Wayfarer

I think there’s something deeply mistaken in that phrase.

:yikes: For a while after the New Atheist fad started, I kept track of reviews of their books. I should explain I’m not a specifically theistic person...

Without wanting to sound dismissive, that's why I posted that snippet from Harold Stewart. N?g?rjuna’s concern is soteriological - release from sa?s?r...

Mathematics is true a priori and so empirical validation isn't relevant. This is true. That is why in such matters, circumspection might often be call...

‘Mu’ is indeed a symbolic form or reference to ??nyat?. It is often used as the negation of both arms of a dilemma, as you say. Think back to the pass...

Nah. They’re too stupid to be genuinely dangerous. Trump is the definition of stupid.

Well, I see from reports of Trump’s speech today at the GOP conference, that he’s not quite done totally f***ing the Republican Party. Which is great,...

What I meant was, I will henceforth refrain from invoking Godel’s theorems to make philosophical claims.

I hate all those Vienna Circle types. That’s one of the reasons I’m going to keep out of these discussions.

There’s a pretty good Wiki article here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similarities_between_Pyrrhonism_and_Buddhism Even proposes that the influence ...

What happened is perfectly clear, but a significant proportion of the populace has bought into Trump’s lies and so are prepared to accept that the rio...

‘Elected officials’, right? So it is a democracy. Denying that fact doesn’t help to protect democracy, it only fuels cynicism. Egypt, Belarus, Myanmar...

I do wonder sometimes if mass shooters really believed they would go to hell for their actions, whether they would carry them out. The belief that ‘de...

it has to be understood what is being negated though. After all, Wittgenstein himself lectured and wrote, if he’d simply remained silent all his life,...

From Wiki entry on the Buddhist ‘doctrine of two truths’: The philosophical point is that ‘things’ don’t possess intrinsic reality or independent exis...

I don’t see how this can be so. The fact that 317 is a prime number is indeed not dependent on your or my assent, but it’s regardless a fact which onl...

Thanks. I have learned from this thread to avoid discussion of this topic in future.

I’m afraid to say that you’re splitting hairs.

Isn’t that what I said?

Doesn’t it mean that there must always be some assumptions? Something that is assumed to be so, but can’t be proven to be so? Isn’t that what the issu...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors/

Just because nobody owns it doesn’t mean anyone can say what it is. Don’t appreciate the card trick.

:up: :clap:

To which the only answer is ‘democracy is owned by no-one’.

Not really. We know that, for instance, the laws of motion hold, but we don’t know why they hold. Asking why they hold, you could argue, is oversteppi...

Many people then proceed to an argument for a higher intelligence, but if you only say that physical laws aren’t explicable in their own terms, then y...

Wouldn’t go along. I’d just say that we must have the rational faculty in order to define the physical. That’s the sense in which the rational precede...

Logic is the relationship of ideas. Whatever material system, organic or synthetic, understands logic will have to realise the rules of logic, which c...

Yeah but it undercuts your claim that 'You never get anything material from mental states' when you plainly do. Fear and love are mental states, and t...

When alarmed, your body will produce adrenaline, when in love, oxytocin. The whole field of mind-body medicine relies on this. You're barking up the w...

Interesting piece in the Atlantic today arguing that The Capital Rioters Won. I think, in light of the GOP blocking the commission of enquiry, this is...

Yes. Again, note the 'roughly speaking'. I think that is what our expert contributors are emphasising. But I do agree there is a broader, underlying p...

Isn't it all to do with the foundations of mathematics and logic? 'Foundations' suggests to me something real, a system of thought that can be anchore...

The thing is, though, that these kinds of ideas tend to filter through into popular culture, one way or another. There’s a profusion of ideas from cur...

I thought that was the point I was trying to make in quoting from his book, but thanks for spelling it out to clear up any ambiguity.

probably +40 c More when climate change really kicks in. 'Birds fall cooked from the sky'.

A lot less cold :scream: . Although I most enjoyed the Coen Bros production of it.

Oh, thanks. That is a good observation. I had the impression that it was a form of the paradox which Russell had sent to Godel.

/uploads/files/tt/oh9rck2rni2gdvln.png From the intro to Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse. You might find the answers in ther...

I suspect there's something you're not seeing here. When Bertrand Russell told Gottlieb Frege about the 'barber paradox' it had a momentous impact on ...

I skimmed it. I will go back and read it again. I found the book you mention, it seems eminently readable from the preview, I will add it to my list. ...

According to Calvin we are.

Aw shucks.... :yikes: I must confess that I didn't. I've not studied symbolic logic, and my mathematics is rudimentary, but I'm interested in why Gode...

After posting excerpts from it for years, I finally bought Philosophy as a Way of Life, Pierre Hadot., in hard copy. So far, exceeds expectations. Als...

...ok, which it still is in some ways. Currently Australian Labor, both State and Federal (WA is not counted as they’ve won solely on the back of COVI...

It's convict origins made for a very egalatarian culture, which it still is. It's been called, in a famous book from some decades back 'the lucky coun...

This idea is not dissimilar to one in many of Alan Watt's books. For example The Book: on the Taboo against Knowing who you Are, which 'delves into th...

That's pretty well what Kant says of Hume also: In other words, I take it, if Hume was correct, we couldn't actually think or make judgements; we'd ha...