I find it exceedingly easy to believe, I encounter it in very many discussions on this forum - not as an articulated or explicit philosophy but as a s...
I think of that as the 'imagined non-existence' of the world - imagining that the world didn't exist, prior to the mind, and then begins to exist with...
So, what I'm getting from this book is the sense in which you can say that the mind creates the universe. It's not some spooky cosmic mind, but every ...
I don't think you can extract the sense in which the world exists apart from our participatory observation in it. The underlying issue is that the cla...
It used to be thought of as matter, but then e=mc2 was discovered, along with electromagnetic fields (not to mention "the observer problem"). But that...
More like he has to appeal to their self-interest but it culminates with the realisation that there is no self whose interests need to be served. In M...
The 'parable of the burning house' is about the fact that the father (Buddha) has to entice the children (sentient beings) from the burning house (reg...
that aphorism is regularly used as a cudgel on this forum. Interestingly, there’s a Mah?y?na Buddhist sutra called the Vimalak?rti Nirde?a, a highly r...
Learning how to frame a debate in just the way that the responses don't upset your own 'fundamental presuppositions' is an art form in its own right. ...
Just discovered THE book that seems to articulate the inchoate idea I've been wresting with since my very first forum post https://www.amazon.com.au/M...
I know there's an awful lot of anti-democratic ideology in this forum but it's just like Churchill said after defeating Hitler - it's the least bad op...
It occurs to me, listening to the pre-broadcast commentary, that a very sizeable minority, and possibly even a majority, of Americans, really do belie...
I'm not proposing you don't know how many cups there are in your cupboard, but pointing to the fact that current cosmological and physical theory is i...
Well just recall the historical origins of the 'ordered universe'. The term was 'cosmos', meaning the understanding of the Universe as an ordered whol...
Not in the least. Humans are highly sociable, they live in a shared world of concepts, language, culture, and so on. Don't mistake idealism for solips...
Reductionism is the natural method of scientists and engineers. But becomes a problem when it's applied to the problems of philosophy, because in that...
In the 'axial age' philosophies, generally, ethics are not really separable from epistemology. The Mughal invasion of India was a much greater factor....
OK. I think the point is, that the division of these ideas into different subjects or disciplines or schools of thought is very much a modern developm...
There's a parallel between ignorance, avidya, in the Buddhist and generally Indic sense, and the 'original sin' of Christianity. Now, I know that is g...
Yes, but in that case, we're talking about something, which by definition is not nothing! So I maintain the idea of 'pure nothingness' is a fallacy. '...
But it’s only different in respect of something. Couldn’t help but notice the similarity between what I said and this: Although now I’ve learned the m...
That is true, but the score signifies something you didn’t get, namely, a score. But that is only meaningful as a signifier, not as an existent thing....
the problem is that 'exist' means 'ex-' outside of, apart from (e.g. external, exile) and 'ist', to stand or to be. So there's nothing about nothing w...
Of course the absolute presupposition of materialism is that matter - nowadays, matter/energy - are the only real substances. It's not a mistake, so m...
Of course. The point is, their kind of naturalism is a worldview that doesn't realise that it's a worldview - it takes itself to be the way things tru...
(1) is of greater antiquity than (2). The idea of an ordered universe was one of the motivating beliefs of the Greek philosophers and indeed of scienc...
This whole subject is a massive can of worms, but I'll say a few words. Regarding Aristotle and the subject of objectivity - I think the whole concept...
I studied David Hume under David Stove as an undergrad. I liked Stove and respected him, but I'm afraid that his 'Gem' is rather a caricature. I mean,...
You have to begin with some kind of handle on what it means. As I've said, I feel as though I have gotten a sense of it, through an intuitive understa...
All due respect, you're misunderstanding what idealism means. Idealists do not think that the world is a figment of the imagination, although if you b...
Well I for one was trying to unburden it of what I thought were questionable associations with Chinese philosophy, to return it to its Platonist-Arist...
You might expound on why, then, 'in Peirce’s opinion, “nominalism” does not take the category of thirdness to be real'. It sounds a thoroughly metaphy...
I agree - I said earlier that in the vernacular sense, Taoism is part of metaphysics. But the more you drill down into those different cultural forms,...
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