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OK then, I stand corrected. Will bear that in mind.
October 07, 2021 at 22:03
'A transcendental argument is a deductive philosophical argument which takes a manifest feature of experience as granted, and articulates what must be...
October 07, 2021 at 21:41
Well, it is a public forum, like I said. A place to discuss ideas. It's fairly free-form, but I enjoy it, and learn quite a lot from it.
October 07, 2021 at 08:10
Douthat points out, in the other article I linked, that Kagan also said back in the day that it was absolutely imperative to take out Saddam Hussain a...
October 07, 2021 at 06:47
As for 'apophatic', here's a useful primer. Another here.
October 07, 2021 at 03:48
Apropos of which: Plato, Republic 7.527
October 07, 2021 at 03:26
More like @"Fooloso4", and less like Apollodorus! That said, I'm more drawn to the 'spiritual Plato' myself, and consequently find a lot of what you s...
October 07, 2021 at 03:13
Hey it's not a grad school symposium, it's a public internet forum, and, I think, one of the better ones of its kind. I often don't agree with what ot...
October 07, 2021 at 02:50
It's so dissappointing, and also really scary, how many senior Republicans have fallen back into line behind Trump, after initially condemning the Jan...
October 07, 2021 at 02:36
Epic OP on Trump as a real and mortal danger to American constitutional democracy. (It's Washington Post so may be paywalled although I was able to re...
October 07, 2021 at 02:11
One of the first distinctions I learned in comparative religion was between monism and non-dualism. Monism posits a One, but a One can only exist in r...
October 07, 2021 at 02:05
October 07, 2021 at 01:32
Thanks, that is a nice distinction. I think immanent is often confused with 'natural' and 'transcendent' with 'supernatural', which I don't think is h...
October 06, 2021 at 23:33
It's a squabble although I think to call it 'intellectual' is flattering it. The distinction I am making is between the 'phenomenal' - which is the re...
October 06, 2021 at 21:12
Of course, but your disagreements often seem to amount to 'I don't see your point'. And you've actually provided no counter-argument - you're simply s...
October 05, 2021 at 23:46
So, you want empirical evidence for the shortcomings of empiricism? The philosophical argument I gave was this, which refers to a controversy in philo...
October 05, 2021 at 22:57
Falsifiability is not a criterion for what is real; it is only a criterion for what is empirically true, and the question at issue is not an empirical...
October 05, 2021 at 22:40
Read Nagel. He also covers the issue in a chapter in Mind and Cosmos. And don't tell me what I haven't 'bothered to read', at least I bothered to fini...
October 05, 2021 at 22:14
Tongue in cheek. Besides, I'm not referring to semioticians and the like. I'm referring to biological reductionism and neo-darwinian materialism and t...
October 05, 2021 at 22:02
The next phrase is:
October 05, 2021 at 20:35
Hey here's a primer I wrote as part of my very first tech writing contract, way back in 2004 but most of the background info is still relevant. (This ...
October 05, 2021 at 06:41
:pray: It's getting awfully, awfully near the wire this time around.
October 05, 2021 at 06:37
Do you know how the Internet came about? A defense project, originally under something called DARPA. The whole principle was that it was decentralised...
October 05, 2021 at 06:04
On the whole, they're not interested in philosophy. They're more into science and engineering. Which is good! Someone has to keep the devices humming ...
October 05, 2021 at 05:58
Hey that's part of the plot line for the sci-fi novel that I never get around to finishing. I've discovered a lot of great material about those events...
October 05, 2021 at 05:57
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I'm fine, thanks all the same.
October 05, 2021 at 05:55
Non-resolution of the US debt ceiling impasse is both more likely and would be more devastating. Would make 2008 look like a walk in the park. The int...
October 05, 2021 at 05:54
Being good or not is a result of your understanding. 'Trying to be good' is often not a successful means to that end. Hence the saying 'the road to he...
October 05, 2021 at 01:13
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That is an extremely vulgar remark. This is a philosophy forum, it might do you some good to read some more about the subject before launching ad homi...
October 04, 2021 at 23:32
I didn't take it as pejorative. Your prose is a model of clarity. Will reply later.
October 04, 2021 at 23:13
There is no single ‘internet’. The whole system is built in such a way that the vital bits are replicated in many different locations. To take it down...
October 04, 2021 at 22:45
:ok:
October 04, 2021 at 20:45
'Real' may alternatively be understood as 'that which is' or 'what truly is'. It doesn't necessarily pertain only to propositions or statements, espec...
October 04, 2021 at 11:36
I don't think it's necessarily about 'being a better person'. I also acknowledge that my view on the question contains many intuitive leaps that may n...
October 04, 2021 at 07:53
sorry didn’t mean it to be dismissive. I’ve posted a ton of comments to this thread on the subject, beyond that I don’t have much further to add.
October 04, 2021 at 06:27
I get it. Deep topic.
October 04, 2021 at 05:48
It's not strictly speaking religion but metaphysics that is at issue, but in today's world, the two are so entangled that it's nearly impossible to se...
October 04, 2021 at 04:44
So they're the only choices? It's either nothing, or a religious dictatorship? It's certainly nothing I've ever managed to convey to you, although not...
October 04, 2021 at 04:09
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:scream: Exact opposite of me, I'm a terrible patient. My dear one's step-father, now deceased, was like that - incredibly high pain threshold - tough...
October 04, 2021 at 02:47
Leaving aside Neitszche, I am trying to reconcile my leanings towards Eastern philosophy with Platonism. The traditions that I am most influenced by a...
October 04, 2021 at 01:56
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According to Buddhist teachings, beings are born into the world that is to all intents created by their karmic proclivities. So a hell being's world i...
October 04, 2021 at 01:48
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there's only one world, there's not a separate world for philosophers and psychologists. I don't lay any claim to any kind of attainment of Buddhist w...
October 04, 2021 at 01:39
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Says who?
October 03, 2021 at 23:34
Point taken. What I was trying to get at is that passage I quoted above from the essay on Ockham and nominalism: ' A genuine realist (about forms, not...
October 03, 2021 at 23:25
Ain't that the truth. I think it's lead to a kind of shadow, a tacit agreement of things that ought not to be said or considered. I noticed as an unde...
October 03, 2021 at 13:24
Why, oh why, could anyone, ever, have a Christian name of 'Trashelle'? I mean, is that a sick joke? That some poor girl was named after, I don't know,...
October 03, 2021 at 13:07
I'm sure. 'Man as microcosm' is found in many ancient texts. At funerals that are held by my wife's family, who are members of small Christian sect, a...
October 03, 2021 at 11:43
Those questions are too general to be meaningfully defined in a forum post. Suffice to note that for example there are references to the Greek pantheo...
October 03, 2021 at 03:17
Loy's essay starts with this observation - 'The main problem with our usual understanding of secularity is that it is taken-for-granted, so we are not...
October 02, 2021 at 23:39
:roll: From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Pierre Hadot: But later in the same section there's an important caveat: Even regardless ...
October 02, 2021 at 23:20