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Care to tell me why? A very brief sketch, for instance, of where e.g. Peirce or Dewey goes wrong in your estimation will do.

That says nothing about pramat(ic)ist 'theories of truth'.

Cite any post anywhere on this forum where I have claimed or implied that "reality is nothing but physical stuff". Your "presumption" is a strawman, G...

"Logical positivism", simply put, is the thesis that all sentences which cannot be empirically verified are meaningless; self-consistently, then, sent...

I think, Jack, that the question "What Are We?" is, as it were, the root of all metaphysical speculation and all the rest are just branches, leaves & ...

The fucker makes it easier every day for me to get myself banned. WTF.

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Stop picking on idiots.

I think they do. These are perhaps the most primordial reflective questions our species still amuses / agonizes itself with after some hundred or so m...

Well, it's my time to waste, BC, while on the shitter. Goebbels would've loved the way you lick jackboots.

Cunts "deny war crimes".

To suffer is also to desire help to reduce my suffering; but there are only other sufferers who can offer, and effectuate, (some) help. This desire, o...

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in the midnight hour ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay6oJZQ0Y4w :heart: "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" (2:45) performed by Aretha Frankl...

:100: YYYYYYYYYYES. This entire post bears repeating (and can't be repeated enough as far as I'm concerned).

"Motel money murder madness ..." :up: :death: :flower:

Yeah, not news to me since the early 1990s and my focus on entropy in undergrad physics (for engineering majors) a decade before. My understanding of ...

:party: :fire: *Happy hour starts early on Fridays* :cool: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YsEA_36sSGE (w/ lyrics) "These Arms of Mine" (2:35) Pain in M...

Or unless there was the blackest of black bag program by DARPA à la "Skunk Works" to develop a clandestine AI system and then that proto-AI ratched it...

What ICBMs can't do, the world's reserve curriency will do. Why else is every major sovereign wealth fund parking sizeable shares in US banks and trea...

I think of Descartes' "I exist" as a tautology because it is a conclusion that repeats its presupposition: to say "I exist" one must exist.

I linked that wiki article only to clarify my "cosmological holism" by suggestion; I'm not committed to the more speculative or platonic aspects menti...

Yes, agreed.

I'd say my perspective is evidentiary & scientific while, on this topic, TMF's perspective is uninformed & pseudo-philosophical. Well, actually, I "se...

CBT only can be used effectively, IIRC, in coordination with psychiatric interventions to treat clinical depression. One doesn't "unlearn depression";...

e.g. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

No. It merely repeats itself. A bachelor is an unmarried man. Identity. A bachelor is a bachelor. Tautology. The latter does not convey any informatio...

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:smirk: Gotcha (vide Thomas Metzinger re: phenomenal self modeling).

A highest goal? Or the only goal indispensable to all other goals? To unlearn misery.

Having said something, one has expressed a distinction that makes a difference. Descartes' "I exist" is, at best, a tautology; he concludes only what ...

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Public service announcenent: DON'T SNIFF GLUE, FOOL. :mask:

I suppose 'my atheism' is derived in part from fear of theists who take their bullshit literally and thickly spread it wherever they go.

If X is non-random, then X possibly has or does not have a telos. Stop affirming the consequent, Fool.

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Another fuckin' non sequitur. Wasn't talking about your content – there isn't any – just your self-rightenous "tone". Harsher words for me – or anyone...

What Fool doesn't understand is "direction" does not imply destination and purpose – end goal – is synonomous with destination in this context. He is ...

Seems I've rubbed a raw nerve ... Harsher words for some internet asshole than the Butcher Bibi. Quite telling. :roll: Whatever. You're already "compr...

Maybe this rule-of-thumb will be of use: For example: methodological naturalism denotes explaining phenomena without using any 'supernatural' entities...

Of course "evolution" is non-random, I've pointed that out from the start. Like e.g. the weather, it is to varying degrees also unpredictable. Non-ran...

Same as a "real man" except with XX chromosomes. Furthermore, this: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/526321

Well then, Fool, answer my question on nature's evolutionary "teleology" which should be quite easy considering you think it is "confirmed".

:100: :up: Here you pay lip-service to criticisms of Israeli aggression while you criticize other critics of Israel for our 'moral indignation' and fu...

:sweat: Ok, seriously. What is the end goal towards which nature is "randomly" evolving? Or, put another way, what is the "random" telos of "evolution...

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:up: Non sequitur. Hitchens was not a scientist but a journalist who had studied philosophy at Oxford (tutored by Anthony Kenny). Again, Wayf, given y...

:sweat: IF THEN this thread's ethnic cleansing (post-1967 zionist US client-apartheid state) apologists: @"BitconnectCarlos" ? @"Joshs" ? @"Echarmion"...

:lol: Well, since you clearly lack an adequate conception of contemporary scientific theories & practices and, for that matter the philosophy of scien...