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:up: Are you referring to my "A cold Undead universe ..." post? If so, what's wrong with my speculative observation? It's not "contrary to experience ...

I wonder if you have closely read any one or more of the following of Witty's writings: • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus • Philosophical Investigation...

:up: Slinging ad hominems my way doesn't make your (typical knee-jerk) evasion of @"praxis"' direct question any less conspicuous. And whether or not ...

Ordered, added to my November reading list. Fuck me but I have to read diese Scheiße! :brow:

This is what irredeemable intellectual dishonesty (i.e. shallow, derivative sophistry at best) looks like.

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"Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can...

:roll: A cognitive defect, or bias, for 'philosophical suicide'. (Zapffe, Camus, Rosset, Brassier). Preferring to be a 'satisfied swine' rather than a...

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Reality is that which does not require "faith" and is the case regardless of what we believe. 'Mind' is reality-dependent and therefore not the other ...

... it was once said 'In the future everyone will be a sophist for at least 15 minutes.' :eyes: :up: "Finding" criteria for truth. The real is where i...

:brow: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/01/us/american-psychological-association-apologizes-racism/index.html

Bad philosophy. Religious apologetics. "New Age" perennialists. Etcetera.

Maybe my meaning would be clearer to you if you read it in the context of the whole of the post (in the context of the broader discussion).

Perhaps :roll:; I didn't say "truth is imaginary" though, did I?

Well, "the truth" is imaginary, thereby a denial of (E.Becker) or distraction from (L. Feuerbach) the real: ineluctable ephemerality ... oblivion. Phi...

My short list covers biblical criticism, philosophy & anthropology. It's not a question of arguing "for or against" religion but describing its role i...

Reza Azlan could have written instead 'What remains undeniable is that magical fantasy is so widespread that it must be considered an elemental part o...

I get it, JR, but as I haven't mentioned anything about a "breakdown" of the laws of physics or principles of logic I don't see how your satirical rep...

:100: Consider this alternative ego-deflated, consequentialist interpretation of "bliss"...

"Collapse the wavefunction" is anachronistic. Besides, "both dead and alive" (like numbers 0 and 1) refers to a superposition, or spectrum, of possibi...

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Can a coin land on both heads or tails before I flip it? No. "Schrödinger's Cat" is a thought-experiment, not a prediction (or retrodiction). :chin:

:roll: This doesn't follow from or address what I've written: Therefore, "God" doesn't have anything to do with anything. I don't reconcile them (that...

Non sequitur. Ad hoc clutching at straws. Woo-of the gaps. :roll:

Quantum uncertainty (e.g. acausal (random!) vacuum fluctations —> spontaneous symmetry-breaking) proves the Insufficiency of "Sufficient Reason", no? ...

What do you mean?

"Certum est, quia impossibile"~Tertullian We can know all impossible worlds a priori – (as a rule) they are worlds constituted by contradictions and/o...

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If you've read Stephen Hawking, then that's all the elaboration that's needed for this thread topic.

Yeah, but why bother call the symmetry-breaking vacuum fluctuation "God" or "creator"? Why confuse the fundamentally physical with the wholly imaginar...

"God", undefined and vague, is not even an idea, just a cipher (i.e. mental crutch) outside the remits of both science and logic. Childhood indoctrina...

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Okay, well, we disagree. As I understand them, the divergent differences of philosophy and religion are fundamental to both (as a rule) and that there...

Philosophy and religion: I.e. free inquiry (iconoclasty) =/= ritual worship (idolatry).

Perhaps an example or two of modern science driving a wedge between philosophy and religion may make your point clearer to me, Jack. Of course, modern...

Statements, not objects, can be true. :roll:

Aristotle's eudaimonism (i.e. virtue ethics), (syllogistic) logic and hylomorphism (i.e. immanent realism) have been very influential to my thinking.

:eyes: Theism is not true, "God" is imaginary; therefore your problem is (dis)solved. And if you're a theistic anti-realist (i.e. theological noncogni...

C'mon, reifying an idiom is silly. "I do not have anything in my pocket" is clearer and synonymous with "my empty pocket". Nothing has nothing to do w...

:meh: such that and so a purported "gap between possible and actual" is conceptually incoherent in actualist terms. You're only chasing "possibilist" ...

:up: "God" is undefined, therefore the argument is invalid.

I don't think science has anything to do with the philosophy-religion divide (i.e. same roots, different trees).

At the "heart" of religion (esoterica) is "the mystery"; the rest (exoterica) is public-facing, dumbed down, ritual reenactments via mneumonic narrati...

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