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I'll take issue with that. All religions have dogmas, that's for sure, but 'a dogma' is simply 'a principle or set of principles laid down by an autho...

I don't see how it applies. The form of idealist philosophy that I'm advocating does not say that 'the world only exists in your mind'. I'm referring ...

A couple of articles of interest I noted during September: Thomas Nagel reviews biography of J L Austin Plus a very long interview with someone by the...

:yikes: Why thanks, very kind of you. Do give it a read, though, it includes at least some support from cognitive science.

I think your objections are naive and that idealism as I construe it is not necessarily saying what you think it is saying. I note that you think that...

Don't worry, Banno. Rest assured your crockery and cutlery is just as you left it. Could I perhaps suggesting reading some more of the essay? There is...

But you will be completely at a loss to say what that 'something' is. (Whilst you're reaching for your hatchet, I sense the impending feeling of futil...

Certainly written in the right spirit! And, by the way, I did include a nice graphic of the hypothetical meadow in the original: https://miro.medium.c...

Galileo's distinction of 'primary and secondary qualities' of matter refers to the distinction between the attributes measurable by instruments (mass,...

Indeed. ‘Mind-created’, one might say.

I've noticed in the last few days chatter about the ructions in the Republican circus caucus that Kevin McCarthy, who might be about to be rolled, has...

Which a beam of light will complete in 333 nanoseconds, I'm told. Top that, Usain Bolt :brow:

Thanks! My thoughts also. To put it in blunt vernacular terms, it is the assessment of life in general, and human life in particular, as being basical...

It depends on what is meant by religion. Plainly fundamentalist religion won't have anything useful to contribute other than trying to squeeze everyon...

You cherry-picked one sentence from 'Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that...

That's what I should have said at the outset. Happy now, @"praxis"? As an aside - I don't know if I've mentioned that the article that lead me to foru...

What do you say, Dr Freud? Possible signs of anxiety poking through the facade, eh?

I don't see how, because energy operates according to physical laws, it has no capacity for self-determination or any innate direction. As soon as liv...

Scientism is, according to Wikipedia, 'the opinion that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and...

Well, it is a bit confrontational. First you don't know that I don't recognize a guru. Secondly, I don't see any purpose to be served if I were to inc...

Thanks for your feedback! First point - when you say 'the world' here you refer to 'the totality of experience', right? It's not as if any of us 'expe...

You're welcome and thank you. Well, he kinda did. At the beginning of his meditations, he said something along the lines that he had hitherto held man...

It’s a valid paraphrase of what Dawkins and Dennett are on about. Not my problem if you can’t see it.

That is not an overlap, it's a contradiction, and 'flat earthism' is pretty poor choice, as there are actuallly people who believe it, and will insist...

As I acknowledged, the process of creating models and testing them is already well-known - it's the scientific method. In such cases, you do have an h...

A lot has been written about the disgraceful shit-show which is the MAGA Caucus Circus but this particular OP from TheDailyBeast puts its finger on so...

Agree, the implications of the term 'create' are especially significant in this context. I could have equally called the essay 'the mind-made world', ...

Ouch. Philosophical idealism is saying something like that, but it has to be worded carefully, lest it fall into mere fictionalism or fantasy. I'm not...

:up: Indeed the essay is tagged 'Philosophy of Mind'. (Note that I myself never dispute the empirical facts of (for example) evolution, but will often...

Although, interestingly, entanglement IS being mooted for creating secure transaction systems that would be theoretically impenetrable even to quantum...

It's true, but nothing of what you've said so far indicates that you've taken any of it in. If you can find a question about the actual content, rathe...

A world. There's a difference.

My thoughts exactly. I did link to that essay, What is Math, which gives to context for the quote.

Thank you for the courteous response. At back of your critique is the assumption that ‘the real world’ is what is internalised or modelled by the brai...

I agree that 'embedded in nature' is a poor way of expressing it, but the predictive capacities of mathematics and the way that it enables genuine dis...

I haven’t misrepresented his views.

I've always been somewhat intrigued by this: Only multiples of integers allowable!

One of the thought-experiments I sometimes consider is imagine having the perspective of a mountain (were a mountain to have senses). As the lifespan ...

It is exactly what he said: 'Intelligent, creative, complex, statistically improbable things come late into the universe, as the product of evolution ...

Nevertheless it could never have been discovered without mathematics. For Aristotle, universals are real in the sense that they genuinely exist as asp...

All true. And I also remind myself that the prosecutors and judges in the case have access to far more detailed information that what is published in ...

Good question. In the context of Aristotle's philosophy, as well as in biological classification and other systems of categorization, a "genus" is a c...

Yeah, I get that. I understand this was Frege's criticism of Husserl. But I'm developing the argument that what scholastic realists designated univers...

I hope Trump looses! But I think the election fraud and subversion cases are far more important and substantial.

My only argument is that numbers are real but not material. It's quite compatible with Husserl's attitude as far as I can tell.

I thought that's what I was arguing for :chin: Incidentally, I haven't attempted Husserl Philosophy of Arithmetic as it seems a very challenging read....

I will add that, as many people have pointed out, usually in vain, the new atheist depiction of God is remote from the conception of deity maintained ...

re Medium - I signed up almost 3 years ago but I’ve only published three articles on it, including this one. I like the publishing features and the lo...

Excellent point, I'll take that on board. Thanks for positive feedback! I've always found the 'two truths' doctrine compelling, since I first encounte...

What a happy coincidence how well the products of mathematical science work! We should all thank our lucky stars.