T Clark mentioned that: In the "The importance of psychology" thread, which made me think of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKcevMFUCo Note that my...
So, just Popper. OK then. What's behind the event horizon of a black hole? Is it a singularity or a fuzzball? How would you empircally verify this? No...
Yes, lets stop beating around the bush. What does it mean for a theory to be scientific in light of the works of Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Polanyi, Wo...
I already mentioned completely different lines of inquiry which started with the fathers of the field in my initial post in this thread. If you keep o...
I was responding to your claim that "psychology is simply mythology in modern form". The stuff I mentioned provided enough points to show that no, it ...
This is like basing your entire opinion regarding philosophy on just Parmenides or something. Both his contemporaries and his succesors where involved...
I'm Chinese. I'd love to discuss this topic with you, but you know, my accent gets in the way. Oh wait. I don't care about this topic. OK. Never mind ...
-"Outlines of Pyrrhonism" by Sextus Empiricus -"Phenomenology of Perception" by Maurice Merleau-Ponty -"Discipline and Punish" by Michel Foucault -"St...
A "troll" is someone who trolls. A definition of a "troll" isn't particularly useful imho, since the act of trolling can be engaged in by anyone, real...
As stated by Wayfarer, the term was coined by Brentano, in his "Psychology From an Empirical Standpoint", in a chapter where he's trying to outline wh...
:up: Same here. :smile: I don't know either but I think its somewhat of a disservice to both Democritus and Pyrrho to only focus on the eastern link. ...
Most of the time people focus on the link between scepticism and the east but scepticism also is linked to (pre-socratic) Greek philosophy; Pyrrho is ...
It's a tactic, sure, but a particularly lowbrow one at that. It also precludes the discussion from flowing in a "civilized" manner, especially when bo...
... No, not in particular. ... No. ... No, I don't think so. So, what do I know? I don't. I don't even know if I know nothing. It's of no concern to m...
There are several angles one can take when it comes to the relationship between the "I Ching" and the "Daodejing" in my opinion: -Li Er (historical La...
Hi! Ooh the Terebess site looks nice! Thnx for the heads up and thank you T Clark for providing the link! Google Translate? I've found that DeepL usua...
So, uh, yeah. I guess I'll chime in. First off, here: https://www.yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/daodejing.php That website contains 3 translations of the...
So. There's a hexagram in the "I Ching" which deals specifically with (youthful) fools (Hexagram 4, "youthful folly"), the way they act, the way they ...
...I don't. Also, hi. :smile: You're contrasting truth with lies, here. So are we talking about epistemological/scientific/psychological "truth", or a...
Does listening to lecture series count? Well, whatever. :razz: Currently going through the following: -James Hynes, "Writing Great Fiction: Storytelli...
Us, as a species, capable of selecting competent leadership? HA! No. Moral leadership then? HAHAHA no. Just take a look at our current leaders and the...
. "What's a philosopher?" said Brutha. "Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting," said a voice in his head. "An infidel seekin...
"The history of research into the philosophy of language is full of men (who are rational and mortal animals), bachelors (who are unmarried adult male...
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