: Why do you ask me about being "dedicated to the field" when I wrote dedicated ... to reflective / contemplative disciplin...

Exactly. Philosophers are defined by doing philosophy. But how? Competently. Who's to judge? Her peers in the context of the extant philosophical trad...

I guess some believe 'to enjoy using knives' (e.g. carving the holiday turkey / ham) 'makes one a surgeon'. :mask:

I wish you'd address my post which is only speculative and does not make any references to the sciences.

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Certainly. Click on the link in my previous post and start that "dialogue" at any point or subtopic therein you have issues with or that, in your opin...

I prefer to think for myself and consult google wiki & SEP only for clarifications too lengthy for this space. Is it too much to ask that you (& other...