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It maybe is just an admission that the horizon of knowledge is not the bounds of the universe. I want to try and articulate a notion which is that the...
July 04, 2020 at 02:27
Thanks. Very useful primer, that.
July 04, 2020 at 00:17
You're missing the point on a basic level. Were this the case, there would be no need for arguments such as 'mathematical fictionalism'. The whole rat...
July 03, 2020 at 22:22
:up: I think hylomorphic dualism - dualism of matter and form - would be more satisfactory from your viewpoint, would it not? Because it can be transp...
July 03, 2020 at 11:26
I haven't read Weiner's book either, but my initial reference wasn't to Norbert Weiner, so I haven't 'misread' or 'misrepresented' anything. Mine was ...
July 03, 2020 at 09:21
On a slightly related note, I've been reading the SEP article about 'fictionalism in mathematics'. Notice the whole argument is predicated on the simp...
July 03, 2020 at 08:15
I've always loved the idea of Panspermia, ever since getting Fred Hoyle's and Chandra Wickramasingha's book The Intelligent Universe way back in the 1...
July 03, 2020 at 07:04
Yes. You'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise if you spend any time on philosophy forums.
July 03, 2020 at 06:55
Because there are a lot of people who unconsciously accept materialism - like, they wouldn't think of themselves as materialist, and they're not mater...
July 02, 2020 at 22:49
Mine was a reference to the original quote, by Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, a French materialist philosopher of the Enlighenment. It was his expressio...
July 02, 2020 at 22:33
You're not responding to what I said, but what you think I said, which is understandable, as it is a very complex and controversial subject. I am *not...
July 02, 2020 at 06:52
I didn't say they don't have philosophical relevance. What I said was that cognitive science is not the same subject of philosophy of mind. But as you...
July 02, 2020 at 06:31
You see how this question, and your post, is framed against the (I suggest unconscious) assumption of historical progress? I'm looking at the issue th...
July 02, 2020 at 05:36
I dispute that they're philosophically 'more advanced' - and, how would that be measured? I agree cognitive science, evolutionary biology and neurosci...
July 02, 2020 at 05:20
Cognitive science is not philosophy of mind. But this paper on the neural binding problem and the subjective unity of perception does explicitly menti...
July 02, 2020 at 05:03
I don't think that is known. Alva Noe says 'Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.' Thinking of...
July 02, 2020 at 03:58
Enables it to write the above. Write the above, or any other entry that it sees fit to write, for whatever reason. I presume you wrote the above consc...
July 01, 2020 at 11:00
Scientists will never understand why philosophical questions are not resolvable by scientific means, because it's a philosophical issue, not a scienti...
June 29, 2020 at 10:56
'What is real' is a matter of judgement. So a materialist, like Dennett, is advancing the thesis that 'what is real' are the collective outputs of mil...
June 29, 2020 at 10:51
A quote from Thomas Nagel’s review of Dennett’s last book which I highlighted at the time (now unfortunately paywalled): Dennett really does deny that...
June 29, 2020 at 10:30
Just saying it isn’t what who thinks it is? After all, illusions can only ever be artifacts of a conscious intelligence.
June 29, 2020 at 08:36
To me it seems the positing of a mind-independent reality is the hallmark of scientific realism and is also widely assumed by common sense realism. I ...
June 29, 2020 at 01:44
Ah! An idealist, after all. :wink:
June 29, 2020 at 00:40
Hence the emphasis on objectivity and the corresponding deprecation of 'any hypothesis that pretends to discover the ultimate original qualities of hu...
June 28, 2020 at 23:12
Mindfulness in the sense it’s currently used has never been associated with philosophy as such. It originates with popularized Buddhist meditation pra...
June 28, 2020 at 10:45
An underlying issue is the fact-value dichotomy, or Hume's is/ought problem. As stated by Hume: So the contention here is that statements of fact and ...
June 28, 2020 at 09:51
I think it might be. I've stormed off from this forum on several occasions but (obviously) have returned. But I've learned to become somewhat more det...
June 28, 2020 at 04:26
Yes I stumbled on that review in NY Times, if that’s the one you mean. My sympathies were with Popper. :up: Richard Weaver, Ideas have Consequences
June 28, 2020 at 02:56
Well, yes, because it's much closer to philosophy than some other subject. That's why there is a constant stream of newcomers trying to articulate som...
June 28, 2020 at 01:42
But another factor in a secular culture such as ours is the general absence of spiritual literacy; people have little grasp even of the terminology an...
June 28, 2020 at 00:46
Folks generally will believe what suits them.
June 27, 2020 at 23:05
This is the best introduction to emptiness I'm aware of. There is ample documentation of people, mainly children, who remember their past life. Bhikkh...
June 27, 2020 at 22:43
Irony being that so much thinking is driven by what is not religious. I'm studying a few topics from late antiquity and medieval philosophy, and there...
June 27, 2020 at 22:39
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He was blatantly evangelising for a religious sect or cult, no question about that. Note from the ToS: Fell under that heading. Sufficient grounds.
June 27, 2020 at 22:36
Ok not all, but more than half of them.
June 27, 2020 at 09:47
well maybe not all but that guy has been openly proselytizing here for a long while. I thought such activities breached the ToS but to be honest I did...
June 27, 2020 at 09:09
They’re all from that gnostic proselytiser who ought to have been banned long since IMO.
June 27, 2020 at 08:54
I think ‘enduring’ is better than ‘permanent’. Permanence implies some unchanging substance, something which persists through time unchanging. That’s ...
June 27, 2020 at 08:43
The key term in translations of Buddhist texts is the 'unconditioned'. There is a canonical statement to that effect: I think the Buddhist diagnosis o...
June 27, 2020 at 06:00
I’ve always wanted to visit there - might, one day. My son is now a permanent resident in the US so am likely to visit again when travel opens up agai...
June 27, 2020 at 04:56
The religious answer, put in philosophical terms, is realization of an identity that is not subject to death. I take that to be the meaning of what Ch...
June 27, 2020 at 03:28
Agree. But then, consider the audience. I don't know if desert tribesmen were really up for philosophical nuance. That's why interpretation is importa...
June 27, 2020 at 02:23
None of this is basic. I should provide some background to my perspective on this: I don't write as a Christian apologist, although I'm certainly symp...
June 27, 2020 at 00:55
Because if you can't recognise general forms, then you can't make general statements, which your statement 'we don't recognise general forms' is an ex...
June 26, 2020 at 08:21
You can't say 'we don't recognise general forms'. it is one of those comments that blows itself up, like 'all generalisations are false'.
June 26, 2020 at 08:02
I was a participant in one of those threads with you, a couple of months back, when it got bumped to the Lounge, and you complained about it at the ti...
June 26, 2020 at 07:59
Right. I think I see what you mean. I looked at the Wikipedia article you mentioned - I'm impressed that it talks about 'the fifth dimension', althoug...
June 26, 2020 at 07:35
I ploughed through quite a bit of the first Lazerowitz article, found it repetitive. I think he mischaracterises the subject of the debate. It is true...
June 26, 2020 at 07:18
Kaccayanagotta Sutta See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_truths_doctrine
June 26, 2020 at 02:59
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June 25, 2020 at 23:13