180 Proof

:sweat:

I think the novel is fantastic.

You're deluding yourself that any delusion is involved other than your own.

As you've said, this is all quite subjective and any perceived "failure" is, therefore, far from "absolute". As Beckett wrote:

Laozi & Lucretius, I imagine, would take me in their stride easy enough. Can't say that about the others though, or see why that matters one way or th...

:yum: :grimace: Yes!

fyi - I entered a story in the contest and you will have to guess the one I wrote which, oddly enough, you (partly) inspired. Btw, that's meant as not...

:up: I know how s/he will feel ... s/he will live. I suspect only members with experience of failure at fiction writing or maturity have submit a stor...

Seems a disingenuously rhetorical formulation: why ask if you've already decided I'm a philistine? The convergence of a Peircean community of inquirer...

Camus, Faulkner and Baldwin ruined Hesse for me in my late teens. Then, I think, Burroughs, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kundera and especially Beckett in ...

:up:

:up:

Oh yes, rejection (or being ignored) goes hand in glove with the writing game. You write despite lack of readers, not because of (hopes for) them. For...

The problem arises, and is most vexing (vicious), when seeking to justify categorical, self-subsuming, statements or ideas (e.g. criterion problem, gl...

:up:

Read any or all of my references for yourself, tim. You claim to have not read any of them yet which reduces to mere uninformed doxa your suggestion (...

https://youtu.be/Si0teRtHY8o "I'm in the Mood" (4:30) The Healer, 1989 John Lee Hooker feat. Bonnie Raitt

Bent. :smirk:

Most definitely. Like Schop's Critique of the Kantian Philosophy (Appendix, WWR vol. 1) who corrected and extended the transcendental paradigm. Or abo...

(Over)generalization but more true than not: XX (mostly) uses sex to get what XX wants; XY (mostly) wants sex. And all the evolutionary psychobabble s...

:clap: :up:

Yeah yeah but I wonder if you've actually studied any of my suggested 'improvers' (there are more)?

:fire: :100: :up: (undeniable = immoral) Also the triumph of hope over experience.

Well then, why is your "religious experience" relevant in public discussions of philosophy or natural science? As far as I'm concerned "religious expe...

To exclude "entire domains of being" which do not explain anything sufficiently enough to provide reliable, unique, predictions is methodological disc...

Only if morals are phenomena requiring a theoretical explanation which provide unique predictions.

Yes. All I'm saying, I think, paraphrases what the ancients like Laozi and Epicurus, more or less, teach: our mastery of more-than-human nature necess...

No more, at most, than we have 'mastery over human nature'.

:up: I think so: e.g. Schopenhauer ... Peirce-Dewey ... Wittgenstein ... Popper ... Meillassoux-Brassier ... Spinoza.

So Gödel didn't starve himself, he'd just always thought he'd already eaten. :smirk:

And so it goes.

If I have to go, I can't imagine a better way ...

My dad's people brought that good old down home "soul food" with them to NYC (Harlem) up from the Carolinas back during the Depression. Love me some f...

Yes, each of my selections can be characterized better as "a way towards wisdom" (i.e. philosophy) than as "wisdom" itself (i.e. sophistry). It's prob...

:up:

:up:

Since I asked others, here are my five "ancient wisdom" readings: • Daodejing, Laozi • Ping fa, Sunzi • De Rerum Natura, Lucretius^ • Outlines of Pyrr...

:up: :roll:

I rest my case.

:flower:

This.

:smirk:

wut?

:up:

:up: I must be a revenant several times over. :broken:

Last year's thread on the Fermi Paradox might interest you ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/380303 Sure. Highly improbable I thin...

Unless you're a gay male, in general adult males look like apes and adult females look like angels. (Both, of course, too often act like chimpanzee as...

Since, let's say, 1900 (the period in which the vast share of humanities, knowledge and technologies have been created and accumulated), I wonder what...

:up: