Not at all. But it is meaningful and intelligible to an observer. It is empirically the case that the world existed prior to any observer, but there i...
Indeed it is, but neither objectivity or independence are absolute, but dependent. Persons may be, of course, more or less objective, or more and less...
Another fact to reflect on is that every being occurs as 'me' from their first person point of view. Every living being experiences themself as 'me' b...
Maybe because with the emergence of organisms, there is an exponential increase in possibilities. And that in order to exist as an organism, the very ...
According to Lloyd Gerson in Platonism and Naturalism, universals are the only means of preserving realistic identity, because they provide the means ...
Because they're insufficiently defined. Our understanding of nature changes every day. Likewise what 'divine creation' means is far from obvious. Here...
I can see why you say that, but it's because they are a source of explanatory frameworks and metaphors which are largely absent in modern discouse.I m...
To describe it in terms of "qualia" trivialises the issue. "Qualia" is jargon used in contemporary philosophy of mind to try and describe the irreduci...
:up: The idea of self as a unified and unifying process rather than as an unchanging entity is realistic in my view. The process view goes back to Her...
Here I would like to add a point about making distinction between 'subjectivity' and 'subjecthood'. It's an awkward distinction to make, but it attemp...
What I was referring to as oxymoron, or self-contradictory, was 'Objective and independent' stands in contradiction to 'within language'. We cannot co...
Mind you, if you consider the net of the awards to Dominion Voting and this case alone, Trump's lies have cost various parties around a billion dollar...
But that is an oxymoron (although I am totally sympathetic to your struggles in these deep and difficult matters). It is a matter of contention whethe...
It beggars belief that he will still maintain this obvious lie in the face of all that is happening. And thanks once again for the detailed breakdown,...
Although the magnitude of the award is plainly absurd. How is a man of Guiliani’s much-depleted means supposed to actually shell out such an amount? I...
I read recently (but can’t remember where) that prior to Descartes, ‘ideas’ were not understood as the prerogative of individuals, and that the meanin...
I'm often painfully aware of that need. Right - and this is the sense in which Aquinas is a representative of the philosophia perennis. Don't let the ...
I don't think your depiction of a priori as subjective is correct. A priori facts don't need to be validated against experience, they are known to be ...
You will encounter an expression in various schools of philosophical spirituality, 'the union of knower and known'. It is interpreted very differently...
Excellent question, but I don't think there has to be a 'pure logical contradiction' between creation natural and divine. I think it's pretty unsure w...
That reminds me of a long-ago book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. In it, Pirsig argues that Western metaphysics too often focuses on the ...
I don't think it's the burden of proof, as much as the request to explain what you mean. And this if from someone who has a very similar philosophical...
‘Hunter Biden is the son that Donald Trump never had’ ~ Jimmy Kimmel (commenting on the content of Hunter Biden's indictment documents.) I mentioned a...
Disgraceful, vindictive gutter politics from the do-nothing MAGA Congress in passing the motion for a meritless impeachment today. American politics a...
I re-read William James from time to time. He was from a different epoch in history, very much idealist in today's terms, before Western philosophy tu...
Too many double negatives in that to make sense of. But according to this blog post by Sean Carroll the question is undecideable. Makes me wonder if i...
...at least as far as objects are concerned..... The thought crossed my mind that mention might be made of William James 'radical empiricism', so I as...
Totally agree. My remarks about the ineffectiveness of empiricism with respect to grasping the profound philosophical truths of Advaita were not meant...
I'll give you an example of what I mean. Say that someone says that they have life-altering insights through meditation or spiritual philosophy. How c...
Not factual in the sense of being about objective things or states-of-affairs. I don't mean it in the sense of not being true - far from it! - but not...
I'm very much influenced by my encounter with Advaita and (also Buddhist) non-dualism, although that mostly amounts to reading about it, with some reg...
Not a perspective of philosophical interest, I'm afraid. I'm genuinely interested in the philosophical implications. As I said already, what is ostens...
That's right! As it stands, it is still an open question, something many here seem not to notice. The three main popular books I have read on it the l...
It doesn’t seem an apt analogy to me. At issue is the nature of the object in question and what it is that transforms it from a possibility to an actu...
That is true, but the nature of the object who's existence is only possible is not. And that is the point at issue in this context, as the putative ob...
Read one book, ages and ages ago, but really stayed with me. I loved the idea that you go into alternate realities through dreams. Although otherwise ...
By the way, for those reading this thread, an interesting article by Ray Monk (known as Wittgenstein's biographer) on Gilbert Ryle, R G Collingwood, a...
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