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My only thought was that normality is a narrow band of behaviour. It's bell curve. I wrote a blog post on it some time ago: /uploads/files/l1/vnyaq9tz...

One more delicious morsel - it looks highly likely that the repulsive Hanson will be defeated by the Greens. And all of the wannabee QAnon-antivax loo...

Much speculative physics and cosmology would indeed fall under that heading, as you say. I've read a bit about Intelligent Design theorists. The probl...

It's one-way. If it were 'both', then Kant would not have said anything. If you want to show otherwise, you'll need to back it with some references.

:up: Now that's better. And very close to something I said somewhere earlier in this thread - that scientific principles are a place where logical nec...

Well, what to some of the texts say about the relation of logical necessity and physical causation? I'm sure you will find it's not nearly the slam-du...

Have you ever studied philosophy in any formal sense? Read anything about it? I only ask, because your comments appear on almost every thread on this ...

Kant’s ‘discovery’ of the a priori grounds of empirical cognition was praised because it showed how a spiritualist metaphysics could be confined to th...

Says who? Provide one citation for that.

No offense, but your opinion has no bearing, and the examples you cite are not relevant. If you go back and read the first post in the thread you migh...

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speaking of which, how did they go? I saw not one reference to Jabba the Hut Clive Palmer in the coverage. Last I heard the unvaxed Hanson had a prett...

Logical rules (such as the law of the excluded middle) are known a priori. That's what a priori actually means. The mind is capable of understanding s...

I'll also add, although this thread should probably be put out to pasture now, that the greatest act of political bastardry in Australian history was ...

Here's an analysis of Morrison's performance by one of the better-known journos. (I don't think it's paywalled, it's from the Sydney Morning Herald's ...

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:party: Champers opened.

Now that is an interesting fact.

I am having company over, and have splashed out on a bottle of French Champagne, which we’ll either open, or not. (I won’t mention I have it unless it...

This is what 'being liberated by Russia' looks like. Who wouldn't want that? https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/digital-images/org/7656da7f-9c8e-4fb3-9...

I think 'nothing to do with' is too strong. Perhaps s/he meant that individuals by themselves are not able to exert much change on social values. Furt...

You wouldn't say that if you were victim of a terminal cancer. The symptoms would be debilitating illness and a painful death. Trump is more like the ...

You mean, you didn't read what I reported Penfield to have said?

Well, you couldn't do it yourself, but as the brain has no nerve endings, it is impervious to the pain caused by surgical incision, so patients can ex...

And hey, it ain't brain surgery :wink:

I wouldn't give a toss if Trump merely held irrational beliefs. It's the fact that he disseminates them throughout American society and enlists others...

Sorry but you don't get to dismiss the philosophy of Kant, nor establish the origin of the Universe, on the basis of one single short paragraph.

I agree with you. I can't understand why all of the many legal proceedings against Trump, and the findings of the January 6 Commission, haven't yet le...

Here is a google search of Republican Fascism USA. The articles it returns make for sobering reading. All amply illustrated by Trump and his coterie. ...

“The understanding itself is the lawgiver of Nature; save through it, Nature would not exist at all.” Critique of Pure Reason, A126. "Quantum mechanic...

Kant argued that the antinomies of reason follow necessarily from attempts to cognize the nature of transcendent reality by means of reason. The fourt...

Probably, Putin would regard these kinds of consequences as leverage. The fact that he can cause world starvation will be, to him, only a sign of how ...

No offense taken (although the whole point of a forum like this is debating ideas.)

Can anyone help Glen out?

Oh. I thought you were trying to say something along those lines here: --- That's not the argument that I used. I'll try it one more time. At issue is...

That’s what i’ve said that he says, with a quote from him showing him saying that exact thing. I’m not ‘straw-manning’, I think it’s more the case tha...

for wiw I agree with you.

I read that article when it came out. I think it makes some very interesting points. Clearly the 'hard problem' criticism being discussed in other thr...

In the original paper on Facing Up to the Hard Problem of Consciousness, Chalmers first describes the 'easy problems', which he says include the abili...

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Yes. As a general rule, what is the name of the philosophical outllook which has the tendency to take "experience", as distinct from, say, "matter", a...

He doesn't mention it in the essay we're talking about. 'Phenomenology' only appears in the references. The salient passage is this Although the quest...

He calls it a first person science, which Dennett dismisses as a fantasy. But it must be something very like phenomenology.

As has been observed in popular literature, there's a meme that 'hey, consciousness is mysterious, and quantum mechanics is mysterious, so maybe there...

The rules of valid inference cannot be deduced from empirical observation alone, although observation can validate or falsify some inferences. But thi...

Perfectly correct, but not germane to the point. Refer to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article, and Thomas Nagel's comment. What is being '...

Something you're not capable of seeing, apparently.

Not at all! It is of course perfectly valid across all kinds of subjects. But think about the subject of this particular claim - that consciousness - ...

Right. Which is optometry, psychology, and cognitive science. Not philosophy per se. The reason they assert that the first-person nature of consciousn...

There's something they're not acknowledging, because of the blind spot of science. Because in a lab situation, you're concerned with objective and mea...