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Wrong. Synthetic a priori judgements/assumptions are used all the time to test theories in physics.
July 17, 2020 at 16:42
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there seems to be another irony there. If the question is stupid, why are you replying to it? Not to be terse, but the on...
July 17, 2020 at 16:36
KT! Very nice. You are one of the few who grasp the basic understanding of existential and metaphysical questioning (another good example is your foll...
July 17, 2020 at 16:24
Possibility! Thanks, I promise this will be the last piece of the puzzle as it were! And that relates to Eros. I'm afraid I will be needing your guida...
July 17, 2020 at 15:42
Welcome Doppy! It's been my observation that there are more angry/resentful atheists than there are reasonable one's. There are many reasons for this,...
July 17, 2020 at 14:11
Just trying to get you to support your claim that's all. Perhaps you and florrest should get together and eat some humble pie LOL
July 16, 2020 at 21:15
Gee, you are like a boxer who throws in the towel due to lack of training !! Be well!
July 16, 2020 at 20:47
Okay, as you wish. Unfortunately, since you are throwing in the towel, my only conclusion here is, the fact of bringing to light your deficiencies in ...
July 16, 2020 at 20:44
Forrest! Don't hide behind ad hominem. If your scared say your scared. Otherwise, does your silence indicates acquiescence to the inability of support...
July 16, 2020 at 20:35
Let's see, I'm not sure that captures the explanation of consciousness, or does it? Please provide your explanation of mental states from sensory perc...
July 16, 2020 at 20:17
Sure! In the meantime, if you are unable to answer my questions I understand. I will take your silence as acquiescence to the inability of making fact...
July 16, 2020 at 20:04
Nice! What kind of love did you find LOL
July 16, 2020 at 18:38
Don't include me in the mess you've made of your logic LOL
July 16, 2020 at 18:10
Would you be okay if I hunted you for meat then LOL
July 16, 2020 at 18:09
But why do you exist? All you've said so far is to eat and drink. If everyone thought that there would be no procreation hence you would not exist. I'...
July 16, 2020 at 18:07
What other things consist of this will to live? In principal, if you say ' nothing', then you are essentially relegating yourself to a lower life-form...
July 16, 2020 at 18:04
Interesting. What is your theory then? The reason I ask is because if you don't understand emergent properties of animal instinct, nor your own featur...
July 16, 2020 at 18:02
Okay great! So should I interpret that as meaning the reason why you exist is to eat and drink?
July 16, 2020 at 17:56
Surely you can do better than that! Meaning, all that's required in natural selection is instinct. No will to live is required. Therefore, once again,...
July 16, 2020 at 17:46
Key! Sure. Explain your will to live and not die?
July 16, 2020 at 17:34
Because your sense of objective truth has limited your understanding. Otherwise please share how objectivity can provide for enlightenment?
July 16, 2020 at 17:32
Interesting. Why don't you think so? Please share your theory, if you have one.
July 16, 2020 at 17:29
So, what if it is discovered that the questions (questions about your own existence which you can't answer) are unanswerable because once we dive into...
July 16, 2020 at 17:26
Are you sure? Let's see, common sense says you have a will to live. So it is true you have a will. But the nature of your will (how it really works, i...
July 16, 2020 at 17:16
Sure! There also could exist multiple universes. In multiverse theory, there could be universes that use entirely different laws of physics. Cosmologi...
July 16, 2020 at 16:24
Chris, welcome! Nice. Let's take a look at that. In my consciousness exists both material an immaterial things. Using your concept "attitude" and "sin...
July 16, 2020 at 14:06
Perhaps we are talking past each other. let me copy my questions to you again. I mean, come on, you're a philosopher, let's dive into one of these dom...
July 16, 2020 at 13:51
That would be incorrect Forrest. The synthetic a priori is the closest you can get to assumptions yet to be solved. Really? So life is all objectively...
July 16, 2020 at 13:38
Sure, phenomenologically? Example: the ineffable experience. Kind of a paradox, no?
July 16, 2020 at 13:26
Thanks I'm glad you appreciate my odd sense of humor :grin: Anyway I'm not so sure about that. Of course if something questioned is not described corr...
July 16, 2020 at 03:15
What's new pussycat, ! Forgive me but I couldn't resist, I'm getting punch drunk. If it only has to do with a description of a thing or object, what i...
July 16, 2020 at 02:38
Does that qualify as an unanswerable question? It kind of seems so... Yet you would reject such a question. I'm confused. I thought you said objectivi...
July 16, 2020 at 02:20
Great. I'll wait for your answers to those questions about the nature of those things we are parsing. Wait a minute I don't understand. I thought you ...
July 16, 2020 at 02:12
I'm afraid you're comparing apples and oranges as it were. Of course that's an objective fact about your material physical existence. How is that germ...
July 16, 2020 at 02:00
Wait a minute, I thought you said you're sure that objectivity can explain those things that exist? I won't give you a free pass on that one so we'll ...
July 16, 2020 at 01:31
But that would qualify as a subjective opinion that extends to arbitrary feelings of Love. If it wasn't it would mean the all people either like or di...
July 15, 2020 at 23:13
Are you sure Forrest? Is my will to live or die, love or not love, wonder or not wonder, for example, qualify as an objective " right or wrong " propo...
July 15, 2020 at 22:53
How so? What is it about my love of ice cream that makes it a correct opinion? Does that qualify as an unanswerable question? If not please provide an...
July 15, 2020 at 20:40
Not so fast. If we're talking about the nature of your own conscious existence is that not a metaphysical truth? sSory but I lost sight of this thread...
July 15, 2020 at 20:26
Forrest! Are you denying your own metaphysical conscious existence? Surely that could not be objectively true!
July 15, 2020 at 20:07
Hi Forrest! In what context are you referring? In other words, are you suggesting there is an objective standard that precludes mystery, arbitrariness...
July 15, 2020 at 19:42
Well, that became an ancillary note to our recent discussion. However, it is worth parsing because it's part of the OP (please go back and refresh you...
July 15, 2020 at 18:45
Not to digress, but that's a great point that almost deserves another thread. Consider that Beings are in fact material aesthetic objects (Classic Gre...
July 15, 2020 at 15:25
No exceptions taken! No exceptions taken! Exception taken as noted: you still haven't answered the question as to why Venus is attracted to Mar's. For...
July 15, 2020 at 13:11
Sure! Usually political/social/ethical philosophy are the domain's. Thomas Hobbes, Aristotle, etc.. Couple of interesting bullet points: Knowing yours...
July 14, 2020 at 18:30
Agree! Hence the discovery AND uncovery of Being. We are free to discover that which an external society can provide for us, while maintaining that sa...
July 14, 2020 at 15:14
Just as an aside, in paraphrase, it was Aristotle who said the greatest gift that we can give to ourselves (and each other) is to 'know thyself'. Some...
July 14, 2020 at 13:29
Pardon the interruption! But, I think that's called being in denial :chin: It's probably a Freudian thing. Skeptics are usually stubborn and have tunn...
July 14, 2020 at 12:38
I think the first part he got right, the second part, not so much. If he's a philosopher, why wouldn't he want to question most everything(?). I would...
July 13, 2020 at 17:54
In your thinking, you would have a rather tall hill to climb in trying to reconcile the God given gifts from the Mozart's and Einstein's of the world,...
July 13, 2020 at 15:55