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Is it ironic then that the New Advent encyclopedia, in its entry on Logos, says

Update on user experience with the AI-enhanced bing. He says Bing has a kind of split persona - one aspect is very useful for finding things out and g...

I think I mentioned that other book, which Apokrisis mentioned.

It's not that it's complicated, but that scientific analysis generally takes place on a different level - that of the scientific analysis of objects, ...

It is not 'false by its own rhetoric' which is a nonsense sentence. There is nothing in the inanimate world that has a genetic program. How that came ...

According to what evidence? There's a difference in kind between inorganic material and organic beings. Ernst Mayr, one of the architects of the moder...

I think if you'd put that to Aristotle, whose term 'substance' is at issue here - if he did understand your point he would disagree vehemently. Aristo...

That Americans should worry a lot more about the fact that there are more guns than people in their populace. They're much more likely to die from tha...

‘The eternal’ never changes but its clothes wardrobe sure gets dated.

Many of these images of deities were products of the 'childhood of civilisation'. The audience for them were agrarian peasants and nomadic wanderers m...

I don't think there's anything that maps to 'the uncreated' in contemporary scientific or philosophical thought. Perhaps you could point to 'the singu...

But the realist attitude begs the question, insofar as the question is ‘does the object exist in the absence of any observer’? Whereas, the existence ...

Thank you for that explanation, it makes your intent much clearer. And I agree with what you’re saying.

I *think* It’s recounted in the opening pages of The Fatal Impact by Alan Moorehead.

There's an anecdote I often re-tell, which has been challenged before, so I went and did the research, and it is bona fide. It's in an account of the ...

:100: :clap: Well said. The way I put it is that numbers are real, but they're not existent in the sense that phenomenal objects are existent, but mai...

This was a deeply (deepity?) confused OP, but I just wanted to add a footnote about the meaning of 'substance' in philosophy, as distinct from normal ...

Not yours. Theirs. :rage: You do notice the "realist" assumption lying behind this, when that is precisely what is at issue. In other words, it begs t...

Quantum mechanics is the most accurate physical theory ever devised. What is at issue in all the interpretations is the meaning of the theory, not wha...

Having sidetracked the thread with the Dickinson poem, I should comment on your OP. My spontaneous response is - yes, so what? Are you preaching to be...

Thanks for that. I know next to nothing about her, but happened upon the volume of her poetry whilst organising my books, and it fell open on that one...

excellent post. I think there’s a hunger for philosophical depth - there are nowadays many new media outlets that specialise on it, recognisable talki...

Pardon me for so saying, but you must have a very liberal definition of ‘reasonable’ ;-)

Isn't that what we're all doing here? What I mean is, isn’t this one of the fundamental questions of philosophy? This is an approach that I think cred...

'This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond - Invisible, as Music - But positive, as Sound - It beckons, and it baffles - Philosophy, don't...

‘There would be no objects with shape and appearance, because shape and appearance are created by minds’. But that is part of a larger argument. Conte...

Particles are easy to envisage - look at a pinch of salt, or a handful of sand. The original atom was indivisible, the model of atoms and the void a b...

‘We’? // oh, I guess you mean the 'person in the street'.//

Actually the motivation for this OP was realising that I'm far from being a canonical philosopher. I've learned to respect those who are better versed...

the point about the idea of the atom was that it was indivisible and indestructible, and was the primary constituent of every particular. It was, ther...

I could produce any number of articles explaining the sense in which particles are 'excitations of fields (Ethan Seigel's articles are pretty good). A...

Yes, sure does. Obviously my taxonomy needs refinement. :roll:

I'm reviving this thread in light of the recent, light-speed developments in the deployment of AI, via ChatGPT and, now, Microsoft's implementation of...

The moon (where 'moon' symbolises 'any object') does not exist outside your consciousness of it. However, neither does it not exist. The universe/worl...

Not so. That model posits literal collisions between point-particles ‘colliding’ as per Lucretius. There’s nothing remotely like that in modern atomic...

I don’t agree that Nagel’s diagnosis is erroneous. I think he pinpoints something real and insidious. And Bell's Theorem did nothing to validate Einst...

agreed with the caveat that I'm not in the last basket :yikes:

I guess, although many of the modern philosophers in the English-speaking world are pretty remote from traditional philosophy. I seem to recall Wittge...

Fair enough! I just posted it off the top of my head, it certainly needs elaboration and refinement, but I think it might be useful regardless. Oh, an...

You’ve said that before, and even though I obviously agree, I don’t think it’s as obvious, nor as insignificant, as you make it seem. As you might kno...

One of the odd consequences of the argument against design is that the only creatures that we know of that are capable of designing is h. sapiens. All...

Aha! That is what I call ‘hotel manager theodicy’. ‘Hey, who’s in charge here! Can’t you see people are SUFFERING! There are earthquakes, and nasty di...

I'd like to agree with the sentiment but I don't know if the OP makes much of a case. I suppose you could argue that the existence of order, itself, i...

Yes, but from different perspectives, and here the matter of perspective is significant, surely. Nobody will say that an image of a grimacing face is ...

Not all of them. Many internet atheists, and certainly the cadre of ‘new atheist’ authors were, but there are very perceptive atheists who know what t...

I’d go along wth that, although even within that consensus, there’s room for divergent perspectives. No you’re not. You’re seeing an external image of...

Neither - it’s through cultural conditioning. You see a reflection of the eye in the mirror, but you do not see the act of seeing.

Non-dualism - not two or non-divided - is not necessarily monistic in outlook. Buddhist non-dualism is not monistic, it doesn’t assert a unity to whic...

I respect that, but it's a very deep question. I'm suggesting that the way you're going about it is in terms of trying to assume a perspective or poin...