How are things like "Philosophy has not changed in any relevant respect since Ancient Greece" and "Natural philosophy was efficacious" not claims of h...
Sorry, not intending to stir up shit, but "globalism" is commonly used as an antisemitic dog-whistle, and I just wanted to make sure it's not being us...
I just want to check that this isn’t code for “the Jews”, because it often is. Also, globalism isn’t the problem, capitalism is the problem. We could ...
I live in a small town in the mountains, so "near home" is close to many hiking trails for basically anyone. Here's a view of pretty much the whole to...
Maybe, instead of thinking about things, you could try thinking about stuff for a change? After all, this thread is really all about mereology: the st...
The optimal solution would be to both enforce sane health and safety regulations on such markets, and make sure that the people impacted by those regu...
(The post you're replying to was making a point to differentiate velocity from speed. They're not synonyms. But I'm replying to the unrelated point yo...
Isn't it more accurate to say that light travels at less than c through various media, not that c itself becomes less in those media? c is always the ...
Now that the financial worries are straightened out (knock on wood), my life is back to pretty much normal despite all the coronavirus response measur...
I still say this both misrepresents what philosophers actually do and misconstrues it as an arbitrary, contingent thing. First, in the absence of defe...
Whether or not the harm of guns is sufficient grounds to ban them is a contingent question, just as is the question of whether or not the harm from we...
Those fixes are all implemented now. @"fdrake" I would love your input on this one. I feel like I'm way out on a limb outside my area of expertise tal...
The short version is that observers in different states of motion will observer both space and time to be distorted relative to each other such that n...
"Seen as" maybe, but toleration is definitely not always a good thing, as anyone will admit when pressed. You gave some nice cut-and-dry examples ther...
Fun thing I discovered recently: the roots of "physics" and "ethics" have senses very, very similar to "nature" and "nurture". Etymologically, the phy...
I'm considering maybe doing away with the "quaerentis: a pragmatic analysis of philosophy part" and just making the second word after "codex" somethin...
Tradition no more creates permission than it creates obligation. "We've always done it this way" isn't a reason why anybody has to do things that way,...
That’s basically my view as well. Everything is just “mathematical structures” which is to say information. The physical world is the mathematical str...
It's not just one specific finite part that had a temporary slowdown. A whole bunch of finite parts randomly have temporary slowdowns all over the pla...
That’s the normal idea of a black hole yeah. I didn’t read the article because it sounds like just a pop sci retelling of something I already know. Ac...
"Universes" don't exist as moving objects in a space that can collide like black holes do. Also, black holes don't explode when they collide, they jus...
I mean theological noncognitivism, which I described in the OP: Yes, on my account will evolved, as did consciousness, and all of those emotional thin...
It sounds like you understand "will" to mean something different than I do, so I don't think I would agree with those words as stated. But the gist of...
Interesting, I feel like we're about to get to something I might not already be familiar with. Also of interest, the next essay in my Codex Quarentis ...
Yeah I'm familiar with that (I think it's actually easier to understand in terms of the underlying wave mathematics than position-momentum uncertainty...
Only a small fraction of our brain (not always exactly 10%) is ever active at once, but it's not like there's just one small part of the brain that's ...
The rest of your post makes me think that you maybe don't mean what this first part sounds like to me, but this first part sounds like something I wou...
From my experience last year, and my hypothetical projection of that experience onto the experience of other people writing about the Absurd, there ca...
Yeah, I don't have any qualms with any of your examples you gave before. That all sounded pretty fine to me. I just don't see how those topics relate ...
Yeah I gather that, but if the perturbations are in principle unobservable because they're below the Planck length, it still seems like you could end ...
Attachment to self is much like awareness of self. It’s a thing oneself does, but not doing it doesn’t make oneself not exist, though one may if cours...
Most of that seems to be about the difference between first- and third-person experience, and I don’t think I disagree with it much if at all (to the ...
Well you said one thing is more meaningful than another which implies some way of gauging how meaningful the things are, which is all it means to meas...
It’s important to distinguish between the self as some separate ontological thing that endures despite changes, the self as a first-person perspective...
I haven't read the article yet, but given that according to Noether's theorem time reversibility is equivalent to conservation of energy, does this re...
Having a morbid curiosity about dumb internet sensations, I just tried Googling for info about this, and couldn't find anything that looked relevant. ...
As disappointed as I am with the hundreds of billions being spent bailing out corporations, from what I've read of the hundreds of billions being spen...
I love to sing, and I'm told that I'm quite good at it. I've almost always got music playing in my mind, and if I'm in a good mood and by myself and n...
I think that's accurate, yeah. I used to side with Plato on that in my youth, but now definitely side with Aristotle. I should probably add something ...
That is the relevant part. "Philosophy is a force multiplier to thought" means that thought is able to accomplish greater feats with philosophy than w...
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