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Any thoughts (or clarifications, if the latter was a rereading) you can share, comrade?

IIRC, Libet's experiment demonstrates that (proactive, or initiating) volition is subconscious and that it's not (immediately) conscious. That's all. ...

Res ipsa loquitur. :roll: Pax!

Yes and no. :naughty: Yes Abrahamic religions are not "about morality" but about – Kierkegaard is instructive here – "the teleological suspension of t...

I understand the distinction as the difference between (a materialist method) 'how to exclude/filter-out non-materialist (i.e. non-physical, non/super...

Other than set theory, (the number) line and physical space, I don't know ... or how your question follows from anything I've written here, Fool

Yeah, and perhaps the metaphysical aspect of reality (whether material or not) is that ontology is inherently incomplete ...

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Democritus et al did not conceive of atoms as 'grains of stuff' ... but rather merely as indivisible 0-d point-particles (à la discrete positions on a...

“You're either a Spinozist, or not a philosopher at all.” ~GWF Hegel

No more than it's an issue in 'field theories' of events (i.e. excitations of the field) existing or not.

(pace Gnomon) Perhaps my interpretation of void & its atoms doesn't allow this 'positivist' opinion, Wayf, to convince me.

Apparently you missed this quote in my previous post:

:brow: Consider the excerpts below from an authoritative expert testimony concerning the 6th of January attack on the US Capitol.

You've lost me a bit with that (rhetorical) non sequitur, but ok. To be continued whenever.

Remember, those mitzvahs were canonized by the Solomonic temple priesthood (Pharisees?) during the Babylonian Captivity of the Isrealites and their re...

Nope. See either Socrates or Confucius for a "clumsy attempt" at ethics. Religion never makes an "attempt" in so far as philosophy raises questions fr...

No. I'm resistant to your claim, Fool, because (a) it's incoherent and (b) is inconsistent with the mediocrity principle without sufficient warrant. S...

"Goo goo g'joob ..." :smirk:

The bible fails egregiously in terms of moral values. Within its books ethnic cleansing, genocide, patriarchy-misogyny-marital rape, homophobia, slave...

Race war? Since Columbus' 1492 "conquest" of the "Americas". Since 1619 through to the establishment of colonial Slave Patrols in 1701. Since 19th cen...

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Just exposing you again, Harry, not trying to persuade.

Why do you say this? How do you know? Whether the "Ten Commandments" at Mt. Sinai or "Nicene Creed" at the Council of Nicea, those scriptural religion...

Reason is limited. The Real exceeds (i.e. encompasses) reasoning. Is there 'beyond the real'? Is it endless? – to reason-limited (i.e. enabled-constra...

The bible was assembled and canonized (along with the programmatic "Nicene Creed") at the behest of the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine (and decades l...

Edited. I meant 'both philosophy & physics' ...

And so ... ?

Your reply doesn't track with mine. 3rd paragraph from the bottom I refer to knowing what's physically possible or not even when we don't know whether...

Trying to eff the ineffable? – yeah, that's poetry. Multiple "authors" for each of the 66-70+ books, countless mis/translators & redactors. Nothing cr...

Welcome. It's about 5am here, so I'll reply in about 6-8 hours once I've slept. 1. "The laws of nature" are observed regularities mathematically encod...

:rofl: Barker is right about the content of "holy books" – they are self-contradictory variations on Hillel's lesson (thus "the rest is commentary" or...

Ways of Worldmaking (1978)

... à la Nelson Goodman's "irreality".

If there is "an unknowable basis of reality ...", then wouldn't that fact itself also be "unknowable" ?

So you and your community are oppressed by a state and business apparatus controlled by Whites? If not, then wtf ...

e.g. Both Allied & German forces at Normandy on D-Day 1944 had blood on their hands. e.g. Both ante bellum Abolitionists & Slave Owners, like post bel...

I prefer to co-opt "racial discourse" by continuing to "define" myself an anti-racist – anti-fascist – Non-White citizen of the world.

Your point escape me. If you're not one, then I'm not referring to you (or mistaking you for them), am I?

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Perhaps; but it is germaine taxonomy with regard to political-economic and socio-cultural resistance to state-sanctioned oppression. After all, oppres...

Interesting. No one has taken issue with my post on the merits (re: here). That's telling I suppose ...

Why? Since scripture cannot be sufficient, corroborative, evidence of any of its claims on its own, it's subject to critical cross-examination in part...

Though I've used the term, somewhat carelessly slipping into news speak from time to time, so to speak, I prefer Non-Whites or Non-White folks / citiz...

"Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr. Epstein." ~Dick Rowe, 1962

What paradox? (Worked for me by age 16.)

... and full circle :point:

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Perhaps true of prejudice but not racism (i.e. power to enforce prejudice).