180 Proof

How anthropomorphic of you. Quarks, for instance, do not "appear". More than 99% of nature is very much not "what appears". Stop confusing yourself.

I begin with "purposes are intentions", as I said, and go on from there avoiding as much nonsense as natural language allows.

"Purposes" are intentions and, as far as I can discern, it does not make sense to say "purpose" "underlies" anything. My (thread) purpose.

If I may offer some ("modern") candidates — • Spinozism (of course!) • Absurdism (re: P.W. Zapffe, A. Camus, C. Rosset, R. Brassier) • Jazzism^ (re: A...

Logic, it seems to me, is a formal-symbolic tool crafted by and for intelligence the exercise of which is matter of cultivation (of aptitute) and habi...

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14 Yeah, you do yourself no favors contrasting "natural" with SUPERNATURAL. I was a tad bit more courteous when I replied .... ... in the vein of, y'k...

I mean you're too lazy or too illiterate to glean some understanding from what I've written (and from the link included). I base that assessment both ...

13 Well, I can't help you with that. As I've said already, run with it as best you can. That's what I've had to do with your posts, Hanover, as none o...

I don't spoon feed trolls.

:100: :up: The map/territory – form/material – distinction is a fold (origami-like ... or wave-on-the-ocean movement) rather than a connecting (of sep...

These are questions of function (how), not questions of existence (why).

I wonder what TPF's resident Isreal Occupation-Apartheid-Ethnic Cleasing apologists makes of this brief video about the Palestinian Authority collabor...

:cool: Has the word gotten out. Do you think 'enough' members are aware of the contest?

The only answer to "Why we exist?" (Why anything exists at all?) that does not precipitate an infinite regress (which we can only terminate with ad ho...

I didn't say it didn't so you've lost me.

For me "mysteries" are not the inexplicable or (merely) ineffable – certainly not woo-woo – but the horizons, or sublimity, of reasoning. Or as Camus ...

I'm saying structure is information integrated by the environment full of other dissipative structures (i.e. an entropy gradient). It could be. Or it ...

@"Baden" Will the submissions be posted as you get them or all at once on July 25th?

As I've already stated:

Sure, the camera is an artifact, but that fact does not equate with its functioning. Yes, folk philosophy (like folk psychology) and naive at best.

The point is an automated camera doesn't have to be "used" – photos viewed by a person – in order to function, or affect / be affected.

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But "the user" is irrelevant, or unnecessay. It could just as well be an automated security camera.

:up: A Gnostic idea? Dystheism? or ...

12 I am now "advocating" what I've advocated all along in my previous posts. Run with that as best you can (watch out for the brick walls though!) Oh,...

:roll: Homunculus fallacy.

Yes – veto, not volo. Quite a Nietzschean/Spinozist (stoic) sentiment. Or as Camus says

I do not agree. Structure = integrat information of prior dissipative structures (i.e. environment). Noether's theorem + computational automata + Wolf...

No idea what you're talking about. Pax.

You've lost the plot (or I've buried the lead). Nevermind.

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Just for you – the proctological suspension of the ethical.

Baden shouldn't have all the fun. Maybe @"StreetlightX" will show up to wipe this moist turd off his jackboot. :cool:

I'm not sure what the problem is your having. It says (A) realism corresponds to true/not true (i.e. propositional) and (B) non-realism corresponds to...

:up: And vapid gullibility.

"A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills." ~Arthur Schopenhauer

No, sir. Just the facts.

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11 This is all you got, or all I've gotten from what you've given (without showing you the discourtesy of putting words in your mouth as you've shown ...

You sound like someone who can help me unravel this ball of yarn. :up: Tell me what I'm missing, where my thinking goes wrong: https://thephilosophyfo...

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Epicurus, Spinoza, Nietzsche, et al say we don't. Read On The Nature of Things (Lucretius), The Ethics and On The Geneaology of Morals. :smirk:

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Okay. :roll:

It just means the belief is proximally wrong, which for proximal creatures like us is all that matters. Believing Earth is "flat" or "hollow" or "only...

:strong: Amor fati!