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In: What are you chasing after with philosophy?  — view comment
:up: I'm fond of that 'woman-truth' metaphor as well, to which I add another quote-fragment that extends (intensifies with my added emphasis) Tobias' ...
September 17, 2021 at 03:45
In: Is the universe in an eternal cycle?  — view comment
:up:
September 16, 2021 at 01:19
In: Against Stupidity  — view comment
:smirk: :up:
September 16, 2021 at 01:11
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
:lol:
September 16, 2021 at 01:07
In: Against Stupidity  — view comment
September 15, 2021 at 23:28
In: What are you chasing after with philosophy?  — view comment
No. History/politics, natural sciences & the arts, not philosophy, are truth-pursuits. No. The real (sublimely) surpasses, or exhausts, understanding....
September 15, 2021 at 18:03
In: Against Stupidity  — view comment
What a stupid thing to say.
September 15, 2021 at 07:03
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
@about 11:40 pm EST Gov. Newsom got an est. 67% vote. :kiss:
September 15, 2021 at 04:13
In: Anti-Vaxxers, Creationists, 9/11 Truthers, Climate Deniers, Flat-Earthers  — view comment
Though hope is a mug's game, I do hope we run out of anti-vaxxers & Covid-deniers before we run out of vaccines. I like the odds.
September 14, 2021 at 20:29
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
:smirk: ?
September 14, 2021 at 20:26
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
My friend, you live in a state (my previous "red state" mistake on par with my current one) damaged by e.g. pandemic mismanagement & voter-suppression...
September 14, 2021 at 19:43
In: Could Science Exist Without Philosophy? (logic and reasoning)  — view comment
By "pseudo-questions" I mean interrogatives without specified contexts or satisfaction-conditions for answering them (re: question-begging) as well as...
September 14, 2021 at 19:20
In: Best way to study philosophy  — view comment
:up:
September 14, 2021 at 18:50
In: what if the goal of a religion isn't to be factually correct?  — view comment
:up: Pro tip: Buddhism preceded (Pauline) Christianity by five/six centuries at least. The latter could not have "lead to" the former. :roll:
September 14, 2021 at 18:41
In: what if the goal of a religion isn't to be factually correct?  — view comment
:100: :fire:
September 14, 2021 at 18:39
In: TPF Quote Cabinet  — view comment
Re: capitalism: "Our moment permits interest in one question only – Will we of Deadwood be more than targets for assfucking? To not grab ankle is to d...
September 14, 2021 at 18:32
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) survives GOP/MAGA/Covid-denial power grab today. Thanks Larry Elder for "suppressing" your own voters by telling them for wee...
September 14, 2021 at 17:53
In: Jurassic Park Redux  — view comment
:up:
September 14, 2021 at 08:09
In: Jurassic Park Redux  — view comment
BOOM. :100: :up:
September 14, 2021 at 07:05
In: What theory of truth do you subscribe to, and why?  — view comment
The point is that your "accessibility relations" are merely ad hoc and not intrinsic to, or required by, coherentism. Read Haack.
September 13, 2021 at 23:52
In: Best way to study philosophy  — view comment
I recommend The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods (3rd Ed) by Peter S. Fosl and Julian Baggini. Keep this refe...
September 13, 2021 at 23:46
In: You are not your body!  — view comment
:up:
September 13, 2021 at 23:33
In: What theory of truth do you subscribe to, and why?  — view comment
No. Coherentism alone is circular, mostly formal without necessarily corresponding to empirical facts (i.e. the world). Read Susan Haack's work on fou...
September 13, 2021 at 23:25
In: what if the goal of a religion isn't to be factually correct?  — view comment
:100:
September 13, 2021 at 22:14
In: Against Stupidity  — view comment
And never sleeps.
September 13, 2021 at 22:10
In: You are not your body!  — view comment
I don't understand the question.
September 13, 2021 at 22:09
In: You are not your body!  — view comment
Yeah, of course I am not merely, or identical with, "my" body. "I am", in fact, the emergent, recursively continuous, output of this body's interactio...
