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In: Ad Interim Philosophy  — view comment
:roll: You confuse philosophy (i.e. ways of looking / interpreting / diagnosing) with 'having a worldview' (i.e. conventionally stipulated, unexamined...
January 21, 2022 at 22:09
In: What I think happens after death  — view comment
Another "today" does not follow the last "today", does it? I am – highly corroborated by the extant physical, biological, neurocognitive & existential...
January 21, 2022 at 21:45
In: What I think happens after death  — view comment
:rofl: And besided, "logical necessity" =/= necessity in fact.
January 21, 2022 at 18:54
In: The existence of ethics  — view comment
That's as misguided as saying "appetite, urinating, flatulence, defecating ..." is what metabolism is "all about". :roll:
January 21, 2022 at 18:53
In: What I think happens after death  — view comment
"Life after life" (anti-anxiety placebo) is nonsense like e.g. north of the North Pole. :death: :flower:
January 21, 2022 at 18:44
In: What really makes humans different from animals?  — view comment
"Better" than? and in what way? Btw, OP, humans are animals too – loquacious, bald apes.
January 21, 2022 at 18:31
In: The existence of ethics  — view comment
Thinking about acting – learning to act ("fail") better – while acting rather than ex post facto, concretely (re: Peirce, Dewey) and not merely in the...
January 21, 2022 at 18:11
In: Chomsky's Mysteries of Nature: How Deeply Hidden? Reading Group  — view comment
:up:
January 21, 2022 at 06:22
In: The existence of ethics  — view comment
More than "to act", to reflectively act. From p.1 of this thread .
January 21, 2022 at 06:10
In: Are philosophy people weird?  — view comment
I don't talk about (explicitly) philosophical topics or puzzles until whomever I'm conversing with does so first. When I do, I make short statements w...
January 21, 2022 at 05:41
In: Atheism & Solipsism  — view comment
"Atheism" : only nature :: "solipsism" : only me. Nothing to do with one another.
January 20, 2022 at 21:07
In: The existence of ethics  — view comment
:100: :fire: :smirk:
January 20, 2022 at 17:59
In: Science, Objectivity and Truth?  — view comment
I'll take Feyerabend's word for it (esp. re: Science in a Free Society & Farewell to Reason).
January 20, 2022 at 17:46
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
PKD. Very provocative storyteller, but mediocre writer. Maybe if I'd read him in high school or before I might have acquired a taste (or nostalgia) fo...
January 20, 2022 at 02:02
In: Is ‘something’ logically necessary?  — view comment
What grounds are there to assume that, in fact, there are (not just imaginary) "gods" to ask about?
January 20, 2022 at 01:51
In: Is ‘something’ logically necessary?  — view comment
The only 'answer' to an ultimate (categorical) Why-question which doesn't beg its own question (i.e. precipitates an infinite regress) is There is no ...
January 19, 2022 at 23:31
In: POLL: What seems more far-fetched (1) something from literally nothing (2) an infinite past?  — view comment
I translate "literal nothing" into nothing-ness and (spatiotemporal) "infinity" into unbounded; thus, IME, the first option "seems more far-fatched" (...
January 19, 2022 at 20:59
In: Does matter have contingency/potentiality?  — view comment
Non sequitur. Witty says "divides into facts"; he's not talking about "things" as per TLP 1.1 (which you have quoted me quoting). Not "reductionist" a...
January 19, 2022 at 20:10
In: What I think happens after death  — view comment
Neither destination nor direction, this north of the north pole (i.e. "life after life", "you after you") fetish is the delusion. :death: :flower:
January 19, 2022 at 18:09
In: The existence of ethics  — view comment
:zip:
January 19, 2022 at 17:21
In: You are not your body!  — view comment
:roll:
January 19, 2022 at 17:19
In: The Future  — view comment
While this forecast is more plausible though, no doubt, incalculably improbable, we can (should?) dream this dream as an aspirational summit for our f...
