T_Clark

I made a specific claim - that you have made most of your assertions without justification. Do you dispute that? It makes your claims to be a qualifie...

You bring an interesting perspective to the forum. It's a good thing you're here.

As I noted in my post, I was referring to romanticism not as a movement in art but as a nationalistic impulse. I think that impulse can be reflected i...

@"praxis" has a history of making intelligent and useful posts here on the forum. You have... not.

I have not seen any of this vaunted disciplined thinking so far in your posts. You just keep making smug assertions without justification and then acc...

Forgot to include the link I referenced - https://www.tkm.kit.edu/downloads/TKM1_2011_more_is_different_PWA.pdf

Emergence is not a philosophical principle, it's a scientific one, although it is not fully accepted. It has been discussed lots of times here on the ...

Many of the posters before me on this thread have expressed their skepticism about this statement, a skepticism I share. Groups of lesser things creat...

Putin wants to undermine Biden because he wants Trump back in his pocket.

No. Evolutionary biology is science. Philosophy, in the sense we usually use it here, is not science. Unfortunately, I think my statement is ambiguous...

Sorry I come late to this discussion. I've gone through the other comments. Some of them touch on the point of view I see this from. First, I want to ...

Yes, I know what "reductionism" is. Is my statement reductionist?.... I'm not sure. If it is, does that mean it's wrong, misleading, or incomplete?......

Evolutionary biology is not a philosophy of any sort. That doesn't mean it doesn't have anything to tell us about the development of mental phenomena,...

"The axiomatic nature of matter" is a metaphysical presupposition as described by R.G. Collingwood in his "Essay on Metaphysics." It is not true or fa...

Well put and I think it's an important point. What we call reality is at human scale. How could it be anything else?

First off, let me be clear. I believe that consciousness is a neurological, perceptual, psychological process the mechanisms for which have evolved in...

I can. Many people can. Many philosophers reject the need for causation. See B Russell, 1912.

Faith - if by that you mean belief without evidence - no. Faith - if by that you mean belief based on the evidence of personal experience - ok.

Sounds like philosophy to me. Not all of it, but definitely some of it.

I'm not familiar with Plantinga, but from what you've written that sounds like just what I'm talking about.

Agreed.

I had another thought, or maybe it's the same idea as my previous post. I have often thought, and more than once written on the forum, that a belief i...

R.G. Collingwood wrote that one absolute presumption of all science is that God exists. That may seem absurd at first take, but I interpret him as mea...

Much philosophy is dogma and antithetical to philosophy. There are plenty of examples here on the forum. And no, I'm not talking about you.

Hey, @"SwampMan", Banno is full of crap. If you are going to start posts, and you've started three, you should be participating. Banno likes to stick ...

You seem to be just using me as a passive-aggressive way to attack Bartricks. Knock yourself out.

No. As someone who prides himself on time management, i.e. someone lazy, why should I try to answer a question that doesn't need an answer? You and I ...

Yes, I think this is exactly right. It's about awareness. I think the idea of "mindfulness" is a westernization of eastern principles. It's always see...

But I liked your way better.

It may shock you to hear this, but I'm a bit cranky sometimes. On the other hand, three discussions with only a single post beyond the OPs is a bit mu...

1 pizza = good. 2 pizza = 2 x good. 1 NY pizza = very, very good. 2 NY pizza = very, very, very, very good.

No. I'm saying you should have two pizzas. At least two.

Don't order a pizza! Order two. How's that.

So, it's the slate calling the pot blank?

My point from the beginning has been, given the information we have about life and the universe, there is no need to hypothesize teleology, the anthro...

I don't think there is a downward trend. I don't think there is any trend. We have no idea of how rare life is in this universe. Sorry, I don't know w...

I started out with the assumption that there are a finite number of marbles in the box. I chose 1,000 for the illustration because it's a pretty big n...

I don't see any reason to continue with this discussion. We're not getting anywhere.

Thank you for adding a little class to this stupid discussion.

Forgot - Welcome to the forum.

The "problem of evil" argument is one that gets used here often. I don't find it very convincing. Who the heck knows why God does what it does? Unless...

There is another thread on the same subject open now on the forum.

The idea of the Dao, or Tao, was around for a long time before that. Have you read the Tao Te Ching from about 2,000 years earlier. I'm not sure how W...

First, welcome to the forum. Some thoughts: 1. The existence of something depends on the existence of something opposite to it. 2. Pleasure is one of ...

Actually, this is one of my favorite philosophical arguments, as elucidated by that great American philosopher P.W. Herman.

One would have thought so.

You've started three discussions but have only made one comment. You've never commented on the discussions you started other than the opening post. If...

There is a myth about one of the Hindu gods that I like a lot. @"Wayfarer" wrote about it in a previous thread. This god was lonely, so to create some...

They aren't "quibbles." And they aren't arcane, sophisticated mathematics. They are just about the most basic possible statistical and probabilistic j...

Well, I guess the biggest remaining question is whether either of you have a pot that can talk.