T_Clark

You keep saying you're not going to pay attention to me any more, but then you keep sticking your $0.02 in.

You can make any word mean anything you want it to mean by waving your hand at it. Generally, though, when you use a word it makes sense to use it as ...

I brought Collingwood into this discussion because of the distinction between art and craft he made and because he writes that ancient Greeks didn't t...

There you go, being all grouchy and sarcastic and dismissive and stuff.

I don't think that's all there is to it, but I think the definition I gave makes sense. Lot's of others don't agree. We've had long discussions of tha...

"Of or concerning the appreciation of beauty."

I looked him up. I really like the paintings I saw. They all looked like book covers for dystopian science fiction novels.

Classical music was one of the main things I was thinking about when I started this thread. It seems like the place where skill and art come as close ...

I love bridges. Well-built stone structures - Machu Picchu is the most beautiful thing in the world. 2000 year old Roman aqueducts. New England is a g...

Let's see. The guy sitting in the middle back with the big wig is clearly Trump. The guy standing over him with his glass raised is Giuliani. The guy ...

You can't get any better model of something than an artificial copy of it.

I've thought about this. The only real skill I have is writing, but not the kind of writing that would typically be called artistic. I am not particul...

Is this true? Do you have a source for that statement? Seems to me if I could create a perfect copy of the universe, it would be a complete analog sim...

Here's a close-up of one part of the sculpture. https://d3ec1vt3scx7rr.cloudfront.net/files/styles/x_large/s3/files/images/2001/SAAM-2001.67.1_1.jpg?i...

I don't understand. I have ideas all the time. I'm pretty good at putting them into words, but normally I could not express them musically or visually...

Expert artists and connoisseurs are not the only or the primary audiences for most art. Technically perfect art without vision and feeling are sterile...

Yes, I'm sure skill is important to you as an artist, but is there art you would call good for which not much skill is needed? I point back to my post...

On the other hand: /uploads/resized/files/7j/8bm1ocwmpc65otbt.jpg I find this beautiful and moving.

This thread is not for discussion of the validity of materialism. You guys all know that but you’re doing it anyway.

My son is a very big Bruins fan. I grew up in Delaware, where hockey was not a big sport when I was a kid. My father took us to one Colts game a year.

Sorry. Not a hockey fan. But I'm glad to see you have your priorities in the right place.

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Seems I misunderstood what you were trying to say.

Have you read the OP? Have you read the rest of the posts on this thread? If you don't want to play by the terms of discussion I set down, you should ...

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As I said in my original post, the validity of materialism is not the subject of this discussion. It's purpose is to try to identify the absolute pres...

As we have discussed, you and I share an understanding that the idea of causality may not be a useful one. But still, causality has been an important ...

I feel guilty not responding in detail to your post, but, consistent with what you've written, I'll leave it at that.

The "Is there an external physical world" thread is in the middle of a discussion of the validity of materialism right now. I suggest you take your is...

As I've written many times in this thread, this is not a discussion of the validity of a materialist viewpoint.

I'm with you. "Acting as if" is metaphysics. It let's us keep going instead of spending all our time arguing.

Absolute presuppositions can change with changing knowledge. This is not a discussion on the merits of materialism.

This is a discussion of metaphysics before the discoveries in physics of the 20th century were known. Any absolute presupposition has the potential to...

I don't agree. As we approach any problem, ask any question, we have to act as if it's solvable, answerable. If we reach an impasse, we just recalibra...

Then go for it. She is a wonderful writer. I keep wanting to read more of her books, but I can't bring myself to do it. I have two on my shelf my trai...

French is a tough writer. Hard to read. Here is an Amazon review I wrote for her book "The Secret Place." "The Secret Place" is about two Dublin detec...

A line by line response. My responses in italics. 1 - to some degree. As written it sounds like we know we can figure it all out. I guess it probably ...

I like books that take place in other cultures. I just finished the "Night Watch" books by Sergei Lukyanenko translated from Russian. I have also real...

Yes. I'm having a really good time. In particular these last few posts about which of the items on the list are presuppositions and which might be fac...

And that's why Collingwood says it's an absolute presupposition. We can't prove it's true, but we have to act as if it were in order to do science.

I agree. I just went back to look at what lead up to this comment. A few posts back I misunderstood something you wrote. I thought you said the univer...

I love soft-boiled eggs. /uploads/resized/files/02/wxse1q9b5ni3aks6.jpg

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I checked on Amazon. Turns out the book was praised by the International Pulpwood Queen and Timber Guy Book Club. No, I'm not joking. The book sounds ...

Sorry, it was a joke. I am the Philosopher Formerly Known as T Clark.

Yes, I took the concrete path to the goal. You and those philosophers took the abstract path. We all seem to agree there can't be nothing.

This is true. Materialism is a way of looking at things, a point of view. It isn't true or false, it's useful or not useful. The same is true for all ...

Are those guys outside the universe or do you have a point?

I was just reading through the "Does Nothingness Exist" thread. It got me thinking maybe we should add this to our list of absolute presuppositions - ...

In my experience, the subject of nothingness comes up most often when someone asks whether or not something can be created out of nothing. I think the...