Wayfarer

I don’t know if perspective is a concept at all; it’s more that perspective provides a necessary ground for any concept. Certainly in non-dualism ther...

Highlights from Day One of the Sham Impeachment Hearing. Worth the listen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6VZIjBLcyU Jasmine Crockett knocks it out ...

Why thanks, must say, glad to be back. :up:

I’m saying it’s an idle thought. It has no meaning.

Logic is in the mind, but not of it. It’s not our invention but what we are able to discover through reason. I really don’t think that the idea of a w...

Notice that these are the early modern philosophers and that, for them, the relation of self and world has become a vexed issue. I’m considering the i...

It’s all being run by Trump’s stooges in Congress, in the mistaken hope that the shutdown will stop the legal system pursuing its cases against him, a...

It does. Shannon’s theory is often mentioned in this context.

How do you reckon a world would work out, if 2 did not, in fact, equal 2, of if 9 was less than 7? The law of identity, A=A, is an example of somethin...

That's why Shannon's work is fundamental to data compression on digital devices. It lead directly to the ability to greatly reduce the number of bits ...

There's a nagging thought that I've always had about this. Going back to my undergraduate studies, it was said at the outset that there was a clear di...

"Discover" - Middle English (in the sense ‘make known’): from Old French descovrir, from late Latin discooperire, from Latin dis- (expressing reversal...

Near enough. Old habits, you know…..

The God Delusion (Dawkins) and Breaking the Spell (Dennett) are mainly about that, predicated on the claim that the theory of evolution undercuts the ...

This sounds very Kantian. My interpretation of metaphysics is that we should always begin with the derivation of the term 'metaphysics' by one of the ...

What bothers me about the property fraud case is that none of the banks lost any money. Sure it's inflated property values but if the banks took the c...

You wait until AI and VR hook up, allowing you to virtually visit any mind- or machine-created realityscape that can be dreamed of. (Why am I inclined...

I think what might be missing in this discussion is the ethical or moral dimension of religious philosophy and its ultimately existential nature. One ...

As already noted, it depends a great deal on what you have in mind by the two terms. Dogmatic religion and materialist science are mutually repulsive,...

Don't tell me, they made a beeline for the scene.... :rofl: BTW, I'm taking a break over September, in case anyone's interested.

and taste it, which is also like touching.

Maybe one practical source of anecdotal evidence for this point can be drawn from the writings of neurologist Oliver Sacks. He documented many cases w...

I seem to recall reading a biological snippet about C S Peirce who was very much a working scientist - spent years doing hydrological measurement. He ...

Mahathir held it together in Malaysia into his nineties. Biden doesn’t project well but I think he’s sound. It’d be great if the Dems had a younger al...

Very likely. I mentioned previously that I witnessed something exactly the same at a relative's 90th birthday celebration. He got up to say a few word...

It's doesn't mean occupying the same space, but sharing a point of contact. Problem solved.

McConnell is clearly past it. Looks like a befuddled old man when this happens. He plainly needs to retire straight away but then common sense is in v...

I think you make some good points, but it might be worth recalling the link between 'wisdom' and that little-used term, 'sapience' (little-used, but a...

These are good arguments against physicalism, apparently being deployed in support of physicalism. :roll:

A very simple point which I often make, is to ask how can someone who denies the electoral process and claims not to have lost the last election in th...

@"Ciceronianus" You may recall I raised the question of how Trump's potential disqualification under the 14th Amendment might be enacted. Now it appea...

I'm sure they do! :wink:

I honestly do think there's an element of propaganda in it. Even though Trump was hostile to China, his foreign policy was inept (for instance, he bel...

There are a couple of news items about the mooted 14th Amendment invocation to declare Trump ineligible for public office. In The Atlantic, David Frum...

What you're saying is that you have faith in science, given its results, and science generally presumes a physicalist stance. So that even while you r...

Notice when you're in Edit mode, the I symbol in the Edit bar - select required text and click it, or enclose expression in (i) (/i) tags Have a look ...

Being Many would say the cardinal attribute of whatever can be said to exist, but as I have argued in many a thread, 'being' carries the connotation o...

As a muddle.

Nope. Just pointing out that physicalist explanations claim to do what you say they're not capable of doing. But then you go on to claim that this ina...

Mine was more general. It's the sense in which Trump has jaded the entire political scene - the expecation that 'all politicians are liars anyway' (so...

Totally get that. Where I am in the ‘Anglosphere’ (I’m not American but have immediate family in America) coverage of Trump has dominated the news for...

There’s no absolution to be found in ignorance.

Apathy in respect of the facts - like, they don't care what he's been shown to have done, they won't watch or read the reports, and if they do, they w...

I don't know where you got the basis for this opinion, but it is not correct. Trump has always put his own interest first, before party, people, the C...

What I think you're struggling with is, how to think of anything in non-physical terms. You want to equate 'what is real' with 'the physical' but at t...

I think you are also but you must admit, it needs considerable elaboration before it becomes a coherent idea. :wink:

But the whole point of physicalism *is* to explain something in physical terms. Otherwise it's not 'an explanation'. So if you're saying, it's physica...

I appreciate that, I can see you're wrestling with the problem. You mentioned here or some other thread you don't much like reading philosophy, but I ...

But is in conflict with

Well, the ability to materialize and the suggestion of 'other dimensions' which is what puts these claims in the category of occultism. Maybe I should...