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How does that follow? Information is ordered, isn't it?

I don’t believe Trump will be eligible to run, but we’ll see. Two of the big trials are early ‘24, plus the 14th Amendment cases in progress now. Trum...

:100: That's all I was getting at. Sorry if I came off as self-righteous.

The problem with that theory is that nominations close real soon now, and Newsom is not on the ballot. He's also declared a number of times he's not r...

Hi and welcome to the forum. You've picked a fascinating topic! Off the top of my head some titles that come to mind: Shakespeare: The Invention of th...

I mean, if you say as a philosophical proposition, that the self doesn't exist, it will often generate a hostile reaction, on the one hand (what nonse...

No, not you, just a general observation. Your statements are not at all erroneous, they're very accurate. I'm commenting on general tendency to try an...

The issue I see with that criticism, is that it reads too much into what Kant intends with the term 'thing in itself'. He's not positing a set of 'unk...

That could have come directly from the lecture by Swami Sarvapriyananda in the other thread, 'The Indisputable Self'.

I think if these principles are reduced to words, then there's a risk of them loosing their meaning. Indian philosophies are s?dhan?, spiritual discip...

Speaking of metaphor..... Interesting that one of the first mentions of the term in the linked article encloses it in quotations: In the Origin of Spe...

It’s hard to impart the flavour of it by trying to summarise it. I did take the time to watch that lecture, and I feel it was worth it, as he conveys ...

besides, one doesn't have to sit through the whole thing to get the flavour of the presentation. Since this thread opened, I've listened to a little o...

I would have thought that in philosophy, one ought to understand what is to be refuted. I can perfectly understand your lack of interest in the subjec...

The problem with this OP, as I already said, is that the contributor who introduced it, has insufficient knowledge to defend it. Were it presented by ...

@"Joshs" I copied in this passage from the thread in which you provided it as it has relevance here: The question Introduces a passage from Husserl: H...

that none of this is implied by or can be justified on the basis of currently-understood natural law, which they quote at the head of the paper. As yo...

It's not a proposed law of physics, as such, but of nature, more generally. They're attempting to identity what disparate complex phenomena have in co...

The problem is, so far as science knows, awareness is dependent on the body. If the body dies it looses awareness of all kinds. Philosophically speaki...

Look up a book called Chance and Necessity: An Essay in the Natural Philosophy of Biology, Jacques Monod. He was a Nobel prize winning biochemist, and...

Adaption to the environment is a different thing to general intelligence. General intelligence may provide for greater versatility, but it saying that...

I’ve always felt that the idea that life, or for that matter cosmic order, is a chance occurrence is a profoundly unscientific attitude. After all, ev...

That would be 'Tibetan', would it not? Augmented by knowledge of the Tibetan canon and oral traditions. I can see we're going to go deep in the long g...

And one more - the disgraceful attacks on electoral officers by Team Trump and the MAGA thugs. If the anti-democratic efforts of MAGA aren’t obvious e...

Here's the link to the very nicely formatted .pdf of the paper. I was sceptical first up, but having started to read it, I'm coming around to it.

Headline could be: 'Scientists Discover Logos!'

But as Nagel says, the buck has to stop somewhere. Unless, that is, you take necessary statements as contingent! That's where the circularity enters t...

I suggest you would have to deploy reason in support of an argument, and that it's a logical argument, not necessarily requiring empirical validation....

Does the law of identity, or the law of the excluded middle, begin to exist as a consequence of biological evolution? Or are they principles that are ...

Thanks! I'll look into that. That's where the distinction between intelligible and sensible objects is relevant. To quote Einstein, 'I cannot prove sc...

By rational argument. That some fundamental logical principles must obtain in order for a world to exist in the first place.

Isn't there a connection between metaphysics and the domain of necessary truth? I am thinking of the idea that 'there are things which are true in all...

Yes as I noted in my second response, my first might have been hasty, and I'm now reading the actual paper. :yikes:

The Lincoln Project pulling no punches. https://youtu.be/N-vza0lE4y8?si=flxbL-6Y5_PWCkBY

:100: Put another way, a metaphysic is a statement of what must be the case, in order for the world to be as it is. Most analytical philosophy depreca...

There is continuity between Plato and Kant. Plato's Forms or Ideas are intelligible structures that make sense of the sensible world, while Kant's cat...

Now you put it like that, I'm starting to see the point (and to be honest, I ought to have read more of the actual paper before responding.) It ties i...

Bear in mind 'neural processes' do not experience anything, as they're not subjects of experience. It is an example of the 'mereological fallacy' whic...

You know, there's an old truism in science, 'a theory that explains everything explains nothing'. It suggests that if a theory is so broad and all-enc...

To address that point more directly - I think that, for me, this is where Buddhist faith comes into the picture. It too teaches that the normal state ...

I've come to realise that my orientation is basically existentialist. Oddly enough, I only realised that because of the way 'existential threat' has s...

Again I think the major underlying point is that we orient ourselves in respect of science, but that science assumes the separation of subject and obj...

The atom used to be the stand-in for 'simple' in that it was 'indivisible', not composed of parts. Regrettably, nature did not oblige, as it turns out...

Yes. Although I feel the cell might be padded.

There are other factors involved in this case, and a bigger margin of error.

Just one of the many lunatic ideas of the MAGA fringe is cutting budgets for the Internal Revenue Service, which they’ve tied to approval for Biden’s ...

It was Arthur Eddington who talked about the ‘two tables’ - the one you sit at, and the one atomic science describes, comprising mostly space strung t...

He’s getting pretty damn close a lot of the time. Nancy Pelosi noted, back at the time of the Ukraine phone-call impeachment, that Trump’s entire psyc...

Right, that one went past me. Excellent point.

I’ve noticed that physics, as an example, and up to a point, deliberately excludes the context of an observation or experiment, by concentrating exclu...