And neither does existence (or nature) "need to be philosophically justified". No doubt "god" is a redundant idea (i.e. anti-anxiety placebo), an arbi...
Okay. What am I missing? There are no valid p0m0 arguments (Sokal, et al), they eschew 'logocentric' discourses; so what's your point? If my polemic d...
Adorno, Žižek, Critchley have always been interesting reads ... the others not so much. Yeah, so what? I'm a big fan of Schopenhauer and yet as anti-i...
My pragmatists are e.g. Peirce, Dewey, Wittgenstein, Popper, Feyerabend, Sellars, Otto-Apel, Haack et al ... Yeah, but there's no "need to prove" my/a...
Of course not. My point is that p0m0 says nothing new that has not been said clearer, more insightfully and more applicably since the late 16th/early ...
I'll drink to that! :up: Back in the day I'd found philosophical p0m0 to be an academically effete redundancy selling the news a day late and dollar s...
My formula for p0m0 is which seems to me integral to modernity – humanist empirical skepticism-fallibilism always in danger of (a) relativism-nihilism...
I need to engage and be engaged. Locking horns, not polite small-talk. Apparently, we differ in this way. Online discussions bore me really quick when...
I'm not referring to "Oasis", be sure of that. I just wanted to bump my post from the previous page offering my own mantra, so to speak, interpreting ...
I'm an aretaic-negative consequentialist myself which, I suppose, has some affinities; I understand that 'the highest good is the prevention or reduct...
Yeah, wow. Interesting. This got me curious about my own "production" — I think the pandemic quarantine + :fire: 2020 politics, etc account for 2/3rds...
I recommend these works which call 'mind-dependent reality' into question in different ways: • Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Immanuel Kant • ...
Yes, so I thought, we do not know this is the case. Only that there's a terminal regress to our thinking – a gap which needs to be filled (somehow) by...
Okay, you've lost the plot (or I'm just not making it clear enough for you). Someone else will have to give it a go, I've got another round of happy h...
The thing about truth is that it doesn't matter who knows it or whether or not it is known "subjectively". Reality even moreso (whether or not a speci...
The attributed predicates of the described deity entail changes (events happening) in / to the world e.g. "parting of the red sea" "creation of the wo...
Then they are not unique to the deity in question and so ... it's undefined and vague, therefore only an idea, not an existing entity. If a deity's ex...
True, the left isn't a monolith, but I coildn't help representing the cohort I most identify with. And yeah, "10%" ain't even close, just a conservati...
Well, I don't know. I think ritual & ceremony, especially through repetition, prime children to "believe" (fairytale) nonsense before they learn to th...
Most of The Left do not want the mere reforms you've listed, we want to change, that is, replace "the system" – governmental & economic – completely. ...
Only, I think, if the g/G in question is described with predicates which entail changes (events) it's caused in (to) the world. Since the world is sci...
Yet you just dismissed them. Clearly, you just skim looking for "buzzwords" that strike your fancy. Okay, Jack, while I appreciate the provocatively s...
Okay, I'm dropping you down a level to an older post from the "Deep Songs" thread to a post with Neil Young's "Old Man" followed by 3 quotes (linked t...
"The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life." ~Rabindranath You m...
Any thoughts on the Hartle-Hawking No Boundary Proposal (quantum cosmological) alternative to the (classical) "Big Bang"? It implies nothing "mysterio...
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