what you are actually talking about is not the natural fallacy, it is what has been called, for some 900 years, 'promulgation.' This is commonly attri...
The first computer game I ever played was Ultima VII, which was in our test suite while developing the Pentium I at Intel. Since then I only really en...
I listened for 10 minutes to hear him finally skip Plotinus, Proclus, and other such thinkers to go straight to Constantine, who any scholar would onl...
The scientific methodology is only successful with honesty. Science is an empirical system where the results of many small experiments, each relying o...
I had a very long debate with my cat about this. When the stray first started to live me, he would often come to say thank you after I fed him, purrin...
You are making an assumption that such a thing as 'the drinking class' actually had any objective existence at all. I don't see why you need to be so ...
For basic scientific statements about various experiences and illusion related to color perception, see:for example: http://www.archimedes-lab.org/col...
I should add, it is amazing how much that is misunderstood even now. Take Rothko, for example, who was an artist interested only in large swathes of c...
Thats exactly what I am saying. Red paint contains pigments which appear red in daylight. But in other lighting conditions, the red paint can appear t...
This discussion often misses the point of absorption and emission spectra. the 'actual' color depends on the lighting conditions. Sometimes we know it...
Well, this started with a debate on another forum as to whether natural law exists at all. I read quite a bit of hostile and mostly ignorant remarks o...
What? You are talking about a people whjo believed from childhood that there were Gods everywhere. There was a separate God for every single mountain ...
That was a discussion of the alchemical idea that the world was made of atoms, with coarser atoms making matter and finer atoms making the soul. It wa...
Well, I think it is obvious from reading Aristotle. He admires the religious traditions in the poetics, for example, but has nothing to say on the God...
Aristotle was a traditionalist. He did not deny the existence of gods or fate in the afterlife and left the topic very much to religious faith rather ...
What I did, as this didnt go the way I expected, was start another thread, for which the prior paragraph in this thread will be a preface: http://thep...
lol, but that assumes you actually have a will in that which you learn, an assumption missing from Japanese thought. They have no concept of self. The...
Philosophically speaking, the 'post truth' phenomenon is nothing new. It is just a label for something that has become more apparent to more people re...
I guess I should explain. It does not really matter what the motive is. Natural law is based on the idea of certain inalienable truths arising from th...
Excuse the multiple posts, but also I think there is a fundamental myopism reflected in the topic title itself. Semantics tends to concern itself pure...
Well I disagree on that. The idea of 'dubbing' as an act of naming is extensible to naming many objects besides the assignment of proper names. I thin...
I agree. I did write a comment in response to Trump's speech on Tuesday, which transpired to be very popular, so I published it on my blog. I hope you...
The lack of there being any underpinning to a floating morass of specious values explains how those with the talent to think are so often reduced to c...
Well I put a year into writing on social contract theory. What you will find is that modern culture has very little tolerance for ideas such as natura...
Well, I think now that different people, who have reached different points of evolution in their thought, have their own views, and it's rarely helpfu...
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