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Borraz

['Member']Joined: March 25, 2020 at 23:47Last active: April 03, 2020 at 20:231 discussions28 comments
Location: Saturn

Bio

I am an atheist by the grace of God.

Favourite Philosopher

Plato, Aristotle and Kant.

Favourite Quotations

- It wasn’t a greeting. I was drowning.
- I only know that I know nothing. And how do I know? I don’t know.
- I was born Spanish. I have lived being Spanish. I will die being Spanish. Some people definitely have no ambition.
- Knowledge was chasing me, but I went too fast.
- Stop the world, I’m getting off.

Discussions (1)

Comments

In: ?????? - Basis for Modern Science?  — view comment
"OK -- why? This isn't an argument. You're offering nothing here, etc" Because you ask about very elementary things. I leave the reference and read yo...
April 01, 2020 at 08:52
In: ?????? - Basis for Modern Science?  — view comment
It is a fascinating book. Karl wanted to leave something good in the world. Enjoy it. http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/261949001687-0-1/s-l1000.jpg
March 31, 2020 at 21:21
In: ?????? - Basis for Modern Science?  — view comment
Excuse me, but saying that contemporary science has something to do with the Greek concept of nature, perhaps, probably indicates that one has vague i...
March 31, 2020 at 20:33
In: ?????? - Basis for Modern Science?  — view comment
It is an elemental conception of the 20th century. Please read: Popper, K. R. (2002): Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography, London & N.Y.: Rou...
March 31, 2020 at 19:04
In: ?????? - Basis for Modern Science?  — view comment
I think that the relationship between a proposition and what it enunciates, is analogous to the relation between the written words and the letters use...
March 30, 2020 at 23:17
In: Please help me find a quote from ancient Greece. We'll discuss it later.  — view comment
Pl., Cra., 402 a8 - a10. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plat.+Crat.+402a&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0171 https://c2.staticflickr.c...
March 29, 2020 at 14:30
In: Identity consolidation.  — view comment
I had a text analysis teacher who said that no one consolidates identity except assholes. At school we all distinguish assholes, but then we enter ado...
March 28, 2020 at 23:41
In: What evidence could we have that things really are as they seem when that's all evidence is?  — view comment
Read "Proof on a External World" in Moore, G.E. (1959): Philosophical Papers, VII, London: G Allen & Unwin Ltd.
March 28, 2020 at 16:35
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
In my world, no one talks about politics or religion. We prefer to keep friends. It is a naturally diminishing whole. Be good.
March 27, 2020 at 23:34
In: What did you mean by "believe"?  — view comment
The terminological debate makes sense to philologists. However, a philosopher who has replaced real problems with grammatical problems, has been lost....
March 27, 2020 at 21:28
In: What did you mean by "believe"?  — view comment
"The use of the word "believe" for hunch, or guess, or estimate, or so many other words is fine...except there are times when it makes more sense to u...
March 27, 2020 at 20:07
In: Simple proof there is no infinity  — view comment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_number
March 27, 2020 at 19:47
In: Simple proof there is no infinity  — view comment
It is not a conjecture. There is proof that between two real numbers there is always another real number. That is valid in base 10 and, in Spanish, in...
March 27, 2020 at 18:31
In: Aristotle: “Poetics”  — view comment
The "Poetics" of Aristotle is perhaps the text that best preserves the style of the author. All the others were retouched by his disciples, normalizin...
March 27, 2020 at 16:29
In: What are the First Principles of Philosophy?  — view comment
Saint Thomas would say that all human conduct is explained in terms of three capital sins: greed, lust, and anger. The police work alike. All crime is...
March 27, 2020 at 09:45
In: What are the First Principles of Philosophy?  — view comment
Capitalism, as the dominant economic system, is not responsible for all the problems that one has with one’s partner...
March 26, 2020 at 23:33
In: What are the First Principles of Philosophy?  — view comment
Ok. If I were Saint Thomas (or simply, F. Copleston) I would tell you that the only non-fictional object is God. And your abduction, in that case, wou...
March 26, 2020 at 21:31
In: What are the First Principles of Philosophy?  — view comment
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
March 26, 2020 at 21:26
In: What are the First Principles of Philosophy?  — view comment
"The a priori unchanging structures of the eternal aspect of existence"... The heaviest syntagm I've ever read. You assume that there are structures, ...
March 26, 2020 at 19:50
In: Do colors exist?  — view comment
Correction: "Homer expresses it when Athena removes the mist that covered the eyes of Diomedes" Sorry.
March 26, 2020 at 14:39
In: Do colors exist?  — view comment
Both propositions are plausible. Homer expresses it when Athena takes away the mist that covered her eyes (Il., V 128-129). Human beings do not see we...
March 26, 2020 at 13:48
In: What can logic do without information?  — view comment
"What can logic do without information?" Logic is information.
March 26, 2020 at 12:11
In: How Do You Know You Exist?  — view comment
No one exists. We are misinformed corpses.
March 26, 2020 at 11:53
In: What are the First Principles of Philosophy?  — view comment
As far as I have read, in metaphysics one should not speak of first principles, but rather of first objects. That is, the world, the soul and God.
March 26, 2020 at 11:51
In: What does Nietzsche mean by this quote?  — view comment
Could you indicate the specific appointment, please? Nietzsche didn't write in English. See: http://www.nietzschesource.org/#eKGWB
March 26, 2020 at 11:47
In: Truth  — view comment
The truth is like a bus. At every stop, some things get on and some things get off. But the route is always unique.
March 26, 2020 at 00:04
In: Simple proof there is no infinity  — view comment
Infinity is something else. Somewhere, in the number pi, are all the phrases you have uttered during your life and, moreover, in the same order in whi...
March 26, 2020 at 00:01
In: The fundamental question of Metaphysics: Why something rather than nothing  — view comment
"Why is there something rather than nothing? was labeled as the fundamental question of metaphysics by Martin Heidegger". That question was raised by ...
March 25, 2020 at 23:52
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