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Oops! Better watch my step! :yikes:

Well, maybe not, but his generative grammar seems at odds with it. Anyway, carry on.

Of course, people have been saying that since he lost, and he keeps implying it, but he would only run if he absolutely knew he would win, and I'm sur...

You have to realise than anyone who questions naturalism is a 'closet creationist'. Like Thomas Nagel.

yeah after all the kvetching about election fraud, now it seems the only actual instances of it were actually coming from him. Somehow that is not sur...

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/trump-campaign-officials-rudy-giuliani-fake-electors/index.html

Yep. 96% of the way there. It's gone so smoothly there's been nothing to report!

:clap: :ok: Ah yes, thanks for the reminder. See Epoché and ??nyat? , Jay Garfield. Right on that wavelength. And also The Embodied Mind, the Varela/T...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/17/virtual-reality-is-genuine-reality-so-embrace-it-says-us-philosopher The problem I see with all of ...

Couple of recent essays on Platonic/Aristotelian philosophy of math https://aeon.co/essays/aristotle-was-right-about-mathematics-after-all https://www...

My reading of modern philosophy is patchy. I did two undergrad years and subsequently more reading, as part of my own philosophical quest, but that wa...

If I were a betting man I’d bet on Putin outlasting Johnson. From what I’m reading he might be gone within a week. Really it’s extraordinary how littl...

Isn't what you're looking for the summum bonum, that being 'the ultimate goal according to which values and priorities are established in an ethical s...

There's a motto on the rural fire brigade station right outside by back gate in respect of fire readiness: 'Planning to make a Plan is not a Plan'. :f...

So, it's looking awfully like Waterloo for Boris, ain't it? From here in the Antipodes, he really does seem an empty suit, and one who's time is just ...

Robert Lawrence Kuhn opens the interview by saying he's 'fascinated' that Linde, a physicist, is compelled to introduce 'consciousness' into the field...

:up: I think we're more or less on the same page but was trying to address @"frank"s concerns.

:up: I think one way to approach this difficult question is to understand mind in a transpersonal sense - not as 'your mind' or 'my mind' or the mind ...

:up: Considerable improvement on the first OP. I question this. Recall that 'phenomena' is 'what appears' - that is its literal meaning. The question ...

I don't think anything in Darwinian theory provides a necessary explanation for mathematics. A general explanation, yes, in the sense that h. sapiens ...

In my view, the crucial issue in respect of absolute objectivity is that of the nature of time and space. Kant denies that these are 'given in themsel...

Different in kind. Reason is different in kind to anything animals possess. Of course this claim is wildly non PC and will always engender ferocious p...

Tthe books I found most useful for this were Manjit Kumar, Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality and David LIndley...

Thanks! Good to hear. That is the argument that Kant elaborated in his 'refutation of idealism', which he added to the second edition of his Critique ...

You can also find a video presentation of Baggott's launch of this book here. It has a particularly lucid explanation of the Bell experiments starting...

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/side_image/public/thumbnails/image/s84-27018.jpg?itok=iwWtIpvc

Apropos of Buddhist philosophy, consider this declaration. Here the Buddha is talking to the character Kacc?na about the nature of existence, so it is...

That is what is called into question by the 'observer problem' in physics. It is the exact reason why Einstein felt compelled to ask 'does the moon co...

Not blunt, as in brusque, but blunt, as in not sufficiently sharp. But, no apology required. :-)

Don't spoil the moment with gratuitous irony. :fear:

(Responded in this thread.)

That question is more suited to this thread.

As said there were hundreds of ‘single point failures’ - things that would have caused mission failure if they hadn’t gone to plan. But so far it’s :p...

Because it can't plausibly be denied. That, incidentally, is the 'First Noble Truth' of Buddhism.

Life is like a movie, but with real blood.

It's an empty question. There'd be no-one around to answer yes or no.

A recent article from The Atlantic, saying that: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-deployment/621211...

I think the implicit claim of modern realism is that we see the world as it truly is, not as it appears to us, and that awareness of that distinction ...

The fact that you think it 'says nothing' shows why you're not understanding the point that is being made. It is precisely the point. I'll say it agai...

It's interesting that Schopenhauer was in his day understood as a vociferous atheist, and yet now his metaphysics is criticized as being too near to r...

:ok: Just so. As for Schopenhauer and religion, there's an interesting MA thesis, Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Religion and his Critique of German Ide...

Thanks! Will definitely add that to the list of must-reads.

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As you're an avid reader, check this out.

Previously in this thread I referred to a passage in a standard textbook on Aquinas, which I felt provided a pithy description of the meaning of hylom...

The expression ‘how many angels can dance on the head of a pin’ is often trotted out as an example of the degeneration of medieval metaphysics. The ac...

I see no evidence of that.

...'philosophy', generally.

Again, you're speaking from a perspective which imagines the universe with no observer in it, but that itself is also a product of your mind. The mind...

Yes, all possible perspectives. And perspectives are only brought to bear by a mind.