Yes, in this context "telos" is fallaciously anthropomorphic (à la animism). Aristotle mistook – literalized / fetishized / reified – his causal mappi...
18July24 Yeah, buddy! JD Vance is the *misogynistic gift* that will keep on giving. More of the Ultra-MAGA Hillbilly speaking in public, please. :clap...
No doubt. My questions were for @"Pantagruel" to clarify his specific statement which he cannot because it's gibberish. And your response, bert, isn't...
I asked clear, direct, relevant questions here and yet you reply with an opaque non sequitur. Apparently, it's reasonable to assume (again), you don't...
If so, then what makes "consciousness" mine? If it's not mine, then why should "consciousness" matter to me? If, however, "consciousness" is mine, the...
Argue with your strawmen all you like, Wayf, but you trivialize yourself by disingenuously misquoting me and spewing ad hominems. Disregarding my clar...
Really? Cite a quote. Wrong. It "proposes" a synoptic view of "the universe" without supernatural entities or forces (i.e. woo woo :sparkle:) that is ...
In effect, imo, Aristotle's teleology is occult, or based on arbitrary post hoc definitions (i.e. final causes aka "essences") which render conclusion...
Agreed. I don't advocate assassinating any current/former elected politician or candidate for office. I never have. Even though SCOTUS recently grante...
Nothing. He desires to die very slowly in excrutiating agony while fully aware of Sleepy Dark Brandon's 2nd inauguration, then mercifully expire a wor...
Here are brief articles which summarize my understanding of 'philosophy as therapy' beginning with the Socratic method in (early) Plato's Dialogues, f...
https://youtu.be/IOoxXPghdvM?si=cZzhFddOdQy_EaLi Even Fox Noise ... :sweat: I ain't worried about the MAGA Circus (or "Project 2025") ... just the nex...
:up: :up: A two-step criterion: (1) performative self- consistency, if an action/policy is not, then the relevant, problematic inconsistency should be...
15July24 (Day 15 of the American Monarchy) Roevember 2024: POTUS Biden & VP Harris (plutocratic neoliberals) :zip: versus The Criminal Clown DJT & MAG...
How do you know this if it is only "subjective"? Firstly, "proof" only pertains to logic and mathematics, not matters of fact. Secondly, "beyond all p...
I love eating meat (in smaller portions and less frequently than I used to decades ago). Neither periods of being a vegetarian nor a vegan had been nu...
:up: :up: ... then involuntarily determined sometimes I deliberate and sometimes I do not deliberate; thus, it is an illusion (i.e. cognitive bias) th...
False dichotomy – modern science (physics, chemistry, etc) is both reductive and holistic. On a good day, your "worldview", sir, is merely a flavor of...
Pardon my intrusion but i.e. a truth claim such as ... therefore "should be dead and buried" as well, which is self-refuting and so there's no need fo...
13July24 (Day 13 of the American Monarchy) FWIW, my guess is that The Neofascist Criminal Clown will announce he's selected either Kari Lake of Arizon...
It doesn't, but the thought haunts me. Maybe that's because Stoicism is, putting it simplistically, the Socratic method applied covertly (or strategic...
:up: :up: You have either not understood my questions (as you conspicuously do not understand modern physics (e.g. conservation laws¹) or modern philo...
(1) If, as you claim, energy is not material, then how does it interact with the material (e.g. mass-energy equivalence) without violating fundamental...
I've always wondered why folks who are convinced there is "life after death" do not kill themselves especially when they are healthy and happy. No dou...
Yes hello! I hope you are well (or at least feeling better now that the Tories have been sacked). :flower: I'm afraid not: the Muse has been gone for ...
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