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But I think it is a fair description of anti-natalism.

Or not - it might amount to a very 'inconvenient truth' indeed. Nihilism is the description of various schools of philosophy which hold that nothing i...

I was responding to the point you made about Schopenhauer being 'overly optimistic'. What you see as his 'optimism', I see as the whole point of his p...

I kept the icon :-)

@"Gnomon" - I moved your comments about Law of Form to the new thread on that topic https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14599/reading-the-laws-o...

(Note I've reverted back to my previous username)

Good on you, I didn't, of course, as I'm not a US elector, but as you know, deeply interested (and concerned).

As I am the 'he' in question, I'll refer to my previous response. It's a fact that vast populations can become victims of delusion - witness the Trump...

That, again, this is based on a culturally-conditioned or stereotyped depiction of what such claims entail. Firstly, in current science, there are man...

Finally, there's some momentum developing behind the claim that Trump ought to be declared ineligible for public office. I've long wondered how it cou...

Thank you Leontiskos, you said it better than I did, that's what I was getting at.

I think if you download said pdf and open it in an acrobat application, you can do a lot more with it, like copy text from it etc. I happen to subscri...

I tried, no joy. Past a certain point it becomes futile. Life's short, let's move on. ‘Intellectual honesty demands that valid knowledge be what I dec...

Do you know the well-known story of David Albert's scathing review of Universe from Nothing and what happened afterwards? Apparently Krauss was absolu...

I don't need to 'show' anything, especially as your only interest is polemical. I should have kept mum the first time around.

OK but I will try and keep it brief. You're appealing to empiricism, even if you say you're not. It is not an accusation, it's a description. Consider...

Oh, and I also thought, wonder what's on YouTube about this, and lo, a free, online course on G Spencer Brown's Laws of Form. (Beautiful English dicti...

Golly, as I suggested this as a candidate for a discussion group, I ought to make some kind of contribution. :yikes: At the moment, the best I can do ...

Which is what is generally regarded as empiricism. You commonly cite that position in these arguments, yet when you're challenged on it, you deny it: ...

Let’s not forget Auguste Comte. It was Comte, founder of the Social Sciences, who coined the term ‘positivism’. The ‘positive phase’ comes after the ‘...

:pray: Very lucid explanation. I’ve noticed ‘Laws of Form’ but when I tried reading it, found it quite daunting. Maybe we should start a discussion gr...

One of the responses to my question about the relationship of logical necessity and physical causation on Stack Exchange was as follows: I have real t...

It can be validated first person. The stages and states of realization can be verified inter-subjectively. The Eastern Gatehouse sutta is a dialogue b...

If instead of saying ‘the thing in itself’, you were to say ‘the world as it is in itself’ or ‘reality as it is in itself’ or even ‘reality as it trul...

I see what you’re getting at, but the reality of there being an enduring self is not the same as reality of the plight of existence, even if they’re c...

But there’s no use denying the fact that we exist in the first place. A coherent response to the human condition amounts to more than regret for being...

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Actually, it's not making the mistake, so much as pointing out the mistake. I think the same can be said with the other passages I mentioned (although...

Some notes gathered from previous interactions on 'issues with correspondence theory of truth'.

The difference between them and Schopenhauer is that his philosophy is actually soteriological - there is a possible escape from the futility of exist...

So, an appeal to evolutionary theory. But that is not really a philosophy, even though it's often taken as such - it's a biological theory, and viewin...

There's no need to tell me to stop doing something that I haven't done.

Naive realism, also known as direct realism, is a philosophy of perception that suggests that our senses provide us with direct and unmediated access ...

None of what I said constituted abuse.

Not true. I pointed out that he adopts the pose that acknowledges climate change BUT then says that climate science and scientists have gotten it all ...

I see your point, and yes it does do that. Maybe the brush that Schopenhauer paints himself into the corner with might actually be his atheism? I woul...

In the exploration of the topic of nihilism, Nietszche is often cited, which puts me at a disadvantage as I am not well acquainted with his writings. ...

I think 'theisitic' is the wrong term. Certainly, many a Christian critic of Schopenhauer would agree with his own self-professed atheism. If, as both...

https://cosmosmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/starving-polar-bear.png The commentary on this photo, dated 2015, was that it is a female who ha...

I posted a thread on stackexchange about the relationship of logic and causation. It turns out they’re different topics. Logic is the relationship bet...

That chapter contains the answer you're looking for, I think. There's a pretty generous preview in Google Books (in fact I could read the whole chapte...

Incidentally Chapter 5 of Schopenhauer’s Compass is titled Multiplicity and Oneness

I don't know if Schopenhauer really addess the origin of the subject and the principle of sufficient reason. I've about exhausted my knowledge of the ...

I think there's a hidden motivation behind that, which is not facing up to the plight of existence. I mean, if you're a robot or an animal, then the w...

Does Schopenhauer answer those questions? I don't know - I'm still going through the texts, but I wouldn't assume that they necessarily have answers. ...

But that's where I think that Schopenhauer is brilliant, and that they are stupid. The nature of their own being is something they're ignoring (and th...

There's also a very pungent passage in the beginning of WWR which I never tire of posting. It's a lengthy quote but well worth reading:

No, I don't think so. Schopenhauer retained the essentials of transcendental idealism in respect of the second-last paragraph. The other points are ve...

The problem is that very simple expressions such as 'this is the same as that', or 'this means that' or 'this is equal to that' have no material equiv...

Did I ever mention to you that essay by Ray Monk, Wittgenstein's biographer, on the ascendancy of Gilbert Ryle and his role in the Great Schism? How t...