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I'm not sure what you mean by "objectively existent" or "objectivity". Please clarify what makes this "criterion" problematic. Also, do you reject wha...
October 05, 2023 at 04:14
:roll: Any "manifestation of" that which "is not objectively real" is, of course, "conceivable". But are we just fantasizing, Wayf, or are we philosop...
October 05, 2023 at 01:05
Such as — ? A link to a post or specific quote will do the trick to make your (non)point. :smirk:
October 05, 2023 at 00:08
@"Wayfarer" Unless solipsism obtains, mind is dependent on (ergo, inseparable from) More/Other-than-mind, no? and that "experience" consists of phenom...
October 04, 2023 at 23:57
@"ucarr" https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/827467
October 04, 2023 at 21:45
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October 04, 2023 at 21:38
:roll: Strawman – unless you can cite where I have actually done so. :rofl: In other words, the alleged (incoherent) "god's-eye view from nowhere" – w...
October 04, 2023 at 17:46
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October 04, 2023 at 17:02
The fact that ir's even slightly more than a mere possibility ... sh*ts the bed. :yikes: Welcome to Absurdistan, folks!
October 04, 2023 at 16:28
:clap: :100: Amen, sista! "Lots of horrible shit in this world gets done for something larger than ourselves." ~Sandor Clegane https://m.youtube.com/w...
October 04, 2023 at 16:03
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October 04, 2023 at 15:46
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October 04, 2023 at 15:41
Given your stated assumptions, it seems to me you're tautologically asking 'What does it feels like to be feeling?' (Or existentially, but in thermody...
October 04, 2023 at 15:23
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October 04, 2023 at 04:56
And the truth-makers for these statements are? :roll: :sweat: e.g. An assembled pile of logs, Bob, is not equivalent to a painting of "a log cabin". T...
October 04, 2023 at 00:44
Bitbol's "counter" is lost on me. Why don't you instead – in your own words, Joshs – counter my counter to @"Wayfarer"'s counter of my counter to his ...
October 03, 2023 at 21:05
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October 03, 2023 at 20:33
Addendum to ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/842289 Really? How about ... Forms-of-life regulate, or constrain, language-games pl...
October 03, 2023 at 20:17
To jar your memory, an excerpt from a reply to you, Gnomon, on an old thread "What is Metaphysics? Yet again" ... Simply put, an immanentist rejects '...
October 03, 2023 at 18:57
It seems to me folks are still making fetishes of their fallaciously reified hasty generalizations (à la Feuerbach et al). 'Homo religiosi', no? Man t...
October 03, 2023 at 15:43
:up: Incorrect. By the world I'm referring to 'the totality of facts' (re: TLP, 1.1-1.21). Then why not instead title the thread "The transcendental m...
October 03, 2023 at 01:03
Philosophical statements are not propositions about the world. Again, metaphysics is not theoretical. You unwarrantedly assume that such an inquiry at...
October 03, 2023 at 00:03
Has any thinker ever demonstrated that the whole of reality-nature-universe has a boundary in space and/or time (to provide grounds for assuming there...
October 02, 2023 at 23:35
:100: :fire: :up: We immanentists agree on that much at least – i.e. Epicureans & Stoics, Kynics & Spinozists, Nietzscheans & Peircean-Deweyans!
October 02, 2023 at 20:10
To "define ... that which is beyond" seems patent nonsense to me. Also, "the possibility of experience" amounts to an anthropic / subjectivity-bias (c...
October 02, 2023 at 17:43
Yes, in praxis, no doubt, other positive goals can be useful; I think what I've presented on this thread hints at a prolegomena to a future minima mor...
October 02, 2023 at 09:04
Well written and clear OP, but I'm not persuaded by the case you're trying to make, sir. To my mind: (1) In order for Mind to "create the world", Mind...
October 02, 2023 at 08:42
:roll: Spoon-feeding ain't my jam, Bob.
October 02, 2023 at 01:34
*BAM* :clap: :100: :lol:
October 01, 2023 at 22:13
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/840954 https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/841463 https://thephilosophyforum.com/discu...
October 01, 2023 at 21:55
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October 01, 2023 at 02:20
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October 01, 2023 at 00:09
No. Yes. Inferences from factual, or natural, axioms (i.e. physics) are sound. Inferences with "beyond" premises (e.g. magic, myths, ideals), whether ...
October 01, 2023 at 00:04
As a philosophical naturalist I'm unaware of any "style of naturalism" wherein "first-person perspective" is reducible to ... just as e.g. living orga...
September 30, 2023 at 16:52
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September 30, 2023 at 15:49
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:up: Shameless recidivists – too good for Reddit and not good enough for TPF – what are they gonna do? :smirk:
September 30, 2023 at 03:06
Apparently – *Raised FIST*, Sistah! :cool:
September 30, 2023 at 02:41
I Agree. :100: Modes of "us being anti-human" (driven by material & symbolic, often manufactured, scarcities): • over ten millennia of pathological do...
September 29, 2023 at 20:12
Exactly @"Gnomon"'s modus operandi, counselor. And the rest follows ... :smirk: :clap: :100:
September 29, 2023 at 19:08
No, definitely not. By analogy, for instance, the rules – generalizations abstracted from design (logical) space – for valid moves in chess (e.g. meta...
September 29, 2023 at 18:57
"Would exist if there was nothing?"
September 29, 2023 at 16:58
It must be kept in mind that Austin is not doing metaphysics even when he's analyzing the linguistics of purported 'metaphysical statements'. He's lik...
September 29, 2023 at 16:48
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September 29, 2023 at 16:16
And I'm saying your statement is nonsense because science is not used to address "the big questions" so it can't be even "no improvement" on them. Tha...
September 29, 2023 at 15:45
:roll: I guess you do not understand the point I'm making ...
September 29, 2023 at 15:08
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September 29, 2023 at 14:41
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September 29, 2023 at 12:57
Of course science only solves empirical problems and does not answer philosophical questions. Philosophy, as Wittgenstein points out, only describes h...
September 29, 2023 at 12:49
Clarify what you mean by "explain" in this context in order to better grasp your claim that "science explains nothing".
September 29, 2023 at 10:07
At least one: "god" – (the) omni-providential agent. None after AGI has been achieved (i.e. post-Singularity).
September 29, 2023 at 00:03