A reminder on what the GOP hostage-takers are demanding for the release of their victim: Oh, and the MAGA nutcase MTG has just introduced articles of ...
But whenever we apply the results of logic and rational inference to a practical outcome, isn't that an instance of mental causation, in some sense? H...
Me? No, not particularly. There are elements I've picked up from here and various other forums. I'm interested in the subject of how predication relat...
Even though my knowledge is sketchy, I'm more drawn to European than Anglo philosophy on the whole. I really don't like the Oxbridge types. Very inter...
I didn't post it as an authoritative reference, but as a useful sketch of how 'the linguistic turn' assumed such prominence in 20th century philosophi...
McCarthy is a spineless hypocrite. . Especially compared to his predecessor. He's not a leader, rather he's on a nose-ring being pullled along by the ...
There are those who say that even by negotiating he's caved, but I don't know about that. You can't negotiate with extortionists without emboldening t...
I believe in the reality of the soul, but language is misleading. To claim that the soul is a real thing, is already to misunderstand the subject of t...
Fair enough. What I got from the essay was an overview of the origin and significance of the focus on language as constituting a large proportion of p...
What are foundational premisses? You will know that foundationalism in physics is a contested issue, due to the many conundrums and imponderables thro...
Like it. Particularly the urgency of the groove in #1. Great skiing music (not that I ski any more.) Check out this amazing talent. One guy, one guita...
And the only realistic hope. They would be at our mercy, expressed at the ballot box. And up until January 6 2021 in the US, there had never been any ...
You wouldn't. You'd vote them out. Of course you're never going to have a situation where all people like all the laws, but it's the 'least worst opti...
Sounds like typical conservative/libertarian ideological propaganda. If the remedy is anarchy, or Citizens Militia's carrying AR-15's and ready to sho...
Materialism is perfectly sound basis for engineering material outcomes. The issues start when these same principles are applied to the problems of phi...
The term "metaphysical" refers to concepts or principles that transcend the physical or empirical realm and are typically associated with supernatural...
Spinoza’s work would have been considered by positivism as metaphysics which it plainly was. @"Christoffer" - do you have any views on Spinoza’s philo...
The post I was commenting on had no discernable resemblance to Spinoza, nor any mention of him. And I said way back I reviewed the video and agree wit...
It's probably an unanswerable question, but, for me, it lacks some crucial elements that characterise other conscious beings, namely, embodiment and s...
Do you mean not subject to empirical validation, according to the standards of science? The problem I have is that you're casting your net too wide wh...
I stumped ChatGPT, finally. Asked it about the expression 'Cartesian anxiety'. No idea. Even told it which book it was from (The Embodied Mind, Varela...
Kudos for your honesty in saying that, and for your courage. Something I often reflect on is the tragedy of mistaken religiosity. It happens in every ...
Herewith Mueller Report It should also be recalled that despite Trump trumpeting that Durham would unearth a massive scandal, in fact he scored one mi...
:pray: :clap: A splendid affirmation, thank you. Great resource, thanks, that's another of those book I must get around to. cf what happened to Thomas...
The argot of mysticism has crept into the modern lexicon through various routes. Have a look at a NY Times opinion piece by David Brooks, The Neural B...
Impossible. Can't be done. The term covers such a diverse range of cultural phenomena, that it has no single meaning. There are those who say that the...
You assume that religions can only be based on acceptance of dogma, or belief in God, so any religious argument must be 'biased', because not grounded...
‘Not having an audience applauding wildly’ would not amount to ‘suppression’. Could have been a one-on-one with some gruff senior male journalist. Alt...
So the CNN Trump town hall has come and gone. Most of the commentary in the 'liberal media' - that is everything other than Fox and its imitators - wa...
I looked it up. The argument is known as the "Eternal Recurrence" and was proposed by various ancient philosophers including Pythagoras, Empedocles, a...
Doesn't it stand to reason that, if the Universe was of infinite duration, and all events in the Universe are of finite duration, then all events woul...
Not according to the cosmological model popularly known as the 'big bang'. According to that model the Universe emerged from the singularity approxima...
Don't you think that might itself be rather a biased judgement? The proposal you're suggesting is really like adopting the persona of the imagined 'Mr...
Plato's writings make frequent references to Orphic myths and beliefs, such as the soul's immortality and the importance of leading a virtuous life to...
Bloody well deserved, considering what they accomplished with no electric power https://albertis-window.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Lincoln-Cathedr...
I never took a shine to Steiner, I went through most of Gary Lachman's book on him but I couldn't relate to him. But that doesn't detract from the poi...
The idea of looking within, is not looking into the fine structure of matter, but paying close attention to the nature of lived experience. You can zo...
Yeah I don't unreservedly like their compositions, but I'm making an effort to get familiar with them as it's a genre I very much like, and it doesn't...
Aren't they two different facets of the same thing? The point being, the communication of the ineffable was part of the role of philosophy. Interestin...
More to the point in this context is that salvation is available to all who will believe. That is what is behind the notion of equality in the first p...
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