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Way too many folks on (& off) this forum don't grok this, and I don't understand why.

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Nonetheless, they do. :roll: Rather, there's no consensus (merely having) a brain produces intelligence.

It is what is; if it were not, then it wouldn't be. Paraphase notwithstanding, you (or Heidi) are not intelligibly saying anything, Arne.

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Logic (i.e. sound inferential reasoning) to start. We also can - must - trust experience, but within limits.

In the exact same sense which surgeons, ecologists (e.g. sylviculturists, hydrologists, habitat preservationists), fitness coaches, for example, use "...

Floats your lil rowboat but not mine. I'm interested in the grounds for doubt or belief, not "proof" (ultimate or otherwise). :roll:

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In so far as Modernism is a critical diagnosis of modernity-as-the-illusion-of-progress without disillusion (à la Gramsci), I (now) think of Postmoder...

Ok. I won't bother you again. :shade:

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:up: Seems to be your false dichotomy, Wayf, not Kid's. Statements are either "subjective" (i.e. gauge/pov/subject-variant e.g. dispositions, avowals,...

Flip sides of the same drachma. Janus masque (pace Graeca). Both Democritus & Heraclitus are favorites of mine (contra Parmenides --> Plato).

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VLTTP :smirk: (Excellent OP and discussion. Mods, keep up the bannings (stake burnings); that seems to be classing-up the joint! :up:) :100: By "moral...

And you have the grounds for questioning (doubting) "there's an outer physical world" or grounds for taking-as-given (certitude) that "there's an 'inn...

How can one not when "being" is only a word (undefined, no less) and not a definite object or fact? Heidi conjures up "the meaning of" and meaning is ...

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"Most important" does not in any way ever entail ontologically independent or separate. Besides, when the trunk dies the whole tree dies. That not tru...

It's trunk.

Well, that's a pseudo-question so ... and "idealism" is (mostly) just woo-of-gaps. :roll: The more interesting (less speculative) question is: how doe...

So explain why you "feel" this re: OP.

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Explain why you "feel" a potentially life-shortening "bohemian lifestyle" is one of those "decisions that cause self-harm"? After all, there are still...

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A chance reading of Collingwood, once upon a I can't recall when, had spurred me to rethink (the function in, or significance for, reasoning of) metap...

Is this statement about logic true? If logic isn't used to "establish logic", how do we "establish truth" about logic without "using logic"?

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Study Spinoza.

I don't know that there's a difference (Hegel). Such as "instincts" to lead? or to dominate? or to reconcile? (Nietzsche)

Well, all primates and most "pack" animals are "political" (i e. organized into "alpha" hierarchies), so I don't see where that human distinction gets...

Literally. I bet a shiny nickel that one of his own will go Lee Harvey Oswald on that ass-gibbon. Let's hope this dead twat tweeting is the last presi...

How Witty of you. :up: A reification fallacy common to platonists & sophists alike. Well, "smarts" isn't mutually exclusive with respect to stupidity ...

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"Arbitrary" in so far as any historically persistent features of human behavior can be substituted for any of the ones on offer in your OP. My initial...

I suppose the same way one can make Logic or Aesthetics "first philosophy"? Or the same way one can start a 10,000 piece jigsaw puzzle with this piece...

Well, I'm with @"Banno" in this: no arbitrary list of "pillars" is compelling; categorical extrapolations from anthropological 'data' are pseudo (as p...

So Heidi says. "Presence" of ??? Perhaps it's my stumbling-block too, Xtrix, like Heidi's references to "what is" - what is ??? His tedious rumination...

... so as I was saying I.e. Here's 'the XY-thing' (Modo); and yet this Y-thing 'about any ~X-thing sans a Y-thing' (p0m0). :joke:

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Sort of brings to mind Badiou's four generic truth-procedures: Science, Art Politics, & Love. (Or more obscurantly, Heidegger's fourfold-unity (or "ga...

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American decline. :fire: :mask:

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:death: :flower: I was irked by it the first time I read or heard the phrase (probably after (or maybe just before) the Eric Garner lynching by unindi...