"On the whole my attention was only minimally engaged by the preoccupations of rock-and-roll bands, but The Doors were different, The Doors interested...
My 'anti-platonist pragmatics' (finitism?) comes to this: pure mathematics is mostly invented (re: pattern-making) and applied mathematics is mostly d...
:100: Feyerabend couldn't have said this any better. Only a method of inquiry (i.e. testing how I know what I think I know), science is not merely a w...
What "problem"? This moral asymmetry of good & bad / evil is strongly correlated with entropy – the asymmetry of order & disorder – as it's far easier...
Civilization (i.e. prevalence and integration of dominance hierarchies) itself is the metastatic condition. "Capitalism" is just the latest (terminal?...
Alcohol remains my drug of choice. I've never ever jonesed for coffee (though I get daily kicks of caffine from (unsweetened) rich dark chocolate and ...
"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you." ~Neil deGrasse Tyson (E.g. read Zapffe or Camus.) :100: :fire: "If you think you understan...
:mask: :up: The 'civilizational project' (via dominance hierarchies) of the last several millennia has never been a lifeboat, or ark, meant for the va...
Insofar as one pays attention to one's own attention during and after one "trips", the grip (habit) of ego-other (self-morethanself) duality reflectiv...
I've been going on about the topic of "worthy of worship" since the '80s at least. Anyway, I hadn't realized David Lewis wrote on this either. Exactly...
Well, okay, I won't quibble further. Following Spinoza, Maimon, Frege, Peirce, Wittgenstein, Popper ... I think syntax is the basis of logic, mathemat...
IIRC Francis Bacon is a 16th century inductivist. Husserl criticized Bacon for his 'mathematization of nature' program (i.e. contra-Aristotlean 'quidd...
A "God" without definite, sine qua non, predicates renders this statement Not Even Wrong. Nonetheless, I disagree with what I think you're saying, whi...
No ... we're just maggots accelerating the cosmic decomposition of this zombie universe. Nature, haven't you heard, is undead. (Blame the ghoulery on ...
:up: No, I'm not a dualist. All knowledge consists of explanations for facts of the matter. On the other hand, woo is either "pseudo-knowledge" or (mo...
In what way is "apodictic certainty" applicable to any modern science? What does a (like Kant, unsound) 'transcendental' deduction of "the essential s...
Be here now: One must become the change one seeks. Yes, as exemplars of "the examined life" and principled participants in solidarity with other activ...
As I quoted you previously, this is why. A more "nescient" sentiment – which, being a child of this zeitgeist, I also can't shake-off – has never been...
:fire: :100: ... P. W. Zapffe (absurdist) "Life, death, nothingness and meaninglessness", to my mind, are some proximate concerns (re: facticity) wher...
I've no idea what orifice you've pulled this bon mot out of but it seems like a projection. Nothing I've said suggests "bliss" of any kind, merely an ...
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