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Yeah, that one.

Google is failing me, and can't find the quote for some reason, but Nietzsche actually says in the twilight of the idols that the value of life is ine...

I of course agree that Kant contradicts himself throughout his literary progression, but everyone does... or at least ought to.

Yes, I meant Leibniz, not Locke. They begin with the same letter!

Back to work, so not a lot of time for this, will be my excuse, but I'll attempt to explain my understanding of his rejection. Firstly, "inertia" is t...

Understand that both are actually mathematics, but mathematics is pure, and natural science requires empiricism and thus is impure, and the "pure part...

I can outdo both those guys, just gimme a leper.

Dude attained enlightenment from eating a leper's finger once. True story, look it up.

The death of all natural philosophy” (4:544). In a later remark in the Mechanics, Kant explicitly objects that “the terminology of inertial force (vis...

As for the Einstein link you can see that Einstein was a fan and read the CPR as a teen, there's also that quote stealing thing, but mostly I just thi...

Firstly he reminds us that thoughts of empirical concepts take place in a three dimensional void, which is logical, and then we construct physical obj...

I didn't mention this earlier because I wanted to see where it was going, but Kant rejected a lot of Newtonian principles, and most of the principles ...

How do we honestly confront the problem? Genocide them for thought crimes? Serious question... isn't that crazy asshole a maniac?

Gotta get all your senses in there, need to be sure.

I've never read the quran, but my understanding is that it's just one big monologue of God talking. The theological debate being over whether a lot of...

Kant's epistemic foundation for science, or empiricism is mathematics. If it can't be rendered mathematically, then it isn't science. As science does ...

I can't even pronounce those places, and of course looked them up, but I knew he'd traveled some, and didn't like to be tied down by much, kind of big...

Except that Kant also worked in Veselovka, and Jarno?towo, and biographies like to paint pictures.

I mean, they even had boats... it was just a different kind and size of boat... One would think that an alien craft or species would be far more diffi...

Maybe like the "somebody else's business" cloaking device from the Hitch Hiker's Guide. It was probably just so fucked up and crazy to them, so overwh...

Then I would prefer to call it an acquired smell.

There's no place like great smelling home. Not enough info on the peaceful planet, it could still suck there.

I take offense to that, the eye smell is a serious medical condition.

You said that exact thing about Israel already.

Lot of Kant bashing going on, but on the up side lots of different people posting. If Kant is actually an idiot, then that would explain a lot...

I said "I think" rather than that's a fact. I think it for various reasons, but mostly because philosophy is supposed to be about the true and the goo...

That is a thing, I've heard of that... from now on whenever things don't work out I'll take it as a compliment from the universe.

It's basically Platonism, only we can't actually know the categories, but they still exist. What it means is that we can think the same thing, and it ...

No, Kant isn't saying that we can't get outside the categories of thought, he's attempting to secure their objectivity in the face of Hume's critique ...

I saw a studied that suggested that dumber people were more dishonest. They gave them a die, and asked them to go in a private box that actually was a...

We're way better than chimps at it... probably...

I think that it's more useful to overestimate than to underestimate. People are getting stuff by you constantly, all the time. So much meaning in thei...

Kind of both, or not really different. We know what things mean and imply for us. What things are good, and what things are wicked, and it is both in ...

It's because we love ourselves so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHJZayjj-Ps

I'm the normalest. I'm uniquely exceptional at being normal.

Corrupting the youth.

I don't think that it's helpful to talk about morality abstractly, or divorced from demonstration, from a direct expression of your own life -- maybe ...

The ironic thing is that the very concept of freedom coincides the concept of slavery. To be free meant to be sovereign, precisely to not have a lord.

I think it's nonsense because "free will" is vague, and I think something like constrained intentions. We can't freely will things, except in some ima...

I get called it because I go on long extensive moralizing diatribes, and cultural critiques. Also the weed...

Usually it takes the truth to fool me.

I don't like animal testing... I have a personal aversion to it. Most of the time, I don't think that it demonstrates much, and is always a fucking ho...

Yeah, being in a cage surrounded by intentional agents and artificial equipment, with entirely random food delivery completely beyond your control, an...

Then I just reiterate, that the study doesn't actually demonstrate anything other than that birds can be wrong, and we can trick them. Other than that...

How long did the pigeons' superstitions persist? A week? A year? Their whole lives?

Kind of reminds me of this documentary I once saw about squirrels. They said that the fuzzies buried like 200k nuts or something crazy, a summer, and ...

With anything like financial advice, or sports team betting, all they have to beat is chance. A 51% success rate is still making money. What's awful, ...

My earlier post may have been too rationalist, or theoretical. I think that there is a domain of experience that isn't subject to categorization, or q...

I think that it's a side-effect of our inability to distinguish between correlation, and causation. Depending on the personal significance, a causativ...