It's not so much a question of "why the Greeks", as it is a question of "why the Athenians", in my opinion. Yes, I know that the Milesian school, the ...
Heh, no problem. :wink: The philosophy in the "I Ching" seems to have a very odd way of looking at human life, in the sense that it seems to claim tha...
I'm fairly knowledgeable about the "I Ching"... :) The origination of the "I Ching" is generally attributed to Fuxi, a mythical figure from the dawn o...
Yeah, multiple times. I went to a protestant school as a kid, and during that time I went on a trip to Hong Kong. Got familiar with Chinese folk relig...
:grin: I'm probably more like how Ariston described Arcesilaus (ch. 33, book 1 of the "Outlines"): "And this was why Ariston described him as "Plato t...
That's actually from the "Phenomenology of Perception" by Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Minus the beard and moustache. That's how he describes consciousness ...
Here's a list of the lecture series I own. Most are by the Teaching Company and the Modern Scholar. On Biology: Basics Of Genetics Biological Anthropo...
"Our next subject will be the end of the Sceptic system. Now an "end" is "that for which all actions or reasonings are undertaken, while it exists for...
Right. A scifi computer could run a scifi simulation. But even a matrioshka brain would require tons of ecc memory (or it's scifi equivalent) to count...
Yeah. I'm talking about the relationship between the simulation and the simulated. But apparently your notion of "simulation" doesn't require actual i...
So you're saying that chaos theory is irrelevant when discussing simulations of the world? K. I think you and I are done talking about this topic then...
There's a reason why weather forecasts become increasingly unreliable the further one goes into the future. And that's just the weather. This problem ...
Maybe if you're really careful. Probably not. Talking about informal fallacies, here. Depends on the audience and arena. "Good", as in, convincing? Th...
I'm Dutch. Or more precisely, I'm Chinese, but I live in the Netherlands. Uh, sure. When does this happen? Whenever I'm doing something involving the ...
So, according to Sextus Empiricus, this is what sceptics, well, did: "Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judge...
OK, some rhetorics 101 here. It's not about being abusive. It's about projecting an arrogant posture, that infuriates the opposition so you get to arg...
OK. "The Dao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Dao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name." -"Daodej...
Well, I don't. I just state how things appear to me in the present moment. Probably because I take the problem of induction and the regress problem a ...
-"Outlines of Pyrrhonism" book 3, specifically ch. 25 ("Whether there is an art of living"). ch. 26 ("Whether people acquire the art of living") and c...
Forum discussions have a peculiarity in that the form is private, while the arena is public. We tend to argue in an informal way without a real arbite...
Right, we shouldn't ignore Libets experiments in my opinion. We should however ignore gross misrepresentations of his outcomes. Libet himself is a pro...
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