That seems to be at odds with your OP: The way your OP is set out, you seem to be asking human language evolved, yet you're saying now that natural se...
Dammit, still at it. Yesterday, I went to the trouble of methodically purging all browser history pertaining to Philosophy forum, but old habits die h...
I've had some extremely acrimonious exchanges in the past about these subjects, so I'm cautious. Anyway - I think there is truth in the Buddhist teach...
I've been quite drawn to Buddhism all my adult life. And contrary to popular opinion Buddhism teaches that there are hells - more than one! - into whi...
I think the problem you're going to always have with this kinds of arguments is with the nature of meaning. Being able to discern meaning is fundament...
The point about antitheism and atheism generally, is that following Descartes’ ‘grand division’, most of the engineers and scientists flocked to expla...
It was coined by Abraham Maslow 'an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological healt...
Ray Monk, Wittgenstein’s biographer, also wrote an essay in Prospect Magazine in which he says: What he describes as a ‘language game’, I prefer to ca...
The Vienna Circle took that as one of the foundational principles of positivism, and yet that is not at all what Wittgenstein meant. The concluding se...
Hedonism (philosophy): the ethical theory that pleasure (in the sense of the satisfaction of desires) is the highest good and proper aim of human life...
In actual fact, the word ‘ontology’ is of much more recent origin - around 16th C or so - from the first person conjugation of the Greek ‘ouisia’, to ...
You still don’t understand the sense in which you’re a moral relativist. But it is abundantly clear from this: So let me spell it out, in a stream-of-...
Interesting question - Rupert Sheldrake gets into trouble for saying the speed of light has fluctuated over time, and he also says that the laws are l...
Seriously, I do wonder what would happen if some breakthrough discovery was made which showed that multiverse theories, and the Everett theory, were f...
I think it’s more that the whole idea of ‘chance’ is pretty specious in this context. The idea of ‘chance’ arose in the first place as an alternative ...
How are a priori truths the product of the mind? If they were produced, they would be a posteriori as a matter of definition. Instead, they’re recogni...
But that begs the question of where order arises in the first place. It's natural to assume that the mind is the product of the high degree of materia...
I'd be interested to hear a proposed solution. I'm pretty familiar with Chalmers but none the proposed solutions that I've encountered have come to gr...
well, I would hope that you can see that, if this were true, then it would be pointless for you to write anything whatever, as the only point of writi...
Not so much energy, as meaning. Energy and matter are interchangeable, but as Norbert Weiner, founder of cybernetics, said 'Information is information...
Modern psychology is a very confused discipline. I’m reading through Dermot Moran’s Introduction to Husserl’s Crisis of European Sciences - Husserl li...
But you can't get outside of them and say brain here, universe there. Well, you can - if you study cosmology, on the one hand, and neuroscience, on th...
There was a risk in my saying that 'the brain is simulator' - but rhetorically, that gets traction, because we know the brain is fantastically complex...
It’s real but not ultimate. Ultimately we're not outside of or apart from reality. Philosophy is concerned with reality as lived, not simply with obje...
‘Mathematics seems to have its own kind of existence ~ Penrose. Of course, I agree with this, as I’ve just posted an argument for the same point in Pf...
This is a post-Cartesian way of thinking. It treats abstracts as 'objects', like regular objects, but in another domain. Then it wonders how 'abstract...
Answers in Genesis is unadulterated nonsense. That bloke used to have billboards in Sydney but Australians were far too sensible for his nonsense, so ...
that was a response about remark made by another poster, that Aristotle was still in thrall to 'iron age ideas'. But I agree with your description of ...
I quite agree with your remarks. Actually the OP expresses a re-statement of the so-called 'boo/hurrah' theory of ethics, which is emotivism - that al...
It looks an interesting paper! But my view on this matter is actually simple one: that logical laws, real numbers, and the like, are real but not mate...
'Metaphysics' was added by an editor of Aristotle's works, meaning 'after the physics', but coming to mean something more than simply 'after'. As for ...
On a more prosaic and less mystical level: there's the physical form of a symbol - like, you can cast the letter 'A' in bronze, and it's a physical ob...
Yes. The central issue in modern naturalism arises directly from the underlying presuppositions of modern scientific method as articulated by its foun...
:up: Because it says that ideas are 'mere words', whereas for (medieval) realism, universals and concepts are real independently of any speech-acts or...
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