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On The Nature of ANCIENT ORAL TRADITIONS When I described all historical documents from the time, I mentioned that Plutarch's Lives, (ca. 200 AD) cont...

well the exact definition has changed over years. When sufficient corroboration has been accumulated, then hypotheses about an abstracted rule for tho...

thank you very much for the references. I have been rather buried in the Nag Hammadi, working on a new English version of the gospel of Thomas which m...

oh ok. There is almost nothing on the subject by comparison in terms of documentation. What we have are rather good archaeological ruins whence events...

thanks fo rthe info. What's the subject?

I think since Wittgenstien in particular, it is philosophically naive to expect that there could be a universally accepted definition of a moral judgm...

well, considering there are going to be about 22 million people unemployed this week, I had thought at least a significant percentage of people would ...

Well I had to think about it, but it seems obvious now, the WORST consequence of Trump has been granting the moral permission to be rude about other p...

Its all my fault. I should never have invented Twitter. Really people should just ignore the man. Instead a gigantic proportion of the USA population ...

qwhich is not an answer to my question and not funny either. Its exactly the kind of comment which I am talking about. I dont know whats goine wrong w...

Actually Einstein has a very philosophical answer for this. When a child asked him to explain his theory of relativity, he replied "you know when you ...

I actually had a bit of a revelation recently on why I like Monet's haystacks so much, in the middle of thinking through ideas of color, so here it is...

I studied philosophy at Oxford for three years and tried to figure out what I was meant to have learned for the next 40 years. If there had been degre...

Im sorry I dont really have much to dsay about religion, except, God has a very bad sense of humor.

Yeah. To declare this general as a legitimate target and not be considered assassinated by other countries, wouldn't they have to hold an internationa...

STOP THE PRESS! STOP THE PRESS! STOP THE PRESS! STOP THE PRESS! Iraq votes to expel US troops from country after Qasem Soleimani killing https://www.m...

I wouldnt consider Thailand a particularly poor nation, although as costs there are the much same as in the USA, and income is as you say is half as m...

I looked on the Web, but I find nothing about the USA stating intentions to rejoin the Paris accord except by democratic presidential candidates, none...

That's true, but people in the USA have this in-built sense of entitlement that has long been fulfilled, leading them it to expect more. But capitalis...

'Material reality' refers to 'the physical world' in philosophy, for example, 'dialectical materialism.'

NO really, I didnt know, lol.

Within a LARGER scope, it could be meaningless or not, depending on your metaphysical position, which ultimately can be no more than belief. Within th...

ooh. I didnt know that. I'll do some reading on it, thank you )

Thats not empirically true. The USA and Nicaragua are the only two nations which did not sign up to the Paris Accord. Everyone else generally agrees t...

It's impossible to say whether things like 'atoms' really exist, nor does it actually matter. An 'atom' is a very simple concept, even meaningless for...

I have another explanation The current generation is not marrying, first because divorce is now so common, and second because its income is lower than...

I would agree that modern propaganda techniques have evolved to the point where it is no longer possible for human reason to defeat it in the USA. I h...

There is no doubt that man is affecting the environment. The greenhouse effect is easily demonstrable in the laboratory, and to deny man is heating th...

First, a fringe element is definitely NOT only 'discussing abstract points about freedom. if you are working in gun control and such gun addicts find ...

Hmm. thank you for your wisdom. I never thought I would say this, but Iran, N Korea, whatever, the sooner they send a whole bunch of young people into...

That''s a very interesting observation. Monasteries and such being very much out of style, you point to a real reason for the apparently increasing am...

what sites do people discuss 2nd amendment without behaving like they could kill someone any day? I have done some work on the topic and I cant find a...

the more it goes up, the harder and longer it goes down.

Im not up on the latest fashion on this topic, but in the 1970s it was a more reductionist view, that is, if we lived in a simulation, it would appear...

it was 'old thought' like Plato too which was generally held to be 'replaced' in the enlightenment by more complete reasoning not reliant on doctrinal...

That doesnt have anything to do with the USA's social contract, so I dont have anything further to say on it.

Well not entirely, because semantic interpretation is also part of formal logic when applied to a natural language, and semantic interpretation is rat...

well Im not sure if everyone agrees that meaning is defined a priori in formal logic, but thank you for the thought )

it took me a little while to realize how funny that is.

ok ) I dont think it would be interesting here, but I do plan to sit some philosophy courses again in the next academic year, and they wanr me to writ...

I ceetainly would appreciate hearing what you think would be the next thing to address on this. Some people already want me to continue the dialectic....

Perhaps we need a formal logic 'on insults'

Can we take a step back a bit and think how people believe Trump's bullshit in the first place. He couldnt get to be President of the United States if...

well thank you there is a section at the end which briefly discusses other work now. If you think of anything else Id be glad to hear it.

we've definitely agreed on the education problem before, and we are both frustrated the same way. What I try to do here is explain why false beliefs c...

Due to similar criticisms of your type, please see answer below. What I did was write a Hegelian dialectic towards a resolution of the issue from the ...

Due to ongoing criticisms of your type, what I did was write a Hegelian dialectic towards a resolution of the issue from the perspective of formal log...

because you clearly do not realize you are not talking to me. Had you read what I wrote, then you could talk to me, but now you are involved in furthe...

Who are you talking to? Because its not me.

As I said, my article is about formal logic. Frankfurt does not address formal logic. This gets boring after a while. Will you please pester someone e...