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I'll try again taking a more direct tact. I don't know what "something" pertains to so I can't answer. The paragraph from which you quote me out of co...

The ancient atomists (as well as Heraclitus) took it as axiomatic that motion was constant and universal without exception but generations later Arist...

Sorry. More noise. My definition please.

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Again, you're way off. I asked you to apply your analysis to my links in this post. Show me that your argument makes sense by using it to show me – wh...

Ditto ... and the next one and the next ... :angry: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JukTvlrh-Wk

Your summa of Hudson's history of US global economic hegemony in the 20th century, comrade, is spot on with all I've gleaned from decades of study and...

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"Nihilism is as dead as God." ~Thomas Ligotti Old news when the most untimely Freddy coded the perennial corpse; Dr. Hegel had pronounced the Old Shad...

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Perhaps one day we'll engineer "gods" (e.g. the Tech Singularity) but they will not be us. If we're lucky they will delay us taking our rightful place...

So easy, in fact, that D-K Club members like you can't. :lol: :up: :up:

Like goulash, Bartók can be an acquired taste. :yum:

At any point in a 3 or more data-point history (curve) of observations.

My statement which you quote is quite consistent with @"Cicerionanus the White"'s reference to stoicism. 'Cultivating virtues' is synonymous with how ...

I'd put it this way: people care for – respect – themselves in so far as they develop habits for caring for – respecting – others.

The issue is about defining "morally good" not about defining "morality". Don't move the goal posts.

Don't you think great, powerful, master works of art afford "glimpses of a different facet of reality" by, like intense orgiastic sex or deep prolonge...

Yes. 'Necessary, or non-contingent, facts' – as I pointed out – because such notions are contradictory (or contain inconsistent predicates or they're ...

They are also the kinds of things that can be "good" (instrumental, or functional, useful) or "bad" (instrumental, or dysfunctional, not useful). A go...

I appreciate you reading my posts. FYI, though, Everett's MWI, like modal realism, has absolutely nothing to do with my concerns. Apparently, the pref...

:rofl: Yeah, so "forthright" that you're evading a logical counter-argument to your fatuous, fallacious, OP. :eyes: https://thephilosophyforum.com/dis...

I don't know – Noether's conservation laws seem to be holding up. All it takes is one repeatable example to show it is inviolable. So far no "perpetua...

This seems to violate energy conservation, but maybe as you explore other questions further this inconsistency will be eliminated. If you don't mind, ...

"Certum est, quia impossibile" ~Tertullian Apologies for the delay in responding. In sum: We cannot agree on 'what there is' because any determination...

What is the force-carrier for this "consciousness field"? How do we measure it? How much weaker or stronger is it than, for instance, the EM field or ...

You've lost me. I addressed your non-point, exposed and disposed of it, to wit: X can be good without being "morally good" as per my definition & foll...

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Well, you're obviously mistaken, my friend. A definition of "moral good & bad" is not either 'morally good or bad' but rather either instrumentally go...

By adaptivity I mean activity which "engenders truth-seeking habits with positive feedbacks (i.e. intellectual virtues)".

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"2+2=4" because of the rules of arithematic. Change the rules appropriately and you will get "2+2=6". You're missing the forest for the trees again, E...

I think, to use these terms, morality derives respect (care) for oneself by one habitualizing (non-reciprocal) respect (care) for others.

No worries. I'll be around.

Sounds nonsensical like saying 'traveling across the Earth's surface ends at the horizon'.

I don't understand the question.

Doesn't the body think? If so, 'controlling the body with thoughts' is not much different than scratching an itch on your right hand with your left.

Very good OP, but I prefer the not so easy question: what necessarily is not there? (re: members of the empty set)

I don't understand the question.

Maybe my notion of 'mysticism' is too mundane or prosaic for this new(er) age? Y'know, I suppose now, the everyday dao (wu wei) or that it is (Witty) ...

Two things: immaturity (18-19) and Zen was not philosophically interesting or engaging enough for me to commit daily to zazen. Not at all. No commitme...

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No. QFT is the most precise physical theory to date and it is not "empirical". In fact, empiricism is merely human scale, it's too anthropocentric, es...

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Reality (Spinozist or not) cannot be deduced from math. And "2+2=6" is certainly possible but with different rules of arithmetic. Just like Ptolemy's ...

:pray: :halo: I'm not smart enough for your argument, Bartricks, so have at mine (it's oh so simple) with hammer & tongs if you like – others are welc...

I wouldn't put things that way. Rather, for Spinoza (I think): logic is reality, reality is nature naturing (i.e. infinite-eternal substance) from the...