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In: Metaphilosophy: Historic Phases  — view comment
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April 09, 2020 at 19:19
In: Bernie Sanders  — view comment
Re: Vote Rich but Live Poor We the Sheeple You're way ... too ... kind ... :zip:
April 09, 2020 at 02:42
In: Can one provide a reason to live?  — view comment
"Meaning" presupposes life. Thus, this 'perennial question' is incoherent (i.e. pseudo). The hand is dealt: play it and be played. "That's life ..." (...
April 08, 2020 at 22:31
In: Belief in nothing?  — view comment
Speaking for myself, I believe THAT theism is not true (i.e. believe THAT theism's negation is true). I/we don't "believe IN" (i.e. "worship"; uncondi...
April 08, 2020 at 16:44
In: Time Paradox  — view comment
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April 08, 2020 at 03:42
In: Time Paradox  — view comment
You lost me. :roll:
April 08, 2020 at 02:11
In: Time Paradox  — view comment
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April 07, 2020 at 17:12
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
:mask: :point: :fire: :up: :snicker:
April 07, 2020 at 17:10
In: Time Paradox  — view comment
I don't know. Penrose, for example, thinks so, but Carlo Rovelli doesn't seem to. A "universe" (i.e. spacetimemass manifold) might not be fundamental;...
April 07, 2020 at 14:47
In: I saw God yesterday, therefore, God Exists  — view comment
:point: "Deus, sive natura." ~Lil Benny (previously Lil Barry)
April 07, 2020 at 14:22
In: Time Paradox  — view comment
:mask: Insofar as "infinite" denotes unbounded (like a e.g. circumference, cycle, möbius strip) - yes, spacetime is "infinite" (or, more precisely, un...
April 07, 2020 at 14:09
In: I saw God yesterday, therefore, God Exists  — view comment
"The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic." ~E.M. Cioran You'll hav...
April 07, 2020 at 02:48
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
Hun Sen's not (yet) a global hazard.
April 06, 2020 at 21:49
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
:mask: Kim Jong-Un :flower: Bashar al-Assad :flower: Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud :flower: Recep Tayyip Erdo?an :flower: Xi Jinping :flower: Vladimir P...
April 06, 2020 at 20:54
In: Coronavirus  — view comment
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April 06, 2020 at 18:58
In: Riddle of idealism  — view comment
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April 06, 2020 at 04:22
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
addendum: :scream: "The Trump administration received its first formal notification of the outbreak of the coronavirus in China on Jan. 3. Within days...
April 06, 2020 at 00:49
In: Life is a hospice, never a hospital. Albert Camus on The Plague  — view comment
:mask: Mauvaise foi, eh? :death: :flower:
April 05, 2020 at 10:52
In: Riddle of idealism  — view comment
:mask: :up: :clap: :wink: i.e. suffering ... E.g. à la Witty's "private language argument", etc.
April 05, 2020 at 05:14
In: If women had been equals  — view comment
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April 03, 2020 at 05:01
In: If women had been equals  — view comment
:up: Some are more comfortable (i.e. socialized for) talking about talk. Some are more comfortable (i.e. socialized for) talking about more-than / any...
April 02, 2020 at 23:55
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
addendum: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/opinion/president-unfit-pandemic/ ... "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide i...
April 02, 2020 at 06:33
In: I saw God yesterday, therefore, God Exists  — view comment
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April 01, 2020 at 18:14
In: I saw God yesterday, therefore, God Exists  — view comment
As I've pointed out elsewhere - Predicates attributed (by scriptures? theology? metaphysics?) to g/G that entail evidence in the world which could not...
April 01, 2020 at 17:49
In: I saw God yesterday, therefore, God Exists  — view comment
April Fool's, huh? :joke: Call me a cynic for subscribing to the old adage "When you talk to g/G it's prayer, but when g/G talks back it's probably sc...
April 01, 2020 at 16:49
In: An Idea About The God That We Always Talk About  — view comment
Have you studied Spinoza, particularly his Ethics? If not, I recommend Edwin Curley's translation; also, Stuart Hampshire's Spinoza and Spinozism. Wha...
April 01, 2020 at 16:21
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
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April 01, 2020 at 08:06
In: Axiology: What determines value?  — view comment
From "other's" what?
March 31, 2020 at 13:35
In: The Codex Quaerentis  — view comment
"The Codex Philosophia ..." isn't really that much more quixotically prolix than (e.g.) On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason ......
March 31, 2020 at 04:14
In: Riddle of idealism  — view comment
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March 31, 2020 at 04:02
In: Axiology: What determines value?  — view comment
Apparently, you didn't read the rest of my post or the link (click on "180 Proof" @end of quotation) provided ...
March 31, 2020 at 04:01
In: ?????? - Basis for Modern Science?  — view comment
Insofar as "our senses and our reason" are "natural" (i.e. of nature as well as in nature, that is, do not transcend nature), how is it even possible ...
March 31, 2020 at 03:52
In: ?????? - Basis for Modern Science?  — view comment
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March 31, 2020 at 02:58
In: Axiology: What determines value?  — view comment
From an old thread discussion, I speculate ... :death: :flower:
March 31, 2020 at 02:49
In: Metaphysics in Science  — view comment
So is the distinction (i.e. duality) of "body" & "mind" itself physical or meta-physical? Do "we perceive" this body-mind distinction (as it is / as w...
March 31, 2020 at 02:19
In: Metaphysics in Science  — view comment
We agree for once. :cool:
March 30, 2020 at 13:24
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
You as well, Tiff. :strong:
March 30, 2020 at 02:16
In: Metaphysics in Science  — view comment
Untestable conjectures, especially those which don't explain anything more than current explanations and/or which are not parsimonious, are pseudo-sci...
March 29, 2020 at 21:52
In: Have scholars surrendered to nihilism?  — view comment
Why?
March 28, 2020 at 05:13
In: Origin of religion and early hunter gatherers  — view comment
Um ... "out of collective intentionality"? :chin:
March 28, 2020 at 05:00
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
I don't know. It would depend on what, if anything, would explain the advent of circumstances favorable to the president's reelection despite the nati...
March 28, 2020 at 04:53
In: What did you mean by "believe"?  — view comment
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March 27, 2020 at 19:22
In: Origin of religion and early hunter gatherers  — view comment
:up: Re: 'institutional facts' - public promises - whereby 'is' entails 'ought' (Searle, et al), no?
March 27, 2020 at 19:14
In: What are the First Principles of Philosophy?  — view comment
"The goal" (task, function, purpose), as far as I discern it, is ...
March 27, 2020 at 13:55
In: What are the First Principles of Philosophy?  — view comment
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March 27, 2020 at 05:21
In: The Road to 2020 - American Elections  — view comment
addendum: Presidential re-elections are always referenda on incumbents (as well as incumbent legistlative parties in power). This year the electorate ...
March 27, 2020 at 05:12
In: Origin of religion and early hunter gatherers  — view comment
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March 26, 2020 at 22:17
In: How Do You Know You Exist?  — view comment
Doubtful at best.
March 26, 2020 at 20:55
In: How Do You Know You Exist?  — view comment
Doubt what?
March 26, 2020 at 20:47
In: How Do You Know You Exist?  — view comment
Plenty of grounds to even doubt that you know what you're asking.
March 26, 2020 at 20:22
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