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Well, if someone states that: "if the arguments/claims of sceptics are valid/true, then they would refute themselves, therefore they can't be valid/tr...

Reading an article in a magazine about Immanuel Kant when i was 15.

Urgh, fine. Lets talk about the categorical imperative. Oh. :meh:

Hi there. Its possible that we're living in an oscilating universe sure, but that's just one of many possibilities. Its also possible the universe end...

There always are 3 ways to argue, those being defense, attack and counter. Some examples: Defense: You take the counter point of the interlocutor. His...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bukPjk5zdLc

Well... There actually is a difference between episodic memory and declarative memory. While episodic memory deals with past experiences, declarative ...

Well if you want something in line with Kant (and Schopenhauer- to a certain extent), you might want to look into the works of Jakob Friedrich Fries a...

:up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onldyRBXmYs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMVQCHgpYmI&list=PLwfnBRXjFQpLDV6sIpHBNUzWDNS-U6duc&index=1

Steve Joordens has an excellent lecture series on memory over at www.thegreatcourses.com called "Memory and the Human Lifespan".

I'm talking about ascending to a higher plane of existence... It was meant as a joke btw. :wink:

Ascension, obviously. I'm an agnostic btw.

"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." - Ol' Soc.

There are many skillful people who go unnoticed but how many lucky people are bereft of success?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker

For daoism: -"I Ching". -"Daodejing". -"Liezi". -"Zhuangzi". There also are the "Wunengzi" and the "Huahujing", but I don't consider those to be "must...

Yeah I guess. This thread did provide me with an excuse to read some stoic texts again, so there's that. A bit selfish (shellfish? Ok, never mind) but...

Prudent. I'm going to do the same. :)

From Diogenes Laertius' "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" (ch. on Zeno): "Amongst the virtues some are primary, some are subordinate to the...

So, you just changed your initial claim into something else? You first stated that "a core Stoic belief is that wrongdoing is a product of ignorance",...

Err, no. I called out your definition of stoicism as being less than 24 karat. Didn't say anything about you personally though. Besides, even smart fo...

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Same here. :rofl:

What? The claim that the universe is infinite/sufficiently large? He's not referring to that. He's saying that the devil summoning thing, "like all ex...

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Diogenes of Sinope would be making tons of cash as a Youtuber... Crates of Thebes and Hipparchia of Maroneia would get fined for public indecency.

No problem. :)

The whole talk about "possible worlds" isn't an ontic claim, here.

Yeah I got that. Popper was talking about "possible worlds" in the context of modal logic though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possible_world

Here you go, the text in question: "In the text of this chapter I have drawn attention to the criterion of progress and of rationality based on the co...

P. 248 - 250 of "Conjectures and Refutations" ("Appendix: A presumably false yet formally highly probable non-empirical statement").

You asked me what I think scepticism to be. Well, I understand scepticism through the words of actual sceptics. As for stoicism? You don't understand ...

The point? Well, you stated that you take philosophy to be an inquiry into what's true. I decided to offer a counter point with the quote I provided. ...

Booooooo!!!!! :lol:

OK fine. You're wrong. There. Happy? No, I stated that I really don't know that much about "philoosphy". Never said that I don't know much about philo...

Fine. Scepticism is the school of thought founded by Pyrrho of Elis. The generally accepted narrative claims that he was influenced by his encounters ...

Are we reenacting this SNL skit but with philosophy instead of drugs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeTCTARJZm8&feature=youtu.be&t=46 Basically, yea...

Didn't you say: "So, I submit that Stoicism is either the label for a therapy and not a philoosphy..." Oh wait. No, you're right. You where implying i...

Yes you did. :p You do realize that Sextus Empiricus was a sceptic, right? Oh, let me guess. Scepticism also isn't a philosophy. http://www.perseus.tu...

Ban Baden. He's too hypermasculine. :razz:

LOL, this thread. "When people search for something, the likely outcome is that either they find it or, not finding it, they accept that it cannot be ...

I'm self-taught. My main areas of interest are hellenistic philosophy (mostly scepticism. cynicism and stoicism), philosophy of science, daoism and ce...

Nassim Taleb - "The Black Swan" Herbert Marcuse - "One Dimensional Man" Umberto Eco - "Kant and the Platypus" Sextus Empiricus - "Against the Logician...

"Desires are harmful to both body and mind, as Ji Kang emphasizes in “On Nourishing Life.” Purity of being, in contrast, entails the absence of desire...

Wait, this thread isn't about the regress problem? I'm disappointed (not really). Anyway, carry on. :blush:

Look, I have no bone to pick in this discussion since I don't care either way, but that's a textbook ad hominem fallacy. Nice going, there.

I didn't state you shouldn't. I don't think I stated anything of a prescriptive nature in my previous post. Our gloomy existence? My existence isn't a...

Who's to say? They can be harmful if you're overly attached to those dreams, but the same can be said about many things. Those dreams certainly can fu...