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Trump’s candidacy is not official until the Nominating Convention in July in Milwaukee. And a lot could happen between now and then. At the 2016 conve...

Like others, I can't understand why Trump is attracting support. Do the people supporting him really understand what he says he will do? Are they OK w...

Hi and welcome to Philosophyforum. Good intro, but it might be good to flesh it out a little. Maybe lead with a few more reasons supporting that concl...

Could you elaborate a little on how you interpret 'by virtue of the absurd' in that quotation? Thanks.

Well, this post is idiosyncratic, and contains a great many sweeping statements and value judgements. The use of the word 'thought' is not well-define...

:up: Right, had missed that comment. Thank you.

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but the idea bears resemblance to the classical conception of substance (ouisia).

I'm reading a book I was alerted to in Vervaeke's online lectures, Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition, Eric D Perl...

'blessed are the pure of heart'

Something that could also be considered is the notion of 'communities of discourse' which were the context for almost all pre-modern philosophy. For i...

Something more like 'an object of thought', or 'an intentional object'?

Maybe the belief in the primacy of particles, as such, has waned, but in some ways the assertion of the primacy of scientific method still evokes it. ...

The word I was thinking of was 'being'. Likewise, in David Chalmer's important paper, Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness, his rather awkward te...

Most Asian Buddhists Don’t Meditate, Lewis Richmond. The Japanese Buddhists I most recently had contact with were Pure Land Buddhists who sermonised a...

You can see how the above was seized upon by the Vienna Circle as grounds for their verificationism, even if Wittgenstein himself disowned them.

I suppose. I was trying to articulate the idea that images only are intelligible, because they're made by artists and interpreted by subjects. They're...

Only because beings such as yourself are able to interpret them. Insofar as they're rendered by an artist, and interpreted by subjects, they are imbue...

At risk of opening a can of worms, how does 'modern physics' come into it? If you dubit it, you must exist, in order to dubit it. If you don't exist, ...

The logic of cogito ergo sum is neither rationalisation nor myth, it is the indubitable fact that, in order to be subject to an illusion, there must b...

I listened to a dialogue today between John Vervaeke and Jules Evans about exactly this point, with reference to Pierre Hadot’s ‘Philosophy as a Way o...

Actually, you're right, I have no interest in pursuing the argument further. However if it helps, there's an encyclopedia entry on the 'brain in a vat...

Per Descartes, I hold that the fact of one's own existence, that one is a subject of experience, is apodictic, it cannot plausibly denied. That is not...

So, you don't think there's any criterion by which we can discern the difference between simulation and reality. You admit the possibility that you're...

I've read quite bit of Kastrup. I definitely don't think he's any kind of cult figure, that is just ad hominem, but you expect that kind of hostility ...

I’m sure simulations of kidney functions, like other organic functions, may be extremely useful for medical research and pharmacology, without literal...

It's a graphic way of making a sound point.

Bernardo Kastrup says you can get a computer to run an exquisitely-detailed simulation of kidney function, but you wouldn't expect it to urinate.

No, on Cartesian grounds - even if everything I experience is illusory, there can be no doubt that I experience it. A simulation is rather like an ill...

:100: That was known, at one point in history, as 'metanoia', although that is now usually translated simply as 'repentance', thereby blurring the dis...

An online edition of the text with side-by-side translations can be found here.

:clap: Thanks for those, happy to have someone here that recognises the issue. I find the details very difficult due to my lack of background in forma...

Isn't the problem with that is that it is entirely artificial? And does a simulcrum of 'true happiness' or 'true virtue' possess either happiness or v...

I will say, apropos of the thread title, something that is becoming clear to me is the consequence of the rejection of the idea of there being final c...

Well I guess the answer to that is 'read the book'. It's a follow on from Braver's A Thing of this World, which @"Joshs" has recommended, but I'm stru...

What drew me to the question, was 'what is the nature of number?' Without going into all the background, the idea that struck me was that numbers are ...

Well, the qualifications of necessary/contingent generally apply to facts, don't they, rather than events? And the discovery of arithmetic, mathematic...

Please notice that further research revealed that this was not true. I'll put a note on the OP.

I believe the important philosophical perspective they bring is that of non-dualism. The modern world, cosmopolitan as it is, is then able to consider...

May well be! After opening the thread, based on the quote in the OP, I then went searching for further sources, confirmations and disconfirmations, an...

I think the problematic legacy of Descartes is the depiction of res cogitans as a 'thinking substance', which is an oxymoronic conception. By objectif...

Agree with your analysis. Note: I too had corrected the record in this thread by doing some further reading culminating in a post a page or so back: A...

Can’t let that go by. I’ll refer back to that quote I mentioned the other day I see no reason to doubt it. The basic facts of arithmetic and logic are...

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, eh? And, on that note.....

It turned out I was wrong about that. The actual story concerned students at some medical faculty who were convinced by Descartes' philosophy that ani...

When you say: This runs smack into the 'hard problem of consciousness', which is that no description of physical processes provides an account of the ...

Which aspects of physical processes correspond with subjectivity?

It's true, there would be no fools gold, were there no actual gold. I would explain my position further but it would be a complete digression from the...

And at the end of the day, he'd be lionized. :lol:

CNN reports that Donald Trump is running on the platform of defending January 6th, promising to release those jailed for ransacking the Capital if he ...

Is that so? Sobering. Anyway, probably not the place for this discussion, I just had the urge to draw JGill's attention to that article. (Oh, and ther...