So is there anything short of total revolution that will address the problem? I mean, what would a solution consist of? Do you think if the current or...
I wrote a response to your comment which for some reason was queued for moderation, I'll wait and see if it appears in due course. (I have a feeling i...
(I'm also a layman, I don't consider myself expert about Kant (or anything) but I acknowledge this is a difficult subject. ) I looked into the word 'n...
So, in short, imagine if there was a jury trial of Trump, for conspiracy or secession or some other charge, and for some reason, he was acquitted (aga...
Very perceptive question. His Critique was, after all, the critique of reason, pure and practical, so the concern was primarily with what we can know....
When you have one side operating outside the law, while the opposing party is constrained to act within it, then the opposing party’s ability to prose...
It can’t be laid at their feet. Who acquitted Trump twice already? Who are propagating Trump’s lies throughout the electorate and media? The Republica...
Just saw the excellent dramatisation of Watergate, 'Gaslit'. Recommend it. The GOP of the day still had some principles, they hadn't all sold their so...
totally agree with you. I live in Aus but my son is perm. resident in US, I now have two American grand-children. Trump has succeeded in poisoning a l...
They're all still gestalts - ordered wholes situated in a conceptual scheme. You never see an actual proton, and the experimental confirmation of thei...
Doesn't the whole idea of karma presuppose free will? Here's an article on it https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/karma.html I thin...
Yes, I heard that. They also adopt a pose - legs spread out to kind of parachute them a little. Actually it reminds me, there’s a Curiosity Stream fea...
I understand your perplexity and, I think, what you’re asking for. I have another of my stock quotes from an essay which I’ve found very valuable in t...
‘Free floating’ is your description. You’re saying that because you think all real things can only be situated in time and space, so there’s no catego...
When I first noticed the reality of numbers, it was an epiphany. The idea suddenly occurred to me: everything material is composed of parts, and is te...
Sure mathematical forms and languages and many other things are socially constructed, but they’re not only socially constructed. There are elements of...
An excellent question, and I think the answer is ‘no’. That is mistaking one level of explanation with another. Let me explain. For every number there...
I will try again. The problem that ‘what is physical’ is very much a matter of definition. It is something that constantly changes and evolves. And ne...
Except for this Which you didn’t respond to adequately in my opinion. And also this: Where in the world do you see a mind? You see beings with minds, ...
That is the subject of 'facing up to the hard problem of consciousness'. You may think that insignificant, but it's one of the papers that got the who...
I found it through Google. Franklin acknowledges that there are some 'Gems' but pointedly excludes Kant from susceptibility. And he acknowledges that ...
You should take the time to read Jim Franklin's criticism of Stove's Gem. The view I have only sounds trite because of the necessity of having to expl...
Draws a wide net. And too much symbolic code. Pass on that. I think that your concern is that idealism rejects the possibility of uknown actual object...
Could you find a reference in support of that? I think that signifies a basic misunderstanding on your part although I'm willing to be corrected. (I t...
And the reason I think it's fundamental is because it is the very condition of individual existence - even of the existence of the very simplest lifef...
I don't think idealism is opposed to realism. I think it's opposed to the notion of the 'mind-independent reality of the objects of the physical scien...
An idealist might just as easily say that it's a meaningless statement, a trifling hypothetical that's not worth debating. This is true, and I think i...
Don’t confuse science and materialism. Science assumes materialism for practical reasons, it’s when it becomes a philosophical ideology that it is pro...
Is it that black and white? After all if absolutely everything was chaos, then nothing could exist, as existence requires order. But if everything was...
The second is nearer to my sense of what idealism means, but neither of them really capture my sense of it. The paragraph down the page a little quoti...
You see how these two are linked. What you're getting at here is the question of moral realism - are there standards and mores that are universal in s...
It's true that idealism is not solipsism. This was the basis of Kant's critique of Berkeley. Probably a bit too technical to go into. Sorry but I dete...
Mature idealism speaks in terms of 'mind'. Not 'my mind' or 'your mind'. Take a look at this blog. The author name is Peter Saas, I know nothing about...
As said, from the data provided by the senses, co-ordinated by the mind, the limbic system, and the other sub-systems that comprise the human - which ...
Indeed. And I think it can be supported with reference to science. According to evolutionary biology, H. Sapiens evolved through tens or hundreds of m...
So how is a causal explanation that can't be understood anything other than an article of faith? 'Well, we'll never really know how it works, but even...
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