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I appreciate the offer, but I wasn’t looking for specific help—more just a general idea of how to proceed. Also—can guarantee you there’s not much int...

I have no doubt it wouldn’t end well for whoever kidnapped him, but I was asking myself the question because I wanted to think about how I’d react. If...

I’m looking for some advice on a technical issue. My brother just received several hundred pages of notes on my ancestry on my father’s side. It is al...

I wonder how many Americans would celebrate if a foreign country kidnapped Donald Trump, and took him to the Hague for prosecution for war crimes.

@"Banno" We’ll save Australia. Wouldn’t wanna hurt no kangaroos.

Don’t forget Canada.

Oh, wait, I think that’s your line.

Of course I do, and don’t call me Trudy.

Although I appreciate your thoughtfulness.

No. I said I don’t want to discuss it further now. I didn’t say I minded if someone else does.

Truely, you h… Oh, wait. Never mind.

Are you saying if reality is becoming, there is no unity?

This is from Jan 2--US seeks unpaid local interns at Greenland consulate as annexation threats loom

It will be fun interesting to watch.

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/download/2705/YGID%20small.png I'm glad to see I wasn't too obscure.

Maybe I was a bit obscure. Perhaps someone else can explain.

If I were Denmark, I’d be shitting my pants.

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

I am not interested in participating in a discussion on this at the moment.

You seem to be assuming I’m not already on thorazine.

As I indicated, I don’t think this is the correct threat for that discussion. If you want to start a new one, I will participate.

One knows things in dreams.

Are you saying astronomy isn’t science? We’ve had discussion here before about what’s included in science and what isn’t. They’re never very fruitful....

Makes sense to me.

I dream and remember my dreams often. They’re usually what I call anxiety dreams— you know, final exams, and I haven’t been to class since the first d...

I don’t see it that way. Science looks for knowledge—not the same as truth. And as Collingwood wrote:

Clearly, I disagree, although many people feel is you do.

I don’t think so. If you were asking whether or not, it’s true, perhaps. But you don’t have to do that in order to reject it. You can just say it does...

@"Corvus" I've been rethinking this exchange between us. I think I jumped on it to quickly. Yes, investigating absolute presuppositions is a worthwhil...

I didn’t mean what I said as criticism and I don’t discuss my relationship with my children in neurological terms. The message I get from Collingwood ...

There is only a contradiction because you don’t accept the possibility that mental processes can be understood in terms of physical, chemical, biologi...

I like this metaphor. Agreed. Beyond that, just because you and I might agree that absolute presuppositions are not true or false, most people probabl...

Agreed—none of them are provable. But keep in mind that neither Burtt nor I claim the absolute presuppositions in the list are correct or the best one...

Yes. Commitment to an ontology limits the kinds of questions we can ask. This is the issue I’m struggling with. Is there a difference between a method...

Exactly.

So let’s look at it from the other direction. Collingwood and I say an absolute presupposition doesn’t have to be true, it has to be logically efficac...

Agreed. When I say “science” I think of searching for knowledge following rigorous standards— more rigorous than most of our everyday thinking. Scienc...

Your understanding of metaphysics is different from Collingwood’s and mine. Or at least my understanding of Collingwood’s understanding. This is not h...

Well put. Good point. This is something I’ve wrestled with. I used to say epistemology should be considered part of metaphysics. I mostly stopped sayi...

That’s not a presupposition, it’s a definition. I think that’s right, but it misses the point. In order to say you’re following the scientific method,...

To oversimplify—metaphysics is the owner’s manual for science.

That's a very long story which I have discussed in many threads in the past. I don't want to go into it in detail here, but here's a brief summary fro...

Your understanding of metaphysics is different from mine.

I explicitly stated that was the case in the OP and elsewhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHgfa57S9c8

Here’s what Burtt has to say about primary and secondary characteristics.

Your comments haven’t been helpful or responsive.

Yes. And nicely put.

I disagree that it matters in this discussion. What does it have to do with the issues on the table? What does it change in the discussion going on? W...

Agreed.