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Just more Trumpian racist bullshit to give ignorant MAGAts the warm & fuzzies. Here's a good summary: https://www.axios.com/2024/07/31/trump-nabj-inte...
August 03, 2024 at 07:53
I think "human nature" (re: aptitude) consists in two aspects: (a) h. sapiens species-specific functional defects¹ (i.e. physical & psychological vuln...
August 03, 2024 at 07:50
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August 03, 2024 at 06:29
2August24 IMO the best alternative to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (from the short list of "six prospective running-mates" according to press report...
August 03, 2024 at 06:28
"I love my black job ?" ~Simone Biles, the most decorated Olympic Gold Medal & champion gymnast in history https://x.com/Simone_Biles/status/181928427...
August 03, 2024 at 05:50
2August24 A "Black job"? Madame POTUS ... https://youtu.be/nkAfZKMoYJE?si=_Alj6xZdAwKjQOtG Roevember is coming! :victory: :mask:
August 03, 2024 at 02:19
Pardon my ramble ... Grist for the miill. 'Stories' which reflect on or puzzle over questions raised by "news in the media" intrigue me most and inspi...
August 02, 2024 at 23:11
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August 02, 2024 at 09:48
"Black jobs?" https://youtu.be/rT3mSH22SMw?si=VPSzoOhpqktrQLpr "And when attacks, he reveals a bit of himself; and what we saw was an elderly, obese, ...
August 02, 2024 at 04:23
Re: DonOLD The Clown :smirk:
August 01, 2024 at 22:11
Interesting topic. (But why do you refer to "Fuller"? What does s/he have to do with Nuttall's book?) Anyway, fwiw, 'studies of tragedy' I've found mo...
August 01, 2024 at 21:47
Read Camus' anything but futilistic interpretation of Sisyphus (rolling 'the philosopher's stone' aka Life) – a mythic dramatization of Nietzsche's am...
August 01, 2024 at 11:26
That's merely a metastatement (@"Lionino") IMO, a "philosophical statement" is a non-propositional expression (i.e. proposal) of a presupposition or a...
August 01, 2024 at 11:23
Well, fwiw, I see no other way but to interpret Spinoza as both an immanentist and acosmist sub specie aeternitatis (though sub specie durationis also...
August 01, 2024 at 11:01
For Spinozists, reality (Deus, sive naturans) is ineluctably immanent – the encompassing horizon that reason necessarily cannot encompass (i.e. explai...
August 01, 2024 at 07:50
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August 01, 2024 at 06:08
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July 31, 2024 at 22:31
Yeah, the favorite candidate of racists and nativists DonOLD The Clown made those deplorables "proud" today.
July 31, 2024 at 22:29
:100: Exactly.
July 31, 2024 at 11:55
:ok: The clarifications are appreciated.
July 31, 2024 at 11:52
What do your questions have to do with either the OP or what I have written in this thread? I have not stated or implied that "mind" or "subject" "exp...
July 31, 2024 at 10:46
Yeah ... Roevember is coming! :victory: :mask:
July 31, 2024 at 09:33
Consider ...
July 31, 2024 at 09:27
31July24 DonOLD The Clown – adjudicated¹ raist, MAGA-GOP candidate for "dictator-for-a-day"– who is very afraid of a much younger & stronger, incredib...
July 31, 2024 at 07:04
31July24 DonOLD The Clown – adjudicated¹ raist, MAGA-GOP candidate for "dictator-for-a-day" – who is very afraid of a much younger & stronger, incredi...
July 31, 2024 at 07:03
Philosophy reflectively-critically examines whatever is assumed to be "obvious and central" (e.g. intuitions, folk psychological ideas, values, etc) n...
July 30, 2024 at 22:28
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July 30, 2024 at 20:53
https://youtu.be/bSmGAAnOr3I?si=fDvWk56HGJ3C-FSg
July 30, 2024 at 20:52
:100: :up: :up: @"Sam26" is dogmatic on this (spiritual / supernatural / o-dualistic) topic and, as I've found at length, his poor reasoning incorrigi...
July 30, 2024 at 19:28
That's silly.
July 30, 2024 at 19:25
This "knower" (i.e. perceiver) Bishop Berkeley calls "God" which, not by coincidence I'm sure, is functionally indistinguishable from @"Gnomon's" "Enf...
July 30, 2024 at 10:26
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July 30, 2024 at 08:17
IMO, not "a loser" versus two misogynists who advocate a National Abortion Ban (i.e. criminalizing women's reproductive healthcare) if elected.
July 30, 2024 at 07:50
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July 30, 2024 at 07:46
In your example, the husband is a simp if he doesn't go to the football match without her; in the long run, the wife will respect him more for ignorin...
July 30, 2024 at 01:45
:lol: The only "deep state" is Project 2025 (i.e. The Heritage Foundation + The Federalist Society). Take your meds, dude. Roevember is coming! :victo...
July 30, 2024 at 00:13
I still think Gretchen Whitmer would be the best VP candidate: an attractive white woman, popular governor of a large swing state, target of a wingnut...
July 29, 2024 at 23:24
Sleepy Joe is (again) a day late and dollar short. Here's more disingenuous grist for your MAGA-grievance mill, NOS: a late-2020 post of mine on equit...
July 29, 2024 at 21:18
(a) So if "consciousness ... creates reality", then what "creates" "consciousness"? (b) And if "consciousness" is not "created", then why assume that ...
July 29, 2024 at 20:45
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July 29, 2024 at 07:00
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July 29, 2024 at 03:44
Yes (e.g. a community – more than any "subjective mind" – that uses the public conventions of "stop signs" & "traffic lights"; see below). Yes (e.g. t...
July 29, 2024 at 03:31
No. Physics (provisionally) explains 'the regularities of nature' and logic (exactly) describes 'the entailments of regularities as such'. The latter ...
July 29, 2024 at 02:41
:lol: Principle of explosion —> STFU, kid.
July 28, 2024 at 21:33
re: "NDE" :clap: :rofl: :up: :up:
July 28, 2024 at 21:26
:eyes: You're still incorrigible and fatuous! Resuscitations, not resurrections, ergo not biological "death" as implied by "NDE" (as I and others have...
July 28, 2024 at 02:54
Yw. :point: from 2023 ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/782860 and follow-up to your conspicuously poorly reasoned, often disingen...
July 27, 2024 at 23:59
Feel better? :smirk:
July 27, 2024 at 23:47
No, I'm neither an economist nor a policy-maker.
July 27, 2024 at 23:44
What's your philosophical question? Describe what makes this "economic issue of arbitrary transfers" philosophically significant.
July 27, 2024 at 19:44