Wayfarer

When he used the term 'imaginaire', I don't think he meant what we mean when we say something is 'merely imaginary'. 'Imagination' when understood pro...

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But I think Hume’s point was far more general than you’re making it out to be. Taken in the context of Hume’s overall philosophy, it amounts to a scep...

Well, there you go! Haven’t read either of them, so shows what I know. :yikes: But do agree with you on the general incoherence of the OP. Just chippe...

wasn’t that The Great Gatsby?

‘Phenomena’ are ‘what appears’. ‘Being’ is what ‘phenomena’ appear to, but ‘being’ is not itself a phenomenon. Of course, particular beings appear to ...

Existence is a subset of being.

It should be considered that strictly speaking 'ontology' refers to the study of being as distinct from phenomena.

Believe it or not - seems hard to believe even to myself - I have actually passed undergraduate exams in both Sanskrit and Pali, the latter being the ...

Welcome to the Forum. I self-identity as one of the forum idealists, so will answer accordingly. The very short version is that ethics must ultimately...

I think the Western ethical systems were clearly grounded in 'divine revelation or some such'. It provided a common ground, or the sense of a supreme ...

Google Graham Priest. It’s his speciality.

It’s not an absolute - dialetheism shows there are contexts in which contradictory statements can both be true. But in normal discourse something can’...

So the commands of reason are not necessary truths?

And thereby constitutes necessary truths.

Critical is not scornful.

So the upshot is, no reasonable person could disagree with you, or, put another way, anyone who disagrees is being unreasonable. That’s certainly the ...

So, when you said in your other thread on rejecting ‘necessary truths’: Why doesn’t this apply to ‘the truths of reason’ which you here say are ‘imper...

Well - I see your point.

Why the upper-case ‘Reason’? I’m an admirer of ‘the argument from reason’ but I tackle it in a different way to the way you go about it. It seems to m...

It doesn’t follow. It is imperative that one doesn’t leap into flames on pain of an awful death. It doesn’t follow that you’re told not to leap into f...

Might this not be an argument from ignorance? In our experience, the laws of reason are associated with minds, namely, our own minds, which are what d...

Nietszche was wrong. If you think that the existence of God is a question that can be solved scientifically, then you don't understand what kind of qu...

I've been following this from afar, having put $5k into stocks two years ago and then making a loss, due to lack of interest in the subject and a feel...

yes but discussion of psychiatric disorders are a special case because they need specialist attention. It's impossible to generalise about such instan...

This is a philosophy forum, such questions are out of scope.

It's extremely dissappointing, the way that the Republican Party have all come crawling back to Trump. One of the senators who voted to impeach, Tim R...

Wilhelm Wundt was the major founder of psychology. His psychological method was primarily based on introspection. But the problem with introspection a...

Fair point, I meant to say - I disagree that self reflection/contemplation is destructive. The point I'm also trying to make is that self-awareness is...

Excellent point I’ll shut up

True, but what I'm saying is, Trump ought to be disqualified from office regarding of what's in them, and I hope he is. There's enough already in the ...

I would think considering Boris’ track record on COVID to date, it would be better for him not to boast about anything connected with it.

Wasn’t a big part of the rationale about ‘ditching the Eurocrats’? Ironic, considering the noise that was made about it throughout the negotiations. O...

I think a lot of those kinds of authors are dodgy. Besides, Trump ought to be shunned wholly and solely on doings and sayings in the public domain, th...

CNN is reporting that Trump's impeachment legal team has resigned en masse, less than a week before the Senate trial. This is because the Stable Geniu...

We take 'the world' to be real, but it only a fleeting shadow. What we take to be real and substantial is in reality empty of substance.

If there are no necessary truths, then nothing you can say is necessarily true.

Right. No argument from me there. But I still say, the fact that many eminent physicists have divergent, and even incommensurable, views of what physi...

I find the Copenhagen interpretation quite persuasive, as far as I understand it. I read Manjit Kumar’s ‘Quantum’ and David Lindley’s ‘Uncertainty: Ei...

The point I made was simply that this is not just the attitude of 'most contemporary philosophers of religion' but also of the Scholastics, and that i...

In my first class in Comparative Religion we were asked to come up with a consensus on the definition of religion. The class started off thinking that...

Transistors rely on the principles of quantum physics. Explainer here. Interesting reference!

Perfectly true. But the point is, science was supposed to disclose the fundamental constituents of being. When LaPlace devised his 'daemon', then it w...

It was a rhetorical question aimed at the OP. I wasn't myself saying that they're 'both the same'.

I mentioned that above. It works - but we don’t necessarily understand the principles. ‘Spooky action at a distance’ is proven, in fact it’s now used ...

'Other folks have "ideologies". I just have principles!'

Right, so you agree with Errol Morris. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/31/the-ashtray-by-errol-morris-review So, I agree with Kuhn. I don't...

I didn't think it was paywalled, you can usually read a couple of Guardian articles for free. I will paste it, but first, are you familiar, at least, ...

This review is relevant to our conversation. It concerns a documentary made by filmmaker Errol Morris about philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn, who’s ...

And is that light a wave, or a particle? Or doesn’t it matter?