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Well maybe, but Russell gives the relationship of ‘being north of’ as an example of a universal.

That's not at all who I had in mind but I'll shut up.

Also, a couple of relevant/interesting books: Heidegger's Hidden Sources: East-Asian Influences on his Work: zen and the art of postmodern philosophy

Well, only if your idea of God is absurd. And the kind of absurd idea I have in mind, is God as a kind of uber-director, standing behind the scenes di...

Yes studied them as part of both Comparative Religion and Buddhist Studies. There have been some interesting comparative studies of Heidegger with Asi...

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That's not what Russell is doing. He's saying that it is a relation. That's why he says it 'subsists', not 'exists'. Correct! That is precisely the po...

It is not at all clear what electromagnetic fields are, nor if there are fields of other kinds, like Sheldrake's 'morphogenetic fields', which are not...

The use of the word 'table' or 'apple' or 'chair' is invariably a stand-in for objects in general. So the question is about, what are things, really? ...

As if their position were fixed to begin with....

If you mean this question: As I understand it, ‘their expansion’ in this case is simply leaving the door open to sovereign nations who wish to join th...

Ah, so Darwinism extracts goodness from atomic reactions. You should try reading some philosophical analyses of that, for example this OP. It talks ab...

meaning, units of quantity. (Now, what about qualia....?)

It's something of a watershed for Western Buddhists. Belief in rebirth is a taboo on two grounds in Western culture. Firstly belief in metempsychosis,...

When it comes to invading Ukraine, why should anyone consider that? Ukraine is a sovereign nation, why should Russia's territorial ambitions be consid...

I see your point. There's another article about John Wheeler, Does the Universe Exist if We're not Looking? which touches on this: So that conforms pr...

The footnotes in the .pdf I linked to don't seem to corrolate against the numbers in the text i.e. at the foot of the page from which I cropped that e...

Hopefully, you'll never have to worry about it.

/uploads/resized/files/j1/vh5pp59nhlpnn8wx.png Excerpt from John Wheeler Law without Law It is worth recalling in this context the distinction that Ka...

Nobody knows! I mean, you can assume that the instrument has recorded a result, but until someone checks - and remember, that instrument was built by ...

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-turns-on-cameras Also contains a good explanation of why the instrument has to operate at near-absolu...

You have the luxury of not living under the boot - you’re in a system where you can scream protests at the ruling party. You wouldn’t be in that posit...

But it’s incumbent on you to show why mind is material-dependent to show why my claim is incoherent. Let’s break it down. Do you agree that materialis...

Yeah. And all things considered, I still they suck more.

So why did the Ukrainians revolt against Yanokovych? Surely if they thought Russia was a better deal, they would not have done that.

You say 'we should consider what Russia wants.' You don't think the democratic will of the Ukrainian people has any role in to play? Note the bolded p...

Right. Well, that's what I'm taking issue with, so stop saying that I don't understand it, or I'm bashing straw men. I know perfectly well what materi...

I think the simplified version of that is that the relative state formulation avoids the wave-function collapse, which is extrinsic to the mathematica...

So you're claming that mind is dependent on matter? (As always, reading between the emoticons and slurs is a challenge and possibly not even a worthwh...

There is the well-known anecdote: In asking the question, Einstein was challenging the Copenhagen interpretation - that quantum mechanical systems lac...

I liked De Rerum Natura. Submitted a term paper on it, in Keith Campbell's Philosophy of Matter class, back in the day. Oddly enough, obtained a High ...

If you think that's what I said, then your interpretation is at fault. It's real, but not in the way that it seems.

in ways that you are never able to say.

Never mind TC, no hard feelings, I just felt it deserved a bit more of a constructive criticism. Although I will say, @"Ignoredreddituser", you've pic...

There's another big book on Amazon I've noticed that I'll probably never read, called The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith, a sociology profes...

C'mon TC. This is a philosophy forum, and it's a perfectly valid philosophical question. It's a lot better thought-out than many of the one-liner OP's...

What do the Ukrainians say about it? Bearing in mind that if Ukraine were annexed by Russia, then this would become a meaningless question, as they wo...

So this definition is wrong? The fact that our sensory abilities are only adapdatively 'beneficial for survival' is another form of reductionism, name...

I wasn't denying the doctrine of rebirth myself, I said this professor's purported 'fear of being reborn as an insect' was unwarranted. And, technical...

I noticed this: Even though the instrument itself is not a living observer, it's an instrument built by observers. Whatever it records becomes an obse...

This is why idealism seems to clash with scientific realism. Scientific realism presumes that objects exist regardless of whether they're being percei...

What Berkeley and other idealists point out, is that all judgements concerning what is real are just that - judgements. They comprise the synthesis of...

Yes I do get that, I learned about moore's law and microprocessing quite some back, but still, the cumbersome nature of the early vacuum-tube models w...

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Hey I don't know about the 'everyone sleeps with....' - I've never come close and nobody else I know does that. (I've only ever eaten kangaroo once, r...

I'm the only (nominal) Buddhist in my family and social circle. My in-laws stopped discussing such things with me when we first got married, one makin...

Thanks both for the illuminating answers. That top reference hits the nail right on the head. Claude Shannon is often mentioned on this forum. He wrot...

As a side note, doing comparative religion I read some of Wilfred Cantwell-Smith, who’s view is that there is no such thing as religion, simpliciter -...

They’re not dependent on the narrative in the same way, they comprise insight into a causal process. But of course you’re primed not to see that throu...

There's nothing else in nature remotely like h. sapiens, in terms of our cognitive abilities - but this seems a forbidden truth. I think it's one of t...