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"Spontaneous generation" is another word for "abiogenesis." They mean the same thing. Darwin was very clear in his writings that some mechanism other ...

Perhaps more important, is asking this question racist?

Absolute presuppositions have no truth value. Have you read the Collingswood essay? If so, you clearly misunderstood it. I'd let this argument go, but...

Again, when I use the term "evolution," in this thread I mean descent with modification.

The word "evolution" has a very specific meaning in biology. Darwin called it "descent with modification." It is a process that describes how undirect...

From the original post, Gary Enfield has mistaken the process by which already living species are modified over time, evolution by natural selection, ...

So far, whenever we get to the absolute end of the line on something, it has turned out that there's still more to find.

Except that, as I noted previously, it is at the heart of Collingwood's formulation that absolute presuppositions are not true. You are ignoring the m...

Desire and pleasure have nothing to do with belief. They are completely non-rational. If it is subject to reason, it's not really desire. The only rol...

Well thought through, by which I mean I agree.

You want to intelligently discuss a technical subject, but you don't want to read a technical paper. Instead, you'd rather continue using the word "em...

You got a very flowery translation. You don't strike me as a huggy kissy kind of person. Take a look at the first verse in some of the other translati...

The quotation you provided is pretty dense and convoluted. I don't understand the value of the distinction between the two types of hedonism. They als...

Five days is more than the lifetime of the average thread. As I said, I went back and looked at the OP and various responses. In general, they were re...

You're new to the forum, so you don't know this - I am much more civil in my discussions than I was when I started. I give the forum a lot of the cred...

I didn't particularly like the clothesline analogy, but I don't know why it would be troubling. It isn't central to his argument.

I didn't say anything about you. Didn't name call. I only commented on your response, which was disrespectful to Wayfarer and anyone with religious be...

Have you read the Collingwood essay? I couldn't find an indication in your posts on this thread.

Smug and self-satisfied, but wrong, or at least not right. I think there is a strong metaphysical, but not supernatural, argument for God, or at least...

Here's what I wrote in my first post in this thread: That's a bit vague because I didn't want to come out and say that the two are not related at all....

This is from Wikipedia: In physics, the Planck length, denoted ?P, is a unit of length. It is equal to 1.616255×10?35 m... The Planck length is the sc...

I suggest you go back and read some of the posts in this thread, especially those at the beginning. Your theory is not consistent with the current sci...

I don't think that is an AP. We don't need to go into it any further.

Presuppositions can be beliefs, but APs are not. I'm thinking about whether APs are the same as a priori judgements. I think the answer again is maybe...

This is not the case. I take Collingwood's essay as an invitation to question our absolute presuppositions. I think it's true that they are often unex...

I went back and reread the original post and quickly scanned the other posts in the thread, mine and other peoples. I think the thread is surprisingly...

You can't disagree with him. Collingwood defines absolute presuppositions as having no truth value. What does "absolute belief" mean?

We're not talking about presuppositions. We're talking about absolute presuppositions.

If you and Pantagruel want to misuse words and misrepresent what Collingwood said in a significant way, have at it. I reserve the right to keep pointi...

As I said to Pantagruel, consistent with Collingwood, an absolute presupposition is neither true nor false. It has no truth value. If you and he want ...

As I wrote in one of my posts: As you can see, the discussion is on absolute presuppositions.

You may have missed my point - the Tao Te Ching is short. It's a corollary to Occam's Razor - if you have two books which are otherwise the same, read...

I don't know if you are familiar with Lao Tzu, who wrote the Tao Te Ching. He was the anti-Confucius. Here's my sales pitch for the Tao Te Ching - it ...

Philosophy, in particular western philosophy, has always seemed like a stone wall to me. Hard, rigid, and overbuilt but fun to bounce balls, my ideas,...

To me, the most important insight of Collingwood's essay is that absolute presuppositions are not facts. They are not true or false. They are useful o...

Oh, good. I get to show off my erudition. This is from Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Tao Te Ching: When the Tao is lost, there is goodness. Wh...

I feel the same way. I see that I am one of the most fortunate people in the history of the world, even though there have been some really unhappy par...

Retirement is wonderful. I recommend that everyone retire immediately.

I suggest you read the paper. It's easily available on the web. It's long, but the part that means the most to me is in the beginning, so you don't ha...

These are the absolute presuppositions Collingwood describes for science: /uploads/resized/files/6u/wkc7kfg2gc2dy4bi.png And this is what Collingwood ...

Here's a better link to the article: https://cse-robotics.engr.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/anderson72more_is_different.pdf It discusses how different...

Abiogenesis, the creation of living organisms from non-living matter, as it is currently understood does not involve chemicals grouped together throug...

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no..................................................... Do you believe that good moral beh...

This forum is generally full of sour pusses and depressed introverts. I usually find myself one of the few rosy cheeked, bright eyed romantics. You ma...

What I got out of the essay, whether or not Collingwood actually meant it that way, is that people are likely not to be aware of the suppositions unde...

You were the person who steered me toward Collingwood's essay a few years ago. I know it had a big impact on both of us. My first reaction when readin...

Switzerland has federal and provincial income taxes, although the rates are significantly lower than in the US. There are no capital gains taxes for m...

I've never been and have no desire to go. It pleases me that we live in a world where such a beautiful thing exists.

Science and religion are just expressions of human nature projected onto a world where the don't, can't fit. Humanity doesn't have such a good history...

Are you proposing this as proof of the existence of God?