January 19, 2022 at 05:38
In: The existence of ethics  — view comment
:up:
January 19, 2022 at 00:07
In: Chomsky's Mysteries of Nature: How Deeply Hidden? Reading Group  — view comment
:fire:
January 18, 2022 at 22:17
In: What underlies everyday life is completely known!  — view comment
Good stuff (i.e. I agree with the gist), except that you seem to confuse nothing and nothing-ness – physical and metaphysical – the respective implica...
January 18, 2022 at 21:39
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
"The only way in which a society can live for any length of time without violent strife is by establishing social justice, and social justice appears ...
January 18, 2022 at 19:25
In: You are not your body!  — view comment
Not only are "you are not your body", you are not even "you" (vide Buddha ... Hume ... Metzinger).
January 18, 2022 at 18:19
In: An Ethical view of 2nd amendment rights  — view comment
:up:
January 18, 2022 at 18:01
In: The existence of ethics  — view comment
:fire: And so you reject a suffering-focused ethics as insufficient for judging 'what to do and what not to do to / with others'?
January 18, 2022 at 17:35
In: The existence of ethics  — view comment
:up: An intelligible-pragmatic formulation of "the golden rule" (e.g. Confucius, Hillel the Elder, Buddha, Epicurus). I think this is only a half righ...
January 18, 2022 at 17:13
In: What really makes humans different from animals?  — view comment
:rofl: :zip:
January 18, 2022 at 06:24
In: The existence of ethics  — view comment
"Don't follow" what?
January 18, 2022 at 04:51
In: The existence of ethics  — view comment
Corrected :point:
January 18, 2022 at 04:39
In: What really makes humans different from animals?  — view comment
:100: :100:
January 18, 2022 at 04:30
In: What Are You Watching Right Now?  — view comment
Nineteen days before I was born, on August 28, 1963 ... yet here we Americans still are today ~ "I have a :scream:" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1u27...
January 17, 2022 at 22:46
In: Drugs  — view comment
:lol:
January 17, 2022 at 22:14
In: The existence of ethics  — view comment
Ethics seems to me the study of how to discern adaptive conduct which optimizes – from maladaptive conduct which fails to optimize – habits/customs of...
January 17, 2022 at 21:49
In: Does reality require an observer?  — view comment
G'nite.
January 17, 2022 at 05:21
In: Does reality require an observer?  — view comment
Perhaps the idea of "universe" is "collective" ... like language. One dreams alone. One, however, shares the real world with others. ... solipsism.
January 17, 2022 at 05:11
In: Does matter have contingency/potentiality?  — view comment
No need to apologize since you gave no offense. I simply corrected your erroneous impression and clarified my actual preferences. Btw, I no more conce...
January 17, 2022 at 02:12
In: Does reality require an observer?  — view comment
:party: :clap:
January 17, 2022 at 00:31
In: Chomsky's Mysteries of Nature: How Deeply Hidden? Reading Group  — view comment
:eyes:
January 17, 2022 at 00:17
In: Does reality require an observer?  — view comment
:groan:
January 17, 2022 at 00:15
In: Does reality require an observer?  — view comment
:up: :up: :100:
January 17, 2022 at 00:12
In: Does reality require an observer?  — view comment
The attempt to use any "non-physical interpretation" of physical sciences (e.g. QM) in order to "refute" a methodological paradigm (i.e. physicalism) ...
January 17, 2022 at 00:06
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
“The jar which Pandora brought was the jar of evils, and he takes the remaining evil for the greatest worldly good—it is hope, for Zeus did not want m...
January 16, 2022 at 22:32
In: Does reality require an observer?  — view comment
Worse than that, I suspect: Re: Plato, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel ...
January 16, 2022 at 21:54
In: Is ‘something’ logically necessary?  — view comment
Well, for starters (my two nickels), this reasoning eliminates idle, pseudo-questions like "Why is there something rather than nothing?" which obscure...
January 16, 2022 at 21:40
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xrT1QI_Yrd8 "Don't Give Up" (6:33) album version So, 1986 writer Peter Gabriel vocals Peter Gabriel, featuring Kate Bush
January 16, 2022 at 21:24
In: Is ‘something’ logically necessary?  — view comment
I'm using it. Others are and have used it in this manner. What grounds do you have to doubt this practice? Apparently none. :roll:
January 16, 2022 at 19:42
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