Wayfarer

I think the other thread you're referring to was started by a poster unhappy about comments being made in the Trump thread, in my opinion.

'Reality has a liberal bias' ~ some bloke.

They're perfectly valid philosophical questions. Philosophy questions the meaning of existence and the nature of reality. Most folks go through life a...

So does a hammer meet ‘the condition of identity?’

And Sidney Powell is on the receiving end of a $1.3 billion lawsuit brought by Dominion Systems for her outrageous and utterly baseless slander which ...

He’s only ever tweeted via therealdonaldtrump. I don’t know if there is an ‘official’ POTUS twitter feed. In any case, I think that in effect Donald T...

Presumably because he genuinely, heart-of-hearts believed that this mob really would overthrow the Government and that he would be staying on as Presi...

They should build a replica oval office and put him in it.

What is included in the category of 'primary and self-subsistent things'? Do tools and artefacts belong in that category? Do they have 'an identity' a...

Again look at it in terms of history of ideas. Vastly simplified: 'teleology' is strongly associated with Aristotelianism. (There's an entry on it her...

Sorry, I was referring rather poetically to the Aristotelian 'essence'. I think that you are equating, or conflating, ‘essence’ and ‘identity’.

It’s either the beginning of the end for Trump, or for democratic government in America. They’re the choices. Trump and trumpism cannot co-exist with ...

Ah, but this is a philosophy forum. We like those kinds of problems. I read about the origin of that 'urban myth' about angels 'dancing on the head of...

You notice the Trump recovery effort is already beginning. Media from the White House is now beginning to appear, 'condeming' the 'dreadful violence' ...

Really no use feeding trolls. Just lowers the tone of the place.

Editorial on the treachery of Josh Hawley from his local paper. Doesn’t pull any punches.

:up: Thank you.

And I agree with you! In some ways, the ‘created vs chance’ is a false dichotomy.

Point taken, wrong choice of words on my part. I meant ‘metaphysic’. I see the difference, but I also believe that representation would not be possibl...

Trump has completely f***ed himself now. He will forever be outcaste on account of what he did yesterday. The remainder is only denouement.

Any unambiguous good would do. It’s quite hard to come by.

Photons and other sub-atomic units of matter~energy are obviously ‘indiscernible’, in that they have no individual identity. All those with the same a...

This story of the police allowing protestors through the barriers, and posing for selfies with them (which is validated by pictures in the public doma...

The point of abstraction is to be able to represent the properties of objects so that you can recognise similarities and dissimilarities, what is the ...

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I’m kind of with you, but I’m also very reluctant to endorse anything associated with intelligent design. The way I frame is, as I’ve said before, is ...

You’re missing the point of being able to abstract. Abstraction is at the basis of language, and you’re not getting it. Logic and language relies on r...

Free Man's Worship sets some of the major themes for 20th century philosophy and literature. Existentialism, death-of-God, the Universe as a blind mec...

There was an interview with Pelosi around the commencement of the impeachment hearings. She said, everything Trump says is a projection. When he says ...

If there's a silver lining, it's that the Democrats are now likely to win both primaries in Georgia, meaning that they will control House, Senate, Pre...

CNN is now declaring it an insurrection. I just captured a screen shot of a MAGA troll sitting in the Speakers Chair.

Really? When was the last time the US Capitol Building was stormed by armed insurrectionists stopping the certification of Electoral College votes? Pe...

I think Trump should be arrested and stripped of his powers immediately.

People need to be prosecuted over this. I don’t recall a worse spectacle in American politics than seeing brawling mobs smashing windows of the Capito...

The capitol building has been occupied by demonstrators. The protest amounts to insurrection. If any of them are carrying weapons, it’s armed insurrec...

One of Russell's earliest essays, published just after the turn of the century ~ 1901. I think the reigning consensus has been that life is the outcom...

It springs from the widespread acceptance that life is a fluke and we're products of an accident. Death of God, and all.

It's not simply 'a way of talking', it's a different conception of the nature of reality. If you admit 'possible existence' as real, then that has ont...

'I wouldn't trade places with Edmund Exley Mitch McConnell right now for all the whisky in Ireland.' Captain Dudley Smith (from L A Confidential.)

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You mean the Georgia primaries? All the sources I’m reading say ‘too close to call’. I was reading a piece in Daily Beast earlier about the shit that ...

In the Platonic dialogues, there's a connection between 'the forms' and 'vision'. So you're not simply thinking about something, but actually perceivi...

Pain can't be realised in a computer, because computers are not organic. Pain means 'suffering' and 'hurt'. Even the simplest creatures will shrink fr...

There's a philosopher of physics, Ruth Kastner, who argues for the reality of Aristotelian 'potentia', based on an insight from Werner Heisenberg's Ph...

I got given Harari's book for Christmas year before last. Can't say I took to it. Erudite and scientifically informed but shallow, in my opinion. Isn'...

what I find interesting is ‘the realm of possibility’. It’s a real realm, in that there are real possibilities, but by definition, possible events are...

I think ‘closed system of thought’ is what I was trying to get at with ‘domain of discourse’. Good explanations, by the way.

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He’s an alumni of the same university, and, I guess, same department, that hosted Ian Stevenson, who conducted research into children with past-life m...