To me, that is THE most important question in philosophy. I could write a lot, but I will confine myself to this observation: in relation to these kin...
that's actually a highly relevant passage. As for my analysis, I inferred it from those essays I mentioned - Totem and Taboo and The Future of an Illu...
I've mentioned before that I read many of Freud's 'humanistic' essays as an undergraduate. Totem and Taboo, Civilization and its Discontents, and othe...
'Our kind of intelligence', compared to what? Note the quotation on my profile from Chris Fuchs, author of ‘quantum Qbism’, ‘Quantum mechanics is a la...
Yes but that passage that waarala has pointed out is significant here. Again: What is the import of 'not only is the necessity...'? Is that not that s...
You can definitely make the argument. Especially a science in the sense of quantitative analysis of objectively verifiable facts. Of course I think ma...
ah, so the difference between empirical and a priori in physics is echoed by the difference between the theorists and the experimentalists (which is a...
@"Mww" - I don't know if you'll recall this discussion of a few weeks back - of whether, and why, Kant regarded physics as an a priori pure science. I...
It seems a very narrow interpretation of what 'post-modern' means. That term has vast application, restricting it to this particular interpretation se...
All of these are very good questions. One way to approach the subject is to look at it through the perspective of the emergence of modern science and ...
It’s balderdash, and you don’t give a s***t that it is, so your apology means nothing, like most of what else you write. You used to be ‘Themadfool’, ...
I’ve read that it would take 33 years to accelerate a vehicle containing humans to as near as you get to the speed of light - although being in a ship...
yes, as Tom says, America's influence is writ large in today's world. An anecdote: a couple of years back, I watched the excellent series World War II...
But 'real for whom?' then raises the issue of subjectivism - that what is real is up to you or me. But it can't be that way - what if I change my mind...
The post it was quoted from contained a link to God does not Exist, by Bishop Pierre Whalon, so the phrase ought not to be taken literally. This threa...
The meaning of the word ‘to exist’ is the fundamental question of philosophy. You skated over a lot of very heavy subjects with a very brief reply the...
So do numbers exist? Scientific principles? The law of the excluded middle? I say no. In my lexicon, these are real, but they don’t exist, precisely b...
A more prosaic analysis is made by Dermot Moran who traces the influence of Eriugena on the German idealists. Reincarnation is a boo-word. Best to ste...
Oh, only because the Republican Party is arguably as big a threat to world peace and the continuation of democracy as Putin's Russia. So whatever bene...
Just noticed this thread. Question: if the Supreme Court of the USA really does overturn Roe v Wade, as seems highly likely, won't this undermine the ...
There's one here, but it doesn't make that particular point https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096128525/political-consequences-supreme-court-draft-opini...
(Don't know if this is the right place, but I didn't want to start a thread.) Question: if the Supreme Court of the USA really does overturn Roe v Wad...
I've also worked in computer sales and repair. I've witnessed the astounding progress of Moore's Law over the last 30 years since I first got into the...
The article explains that the expansion of space cannot be measured in terms of velocity, but of rate of increase. So it's not true to say that it's '...
Done some more digging. The suspicion only increases. The sentence I edited out in the first post was ‘The project is now being overseen by Orbital As...
2035, I would have thought, ‘hmmm. Interesting.’ But in three years? From a startup? ‘Scheduled to open’, and with a little over 1 million in capital ...
There's a rationale in physics for this apparent paradox. The physics is pretty advanced, but physics writer Ethan Siegel has an article on it: The Ka...
From which: Man that gives me the chills. The idea of man becoming his own creator, altering the genetic code so as to 'survive'. I think it's a reall...
More germane to the theme - the Aeon essay I cited previously talks about the role of trance states in the origin of religions (and I suppose derivati...
In that Closer to Truth video I linked Richard Swinburne says that causality is a primitive concept, meaning irreducible. I agree with him. If you ask...
You don’t generally encounter the term ‘objectivity’ in that context but I suppose you could say that is a property of samvrtisatya, conventional trut...
Wouldn’t say that. The first step on the eightfold path is indeed ‘samma ditth’ generally translated as ‘right view’ (although a big part of that is ‘...
But the point is, inference cannot be derived from observation alone. Inference makes sense of observation. This is what Kant notices. He says, you ca...
In fact, there cannot be an ‘empirical inference’. Inference depends on an intuition of causal relations. If you really only accepted literally what t...
So much the worse for empiricism, then. I think Hume actually ‘plays dumb’. ‘You say there’s a causal relationship? Show it to me!’ You then set fire ...
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