Lame definition. Btw, I'm Epicurean ... about (instantiated) "ideas". See here . from a 2022 thread Speculations in Idealism ... https://thephilosophy...
Afaik, it's "the difference" between pattern-strings and mathematical structures, respectively, such that the latter is an instance of the former. The...
What "debate"? You haven't even stated the proposition in contention we're supposed to either be for (thesis) or against (antithesis). Please clarify ...
My mind is made up about what? You've no idea what my mind is or is not made up about so stuff the ad hominems & strawmen and stick to the questions r...
Since it's your posit, Sam, again I ask you: :chin: Apparently, this "we" excludes p-naturalists (i.e. immanentists, pandeists), strong atheists, free...
So if I understand correctly what you mean by "muddles in the philosophy of ideas", the ancient and postmodern or secular and spiritual "viewpoints" a...
So 'you are aware' is only "a human construct"? Or 'mortality' is not nonmind-dependent (which I prefer to 'mind-independent'), or real? :chin: Yes, t...
Of course this is so ... sub specie aeternitatis. If not conditionally "deterministic" (i.e. constrained by your (my) nonlinear dynamic, ecology-neste...
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"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it." ~Albert Camus Stop with the strawman, schop. My counter argument emphasizes ...
I.e. if we are more like droplets of spray from a wave of the ocean (or rays of sunlight from the sun) than e.g. passengers riding on a moving train.....
Neither claiming nor implying such, how does "heroism" equate to "masking the reality" when a hero is usually someone who defies reality, fatally risk...
As daoists, epicureans, pyrrhonists, spinozists, absurdists et al know first-hand: humor & creativity, friendship & compassion also provide "relief" d...
Election 2024 is again a basic IQ test: neoliberals (pols) versus neofascists (cons)? Hint: you don't have to be antifa, BLM, pro-woman, etc to demons...
Yes, a difference in levels and objects of analyses, therefore different representations (just as e.g. a topological map & a road map can be different...
Also contra "intelligent design" (i.e. creationism), consider the dysteleological argument: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_poor_design ...
Afaik, the sciences are a subset of the humanities – interpretative-representational discourses explicating aspects of the human condition – which see...
Not so. Consider ... • Code of Ani c2500 BCE • Code of Ur-Nammu c2100 BCE • Code of Hammurabi c1760 BCE • Law of Moses (Torah) c1000 BCE • Analects of...
You're entitled to "believe" whatever you like but these "beliefs" are not supported by either corroborable evidence or valid arguments. You're merely...
Order is dissipative and thereby a phase-transition of disorder (i.e. chaos). Re: entropy. Also, the universe has a direction (i.e. thermal/cosmic equ...
My point is that philosophy as a way of life (P. Hadot) is a rational-reflective form of "spirituality" (i.e. daily ego/self-transparency to oneself) ...
Stalinism & Maoism, like Nazism/Fascism, were totalitarian theocratic-gangster systems wherein dehumanizing means undermined, or eliminated, humanizin...
Parsimony be damned, the principle of explosion (& effect of other "obvious" fallacies) always ... works in mysterious ways. :pray: Confession is good...
More precisely, "spirituality" is a stance or disposition towards daily experience (like e.g. creativity) and not merely a means-to-ends "tool". Not s...
"Personal identity" is an illusion (i.e. not what it seems – because biological & psychological changes are transparent to the subject) of self-contin...
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