Perhaps, not in idealist (folk psychologist) terms, "intuition" is just (the perceptual – noninferential – aptitude of) pattern-recognition (e.g. gest...
Yeah, these litany of shallow definitions you lean so heavily upon in your posts are just lazy crutches crippling your intellectual credibility. :eyes...
The Oslo Accords, signed by both Arafat & Rabin, and that the Israelis (especially under Bibi) continue to violate, had decades ago supplanted the PLO...
Dialectics or (Pyrrhonian) skepticism targets 'illusions of knowledge' (i.e. believing we know what we don't know or cannot be known) – one's ignoranc...
Assuming you're not disingenuous, your replies suggest you do not understand my post perhaps due to a lack of sufficient historical background on the ...
"Ideas" associated with fact-free (i.e. faith-based) "beliefs" – like conspiracy theories – about purported matters of fact (re: "life after life") ar...
The arsonist blames the bonfire – a circumstance of Eurocentric-colonizing Israel's own making by dispossession of the several centuries-old occupants...
Two recent forays into the thorny morass of "free will": I too was indoctrinated with the "Free Will Theodicy" (Spinoza was probably excommunicated fo...
The reason for a Likud leader's agreement with the PLO that the need for the occupation / oppression to end is to maintain the long-term "legitimacy" ...
:mask: The parallel is too stark to merely be, as some would have it, a bad analogy / false equivalence: Gaza City (intifada) ~ Warsaw Ghetto (uprisin...
Don't forget, while you're taking my name in vain, to quote my corroborations as well such as (follow link @my handle) Ariel fuckin' Sharon's mea culp...
Since you favor "short books on aesthetics" and self-identify, IIRC, as a pragmatist, I recommend John Dewey's Art as Experience. An even shorter read...
Except that in America, no mention of "the person's gender or race" in these political rituals simply defaults to (the 95% quota of) a "White Man". Be...
"The ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures, the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never...
Hey, I'm not a Kantian, but I recommend a work by Arthur Schopenhauer which directly addresses your questions (and who IMO is, like Solomon Maimon or ...
Two word refutation: "Donald" "Trump" ... QED. :smirk: Sorry, I'm not an animist, so anthropomorphism – special pleading – won't get you anywhere with...
The extinction fossil records of some 98% of all species is testament to life's blindly wanton profusion of ("antilife") maladaptations. Evoltion does...
News flash: that's not how this process is designed to work (certainly it hasn't in two and a third centuries). The only thing "racist and sexist" is ...
Opposition to patriarchal white supremacy (re: 109 white men out of 115 (95%) justices appointed since 1789), especially in government, cannot be "rac...
:clap: :100: They are not "complementary" any more than "fruit" and "apple". :sweat: As for "non-vulgar" materialism, I won't repeat myself, Gnomon. Y...
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