Okay. Elaborate on what? No. Okay. Sorry my precis isn't clear enough, Bob; but I don't get anything out of spoon-feeding you (or @"AmadeusD") further...
No doubt. Educate yourself. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/856307 addendum: Neither anti-Jewish nor anti-Israel, like (e.g.) R. Lux...
So what have I written in my previous post is historically incorrect or worse? You make a few unwarranted assumptions about my rather conventional obs...
:up: I do not recognize what I argued here in your 'paraphrase' above, so my guess is that you're not on the right track. I don't see this either, whi...
'A counterfactual ideal projection' for which, like "God" or utopia/paradise, there aren't – never have been – any compelling grounds to believe or ex...
Historically, IMHO, it's been a hallmark of realpolitik conservativism (e.g. neoliberalism) to support oppressive regimes and repressive policies in t...
I'm saying that philosophy cannot solve a scientific problem because the latter concerns 'simulating some specifiable facts of the matter' whereas the...
Born, raised & educated in NYC, I currently live in the Portland, Oregon metro area, USA. (Formerly of Atlanta, Georgia and Chandler, Arizona and St. ...
:up: :up: :up: I prefer moral naturalism to "moral realism", Bob, because the latter concerns 'the meaning of moral statements about states-of-affairs...
:up: Over three years ago, I'm guessing, it'd become irrefutably clear to me that MU and I could only ever talk past each other – not merely substanti...
What you've written here has no bearing on the discussion where I left off with https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/855848 You're flappi...
Where do I make this"assumption"? Stop making shit up. Like Anscombe, I was raised and educated in Roman Catholicism until I attended university and I...
Changing recognition of facts (e.g. "cultural / historical lineages") do not change facts as facts. Ignorance afflicts both "religious people" and "pr...
You mean "modern thought" which includes being espoused by (philosophers like) Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx, Bergson, Peirce, H...
So harm (e.g. theft via hacking micro-transactions, betrayal of a country, rape of a coma patient or infant) happens to the victim only when it is obs...
I might be repeating @"Banno" here but Hume's Guillotine says one cannot logically derive (moral) norms from non-normative facts. The moral anti-reali...
According to popular Federal election results from 2016 until 2023, most Americans vote against Trump(ism). Simply, regardless of the nonpredictive ye...
I guess it depends on where you loiter. I'm a disbeliever (since 1978/9) with decades of comparative religions and theological literacy, briefly a pra...
:up: :up: It's not that modern science dispenses with "purpose" categorically, only that telos in almost ever case of natural phenomena does not expla...
:100: :up: As this thread amply shows, I'm afraid Athena is extremely allergic to contrary evidence or apples to apples comparisons of "the human deve...
Just a guess out of left field: No Kennedy Assassination in '63 ... no Nixon in '69 ... no Reagan in '80 ... ultimately no Dubya - Obama - Trump from ...
Okay, clearer, though this observation concerns modern science and not, as you have said, "much of modern thought", and does not entail "nihilism" eit...
"Proof?" I make no positive claim that requires "proof"; simply there are no compelling grounds to even consider that the world is "a long vivid dream...
So in your estimation, "much of modern thought" lacks purpose? Maybe if you clarify what you mean in this context by "purpose", Wayf, I'll grok this s...
The problem seems too complex for "licensing" criteria which reliably predicts "good or bad" potential parents; compounded by problems of "unlicensed"...
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