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I've not said this, just pushed back on your reductive implication which is contrary to the Democritean-Epicurean concept of void (or Spinoza's concep...

I understand philosophy to be concerned with making explicit the gaps in – limitations of – rationality as manifest in, or expressed by, use of concep...

:up: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/861285 I.e. the poverty of (e.g. Collingwood's) quasi-Hegelian caricature of both history and s...

Yeah .. but when I rub my scars, mate, I only remember the wrong ones. :yum:

The natural sciences are observational-experimental methods, force-multiplied by mathematical techniques, for the manifest purpose of publicly correct...

Yes.

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@"BitconnectCarlos" @"tim wood" @"RogueAI" A brief discussion about the new Jewish-American documentary "Israelism" ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Ah riiiight, just like "The Force" :sparkle: :rofl:

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:up: That dumpster fire was billowing a year ago ... my 2 bits from Feb 2023:

:up: :up: "You can't lose what you ain't never had" goes an old blues. In other words, without indulging yourself in hope, you won't ever have any hop...

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You misunderstand me (re: Spinoza's substance / being) by confusing "void" (that's metaphysical, not just "physical") with what I wrote about "spaceti...

So (rest) mass is "immaterial" too?

As I discern the difference, "void" is a speculative supposition of fundamental reality (analogous to Spinoza's substance (or being)) whereas "spaceti...

Apparently, neither of us know what you are talking about ... I'm going to bed. :yawn:

I ignore mere assertions (bolded or not) which lack argument or evidence to warrant them. That seems ass-backwards to me, baker. "A mind" presupposes ...

:up: Stupidity, n. Habitual refusal to think (i.e. maladaptive judgment or conduct); H. Arendt's "banality" ... *

:up: I 'm confident they would say existence (i.e. being); however, I prefer to think of "void" as the real (i.e. the ineluctable exceeding, or encomp...

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Not true, Wayf. You forget language – each of us is always "outside" of each other's "mind" – thus the emergent, grammatical-symbolic commons that bot...

Aristotle: "And so your story of the cave is also a shadow and therefore does not reflect true knowledge either. Thus, the aporia of true knowledge re...

Thank you! :cool:

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:up: And yet all those folks are committed to James T. Kirk-san's motto: "Risk is our business!" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ErkeFA-QWk :nerd:

Classical atomism is monist – atoms are aspects (à la density differentials) of void, not separable from, or transcendent of, void – so no "dualism" (...

Well, I hope the ticket of either Gavin Newsom & Gretchen Witmer or Gretchen Witmer & Gavin Newsom comes out of the Dem's 2024 convention. They would ...

@"ucarr", how does this "absential materialism" metaphysically differ from Democritean-Epicurean atomism (i.e. swirling atoms in void)?

No. Existence just is the case (constituted, but not exhausted, by "the totality of the facts" ~Witty, TLP). An infinite regress precipates from a cla...

As I pointed out, "mind dependent on mind dependent on ..." is incoherent, thus meaningless and doesn't "conform" to anything. "Nihilism" in what sens...

:roll: The point is this: being a mind that is 'aware of being-a-mind-among-other-minds' (ergo finitude) presupposes 'mind-independent nonmind'. In ot...

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:up: :smirk: Whether or not Loser-1, if past elections & special elections (2016-2023) are prologue, Dems, Indies, Never Trumpers & pro-choice suburba...

I appreciate your insightful reading, ucarr. Thanks. :cool: :up:

:lol: The MAGA-rot is not (yet) "the soul of America"; if it was, then Loser-1 would not have lost the popular vote in 2016 & 2020 as well as his MAGA...

... which is why I asked for specificity. I've no idea what you mean, sir, by "a scientific rather than a philosophical position". (From my member pro...

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:lol: Yeah well, I just can't help but seeing things a little differently (or clearly), making me a broken record predicting the coming Biden blowout ...

So, if I understand you, dying is (all paths are) experienced and death (horizon) is the complete cessation of experience; I agree. I've speculated th...

My first and only guess – it's her voice, she had me from the opening sentence – the best story IMO.

Well done, @"Baden", and congratulations! Besides the writing (of course), I quite enjoyed puzzling through this one a few of times. :up:

@"unenlightened" Congratulations! This was my 2nd favorite story of the contest as a captivating read on the same theme as my own tale, though in a mo...

@"Vera Mont" There's nothing I can say to improve on what @"Amity" and others have said already, Vera, except congratulations and thank you for my fav...

As always, my friend, thanks for reading. :up: :blush:

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More circumstantial evidence of the Netanyahu regime's complicity via strategic neglect... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-...

And none had to run for president just to stay out of prison because they had been indicted with 91 felonies, or had been found civilly liable of sexu...

The last three GOP primary candidates for president who have won the Iowa Caucus before Loser-1's victory yesterday: Mike Huckabee - 2008 Rick Santori...