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Do you think this is the kind of process that science could explore? If not, why not? You mentioned maths being the mere scaffolding. But even if math...
November 14, 2019 at 02:56
Have you by chance looked into A Thing of This World? It's quite a production. As impressed as I was by the gallery of anti-realists, I still had the ...
November 14, 2019 at 02:49
I agree. I think a pre-theoretical version of realism is inescapable. It's how we ordinarily think and talk. At the same time, anti-realism makes some...
November 14, 2019 at 02:42
Indeed, it seems that @"Gus Lamarch" is doing a kind of more abstract but essentially Ayn-Randian philosophy. Its something like the exaggerated essen...
November 13, 2019 at 23:31
I favor a linguistic approach to this issue. What exactly do we mean by 'being' and 'independent'? In my view we are never and even can never be done ...
November 13, 2019 at 23:05
Excellent post. But what we do make of the brain? This constituted object is also constituting.
November 13, 2019 at 23:00
I sometimes see a craving for homogeneous culture, perhaps with more tradition and even with less social mobility. I chalk this up to some degree to s...
November 13, 2019 at 07:21
For me the issue is why we need or trust the manifestation of DNA to tell us that life is an experiment or a gift. As humans we can consider both poss...
November 13, 2019 at 07:10
Excellent post. The tricky part is What can this world-beyond-all-carving be if not a kind of internal suspicion within our systematic carving-up of t...
November 13, 2019 at 06:55