Yeah. Entropy. :point: :chin: ummm ... c13.8 billion years on from the cosmos @ planck radius & Minmum entropy (or X-hundreds of billions(?) of years ...
2.0 2.1 They stipulate, or assign, objects (their) predicates which lose warrant when they are inconsistent (e.g. mind without brain) or incoherent (e...
:point: ... A stipulative one, no? :up: Well, rebutted thus (e.g.) ... "The world is the totality of facts, not of things." ~TLP "Certum est, quia imp...
:naughty: Of course not. If you can't just 'be in the subforum and not of the subforum, then don't go slumming there. Besides, running of the bulls___...
Okay, I'll buy passage on Neurath's cruise and sing for my supper! - though only one song per course, trusting that the dessert table or wine rack alo...
Apparently you missed the link in my previous post. Here it is again - hope that answers your questions. Maybe Derek Parfit's Reasons and Persons will...
(more idling) Love risks heartbreak; yet, it is written, 'hearts are made whole by breaking'. An old mojo - raison d'être - blues. :kiss: :broken: :st...
:smirk: My only quibble with this, Pfhorrest, is that atheism, as I understand it, is about Theism, or claims about (i.e. predications of) g/G, and no...
"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything." ~George Byron A rational big cat, I hope. As...
I prefer an actualist interpretation: there isn't any possible way the world could not have been the world or can be described as 'not the world'. (A ...
I don't think so. Word usages are normatively regulated by language-games, and so much so that violating those contextual norms subjects such word (mi...
You're mistaken or have misread me. 'Meaning is use', as Witty shows, so words, however nonsensical, derive or convey meaning from the context in whic...
Consider this (brief) attempt at reasoning towards ethical motivations (i.e. evaluative judgments). I submit that, whether discovered or inferred, non...
And if the physical world were not, in the main, consistent, a 'consistent language of physics' would be as useless for modeling the physical world as...
:up: :cool: (a) At best the argument is unsound. (b) Otherwise, it's an invalid, or incoherent, induction from the experience of the cosmos to a-cosmo...
... for (via policy and/or custom) the manifest purpose of (agents & bureaucrats of) business church or state discriminating (1) against members or co...
Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us ou...
Life is food playing with its food? :death: It seems to me that whatever can value - evaluate - a living thing other than itself, does so in terms of ...
MONEY. :clap: :clap: You can't because rational discourse takes at least two and the believer in question cops-out with an appeal to faith fallacy (@"...
Warning: Idle hands are the devil's onanistic badwrongfunthings (or some such) ... :halo: I more or less agree with this (and the taxonomic axes laid ...
Though I'm something of groupie, I accept that the "Elvis of philosophy" really deserved this savage take-down excerpted here from a 2012 review of hi...
By nothing I understand (a) No referent (i.e. non-sense) re: semantics, cognition (b) No information (i.e. tautology) re: logic (c) No thing (i.e. for...
In America contrary to "racist stereotypes", affirmative action (like welfare programs), has always mostly benefitted white women instead of nonwhite ...
I'm referring to the alleged "completeness of scientific knowledge". By definition and practice the natural sciences are defeasible, approximative, & ...
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