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AH, my bad. I stand corrected. Must be bed time. SO, if I've understood this correctly, if you catch it and survive, you will have less chance of catc...

...and we were so close... Yet another hunch. God forbid that you ever actually get around to reading the damn book.

No data on those who were fully vaccinated. Not much use.

Don't mistake silence for absence. The secular world if full of nods and winks towards what we might call the numinous. The difference is not making c...

Yep. The overlap with faith out be apparent; faith is belief despite the facts. Hence faith is the very stuff of ideology.

Have you seen the analysis from Austin I've used on this - must've spoken of it in your presence? "Real " and "exists" get their worth form the things...

You might say that; I wouldn't know. But this computer does not work via prayer.

And yet you talk to me on a device reliant on science's good auspices. A performative contradiction?

A religious community might engage in making shite up. A philosophical community might enguage a more critical attitude. And how would you assure your...

Well, yes, provided that one admits there being things which are not perceptions - not phenomena. But if all there is, is phenomena - then those pheno...

Refute it? Anyone who thinks themselves the only thing in existence is mad; I see them. There's no need for refutation.

The blind faith, the ritual - it has all the hallmarks. But if we are looking for exaltation in issues of ultimate concern, for Australians I think th...

Doubtless you are also phenomenal, in your own way.

I'm reading The Darkening Age. Again, it seems to me that religion is a way of avoiding issues of ultimate concern rather than addressing them. Again,...

Oh, indeed - has the penny dropped? If meaning is use, then the meaning of your life is what you do. Well, I won't agree with that. Religion perhaps p...

What use is calling this religious? What's the point?

Point is, there are more than just phenomena. There are also complex entities. Like other people.

Hmm. Then what at first looked like a difference of opinion is perhaps a difference in expression. Where you say there is a complex entity composed of...

That doesn't seem to be the same as "there is no noumenal reality". Is there more to the word than phenomena? I say yes. You?

Your prose is far too clever for a me to discern your meaning. What are you suggesting?

An excellent post. If logical positivism had been able to mount a better defence against its critics, the outcome would presumably have been quite dif...

I've no clear idea of how that would pay out. Sure, all that. But if a philosophical argument reaches the conclusion that "there is no reality", that ...

Odd. I'd just say that the cat is on the mat. One world.

Then I cant see how you avoid solipsism. If all that is, is your perceptions, then other people are just your perceptions.

You perceive your opinions? So you perceive that the cat is on the mat, and subsequently you perceive that you are of the opinion that the cat is on t...

Far too big a knot to try to untie. Sure, treat religion as a form of life; then what it means is what it does. Which in the main is fleecing the shee...

Conceptual clarification is the task of philosophy.

Thanks for that. Interesting stuff. My medical knowledge is not generally up to much more than the secondary literature; so for the most part I will r...

I think scepticism is given far more prominence than it deserves. A cultural extrusion form fablsificationism, itself an overrated notion.

I think that question was in response to you comment here: I have not been following this discussion closely, but I gather you have qualms about vacci...

I found the article, which was circulated in other publications. This is what caught my eye:

I'm not sure it is a good idea to proceed as if it is clear what thinking is. Are you considering just ratiocination - forming judgements by proceedin...

So I thinked. I'm not aware of Davidson writing anything explicitly political. Are you? So mention of political ramifications goes outside the purview...

Then it is incumbent on you to answer your own question. If not the brain, where? And if not in the brain, how do you explain the range of observation...

Perhaps; there was just much more fertile territory elsewhere.

Ok - but would you give any credence to that view? Doing so must introduce a ranking, and hence a move from description to evaluation. Whence the "oug...

The problem I see with this is not the scope so much as the "really". Take it out and the statement is clearly wrong: "Nothing is 'true', except this ...

That got a laugh. I doubt many here would agree with you.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-empiricism/#Iss Quine's Two Dogmas was pivotal here, but it also became apparent that logic was not going t...

So you really think they are compulsory. If you are interested in my view, you are welcome to read my posts.

It never offered a coherent solution to the problem of induction, and the notion of analysis it employed became indefensible.

All of those critters can run. A human baby is a few kilos of flesh at no risk; unless mum is nearby. But heading back to the OP - the notion of "More...

Australian Aboriginal babies cry. They had a seperate evolutionary path for 60,000 years. Human children have been loud for a long time.

An honest post. Kudos.

Something I find remarkable about human babies is that they cry. They are utterly helpless; an easy morsel for any predator that comes along. And yet ...

@"Isaac"; do you think that your view is the consensus amongst epidemiologists?

Are they compulsory now? There's a line of thought that holds that having a theory of everything is better than admitting to ignorance. I don't agree ...

Some consensus widely reported down here last week was that the virus would more likely take advantage of the unvaccinated, mutating so as to infect t...

Your opinion can't be true? Nor your beliefs?

You said beliefs need not be truth-apt. That means there are beliefs that are not even able to be true or false. That looks like nonsense. Hence, beli...