Wayfarer

'Where I got it' is from what you said. The 'raw material of perception' is not anything - not until you make something from it, which is the procees ...

What I'm saying is that you never see outside of the mind-created world within which all the objects of perception exist. If it's something that nobod...

Emphatically not.

Can't you see how the account I gave of how 'mind constructs reality' conflicts with 'realism holds that ...stuff... is independent of what we say abo...

So, the role of the mind in creating the world should have some bearing on that, ought it not?

I wrote this on the old forum and you more or less harrumphed at it:

‘Everyman’ is now the measure. I’ve only ever encountered Leo Strauss through forums, however reading the SEP entry doesn’t lend a lot of support to y...

The general tendency of modern thought has been the deprecation of the idea of universals. In the conflict between nominalism and scholastic realism, ...

:ok: Matter constrained by form. Makes a lot of sense to me.

See this post https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/599321

I will have to study that some more.

I do see your point, regrettably. As always with Trump, malfeasance insulated by incompetence.

Something which no inorganic substance will do. Nobody would deny that such behaviours involve chemistry, but they're not reducible to chemistry. Perh...

Very true. Computers don’t experience anything, any more than does an abacus. A computer is a vast array of switches, although they’re so effective th...

Cynical? Me? :roll: The Japanese are a lot less rambunctious than the Yanks. They'd never do anything like that, it would be impolite. //besides, the ...

If, for instance, Congress didn't agree to increase the debt limit - looks as though they will, but if - this would instantly destablise the entire wo...

I'm not the one swearing. Just making an observation on a public forum. American politics have global impacts, and Trump remains a threat to democracy...

Twice, but in case you don't know, acquitted both times by the Senate. (Salutations to the principled Republican senators who voted to convict.)

I feel that were it not for the Platonic ideas or forms, we would not have the culture we have today. Eastern cultures were arguably on the same level...

I agree that delusions are impossible to detect for those inside them. Yours is a textbook case.

It's inexplicable that Trump and the ringleaders of the Jan 6th insurrection haven't been charged with felonies related to secession and interfering w...

Wouldn’t make any difference, I fear.

My English must be dreadful.

When you ask for an explanation, or a reason, you’re not asking for a visual impression. If you asked me, I don’t know, to show you a design or a pict...

Being able to count and see rational relations is different in kind from sensory perception.

This doesn't do justice to the difference between sensory and rational faculties. Being able to count and see rational relations is different in kind ...

Penrose the only one of his ilk that makes a lick of sense to me. But the fact that it is in part discovered, and not wholly invented, tends to favour...

Yet to study the Timaeus. I was recently reading a book on philosophy of physics which notes that the young Heisenberg was very absorbed in it. (Maybe...

All of the senses have a physical aspect but it's much too far a stretch to say that they therefore 'fall within the domain of physics'. Physics has m...

So it looks as though the Brexit chickens are all coming home to roost....or rather, they would be, but regrettably were on the Continent when the boo...

Purely because Galilean science excludes the realm of value. The only reason modern science understands is the efficient/material cause, not the reaso...

Well don’t. Go with the flow.

you’re splitting hairs now.

If everything was determined by the past, then how could there be freedom?

Traditionalist dualism, such as in the Phaedo, sees the human as a fusion of mortal and immortal - mortal body, immortal psyche (soul). Naturalism, of...

On whether everything is determined according to kamma: Dan Lusthaus comments Thanissaro Bhikkhu comments:

The modern conception of nature is very different to the traditional.

First thing the Trump administration did was to overturn the Dodds Frank Act which was specifically aimed at preventing the corporate malfeasance that...

The Government is the only counterweight to The Corporation. It's no surprise that the Right are always harping on about 'the evils of Government', be...

I’m envious of you. As I mentioned, we’re getting ready to sell the house we’ve lived in for 21 years. It’s a big place, now five bedrooms and three b...

If you can’t aspire to ever-increasing material prosperity, which is what the industrial revolution and the idea of progress has brought, then what do...

Thanks for two helpful posts. Strauss must have been a good teaher. I can't see how the convergence of rational thought with the rational order of the...

Yes, I think you're right. Badly chosen on my part.

It might seem so if there were nothing else at stake.

Well, I definitely don’t understand what your issue is with it. Perhaps you could explain it.

It’s the burden of self. Humans are able to abstractly reflect on their own existence, and existence generally, to think ‘this is mine’. Animals can’t...

That is exactly the kind of scare campaign the conservatives used in Australia to torpedo our perfectly feasible carbon tax. ‘A great big new tax on e...

All I’ve said, and those sources I provided affirm, that chance is an element in reality. Some things occur by chance, not everything is determined. I...

See this source, under the heading ‘karma doesn’t explain everything’. Provides citations. Here the Buddha explicitly denies that everything that occu...

Excellent OP, almost an article in its own right. Have a read of this review about Gilbert Ryle’s influence on the purported split between the two sch...