September 13, 2021 at 21:18
In: You are not your body!  — view comment
:up: :100:
September 13, 2021 at 20:56
In: Against Stupidity  — view comment
:smirk: :up: * Because ... "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." ~Hanlon's Razor https://thephilosophyforum.com...
September 13, 2021 at 20:42
In: what if the goal of a religion isn't to be factually correct?  — view comment
Like Heraclitus and the Stoics, I equate :fire: with the Logos ... against benighted Mythos (i.e. the dark ages of theocracy). Prometheus' gift – teac...
September 13, 2021 at 20:32
In: Deep Songs  — view comment
Already a quarter century of raging ... :fire: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NRZg4bwtM4Q&list=PLMxy067kbpQgbgoLEndj9ibzhL8VCmRFD Evil Empire, 1996 (46...
September 13, 2021 at 20:19
In: what if the goal of a religion isn't to be factually correct?  — view comment
Maybe Promethean is more apt ...
September 13, 2021 at 18:51
In: Complete vs. Incomplete Reality  — view comment
An image, not a fact. Thanks for making my point. :smirk:
September 13, 2021 at 10:06
In: Complete vs. Incomplete Reality  — view comment
Okay. We disagree.
September 13, 2021 at 08:58
In: What is a Fact?  — view comment
Yes. I'd talk it through with her as much as she's willing without badgering or taking issue with her "faith" directly in order to maintain a trusting...
September 13, 2021 at 08:58
In: Complete vs. Incomplete Reality  — view comment
Path of least cognitive effort for a start – images are subject-dependent whereas facts are subject-invariant/resistant. Images easily flatter (or fac...
September 13, 2021 at 08:38
In: What is your opinion of Transhumanism?  — view comment
Like all your "paradoxes", Fool, this one too is only apparent. :yawn:
September 13, 2021 at 08:20
In: Why Was There A Big Bang  — view comment
Actually, what brought on :cry: was my :rofl: at your :monkey: response to . It wasn't "pollyanny" but funny-bone hilarity only a spent philosophical ...
September 13, 2021 at 08:05
In: What is your opinion of Transhumanism?  — view comment
Well, I raised the novel on that other "transhumanism thread" with David Pearce (yours is the very next post). Better late than never I suppose ... Im...
September 13, 2021 at 07:46
In: Complete vs. Incomplete Reality  — view comment
Just this ... *Aspects of the territory recursively make & use (perspective-in/variant) maps of the territory. :eyes: Like terra incognita or playing ...
September 13, 2021 at 07:25
In: Currently Reading  — view comment
September re-readings In honor of Stanislaw Lem's 100th: • A Perfect Vacuum • His Master's Voice • The Investigation • Solaris • Summa Technologiae
September 13, 2021 at 05:25
In: What is your opinion of Transhumanism?  — view comment
:up:
September 13, 2021 at 04:50
In: Can Buddhism accomodate the discoveries of modern science?  — view comment
:up: Ditto.
September 13, 2021 at 04:49
In: Can Buddhism accomodate the discoveries of modern science?  — view comment
Ah yeah, again you prove my point. Effin' clueless. :clap:
September 13, 2021 at 01:09
In: Can Buddhism accomodate the discoveries of modern science?  — view comment
Uh huh. :sweat:
September 12, 2021 at 23:05
In: Philosophy as 'therapy'.  — view comment
:fire:
September 12, 2021 at 22:40
In: Anti-Vaxxers, Creationists, 9/11 Truthers, Climate Deniers, Flat-Earthers  — view comment
:lol: :up:
September 12, 2021 at 22:32
In: Why are there just two parties competing in political America?  — view comment
Blaming the sheep is little too easy. Replace the current rigged electoral gerrymandering racket with a modern parliamentary system comparable to thos...
September 12, 2021 at 22:25
In: Can Buddhism accomodate the discoveries of modern science?  — view comment
Implied in this 'observation' is the oft-mistaken conflation, or confusion, of knowing with understanding; and the false dichotomy of third vs first p...
September 12, 2021 at 21:54
In: What is your opinion of Transhumanism?  — view comment
Nothing. I never said there was anything "wrong" with longevity (i.e. healthy life-extension). I've discussed the plausability of it (insofar as I und...
September 12, 2021 at 21:46
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