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Both Schumer & McConnell are nothing if not lifelong, loyal-to-a-fault employees of the billionaire political parties donor-class and committed to avo...

It depends on how one uses the term. For instance, I use atheism as the claim that 'theistic claims' are not true – without asserting anything about g...

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The claim is an authoritative yet wholly unsubstantiated opinion, no?

:up: :up: Well, they don't cash counterfeit idealism at my local bank. :smirk:

Star Wars – live-action cartoon – is still for those kids who want little to no science (plausibility) in their fiction. A pop culture "kewl" monomyth...

'What is' presupposes whatever is not impossible to realize.

What do you mean by "reality'? If we are real, how can we not "have access to reality"? Any reason to doubt that you are real, Tom? :eyes: IME, all at...

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Wow. You read Witty even worse than you read Aristotle, sir. :gasp:

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Is X a dogma when X is demonstrably true? I don't think so. :flower: Reminds of my Granny ...

So critical intelligence is the cause of literal-minded ignorance? Freethinking causes unthinking violence? Logical thinking causes magical thinking? ...

Actually, he says "zoon politikon" (political animal), yet given his monumental Organon, Aristotle tends to get tagged with that "rational animal" (wh...

Thanks for the link. I agree with @"Fooloso4"'s argument regardless of its fidelity or not with Aristotle because I hold the same view ... https://the...

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I've no idea what you're saying.

I cannot find this post (wherein I "agree"), reply with a link please.

I agree with @"Fooloso4"'s remarks about hylomorphism. IIRC, Aristotle's (like Plato's & Aquinas') cosmological argument is completely unsound and the...

Of course.

Given that our species nature is real (i.e. the fact that there are things which are bad, harmful, suffering-inducing to do to our kind), acting towar...

Grounding ethics in the real world problems – facticity – of the flourishing (contra languishing) of natural beings. To wit: 'Why be morally good?' is...

:fire: False trilemma ... (1) n/a (2) n/a (3) non-sectarianism =/= "nihilism" :roll: As I understand it, the ethical objective of secular humanism, fa...

I agree with the sentiment; the future we're striving for, however, will not be available to 90odd percent of our species for many reasons including v...

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:100: :up: @"universeness" – Time is conventionally conceived of as consisting in past, present and future tenses and their simultaneity denotes etern...

:up: In other words, a map (analysis ~ respresentation) is not informationally equivalent to its territory (experience) because a territory (experienc...

Bet! :party: Like taking more filthy lucre from a baby! :smirk: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/807026

:roll: Forget the horse race this far out ... https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/810514

:roll: Correction: Local "negentropy" increases global entropy.

As long as it's a dynamic, nonreductive monism, I'm cool with it. :up:

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Local "negentropy" only increases global entropy. "Mind" is an effect – recursive output – of a complexity which cannot decrease (re: dissipative stru...

The concept of information refers to a formalist (i.e. computational) description of systematic transformations (i.e. entropy), the necessary and suff...

I think "science is founded on" pragmatic, or working, assumptions like that one. Such a "metaphysical position", however, may be a categorical genera...

Are 'metaphysical statements' experimentally testable? Does any 'metaphysical system' entail predictions about matters of fact? If not, then metaphysi...

Obviously. I posted that ancient Buddhist parable to support @"Janus"'s apt reading of Pierre Hadot's work as compared to your typically biased (i.e. ...

:up: :up: I'm in the dual-aspect school (à la Spinoza).

Perhaps I'm confused: "noumenon" (singular as per Schopenhauer) has always seemed to me the limit, or horizon, of experiential cognition (or conceptua...

I'm sure you both of gentlemen are familiar with some version of this parable, which is very much in line with Hadot's reflections on Hellenistic phil...

And each subject 'appears to itself' a secondary quality presupposing that it is fundamentally also an object.

:clap: :fire: Excellent synopsis!