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It's an old German tradition which acknowledges the judeo-christian tradition of "just war" that was adopted by the Nazis (re: "destiny" in Mein Kampf...
June 07, 2021 at 12:14
Okay. You're just saying the same nothing (denials) over and over again so ... Cognitive dissonance. I get it.
June 07, 2021 at 11:49
:sweat: Great minds, huh ... :up: GOTT MIT UNS on the belt buckles of the Wehrmacht forces convincingly suggests otherwise. And Austro-Bavaria, which ...
June 07, 2021 at 11:45
Scentistic category error, Wayf. C'mon, even you know better ...
June 07, 2021 at 11:18
Context matters. The "New Atheists" ascended briefly to prominence in the wake of "9-11" and rhetorical climate of the "Axis of Evil" and then enjoyed...
June 07, 2021 at 11:09
In what way, gentlemen, is the 'Mu' mind-state distinguishable from the prefrontal lobotomized mind-state? How does Nagaruna's purported soteriology d...
June 07, 2021 at 09:39
Analogy: legless walking. :roll: "Living" predicates "body" (not the other way around), and misuse of a predicate as a noun (i.e. reification fallacy ...
June 07, 2021 at 09:15
More special pleading ...
June 07, 2021 at 09:03
:lol: :up:
June 07, 2021 at 02:58
That's functionalism. I've speculated on a (plausible?) technological 'continuance post mortem' scenario which may interest you.
June 07, 2021 at 01:05
Physicalists do. Read some philosophy of mind and especially some good neuroscience.
June 07, 2021 at 00:56
The embodied life / consciousness "assumption" is warranted by evidence as well as absence of the contrary, so I'd say it's more of an axiom. "Disembo...
June 06, 2021 at 21:56
@"StreetlightX" "After life"? But life after life is just as conceptually incoherent as south of the south pole; so how might we conceive of this (top...
June 06, 2021 at 21:07
:up:
June 06, 2021 at 20:48
If by "individual" what's also meant, indeed presupposed, is embodied, then this question makes no sense whatsoever. (Unless, despite given that death...
June 06, 2021 at 19:08
Interesting. Well, I've never experienced a (drug-induced or naive) altered mental state that made me question my ordinary perceptions or memories, on...
June 06, 2021 at 13:07
:up: Same way the Nuremburg Tribunals and Allied Powers occupation saved Deutschland for the last several decades – "peace and prosperity" mobilized b...
June 06, 2021 at 12:45
I can't follow ... what does any of this has to do with "true" and "good" or the OP? (Here are my two bits on 'wisdom'.)
June 06, 2021 at 12:30
I too have had my share of "inexplicable experiences". Coupled with nearly a decade of psychoactive drug use and decades more (minor) "flashbacks", I'...
June 06, 2021 at 11:59
Yep. :lol:
June 06, 2021 at 09:59
Living is always near-death, that's only evidence of life not "after life".
June 06, 2021 at 09:58
:rofl: Another non sequitur pulled out of your butt. (Ooo look, Barftrix's, got a new tag on his slope. :up: )
June 06, 2021 at 03:22
Oh, pardon me, from the context of both this thread discussion and your particular post, I had no indication that you assume you are talking about a m...
June 06, 2021 at 00:53
Yeah but, however 'judgment p' is sliced & diced, in principle, sufficient grounds are required to warrant any assent, doubt or dissent; otherwise, in...
June 05, 2021 at 22:59
:100: :up: RogueAI has to misread this, KK, or surgically remove his cranium from his sphincter which, I suspect, is much too difficult for him / her ...
June 05, 2021 at 22:05
:roll: Vacuous semantics (glossolalia). "Goober is by definition" does not entail Goober is in fact.
June 05, 2021 at 21:56
Gotta fuck around (e.g. give encrypted passwords / messages to the dying) and find out (e.g. somehow receive unencrypted passwords / messages back fro...
June 05, 2021 at 21:49
:up: :up: My conception is, in order to optimize agency (eudaimonia), the latter (praxis) applies, or strives for, the former (arete).
June 05, 2021 at 21:33
Folks who are directed to "my previous question" and refuse to scroll up / back to the post with said "previous question" and yet keep asking "what wa...
June 04, 2021 at 22:35
I tend to agree with Dennett and Dehaene that, in fact, experience is fragmentary (or bundled in Hume's sense) and that 'unitary experience' is only a...
June 04, 2021 at 22:22
Okay. I won't waste a moment more of your time or mine.
June 04, 2021 at 20:37
Answer my previous question and then I'll address yours.
June 04, 2021 at 18:38
The question makes no sense. That creationist comic is, at most, charming. Divergence? I'm not a creationist because there aren't intelligible grounds...
June 04, 2021 at 18:01
:clap:
June 04, 2021 at 17:52
I suppose I'd imagine losing it all in various ways to varying degrees even as I made the most of these things for however long I could manage to hold...
June 04, 2021 at 17:44
I will in reply to his / her reply. Till then :point: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/546426 (@ bottom)
June 04, 2021 at 13:58
In other words, physics is theoretical (i.e. explains matters of facts) and metaphysics is speculative (i.e. describes, or interprets, the concepts by...
June 04, 2021 at 11:42
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kpr9qvuodVA "Dazz" (5:35) Good High, 1976 Brick * https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HA0FNRz6Kn8 "Birdland" (5:58) Heavy Weat...
June 04, 2021 at 11:22
:up: It's the overwhelming atavistic pressure of our primate drives (e.g. intuition, magical-wishful-group thinking, neuroses & phobias, cognitive bia...
June 04, 2021 at 10:57
Explain why being "limited" is a "problem". The alternatives to "rationality and knowledge" are, by the way, far more "limited" and, on your terms, ev...
June 04, 2021 at 09:44
They are grammatical, emergent from discursive reason, and "exist" only insofar as language exists. "Imperatives" are not the function or property of ...
June 04, 2021 at 09:31
How 'materialistic' (Turing computational) of you – Democritus ... and Wolfram / Deutsch, I'm sure, would approve. :up:
June 04, 2021 at 09:06
:fire: :100: :up:
June 04, 2021 at 08:56
Sure methodological / pragmatic / phenomenological 'materialists' can ... via linguistics, semiotics, discursive pragmatics, embodied cognition, cultu...
June 04, 2021 at 08:37
Really? Explain please.
June 04, 2021 at 06:53
You can get walking from legs but not legs from walking. Wtf. "Why is it a one-way street?"
June 04, 2021 at 03:49