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Addendum to https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/959747 A post from a 2020 thread What has philosophy taught you? ... https://thephilosop...
January 25, 2025 at 00:27
T.G.I.F. https://youtu.be/Kt57ou77Y9M?si=Y3YGNp1fj1ofBYuR "Talk to Me Baby (I Can't Hold Out)" (2:12) A-side single, 1960 songwriter Willie Dixon, 195...
January 24, 2025 at 19:15
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January 24, 2025 at 16:12
No. They seem to me unrelated capabilities.
January 24, 2025 at 01:59
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January 23, 2025 at 19:11
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January 23, 2025 at 04:27
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January 23, 2025 at 00:55
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January 23, 2025 at 00:38
Though these questions aren't addressed to me... I don't think so. For us, 'this world, this life' (i.e. nature red in tooth & claw) is "sacred" insof...
January 23, 2025 at 00:28
United States of Kakistan 22January25 No mercy ... https://youtu.be/6Wn92KHUg4w?si=icC8MTCutccZNhwo Speaking truth to power: "Have mercy". https://www...
January 22, 2025 at 21:52
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiarchism :sparkle: ... reminds me of @"Philosophim"'s old thread https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/15203/in-...
January 22, 2025 at 21:28
Non sequitur.
January 22, 2025 at 19:24
I don't think he's a nazi either (btw, why does it matter?), just an über-rich, sociopathic, racist provocateur.
January 22, 2025 at 10:24
Interesting, but your post isn't a direct reply to anything I've written on this thread as far as I can tell. And afaik Ai research / development has ...
January 22, 2025 at 10:05
And yet it's only a "definition", not a publicly corroborating, sound argument that warrants believing "classical theism" is not just a (dogmatic) myt...
January 22, 2025 at 08:12
Which "God" do you mean? Btw, is this "God" all-good (loving) and all-powerful (just)? If, however, this "God" is not both all-good (loving) and all-p...
January 22, 2025 at 02:18
77 million Americans (+ 6 million Dems who stayed home), many knowingly but most ignorantly,voted for: Sieg Heil 2025! https://youtu.be/NLRKEM8K5Ts?si...
January 21, 2025 at 19:10
An excerpt from one of your recent threads, Jack...
January 21, 2025 at 17:40
Get back to me when "AI" (e.g. ChatGPT) is no longer just a powerful, higher-order automation toy / tool (for mundane research, business & military ta...
January 21, 2025 at 17:19
The suggestion that an abstract¹ – "not concrete" – being has a causal property, or causal relation to anything concrete (e.g. is "a first cause"), is...
January 21, 2025 at 16:54
United States of Kakistan 20January2025 (pm) https://youtu.be/XdKoaNBl-Sw?si=bqj8xXJVj1On902t :fire: :death: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion...
January 21, 2025 at 05:55
Arbitrary doesn't imply 'unconditioned' so your point, sir, is a red herring / strawman. My point: a 'consistent relativist' forfeits all standards fo...
January 21, 2025 at 05:08
So then your conclusion ... ... means that "God" is a "concretely existing object", which contradicts both theistic and deistic conceptions (Aristotle...
January 21, 2025 at 04:50
I'm just pointing out that it appears you have plenty of nothing – nonsense – to say yourself, sir. Relativism (radical or otherwise), like nihilism, ...
January 20, 2025 at 20:31
January 20, 2025 at 08:54
The United States of Kakistan 20January25 (am) Again, less than a majority of "We the Sheeple" have ignorantly voted for the Felon-in Chief (FOTUS) "t...
January 20, 2025 at 08:52
A surface without edges. Earth. Consider this article ... https://fractalfoundation.org/resources/what-are-fractals/ None of the premises of your argu...
January 20, 2025 at 07:03
Yes. :sweat: It doesn't. Well, then that would be a certainty. Thus, a certainty ... i.e. another certainty, no? In contrast to 'unreal' (fake) metaph...
January 20, 2025 at 05:40
January 19, 2025 at 15:12
It can't happen here? :brow: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/962250 (loads slowly) https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment...
January 19, 2025 at 15:06
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January 19, 2025 at 05:47
Back in the day (1977-85_Bx, NYC), my geek-bros and I didn't use "alignments" (or THACO, HP, XP, classes, levels, static defense or Vancian magic for ...
January 18, 2025 at 05:58
I don't understand what you don't understand about how I use "about" in that sentence. I don't understand the question or its relevance. I have no ide...
January 18, 2025 at 04:12
Like real numbers series (i.e. continuum), like unbounded surfaces, like fractals ... "Exist" is not a predicate of any subject but instead is merely ...
January 18, 2025 at 02:22
Plato says as much in his dialogue Euthyphro. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma
January 18, 2025 at 01:09
:fire: À la natura naturans ... Certainly, the Thomist "Five Proofs" are not sound. :up: :up:
January 17, 2025 at 06:32
@"Dmytro" I fell in and out of love when I was nineteen. I gave my love all I had to give at that age and yet, after several months, it wasn't enough ...
January 17, 2025 at 05:51
Yes, of course. Taiwan is, after all, "a part of China", but the political class in Taipei are just living in denial. Like Cuba (or Canada :sweat:) in...
January 17, 2025 at 00:48
Enjoy the tunes! Happy 2025 :sparkle:
January 17, 2025 at 00:31
:up: :up: Reifiication / misplaced concreteness fallacy is implied in your assumption, Astro. "Propositions" are only truth-bearing ways of talking ab...
January 16, 2025 at 22:38
Why not? This statement does not follow (e.g. numbers are infinite and each is an infinite composite). Besides, classical atomists argue otherwise. "C...
January 16, 2025 at 20:57
Such as the above "propositional truth" you're "chasing" (Gorgias laughs). :smirk:
January 16, 2025 at 11:53
To my mind, Mythos (narratives (e.g. religion, art ... placebos-intoxicants)) provides succor to those who are uncertainty-avoidant whereas, by contra...
January 16, 2025 at 03:58
Consider Kipling's 1899 imperialist paean ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden and Mark Twain's 1901 response ... https://en.m...
January 16, 2025 at 02:05
Silly question – if a "God" exists that allegedly "created" a world full of animals devouring each other alive and gratuitously suffering human beings...
January 15, 2025 at 21:13
This Yukio Mishima quote reminds me of
January 15, 2025 at 18:17
So you believe Eurocentrism – "Western Supremacy, Nationalism and Imperialism" (re: OP) – is not (euphemistically) synonymous with White Supremacy? Ho...
January 15, 2025 at 18:06
Well, I'm a 'cosmopolitan alter-globalist'... Like "whiteness", "the west" is a myth, and, as a scientifically and historically literate (postcolonial...
January 15, 2025 at 08:59