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I think of it this way: Any world that contains, or is constituted by, either contradictions or objects with inconsistent properties is, in terms of m...

IME, the reliance on dictionary definitions for key terms (or distinctions) muddles more than it clarifies in philosophical discussions, especially wh...

Falsification (Popper) isn't a term used to indicate the mere negative truth-value of a proposition but precisely that to be falsifiable means 'experi...

Glad to be helpful. :up: :clap: :rofl: That's all folks! :fire:

No. It's a logical expression, not a scientific claim.

:up: :up: Thus, in the main 'kataphatic metaphysics' – the Classical / Aristotlean tradition – is ad hoc (e.g. "this is the Really Real"-of-the-gaps),...

I don't understand your response to my post (re: negative ontology). Plesse clarify.

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:up: :up: Thus, in the first century BCE Andronicus of Rhodes who had edited Aristotle's corpus had titled the philosophia prima The Book Following Th...

:roll: :rofl: And yet "materialism" is a form of "metaphysics." :lol: So a 'whole atom' exceeds the grasp of physics? :up:

Well if my meaning isn't clear enough for you in my previous post, then I can't help you, Bob.

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:ok: Gotcha. So you cannot cite a single reputable scientific source to warrant acceptance of 'biological determinism of patriarchical hierarchies'.

Your objections do not make sense to me. I've not made any "assertions", Bob, you have in your OP, and I find them based on arbitrary (i.e. context-fr...

Evidence (i.e. a reputable scientific source)?

:up: Like tRump, charlatanry never sleeps because gullibility and stupidity never sleep. For fuck's sake – Biological determinism? Teleological reduct...

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:up: :up: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/690858 :nerd:

I think it's more reasonable to assume that the meanings of discursive terms like "perfection" "in itself" "good" "moral" "pragmatic" "harmony" "absol...

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Well, the circularity of your "metaphysical belief", sir, begs the question. Besides, Christians mostly do not "actually live" Christ-like or miraculo...

:up: As your "misconcepttion" ... seems to demonstrate.

Scientists "make" working or methodological assumptions which themselves presuppose "metaphysical" commitments; changing such assumptions can also cha...

I suspect one person's "mysteries" (pace G. Marcel) are another person's misconceptions ... or false positives (D. Dennett) or nostalgias (A. Camus).

Yes – a very high probability wherever there is liquid water, etc. :up:

:nerd: What I picked-up from conversation with some backtravelers at a local hash bar... 1. Only passengers. Trip duration varies. One way backtravel ...

What precisely do you mean by "aliens"?

Do you fear becoming "overwhelmed" by particular questions or inquiry as such?

:up: Like Collingwood, are you an 'absolute idealist' (& historicist)?

:100: :up: :up: Have you ever considered the 'left-handed' school, or counter-tradition, of freethinking in philosophy (a wiki link is below)? Once th...

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My take away from your reply to my question, Count, is that @"Jack Cummins"' (& @"Wayfarer"'s) "esoterica" do not make any non-trivial differences in ...

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So what about my very brief sketch of "negative ontology" gave you reason to remind me that "metaphysics" ... "must be dialectical"?

Oh. You wrote "metaphysics" not "metaphysicians" and, in reference to my post on negative ontology, your response here to my reference to Spinoza Ethi...

@"Jack Cummins" (re: the OP) From p. 1 of this thread ... i.e. What does "esoterica" significantly add (or subtract) that "exoterica" is missing in ph...

Those that are "rejected" are ones referred to as impossible and thereby are self-negating; however, whichever "assertions" are not negated, whether t...

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/879327 ... Otherwise, (kataphatic) metaphysics consists of speculating on the way the world – that a...

My jam is negative ontology (i.e. a deductive process of elimination of the impossibie, or ways the world necessarily could not have been or cannot be...

Georg Cantor thought so ...

:up: Or Gretchen Witmer.

"Often seen as" by whom? After Kant, Hegel is probably the most influential philosopher in the Continental tradition (e.g. ... Marx ... Sartre ... Hab...

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The "real horror" – their banality aided and/or abetted by our indifference (i.e. your apologetics).