:100: I think, just before Witty, Nietzsche & Peirce (among others) in their own ways also elevate "social practices" and deflate "pure reason" as wel...
Chomsky's breezy rundown in the video of the war crimes / atrocities of postwar US Presidents, who, in fact, were (are) presiding over the American Im...
FOX spews lies to an audience who wants be lied to, many of whom don't vote, so those "headlines" are as irrelevant as the Ranking of Presidents is ir...
This very much reminds of my mother's idiosyncratic non-doctrinnaire, or ceremonial, Catholicism: quiet prayer-focused and weekly charity work usually...
... you vapidly conflate with Kant's use of transcendental (which you further confuse with "Transcendentalism"). Apparently, it never occurs to you, G...
Only some (idealist) philosophers ... most of whom argue from rather than towards their conclusion. Anyway, at least since Democritus in the 5th centu...
From a 2020 thread Ranking American Presidents... 154 varied and distinguished scholars agree: Loser-1 is still ranked at the bottom of the list of 46...
Well I disagree with this antirealist suggestion, Pez – "concepts" do not "change" themselves, we change our concepts in order to adapt. Turning on ho...
As I understand it, philosophy concerns making explicit – problematizing – the "limitations of the mundane" beginning with reasoning itself (e.g. Plat...
Spinoza is my (modern) 'metaphysical' touchstone ... then Freddy & Witty, Zapffe-Camus, C. Rosset ... and more recently Meillassoux-Brassier. Not the ...
I've witnessed this sort of "divorce" afflicting several friends and acquaintances throughout my life and always have felt fortunate that I didn't go ...
:chin: It seems to me that the terms 'worldview' and metaphysics' are too often used interchangeably and this is confusing. I think, by reflective rea...
@"Jack Cummins" ( @"Pantagruel" ) A. Tell me – a freethinker – what of significance I am missing or fail to understand by dismissing so-called "esoter...
Thanks, but I've read the official J6 Report by the US House Special Cmte as well as paid close attention to the MAGA movement since 2015 as well as t...
So ... 'believing is seeing', is that it? or "Seek and ye shall find?" Seems to me an instance of the placebo-effect of confirmation bias. No doubt, w...
Of course they do – their audience is a loser cult that lives to be lied to – which is good for business. Fox Noise, OAN, NewsMax, Alex Jones, RT, etc...
I don't understand what you're saying here. Please reformulate and clarify. More simply put, my position is : nature does not "comply" with "physical ...
I suppose my own "axis mundi" consists of the 'principle of non-contradiction (PNC) sans principle of sufficient reason (~PSR) —> universal contingenc...
16Feb24 Apparently, an Appellate-proof (restrained) judgment of over $450 million (disgorgement + interest), barred for (only) 3 years from doing busi...
There seems to be far far more compelling, objective evidence that, for example, dinosaurs had existed +65 million years ago than there is that an iti...
Welcome to TPF ... In sum, I understand modern natural sciences in this way – from an old post (2021): In other words, "physical laws" are invariants ...
On the contrary, mate, it's quite easy to know the impacts of emotion on thinking from lived experience (e.g. frustration, romance, intoxication, stre...
AFAIK, no one, including any p0m0, has ever pointed out a 'culture' wherein mathematics does not work (e.g. "0 > 1" ... "2 + 2 = 87" ... "C = 3 ? r" ....
This is not a physics forum so I don't see the philosophical relevance of the quote cited; and conflating the Schrödinger equation with the 'Schröding...
I tend to agree with Spinoza (& e.g. the Epicureans, Stoics, Pyrrhonians), strong emotions tend to bias or block thinking, especially philosophizing, ...
Unless I'm mistaken, I think contradiction in (non-dialetheistic) logic = necessary falsity; in modal logic = necessary impossibility; and in modal me...
See p.1 of this thread for my exchanges with @"ucarr" on discussed similarities of classical atomism and "absential materialism", namely the role of a...
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