Of course selectively quoting me out of context renders the content inadequate in whatever way suits your bias or intellectually "vacant" purpose. Fac...
:up: We Americans call our flânerie "urban hiking" because it sounds, I guess, more productive or something. :smirk: Well no, my own ttRPG designs (I ...
None other than precipitating searches for an explanation which may or may not imply new, currently unknown, physical laws at work. Relativity, QFT, s...
At best, Hitchen's definition is metaphysical (or theological :yikes:), not scientific or a claim corroborated with evidence, and therefore not an 'in...
Accordingly, within many religious communities, "miracles" happen every day, Fool, and I doubt any scientific community would designate as "miracles" ...
That X is invariant with respect to interpretation / social construction indicates something objective about X. That X is ineluctable as a constraint,...
Tell that to a corpse (or the bereaved). Or to a quadriplegic. Or to an overheating planet. Or ... Nothing changes whether or not something 'seems rea...
That's repetition, not "recursion". Dependency presupposes a comparatively independent ground upon which to depend – otherwise, one should be able to ...
... and who is proficient at recognizing when it is appropriate (and effectively how) to hurt or help anyone deliberately. 'To gadfly or not to gadfly...
In so far as "the world" is real (i.e. mind/discourse-invariant), "anti-realism" as described here is incoherent (e.g. "maps = territory"). Otherwise,...
"Hobbies" downsized to this short list by the pandemic: - listening to music - mostly re-reading - urban hiking - designing ttRPGs - discussing philos...
Making up shit (i.e. believing) is a lot easier and safer than rigorously observing, experimentally testing and peer reviewing (i.e. knowing). Maybe t...
Exactly! Any country with a functioning political (procedural) democracy but without a corresponding functioning economic (substantive) democracy is n...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JD-qp1HMMIc "I Put a Spell On You" (2:25) A-side single, 1956 Screamin' Jay Hawkins * https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xKt7...
Whatever. If only elitist slaveholders like Cicero and Jefferson had conceived of hedonia as e.g. Epicureans (or Spinozists) do, as a "hedonist" mysel...
This is a neuroscientific problem of brain-functioning, and no longer a (premature, underdetermined) "transcendental" question of "categories of reaso...
Well okay, then we're talking past each other since my aside dismisses the "traditional use" of a priority. My conception is that "participating in a ...
In activist ( agonist) politics it's said: "Be realistic, demand the impossible!" :victory: :mask: Perhaps this: • acceptance = affirm that X is best ...
If you're alluding to apatheia, maybe the difference is between active indifference and passive indifference ... No. Congenitally (though not necessar...
Aspects of reality encountering (other aspects of) reality – e.g. brains experiencing the(ir) world(s). The a priori corresponds to brain-CNS function...
:up: Maybe I missed my calling after all. More or less, this was one of my apostatic "arguments" when I was sixteen: Adam & Eve were set-up for "The F...
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