The ending hooked me into an immediate rereading. Anonymous keys which lock rather than unlock unrequited loops. Sometime later that old Police tune "...
This is what I was referring to as your apparent lack of scientific literacy ... You cherry-pick which theoretical results are scientific and which th...
"There is no god but Death and Sleep is her prophet." :death: :flower: I'd say sleep, among its other functions, involuntarily habituates one to prolo...
It seems I'm in fairly good company as my views of space exploration (below) are more or less shared by the likes of Martin Rees (et al). https://www....
Respectfully, sir, your lack of scientific literacy does not render my layman's comprehension "faith" or the well-established theoretical results of s...
"Sad" is how skeptics probably seem to "blissful" ignoramuses. Not all skeptics are alike, however. Pyrrhonians, who restrict their doubt (epoch?) to ...
Sceptic: I know that I am ignorant of most knowable things, whatever I do know most of which I'm not certain of and, frustratingly, even my few certai...
'Quantum uncertainty' is well-established knowledge of 'the fundamental limit of knowledge'. It's a brute fact (i.e. feature, not bug, of classical sy...
January readings 2022 • Spinoza's Religion, Clare Carlisle • Sounding Out Semantics, R.J. Mott • Against Elections, David Van Reybrouck re-reading Und...
Thanks for mentioning Gerson. Based on online reviews (not Amazon), his From Plato to Platonism interests me – seems to challenge my 'anti-platonic na...
Like a vacuum fluctation ... ... at the planck scale ... ... a random fluctuation of the non-spatiotemporal (eternal) vacuum with a sufficiently minim...
In the context of philosophy, thinking is reflective inquiry / practice (e.g. freethought – interrogating '(one's own) biases prejudices assumptions t...
If this were so, it seems to me, natural agents could not have any "knowledge of nature" because entities which are "fundamentally divided" from each ...
:up: Well, Eve & Prometheus, Enkidu & Sisyphus, Prospero, et al belong in my "Sapere aude" pantheon of wise fools ... Then "The Lord" compounded our p...
:up: :smirk: Yes, there is distinction but not separation (i.e. "inherently apart") insofar as a map, like an analogy, is an abstraction of formal asp...
How does that warrant your statement that "a dualist point of view is essential to science"? The "logos" is categorical and therefore pertains to meta...
Neither it seems to me. I think both "space" and "objects" are "properties" (i.e. events) of change (i.e. advent) just as currents, eddies, ripples, w...
'Appearing and Disappearing' would have been a more descriptive title and far less cryptic. Or maybe not if I've only read into SuZ my own concerns an...
Watching 2001: A Space Odyssey on New Year's Eve is a four decades plus tradition of mine, which in recent years I've supplimented with critical inter...
Oh damn, 2022, be gentler :eyes: https://youtu.be/KZGleNoOUO8 "Mack The Knife" (3:22) performed by Louis Armstrong & His All Stars, 1955 written by Ku...
That's why I qualified imagination with "fact-based"; eliminate the fact-free stuff first, then the stuff that doesn't follow logically as a possibili...
I'm not a positivist and I agree with Einstein's sage insight that "imagination is more important than knowledge" (pace Plato re: banishing (silencing...
You misread me, Smith. Not "metaphysics of" but metaphysics for ... Hardly "scientiific" compared to this I replied to this with the same misgivings, ...
:up: For the sake of discussion, consider an alternative schema for, let's call it, 'a metaphysics for agency': ^^axiology includes aesthetics, ethics...
N can be difficult because philosophy is difficult, and his writings are quite clear with great style but not obscure or ponderous or syntactically-to...
Yeah well H promotes "misunderstanding" both with the obscurant sophistry of his texts and rare, explicit statements such as Note N's prescient critic...
This "means" nothing more than the hypothesis-P (model) has not been falsified yet. If there isn't better – fewer assumptions, more predictions, great...
Yeah, and apparently you don't get what your "point" entails. Only unreality (the imaginary) "transcends" reality. :pray: :roll: Of course, but why wo...
Well, for starters, there are also problems with the geocentric model that, when addressed by shifting an assumption or two, suggests a heliocentric m...
2021 readings (started, most but not all I've finished) - memoir, auto/biography - literary re: poetry, novel, short fiction • Classical Indian Philos...
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