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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFfS7yUJWH0

No, I don't think so. Just take a look at Adam Savage, Ben Heck, the guys over at Man at Arms: Reforged or the hackers at DEFCON. http://www.tested.co...

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Philosophy as a science. Lol. Yeah, no. Philosophy is inherently unparadigmatic. It might even be considered proto paradigmatic in certain cases. The ...

No, and I've been trying for over 18 years now. Protip: Check if you're smoking an Indica or Sativa and check the thc/cbd ratio if possible. CBD has a...

Maybe the problem is the notion of "absolute certainty", not scepticism. I don't. I retooled to scepticism years ago. We become sceptics and attain at...

No, that was Pyrrho of Elis. He's considered the first Greek sceptic. He met several wise men (gymnosophists, magi) in the east during his travels wit...

Yeah I'm sure some internet rando like yourself knows more about these matters than someone actually active in the field. Bye now.

Don't try to shift the burden of proof. You made the controversial claim, you prove that we are all supposedly in agreement. And no, you didn't do tha...

Well, we don't have any working definition of what a thought is or what an idea is, on a neurological level. According to Jaron Lanier. https://www.yo...

Well, it pays when you know philosophy is mostly about problems, so I suggest diving straight in with an easy one. The problem of the historical Socra...

Classical scepticism/daoism. I'm basically against prescriptive ethics, dualistic value judgement systems etc. 8-)

Uh, sure. I don't know much about that dude so didn't mention him. :)

No, we're not.

Well, apart from the people I already mentioned (Arcesilaus and Karneades where scholarchs of the Academy), Cicero also went to the Academy during his...

Umm, no. Popperians wouldn't claim so either: "I had become interested in the problem of induction in 1923. Although this problem is very closely conn...

The stoics traced their lineage back to Socrates: Zeno of Citium was a student of Crates of Thebes, who supposedly studied under Diogenes of Sinope wh...

No. Why? Problem of induction and black swan events.

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

Neither good nor it's supposed opposite. Those concepts are meaningless to me in regards to self evaluation. By what measure do you judge someone or y...

Something Antisthenes said: "Take your most solid arguments and build a castle on them".

How to deal with bad philosophy? You moonwalk away without breaking eye contact.

The problem of induction is most clearly stated by Sextus Empiricus imho, and he was writing well before Hume: "It is also easy, I think, to find faul...

"Hexagram 1, nine in the third place means: All day long the superior man is creatively active. At nightfall his mind is still beset with cares. Dange...

If I told you, I'd be telling.

Are psychedelics useful? Well, if you're philosophically inclined, sure. Not so sure about if you're not, though. What people can get through psychede...

I sometimes post on here, too. Currently busy playing Overwatch though, so there's that.

While I think sensory apperception is a thing, I don't think cognitive apperception is: When one of our senses receive an impulse, there is a moment w...

I'm not saying anything about physicalism one way or the other. What I am pointing out however, is that the distinction between physical and mental ph...

"Intentionality", eh? Let's see about that: "Every idea or presentation which we acquire either through sense perception or imagination is an example ...

I guess. You hear it often enough in commentaries.

"... And the punch connected."

The Century of the Self: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s Sut Jhally - Advertising & the Perfect Storm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNy...

"This hexagram is made up of broken lines only. The broken lines represents the dark, yielding, receptive primal power of yin. The attribute of the he...

Yin and Yang refer to "heaven" and "earth", "the creative" and "the receptive", chapters 1 and 2 of the "I Ching". Ancient Chinese cosmology was based...

Well, I particularly like chapters 5 and 11: "Heaven and earth do not act from (the impulse of) any wish to be benevolent; they deal with all things a...

It's not so much about sex as it is about selling things. Sexual imagery merely is a means to an end in that regard. Not really meant to arouse in its...

I have, now. :D

There's a daoist poet, Ruan Yi, who lived during the tail end of the Three Kingdoms period in China. He compared the situation to snakes congregating ...

Well, if the only choices you have are sociopaths, delusional idealists and morons, the morons don't seem that bad. But in all seriousness, I wouldn't...

I always figured only sociopaths and delusional idealists applied for the job. Morons work too, though.

Did you call any of the moderators a nazi yet? That's like a tradition when filing a complaint against them on philosophy boards everywhere...

There really isn't much to go on. We have the account of Sima Qian, and... that's about it. The rest is conjecture, and even Sima Qians account doesn'...

That's classical scepticism, not whatever Hume was doing: "Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgements in an...

Being familiar with the symbology employed in ancient Chinese discourse is your best bet. You get this through the "I Ching" and the "Shang Shu". It's...

We're going to do chapter 28? OK, let's do chapter 28. I'll go through it line by line, or at least, part of it. Here's the complete chapter: "Who kno...

I tend to agree with classical scepticism, which means that I prefer postponing judgement. I stand firmly on my "maybes". That means the opposite of m...

Well, I don't dislike him. I've read his extant fragments but never really bothered reading beyond that.

Happy new year folks!

I'm not very fond of confucianism in general. Besides, I don't think Confucius was a confucianist. Dude was into Chinese naturalism. His "Analects" ta...