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I admire that (although I just bought a car.) But I also gloomily realise the truth of the old maxim about the patterns being set in early childhood, ...

I wonder if that shows up here:

‘Hiding behind Wittgenstein’s skirts’, as one of our illustrious contributors once quipped.

Make the case, then.

Logic was codified by Aristotle and his successors in the context of an assumed ontology and metaphysics which was to become an integral part of the C...

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What has really changed between ancient philosophy and our own day is due to the advent of modernity and the ascendancy of individualism. It is, in ph...

Transcendent yet immanent. Something the 'new atheists' could never comprehend. Have a look at The Theological Origins of Modernity, Michael Allen Gil...

It may not be an exact quote but the book I mentioned says which is pretty well exactly what I said. There's another account of the same idea on the t...

My take is - and this is another digression, but what the heck - there is no electron until it is measured. Until it is measured, what exists is a dis...

Good to know. I started with 3.5 but upgraded to the paid version a few months later. I don’t really have a justification for the subscription - it’s ...

Don’t confuse apathy Stoic ‘apathia’ with mere indifference or ennui. It’s more like the ability to rise above personal emotions and pettiness. I thin...

as you probably know Bernardo Kastrup has published a book on him, Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics, which compares his ideas favourably which thos...

'Reflecting on the general nature of experience' is an empiricist argument, but it is something that already requires the capacity for judgement. John...

I don't agree, although I also don't think it's of particular relevance. I agree that some experiments and observations demonstrate a kind of 'proto-r...

Tell me, then, exactly where this goes wrong:

The fact that you think all the sources I cite are mistaken, would be a major one. I can tolerate disagreement, but not pointless arguments, of which ...

I have provided references to many other sources, including, in this instance, Frege, Russell, Nagel, and Advaita Vendanta. I believe that I make a co...

Yes I think I'd go along with that. I think Plato would recognise it as the initial stirrings of anamnesis.

Yes. There's also the passage which I've quoted to you and elsewhere on this forum: Notice from the SEP entry on Schopenhauer: So, important to regist...

Unfortunately I don't have the rhetorical skills to fend of such exalted polemics. And, as always, you declare what you yourself don't understand as t...

I am interested in discussing ontology. By the way I checked in with ChatGPT about the relevance of quantifier variability, which produced some useful...

As I also noted somewhere in this thread, I am using the term slightly differently to Kant. Some points from the wiki article on noumenon: However, th...

Obviously a very meaty paper, I have found it and will peruse it later. My initial response is simply that I never deny the fact of objectivity or fac...

That it’s the kind of thing a Parmenides would say? Not two kinds but two levels, phenomenal and noumenal - and the role of the mind in synthesizing t...

:up: Alan Watts is well worth reading. He has had new generations of readers since his death.

Machines are artefacts, are they not? I'd be interested in your take on this paper I often cite, Frege on Knowing the Third Realm, Tyler Burge - about...

You always argue from an unquestioned empiricism and can’t see how anything that challenges that can ‘make sense’ in your terms. There are things you ...

I would like to believe that this position is nearer to Kant’s transcendental idealism. There’s no way I posit anything like Descartes ‘res cogitans’ ...

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I presented the argument here https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/902998 which was somehow misconstrued as Cartesian dualism, although w...

:ok: From an essay on the issue: Actually I think there’s a sensible answer to that question, which is that empiricism is tremendously effective at fi...

That's not my claim. It is in the article that I referred to, The Indispensability Argument in the Philosophy of Mathematics. That article says that m...

I've learned that the dissident theological movement, Radical Orthodoxy, sees Duns Scotus' univocity (in combination with Ockham's nominalism) as the ...

What I see is only that the causal sequence that gave rise to life and mind didn’t commence with the formation of earth, or the formation of stars. Bu...

Only in your misreading of them. A perceptive reader would notice a much closer resemblance to form-matter dualism which is quite a different thing to...

Nothing whatever to do with Cartesian dualism, which never made any such distinction. //but thank you all the same//

It is well known that the 'four noble truths' of Buddhism begin with the observation or axiom that life is suffering - the Buddhist term is 'dukkha' w...

You might be pleased to learn that the inestimable value of each human life was a foundational principle of the great philosopher Immanuel Kant. He ar...

Thanks for that, we have some agreement. Maybe to you the issue I'm commenting on 'goes without saying' but I think there's something that needs to be...

It was never intended to, but it’s occupied the space left by the collapse of creation mythologies.

I’m not arguing in favor of it. I’m asking why it’s even necessary. I’m questioning the claim that ‘according to our best epistemic theories, mathemat...

Indeed you are. I will reply later, dealing with domestic duties today. Take it aside and explain to it the meaning of ‘prime number’.

And Lloyd Gerson lays out the thesis, in Platonism and Naturalism: The Possibility of Philosophy, that (1) philosophy proper is Platonist, and (2) is ...

How am I defending it? I’ll come back to this later.

Do you agree or disagree that mathematical knowledge is incompatible with ‘our best epidemic theories?’ That is the point on which the argument hinges...

Fair enough - but it’s not ‘my article’, it’s an encyclopedia article on a genuine controversy. Why it’s a controversy, and what the implications are,...

Phenomena - apparent, appearing Noumenal - object of nous/intellect Imaginary - fictional and literary

Really? Where do I sell? In any case, once it's posted, it's published, to all intents and purposes, in that anyone can read the posts here, even if o...

That they have a common reference, that the value of a number is not a matter of opinion or choice. I would like to say 'objective' but I don't think ...