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:up: Just to extend further what @"DingoJones" has said, here's a few quotes by religiously raised Nobel laureate: :fire:
May 25, 2021 at 07:10
Luddy & Siggy are old friends of mine, kid, yet kinda belated – though Zapffe & Bataille really are my jam! Nonetheless, Epicurus & Buddha, for instan...
May 25, 2021 at 06:46
Tautologies lack information content. "The Cogito" looks like it's saying something but it is not. Thus, it refutes what you think it says; it doesn't...
May 25, 2021 at 06:26
:rofl:
May 25, 2021 at 03:43
May-June readings :up: • John Rawls: Reticent Socialist, William A. Edmundson • Helgoland, Carlo Rovelli
May 25, 2021 at 02:46
No. Descartes' "Cogito" already refutes itself: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/539399
May 25, 2021 at 02:38
:smirk: :clap:
May 25, 2021 at 02:32
I'll apply your "logic", BC ... What slackers. If Palestinians would only up their game and kill as many Israelis as Israelis have killed them – 1 for...
May 25, 2021 at 02:30
Sleep well, Jack. Maybe you'll make your question more intelligible in the morning. "Consciousness" is a scientific problem. IMO religion provides not...
May 25, 2021 at 01:16
Round earthers don't "hope" there isn't a flat earth. :roll: Wtf. :lol: Once again for the slow (or disingenuous & panicking) ones like 3017troll, Apo...
May 25, 2021 at 00:46
What exactly is the question?
May 25, 2021 at 00:41
I use the latter in my definition of the former. Follow my links if you're interested in my full meaning.
May 25, 2021 at 00:36
Repeating this indicates to me that either you didn't read my previous reply or you can't understand what I wrote.
May 25, 2021 at 00:34
Interesting to say the least.
May 25, 2021 at 00:16
Insults. Just because you cannot understand – counter – me, lil troll, doesn't in anyway, of itself, imply that I've not "logically defended" my views...
May 24, 2021 at 15:23
An Earth-bound Shoemaker-Levy (1) ...
May 24, 2021 at 14:48
If only you would / could properly use "ad hominem" in a sentence. :roll:
May 24, 2021 at 14:45
As if that was all my first post stated or concluded. Take sentences out of context to make them inexplicable, or indefensible, to what end? Well, you...
May 24, 2021 at 14:44
"Nihilism" seems the expedient hobby-horse du jur in this discussion to date and so the inconvenient prospect of optimism as a philo-pathological culp...
May 24, 2021 at 14:38
Likewise, your idiocy is on full display with every one of your posts. Works both ways, troll. Third parties, of course, will have to judge for themse...
May 24, 2021 at 14:24
Apparently, the very fact of this question res ipsa loquitur. Both those of us waiting for an answer and those who've swallowed their forked tongues i...
May 24, 2021 at 14:08
No matter how vast the pile of fairytales, fact-free scriptures, testimonial anecdotes, and "scholarly" pursuits of the wrong, or pseudo, questions, I...
May 24, 2021 at 13:49
:up: (Also ... Abbagnano's non-totalizable "possibility" and Levinas' "infinition" contra "totality", while not strictly mathematical they are logical...
May 24, 2021 at 13:28
:up: :sweat: Guilty!
May 23, 2021 at 19:05
Right there I refer to My Understanding and do not make an ontological claim or commit to physical monism. No ontological "eliminating" on my part. "W...
May 23, 2021 at 18:59
Reread my preamble for context. Ethics, as I understand it, is fallibilistic (i.e. pragmatic(ist)) and performative, not justificationist and proposit...
May 23, 2021 at 12:07
Haack, then back into Peirce. Karl Popper. And Dewey if your still interested by then. I never had much use for James (though he's quite the writer li...
May 23, 2021 at 11:52
Magical thinking. 'Making shit up' is far easier than struggling to find out what is and is not the case. The brains of h. sapiens are adapted for sur...
May 23, 2021 at 11:46
And Dewey refers to certainties (e.g. permanence, essence) as instances of "the philosophical fallacy" in Nature and Experience. On the contrary, I'm ...
May 23, 2021 at 11:09
No. Mere projection. Foolery likes company. :roll:
May 23, 2021 at 10:50
Good question. I suppose because thinking is difficult and thinking about thinking is counter-intuitive.
May 23, 2021 at 10:49
Spare the child, spoil the child's rod. (Says a childless kynic.)
May 23, 2021 at 10:37
:zip:
May 23, 2021 at 10:31
Onanist. :strong:
May 23, 2021 at 10:24
Why explain again? Reread my previous post.
May 23, 2021 at 10:19
That's neurosis, not skepsis. Ever questioned. Ever failed. No matter. Question again. Fail again. Fail better. :smirk:
May 23, 2021 at 10:17
:100: fuckin' percent!
May 23, 2021 at 10:02
Well, like e.g. language, morals emerges in and belongs to the commons, that is, it's a social, public, process-artifact and not merely a matter of in...
May 23, 2021 at 09:54
And reverse psychology might inadvertantly "brand" philosophy as cool, even transgressive, which certainly won't deter (non-ADHD) thrill-seekers and o...
May 23, 2021 at 09:45
Wtf déja vù, @"baker" – why another thread on more or less the same topic? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/519871
May 23, 2021 at 02:35
Except pramat(ic)ism is explicitly fallibilistic and not justificationist (e.g. Popper, Feyerabend, Haack). But okay, we disagree, so your objection s...
May 23, 2021 at 02:16
No. Not at all. By way of clarification, or correction, I refer in my previous post to 'truth-seeking' and 'inquiry' as distinct, even separate, from ...
May 23, 2021 at 00:17
Yes, of course; the Euthyphro suggests why, in effect, it is necessary to do so. More prosaically, though, if people had lived in larger-than-a-few-fa...
May 23, 2021 at 00:04
Okay. I understand pramat(ic)ism as saying something other than "equating utility with truth". Rather: truths are useful to seekers to the degree the ...
May 22, 2021 at 23:36
:up: (Ideally.) :clap: :fire: (A path I took deeper into the same primeval haunted forest ... re: Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Peirce/Dewey, Merleau-Ponty...
May 22, 2021 at 22:55