180 Proof

Leave him be. @"3017amen" only can bring a piñata to a knife fight. All bark and no bite. "The Louisville Lip" was the real fucking deal, btw, and no ...

And explanations consists of descriptions but a "better, general description" is not an explanation. :up:

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As far as we know the "constants" are constant (our physics breaks down at various edge cases already mentioned), but I agree insofar as better explan...

Miseducation. Religion-sanctioned scapegoating. State-sanctioned economic exploitation. "Divide & control" classism (oligarchic hierarchies). You know...

You conclude what you've assumed, it seems to me. If one asks "why", then only a "subjective" answer (re: intentions) will suffice – thus, age old cat...

:up: :lol: :100: :up: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." ~Albert Einstein Later physical theories consist of better, m...

No I haven't checked the link. Xaos and I have been acquainted for a very long time, much of your quotes are familiar. My reply paraphrases Ilya Prigo...

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1. Neither. Order is just a "slower-to-dissipate" aspect-zone of chaos to which observers belong and, therefore, they are interested in enough – have ...

To the degree hordes of chiliastic fundies and theocratic militarists are not (at the moment) trying to send each other to hell "in the name of" one s...

"Physical laws" are features of physical models and not the universe itself. Our physical models are stable, therefore "physical laws" are stable. If ...

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." ~F.N. :death: :flower:

Summer Solstice is upon us, Fool. Days of reason get shorter from here on, with longer nights to leisurely loiter looking up at other stars. Remember,...

What? You tell me.

"Physical laws" are invariants in the structure of physical models which attempt to explain regularities experimentally observed in the physical world...

Okay. I quoted Twain (for emphasis), not Feyerabend quoting Twain. In my book 'fortuitious discoveries = accidents'.

Read Against Method, re: "context of discovery" in contrast to, or distinct from, the context of justification.

Off the top of my head (more or less) • Laozi • Isaac Luria • G.W.F. Hegel • Arthur Schopenhauer • John A. Wheeler • Scott Adams

I included that essay and the two "books" from the Hebrew Bible thinking more broadly of "philosophical readings" than mere books. I couldn't be bothe...

Objectively, not merely subjectively or relatively, all persons suffer. The first fact of life (Buddha, Epicurus). Thus, the consequences of a suffere...

Yes, of course, Feyerabend's rebut to Popper. To wit: "Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident." ~Mark Twain "Mysteries" always beg questions and...

:smirk: Reason is skepsis, not doxa. Reasoning is a (relective) skill, not a belief or myth or ritual like religion; and, therefore, 'reason doubting ...

There are countless non/ir-rational paths that have been taken. Tell me where they've lead that the path of reason hasn't already passed by. Point out...

"Iyyôbh" & "Q?heleth" (Tanahk) Ping fa, Sunzi De rerum natura, Lucretius Outlines of Pyrrhonism by Sextus Empiricus Ethics, Benedictus de Spinoza Frie...

I thought my quoting Freddy's "Noon: moment of the briefest shadow; end of the longest error; high point of humanity" would make the point, at least f...

Not quite. Wombs and tombs are dark places, Fool, and light (reasoning) waxes and wanes by moving between them. One pauses to philosophize at "noon: m...

The old rooster Freddy Zarathustra has something to crow at the twilit Moon: (Emphasis bolded is mine.) :death: :flower:

:roll: "scratches head" ...

Like that old blues song says "Everybody wants to go to heaven But nobody wants to die" which is the essence of the transhumanist daydream.

"In a mere six decades mass media has 'naturalized' (or normalized) even patent nonsense. Ramsey knew of what he spoke. But climate change may be the ...

:up: Oh, okay. You draw distinctions without presenting any differences they make? I guess I'll just have to do without and ignore your posts, sir. No...

12 Make your case if you've got one.

You've lost me. A lot of terms and distinctions that make no discernible differences. "The inability to discern an absolute point particle" ... so wha...

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o1b0cZqECVs "For No One" (2:32) It's Like This, 2000 writers Lennon-McCartney, 1966 performer Rickie Lee Jones (Happy 79...

In other words, if I take your meaning correctly, the territory includes making and using maps of the territory. Agreed.

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11 Whatever, man. Just make your case if you've got one.

10 You don't debate. You don't affirm the proposition as you have agreed to do. It takes two, 3017, and until you do your part – which you've not done...

*happy hour jams* TGIF (tongue goes in first! :yum: ) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UDqgzd2EuD8 "Shoop" (4:09) Very Necessary, 1993 Salt 'N' Pepa * ht...

9 And where have you affirmed the proposition at issue which you had proposed in challenging me to this debate? Over-promised and under-delivered agai...

8 Again, more delay. Next post if you do not affirm the proposition at issue, then you forfeit (yes @"Hanover"?) Any relevant questions, refer to the ...

7 More delay. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/552739

6 More delay. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/552739

5 Gladly. :roll: In order to affirm the proposition at issue, 3017, your choices are either (A) show the dictionary definition of "atheism" is not log...

4 Whatever the object of theism is that is what I mean by "deity". This is why I say "theistic deity" rather than "God". More precisely in this contex...

Interesting. I agree, just not 'hyperthymia via psychosurgery'. Both Brave New World's "soma" and (inversely) A Clockwork Orange's "Ludovico Technique...

Nagel can't even intelligibly express "what it's like to be Nagel" because he has no other "what it's like to be ..." to compare "being Nagel" to havi...