Wayfarer

Agree with your analysis, on the whole. C S Pierce also included abductive reasoning - reasoning from effect to probable cause. But the issue is that ...

Cribbed from an online article: 'Science intentionally excludes certain aspects of the world from its investigations. It only considers what is object...

so as not to run afoul of them :-)

the enclosure of exist in scare quotes is significant - because these constraints must pre-exist, in other words, existence itself depends on them, we...

I mentioned it to one of the mods/admins. Taking a break to concentrate on professional development for a while.

Don't waste your time arguing against the omniscient.

From the Buddhist point of view, that's encouraging people to endure needless suffering. The issue is that post-Enlightenment culture has lost sight o...

I know Michael Brooks' writing, but hadn't heard of that book - looks very interesting though. I'm not sure of the feasibility of simulating a compute...

Dissappointed this thread was created.

Perhaps Viktor Frankl's insights might be relevant to that.

place is going downhill fast at the moment.

I think what you're grappling with is how to even think about it. The way you originally phrased the question was 'are there non-physical things?' To ...

If you thinking that is the price to pay for never talking to you again, I'm very happy for you to think it.

I'm not interested in engaging with you, that is correct, nor anyone else who thinks Ayn Rand is a philosopher.

This is a philosophy forum, I don't come here for lessons in high-school physics. Right. Hence, dualisms of various schools. That is not self-contradi...

What I've been arguing is very simple: that meaning, or acts of interpretation, can't be accounted for in any type of materialist of physicalist philo...

There's not a lot to go on based on what you've said, but if by that you mean: are numbers real in the absence of reference to space-time?, my respons...

It's not a material thing. It's an idea. You know what a number is, because you're h. sapiens. But your dog, if you have one, does not. You should rea...

I sometimes entertain the rather subversive idea that the role of modern culture is to make the world a safe space for the ignorant ('ignorance' in th...

The 'first noble truth' of Buddhism is that existence is 'dukkha' - generally translated as stressful, sorrowful, unsatisfactory. It is inherent to hu...

As far as I'm concerned you're in a muddle, and I'm not going to waste any time on it.

The stones are material - well, according to materialism - but the count, the quantity, is not. What the intelligence grasps is number. Ink on paper i...

Speaks volumes.

Long experience, and the nagging feeling of having wasted too much time.

Ayn Rand ought not to be included. Marx is arguable, he was a political theorist, not a philosopher as such.

But in the case of simple maths, it's impossible to disagree that the sum of two and two is four, obviously (although I have an ominous feeling..... :...

No. They're only graspable by an intelligence capable of counting. They're intelligible objects.

Not surprising that Trump is Putin's ass-kisser in chief. Putin is just the kind of man that Trump dreams of being but unlike Trump he has a at least ...

As I said, I'm not making any further comments on Ukraine, other than to point out that real people are being killed in large numbers. Henceforth I am...

I believe in a single substance, the mother of all forces, which engenders the life and consciousness of everything, visible and invisible. I believe ...

Apologies your grace for failing your standards. This is an internet forum not a post-grad seminar on international relations, and my comments served ...

I seriously think he's delusional and I'm not alone in that. His speeches and conduct do not indicate the measured reasoning of a rational statesman. ...

6,000 warheads. Delusional dictator with nuclear arsenal and historic grudges is no laughing matter. Agree!

or delusional…

Is Putin Mad?

Also a very sobering article on why Russia is considerably more economically resilient than many of the countries that are sanctioning it.

It's not 'The' Ukraine - poignant first-person account of why.

An impression of this thread...... https://i.giphy.com/media/d6FK5qREqLhbS2nBHc/200w.webp

Spot on. The 'realm of quality' or 'domain of value'. Why modern philosophy can't go along with that, is because of the conviction that the Universe i...

Kelly Ross' essay Why I am a Platonist contains an analysis of Kant's response to Hume's 'is/ought' problem.

Not really. The meaning of 'object' in 'intelligible object' is kind of allegorical - a theory isn't really 'an object' except in the metaphorical sen...

That’s a great question. The theory exists, but can only be grasped by a rational mind. It does not exist in the same sense that chairs and tables exi...

By what? How does that occur? What causes that to occur? Why must ‘the universe’ emerging from the total chaos of the big bang result in living beings...

Stanley Jaki was like that, but I believe he was Hungarian.

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I think most would agree with you, but I also think it's because of the cultural context, which makes it impossible to see it any way other than faith...

I think this is where Jacques Maritain locates the intuition of being. 'is a perception direct and immediate …. It is a very simple sight, superior to...

Greetings and welcome! Interesting you felt it necessary to include that disclaimer! I have an MA in Buddhist Studies and am a technical writer, so we...

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But when you say this: you're speaking from the natural attitude. It's the taken-for-grantedness of the separate reality of the world which we general...