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:lol: :sparkle: woo-of-the-gaps supernaturalia :sweat:

All theists (& deists) deny the existence of some or all gods except whichever one they happen to believe in, or worship. Atheists, however, are consi...

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https://youtu.be/MHEZQLX020s?si=d15N3gHxM4kZ4cdB I find this précis (above) to be non-reductive (i.e. holistic) and more or less consilient with non-t...

No. (2021) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/501897

Clearly, idealism (i.e. 'mind-dependency') is an anthropocentric fallacy and contrary to the Copernican Principle (as well as Ockham's Razor); at best...

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:eyes: Your usual woo-woo gibberish without a shred of conceptual clarity or philosophical relevance (i.e. bad physics + poor reasoning (vs strawmen ....

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:100: :up: @"Gnomon" @"Wayfarer" ... and the rest of the :sparkle: Quantum Woo Crew :sparkle: who incorrigibly ignore scientific evidence.

Yes. Despite background cultural differences, I've found Epicureanism to be analogous with 'Buddhism Naturalized' (or vice versa). https://www.dhammaw...

:up: Deus, sive natura (Tat Tvam Asi)

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As a high-level (speculative "what if") summary corrective to the "bad physics" on which so much New Age nonsense is based and twisted by poor reasoni...

She was moderating the short short story event at the time and posted "Brother Jake's", which was one of my four submissions, so that the author would...

Imo: if we're "in a deterministic world", then "options" are metacognitive / retrospective illusions.

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:100: Excellent! I've never agreed with you more, sir.

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:roll: Misplaced concreteness? Occam's Razor?

... those who assume "there are two kinds of people" and those who don't. To what end? :chin: "The essential structure of everydayness" seems inelucta...

To All (wherever you are): *Happy New Year* :up: :up:

:up: à la Spiniza's substance (natura naturans (i.e. "the Whole" ~ physical laws)) and modes (natura naturata (e.g. universes, bodies, minds)).

In other words, whatever is "asserted ... relies on" grammar (Ludwig W., Freddy N.).

:up: Yes, "an intelligible order" more or less is a grammar for discursive practices (or like language games within a particular form of life).

Please clarify the difference between "conceptual" and "metaphysical" in this context. Also consider @"Banno'"s comment here ... .https://www.theguard...

Exactly. :up: Btw, this (implicit) reification fallacy – ergo, substance duality – is merely reminiscent of Plato's question-begging (thereby unparsim...

And another follow up: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/29/new-orleans-brothers-priest-killing-child-sexual-abuse

:up: :up: Two questions: What does "the persistence of ... mind-at-large ... depend on"? Why assume that "the persistence of objects or the world ... ...

.... describes or does not describe an objective state of affairs?

No. Only contingency is necessary (Q. Meillassoux's "Absolute") insofar as, without exception, every existing thing / fact (X) can be conceived of as ...

... which is or is not how things are objectively (re: noumena)? :chin:

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Wooooooooooo :sparkle: :lol:

So what's your point?

"Transcendence" to what end or for what purpose? And yet "Wilbur argues", which you cite, "sense and scientific reason cannot grasp the Absolute"?! Ap...

. Yes, because "subjectivity" (like e.g. humanity or infinity) is merely an abstraction. Subjects, however, are concrete objects and directly or indir...

I think de-individualization is more precise than "immersion" describes what Heidegger is after. No, sir, that's quite fair actually. :smirk: It would...

In the wake of the catastrophic defeat of Kaiser's Germany, Heidegger's amoral (Levinas, Adorno) bifurcating of beings into "authentic" and "inauthent...

Explain what you / Wilbur mean by this. A mere truism. Even if this weren't the case, what cognitive or existential significance would "the Absolute" ...