This is not a comment on your polemics but your formatting. There is a way to quote text that you’re commenting on - you select the text you want to r...
Not saying there's anything good about it. I'm just saying that I think the reason Melania shed tears when Trump won the Presidency, is because she di...
However, children have the capacity to acquire language, which they do with extraordinary rapidity. And only human children can do that. Do you ever h...
Maybe that, too. Although I had the impression that this would be expected, part of the contract. If you're going to hook a billionaire, it comes with...
No, my take is that she realised she would suddenly be a public person, almost like public property. Rich American sugar-daddy is one thing, being on ...
Oh right - didn't notice that qualification. But I stand by my argument that only rational beings are capable of entertaining perspectives. I suppose,...
Pure desperation. Agree. Hillary Clinton seemed uniquely hated by a lot of people. But there was also a strange confluence of circumstances that consp...
Can ‘we’ be categorised with ‘other objects’? Do objects have a reference frame? Or do reference frames only pertain to observers? :up: Perspective is...
Models are collections of predictive hypotheses and mathematical formulae. At the outset of modern science, with Galileo and Newton, the decision was ...
Where Hugo Chavez got into the act: Meanwhile, Rudy's Dripping Hair Dye stole the show. It was infinitely more classy than anything he actually said. ...
Sure. Third Window is just the kind of book I like to read. I guess my research interest is tangential to yours - I'm very much interested in the hist...
Sad, sad, sad. I heard a story yesterday about patients, desperately ill with COVID-19, shrieking at the hospital staff trying to save their lives tha...
I have noticed your aversion to religion. I think it's unfortunate. A distinction needs to be made between reflexive, inherited religious belief and a...
I know this is not true. Age 4-5, my family went to Scotland where we lived for almost a year. I have very many vivid memories of this trip - places, ...
I hadn't noticed that paragraph, but now you mention it, it is right on the mark. To my mind, the high point of that essay is: You will notice that an...
:ok: The problem is, it easily morphs into a form of fatalism and/or blame-placing. 'It's their/my karma that I '. That is even, or especially, preval...
Perhaps you should consider the idea of the ‘ascent to truth’. You find that in Greek philosophy although many of those ideas were subsequently absorb...
'Perspective' implies or requires an observing mind, does it not? I mean, it is something I'm in complete agreement with, but it seems to me that it i...
Creationism is notoriously inflexible. It is known for insisting that Biblical maxims trump scientific evidence. Creationism is associated with Biblic...
Aha. Interesting point. I would like to comment on your remark ‘Substantial’ (physical) existence’. A point I often make is that the philosophical mea...
You can study the processes of consciousness scientifically through cognitive science, psychology and other disciplines. You can arrive at an understa...
On reflection, I suppose my above objection is exactly like the realist philosophers' objections to David Hume's criticism of causal necessity. What i...
As a general rule, knowing you don't know something is preferable to thinking you know something you don't. It's also preferable to endless blather ab...
Not ignoring it, but acknowledging that the inscrutable nature of the observing mind is a limit. Dennett wants to ignore it, or rather, wants to expla...
You can't turn around and look at it. That's the main issue here: that the observing mind is never the object - which is why Dennett et al want to eli...
The 'white-bearded god' is caricature in place of an argument, which speaks volumes. It's important to frame the issue. Here is a description of the r...
Cause and effect are two aspects of a single process. Say for example you have a building which is infested by termites. This takes place over the per...
I agree with nearly all of what you've said above, but in one respect, I'm afraid I didn't make myself clear. What I meant was, even if you asked 'the...
Welcome to the conversation. I do understand your perplexity, as you can see from my profile, I have been posting here for some time, so there's a 'ba...
All of which are judgements concerning what is real. There is obviously a whole universe of objects and beings that I personally will never encounter ...
If you asked a pre-modern human 'what is the meaning of it all', they wouldn't have the foggiest notion of what you were on about. If you tried to exp...
yeah right. Above and beyond all the dreadful things Trump has done, he has completely undermined respect for facts. The internet and alt-media then a...
I just downloaded a 30 hour (!) reading of the Immanuel Kant collection for nothing, by virtue of having signed up for Amazon Audiobook and cashing in...
Lots of very thoughtful responses above. I've been reading an article on Emile Durkheim, a French sociologist, whose book Suicide explored the relatio...
amen to that. It's one of the principles I've been sporadically arguing for since Day One of my participation on forums. My main argument for it, is t...
It's not 'democratic party' v 'republican party'. It's not conservative v liberal. Trump is a cult leader and is leading millions, lemming-like, into ...
There is a school of thought called analytical thomism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Thomism. I too have hardly dipped a toe, but there's ...
I've found a reference that I think is relevant. Tom Holland's book Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind. There's a discussion of the development ...
We don't see any thing as it is in itself, but as it appears to us. Noumena is the 'object of thought'. It has a slippery meaning, but it's not used i...
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