Wayfarer

Giving the game away, MU. No Platonist - or Aristotelian - worth his/her salt ink would say such a thing. It is the universal view of ancient philosop...

Axios dug up Facebook photos of the woman, Fang Fang or Christine Fang. Fang Fang! What a fantastic name. This must have been done by a screen writer....

Daily Beast. According to Jim Clyburn, as there is no convention governing when an impeachment which has been passed is sent to the Senate for trial, ...

Noticed this yesterday. I think this is the book I have been looking for in regard to philosophy of arithmetic. https://play.google.com/store/books/de...

Does this look like something any smart person would have done? On live television? https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1165958509-...

That’s the problem. In a sane world, there would be very, very few. Or none.

There’s a NYT article on the criminality of what he did, you’re right, it’s a very tricky thing to establish. That is part of Trump’s criminal cunning...

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Why thankyou! I hadn't thought of that connection, but it's a flattering comparison. (I've tried reading up on Cudworth but there doesn't seem to be a...

Now, there's a patriot.

Hah. That young earth creationist, Ken Ham, started in Sydney, I used to drive past an Answers in Genesis billboard, with dinosaurs on it. But he had ...

https://nyti.ms/2XtGlNf

Actually, I would like to press the point a little, if only for my own edification. What I said was that there is no physical counterpart for the elem...

yeah let's see that work.

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That ought not to relieve him of his massive culpability. I hope the matter is pursued and that he has to cop the consequences.

So you’re arguing ‘plausible deniability’? I really can’t see it. I think should the motion of impeachment pass the House he might again be acquitted ...

Also, note that in that video address, prior to telling his 'supporters' - that would be the mob that had just ransacked the Capitol and murdered a po...

On a general note, you can see from the actions of the Trump supporters that his only legitimate support base comes from grievance. In other words, al...

we’ll see. It’s awful that the Democrats have to press impeachment charges, but there really is no choice, they can’t let it go. He has to be held to ...

The full articles of impeachment against Trump are published here.

FBI warns 'armed protests' being planned at all 50 state capitols and in Washington DC What the hell is an 'armed protest'?? How is it not armed insur...

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Some references: Sattipatthana Sutta - 'the way of mindfulness' - source text from Pali Buddhist canon. Mindfulness in Plain English, Henepola Gunarat...

The 'interaction problem' arose from Cartesianism, because of the way Descartes conceived of mind as a 'thinking thing'. Husserl criticized Descartes ...

I said that the elements of reason and logical inference are purely intellectual, they comprise the relationship of ideas. Physicalists will depict th...

I'm with you on that. Not that they're all saying the same, or heading to the same destination, but that they're agreeing, and disagreeing, about the ...

‘Some people say that the whole world is an illusion. If that is true, I definitely overpaid for my carpet’ ~ Woody Allen.

But don’t you see how you’re in a self-reinforcing loop here? ‘We don’t really know what “physical” is, but everything must be physical, otherwise it’...

I do get it, and I think it’s a valid and important point. I trust that the various boards and executives that made these calls agonised over them. As...

Just listening to a media lawyer, she says First Amendment rights pertain to the Government not suppressing freedom of expression. Twitter, AWS are bu...

So - the current news is, the Democrats will definitely introduce a motion to have Trump removed from office under Article 25. It has to be approved b...

No, I mean 'the contents of the book' - the story or other content. That comprises a set of ideas, or a narrative, or perhaps instructions. Sure, the ...

It depends on what is meant. There's nowadays a neo-aristotelian trend in biological sciences, precisely because of the discovered need for a final ca...

Sure, I might well follow up on him, but I'm totally, like, backlogged with things to read, including Heidegger :-)

Thanks for the recommendation. Markus Gabriel was mentioned in another thread recently so I looked into him. But I noticed this: which I reject entire...

‘Physical’, meaning what, exactly? It used to mean indivisible particles, now it means fields, however they’re conceived. For all we know there might ...

Then why bother with a philosophy forum? There are plenty of science forums.

Begs the question. If we don't know what is phtysical, then how can you say it's physical? Do 'we' now? Such as? 'Phenomena' are 'what appears', so 'c...

I think it's indisputable that there are many things about apparently ordinary physical things we don't know. Newton's famous 'hypothesis non fingo' w...

I don't buy that. Some of the mob were armed, there were vehicles found with bombs and high-powered rifles in them. There are recordings of people try...

Desperate problems call for desperate remedies.

But the problem with that, is that the qualities of thought are different in kind from magnetism, gravity, or other properties associated with matter....

Parler has been banned from Amazon Web Services, which is their hosting service. If they can’t find another they’ll be effectively offline. Excerpt fr...

As I said before - anyone ought to be free to express their opinions, but what if a medium is used solely for the propogation of lies? Are lies protec...

The day America realized how dangerous Donald Trump is. And just for the record, again, the Wikipedia definition of 'demagogue': .... The bitter end m...

I have mentioned this essay before, but you might find it worthwhile - Meaning and the Problem of Universals, Kelly Ross. (The author is a retired aca...

Trump’s Legacy: Voters Who Reject Democracy and Any Politics but Their Own Personally, I think that democratic rights come with obligations - first an...

They probably won't allow him a computer in prison.