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Shooting fish in a barrel. Boring, not philosophically interesting. Will editorialize, though, when the usual sophistry, cant & uninformed - thoughtle...

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a. 'Lack of belief in g/G' is a faith-belief? Bald is a hair-color? :roll: z. 'Belief that g/G does not exist' is a faith-belief ... ... IFF ~?g/G is ...

VLTTP ... Plutonomics? Entropology? :cool:

Mmmmm ... "the moaning". :zip: "I, of all people, should not have been so startled to read: that there may be no way to filter bot-generated from huma...

2× "Jock-a-mo fee-no ai na-né, jock-a-mo fee na-né" :clap: :party: No. Matter. How. you Feel. grrl ...

Too much 'reasoning from feelings' around here (pace Hume) and not enough feeling from (our) reasons going on. So triviality it is. Some precious idio...

:100: Lil' bitchy, huh? Sounds like ... must've shrunk a nerve. :yikes:

Gobsmacked ... at your privileged incoherence. :meh:

You must have missed this ... hint: On the Origin of Species ... not 'origin of organisms'.

"... Not what the tongue touches, but what it forms, not lips and nipples, but nouns and verbs...." ~William Gass

Are (many, most or almost-all) 'Trans' persons body-Idealists (i.e. genital-Subjectivists ... sexual reproduction-AntiRealists)? :chin: "Female" isn't...

We're just miserable - more often than not frustrated (i.e. failing this or losing that or dissatisfied with satisfaction or ...) while we "zigzag our...

Invalid argument. (3) does not follow because (1) contains a hidden premise: 'objectivity presupposes (undefined term) God' and (2) has not been demon...

:shade: No doubt Lamarck would agree; however, Alfred Russel Wallace, Ernst Mayr, Richard Dawkins, E.O. Wilson, Niles Eldridge, Stephen J. Gould ... &...

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If memory serves, I seem to recall from either Darwin's letters or a biography that he took Wallace's suggestion because "survival of the fittest" was...

Humanity is a herd. A herd, of course, is prey-species and 'spooked' by seen, day-lit, up-wind, close/familiar, while-we're-awake predators as well as...

Thanks for the correction; but we're both right. I've no french either but 'bricole' as I've used it is correct - meaning 'to tinker' - and, yeah, it'...

"Survival of the fittest" was not Darwin; it's Herbert Spenser's laissez-faire, proto-eugenic, coinage. I agree with "fit" but iff it applies to (eu)s...

I assume you've heard the statement or, at least, that you understand the sentiment. Many (will) feel "reverse discrimination" who have enjoyed the (l...

I really really want to find fault with any or all of these insights ... Maybe Gnomon, Metaphysician Undercover, et al are up to that challenge. But d...

Ditto.

For me, it's a close second to Epicureanism. Who was it that said something like 'stoic during war, epicurean during peace'? Probably wasn't a stoic ....

All evening I'll be listening to Abbey Road - Super Deluxe 4 CD Edition, while reading the gorgeous 100pp book of photos & song-by-song session notes ...

Fault me for being an (American) old school anarcho-lefty, but, imho, "white privilege" is secondary to, or derivative of, manifest Class Privilege (i...

In the beginning was the herd ... :fire:

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"The impious man is not he who denies the gods of the many, but he who attaches to the gods the beliefs of the many." ~Epicurus

If I could bring myself to believe that by citing chapter & verse textual corroborations - do the rigorous yet nuanced hermeneutics for you - I'd edif...

A bit of momentary reprieve in hell this week. These days, however, I'm just too fatigued to put my (out)rage at this ascendent(?) 'anti-political zei...

NB: In this context, the term "illusory" means X is not as it appears to be (re: sub specie duriationis - i.e. a Predicate appearing to be a Noun) rat...

No, bobo, don't. I assumed you'd studied, not merely read/skimmed, The Ethics (at least the entirety of Part 1 Of God). My bad. Of course it does. Yea...

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Like a boss.

"Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the...

:cool: I'm on my 3rd reading of Order of Time now. I couldn't agree more. Well put. No. That's like saying 'tables & chairs, rainbows & kittens' are i...

'Only God is real' - but otherwise correct. Acosmism, not to be confused with the pantheism/pandeism (or panentheism/panendeism for that matter) S sti...

“I’m generally opposed to wisdom! I think wisdom is the most disgusting thing you can imagine. Wisdom is the most conformist thing you can imagine. Wi...

Perhaps. But your post exhibits the fundamental importance of 'metaphilosophy' insofar as it's presupposed in general (re: topics) and/or in particula...

I'm old enough to affirm having lived more days nunc than days I have left. Memento mori. Amor fati. Sapere aude. Deus, sive natura. Vita contemplativ...

:cool: I learn from - am reminded daily by - philosophizing • that 'philosophy' is, in effect, the daily discipline of Fools in life-long recovery fro...

Yeah, some days ... Strange but still trying to get comfortable here. How've you been, Maw? Encouraged by what you've been reading. :up:

• What Is Real?, Adam Becker • Something Deeply Hidden, Sean Carroll • The Weil Conjecture, Karen Olsson • The Nocturnal Brain, Guy Leschziner • Witcr...

You lost me, MU. Good luck with that.

The only inconsistency (or incoherence), MU, is you refering to the Past "two years Ago" which is synomous with two years Before "the present" yet dis...

:chin: I'm not. I'm only proposing a 'working assumption'. It's only an assumption not a conclusion or categorical statement; why not just methodologi...

Why not? Please explain. In the OP you asked "what type of knowledge allows us to say that there is a difference between future and past" not for "a p...

I've neither claimed nor implied that I or anyone else explains anything "without metaphysical considerations"; only that I understand naturalism cons...