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https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/811827

Discursive metacognition. As a species, we produce knowledge by which we ratchet-up ourselves out from every ecological niche we've inhabited (so far)...

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False equivalence (like anti-fascism "is as bad as" fascism ... anti-sexism "is as bad as" sexism...) :roll:

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Tommorrow. :cool:

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I agree ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/792659 @"L'elephant"

For whom? Not scientists (because it's not even a scientific problem).

(Model-dependent) realism? or classical atomism?

I suspect most want to, but not enough can.

:up: 'Thou shalt not think for thyself' – no thanks.

"Subject-Object" 'Subject-Subject" 'Social-Social" Broadly – instrumentalism? idealism? & pragmatism? respectively.

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Not at all. I extrapolated from your "dogma" :smirk:

There are not any grounds to believe I am a BiV and compelling evidence that I am not. I take your evasive reply as you conceding the point, Bob, that...

Satisfied swine rather than sad Socratics? IMO, as a species, we owe most of the achievements of civilization to the latter and much of the incorrigib...

As I'd pointed out (on the first page of this thread) the absurdity of the OP ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/811827 I assumed t...

What about 'magical thinking' 'delusion' and 'willful ignorance' – you don't think they are "major contributors to the array of problems humanity face...

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How do you know that you are not hallucinating "that you have thoughts"? or that those alleged "thoughts" are yours and not someone elses "thoughts"? ...

Accurate critique or posturing "white guilt"? Both or neither? I've no doubt what Fanon would say. :chin: Irony of representation, I wonder what Ms. S...

:up: In my mind, the intelligible question was never "whether or not something comes from nothing?" but instead How ~X transforms into X and X transfo...

What "universal mind"? There is not any publicly accessible evidence for such an entity. And if "everything is fundamentally mind-dependent" (includin...

Is breathing "reducible" to lungs, digesting "reducible" to intestines or walking "reducible" to legs? No, each is a function – "activity" – of the la...

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(I assume you meant 'distinctions between these methodologies'.) In sum, by methodological materialism I understand a criteria for eliminating 'immate...

:clap: :lol: Thanks for proving my point about you compulsively projecting your own defects on anyone who step by step calls you out on your BS, Gnomo...

From a two year old post ... I haven't watched the latest film adaptation of Dune yet because I'd decided to wait for the second film (second half of ...

:100: :up: For example: thermodynamics, nucleogenesis, dissipative structures, chaotic systems, autopoiesis, etc And in philosophy: e.g. Democritean-L...

My question wasn't clear enough. How you know this is this case? :chin:

How do you know that?

Physical laws & constants are not "absolute truths". We "know" them only as structural invariants of our most reliable, provisional scientific models....

https://youtu.be/arnYljJTSS8 Addendum to this post ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/714352

https://www.dw.com/en/us-senate-gives-final-approval-on-debt-ceiling-bill/a-65800254 :up:

The closest thing to "absolute truth" is that such "knowledge" is either ineffable or unknowable. As finite, relative beings, we're no more capable of...

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By ontology I understand the constitutive, necessary and sufficient conditions of all human practices; therefore, it makes most sense to "subscribe" t...

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In other words, disembodied consciousness (i.e. spirits) :roll:

No doubt you're correct theologically ...

Great minds think (confuse themselves) alike. :point:

Jawohl! :100:

:up: "The opium of the masses" makes them junkies and perpetually keeps them down-and-out, dog-eat-dog ... A 'sacramental' vicious cycle. :pray: :sad:

I guess you haven't been paying attention. If you really care to know, just peruse the few posts below of exchanges with @"Gnomon" where, after hundre...

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Yep. "Salvation seeking" is – a self-abnegating Stockholm Syndrome hostage fantasy – older than the oldest "sacred" scripture. "Spiritual" savants, sp...

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