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This possible mechanism for abiogenesis has been proposed to Gary Enfield many times in this thread. He has no good response. He just goes on saying t...

Thank you very much for this. The Philosopher's Zone is a great show. And they all have those funny accents.

So, do you live in the wilderness and obtain all your food by growing, hunting, and fishing? If no, where do you get your food? Your money - work, inh...

No, I don't see it that way. Religion, philosophy, and science are all ways of understanding the world. They developed out of each other and are all m...

I think you're right. I'll will say one thing more - It may seem flowery, but it is every bit as down-home and hard-headed as any western philosophy. ...

I wouldn't try too hard. If it doesn't grab you, it doesn't. I'm seems like it is the same for those who prefer western philosophy. It grabs them. The...

This is my favorite philosophical quote. It's from Franz Kafka: There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don’t even...

Here's what you wrote in the OP.

Your original post was clear that violence would be an acceptable method if more peaceful ones didn't work. I think it is very unlikely that a more pe...

I don't see religion as something we need to escape from. If we do need to escape from something, @"CallMeDirac"'s way is not the right way. It won't ...

History is less than 10,000 years old. We've been around for more than 200,000 years. Horses, cows, chickens, crows, and sheep are drawn to groups. Wh...

Come on BC, you know this - sex, philosophy, and sports.

I don't agree. Even if I did, that isn't inconsistent with what I wrote. I didn't say that group action leads to love and happiness, only that it is w...

Your plan for action, if it were realized, would lead to wars, massacres, torture, and genocide. All the worst things you want to stop. Meet the new b...

Humans are social animals. We like each other. We like to hang out together. It's who we are and what we do. No way to get away from it, for better or...

I'll give you an engineer's perspective on what it means to be a mother. Your biological mother is, of course, your mother. Beyond that, it is a woman...

Ok. I'll talk about some women: My mother, who died when I was 12. I remember her, but it was so long ago. My brothers and I definitely have a lot of ...

You'll get all kinds of arguments here about whether psychology is a science or not. I come down on "yes," but others will disagree. Your title was 'H...

Agreed. And if you look in discussions of knowledge, that old justified true belief baloney, you don't see that kind of issue addressed.

I think you're being intentionally disruptive, so I flagged your post. Let's see what @"fdrake" thinks.

I'm pretty much Collingwooded out for now.

The obvious question is "Why are you here?"

I laid out all that rigmarole about my history in science and engineering to show I recognize the difficulties in knowing things. I understand the val...

Why do we assume the presuppositions that, often unconsciously, underlie our understanding of the world. Some thoughts. I'm brainstorming - just throw...

I've had to deal with this issue all my professional career - not "When should I doubt" but "When should I believe." Here's how I lay it out to myself...

I think maybe convention, consensus, is the primary reason, although I think spontaneity is part of it too.

Since you haven't read the paper, it doesn't make sense for you to jump in and decide we should be using different words than we are. It's disruptive ...

The obvious question is "Then why are you participating in this discussion?" If you don't like the rules of this particular game, don't play.

You're asking me to describe my whole understanding of reality. Something I've spent the last 30 years thinking about. I came from somewhere probably ...

Now you've got it. That's exactly right. There is no logic in the fundamental metaphysical principles which serve as the basis of epistemology. Only h...

I make no claims about God, gods, souls, reincarnation, or any so-called mystical phenomena. I started as a materialist as a kid and I've never gotten...

That's like asking if there is one robust documented example of anything scientific existing. Science is a way of knowing, not a phenomenon. Ditto wit...

I have started several and participated in several other discussions in the past on this subject. Maybe I will again. Is there a particular source I c...

You say I've committed a fallacy. When people use that word on this forum, they usually mean a logical fallacy. I don't think that's what you're sayin...

I don't necessarily deny it, but I think it's worth thinking about. Maybe we are getting away from the original post.

First off, the idea that causation is not necessary to understand the universe has been around for a long time. It is close to, maybe equivalent to, c...

Good question. I'll respond with another question. If the concept of "existence" didn't exist, would anything exist?

Existence is a human concept. If the universe didn't exist, humans wouldn't exist. If humans didn't exist, existence wouldn't exist. Does that represe...

Wikipedia says - "Logical possibility refers to a logical proposition that cannot be disproved, using the axioms and rules of a given system of logic....

The probability of the world existing is 1. The probability of the world not existing is 0. Any other statement or question about the probability of t...

Thanks. I'll take a look.

When you're done with your cut and paste, please send it out to the rest of us.

I understand that you're not interested in getting into this discussion, but I can't resist responding to this. Yes - any proposed example can be reje...

Do you have a link to the source or sources for your description? I've read "Life's Ratchet" but I wouldn't mind going deeper.

Yeah, there's a lot going on there. It's probably time for me to go back and reread the whole thing.

Now you're just trying to piss people off. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

I'm a bit behind and am catching up on some older posts. This is a good summary of all the things I've been trying to say. I like this too.

Have you made that argument elsewhere in this thread. If so, I've missed it. I'd be interested in taking a look.

Hey @"tim wood", are we allowed to call you "Timmy." At least I capitalized it.

The truth value of absolute presuppositions is at the heart of Collingwood's understanding. You can't toss that out without tossing out his whole argu...