Well, I’m starting to hope that Sander’s turnout is going to be a factor, and that a large number of would-be Trump voters will stay home because even...
He's a threat, because he constantly attacks the legal system and uses the justice department in the pursuit of his own political ends (which are his ...
In anthropology and other forms of study of culture, there are etic and emic perspectives. Etic perspectives function within the domain of discourse, ...
I think that's pretty right. We can't 'experience a priori truths by our senses' because by definition, they're not what Kant called 'sensible truths'...
What if it’s not a ‘collapse of a sector’ but a legitimate redistribution of resources? Why should shareholders profit from healthcare? They’re arguab...
Bloomberg’s performance the other night was profoundly depressing. I think it really damaged his cred. As an outsider, I had been hoping that he would...
Well, that's very interesting, but my brief perusal of Christina Schefer's books leads be to believe that they're untranslated, and also exceedingly e...
I don't know if they're 'great' in many respects at all. Philosophy, philo-sophia, was originally grounded in something like 'saving wisdom' i.e. an i...
The problem is your framing of the issue. And it's far from clear that those who describe themselves as 'religious' themselves would agree that this i...
The comment that provoked the firestorm was that dark matter is a metaphysical conjecture. Terrible thing to say. Which is the subject of Hempel’s dil...
This is a ‘philosophy forum’. I think it’s interesting that all of this grew out of my suggestion that the nature and existence of dark matter might b...
The ontology of the probability wave and so also the atom is still one of the outstanding problems of physics, and the particle accelerator has still ...
‘Abductive reasoning (also called abduction, abductive inference, or retroduction) is a form of logical inference which starts with an observation or ...
In the paradigm cases that have been brought up - radio waves, wind, and germs - there is a clear correlation in theory and observation between cause ...
Yes, there's the question of 'the nature of perception and observation' but that is not what is at issue in the discussion of dark matter. That sounds...
You're confusing two kinds of explanation here. Of course one can question the nature of observation itself - that is the task of philosophical analys...
I just can't help being reminded of epicycles and crystal spheres. The placebo effect doesn't have a naturalistic explanation, or at least a physical ...
Science has no idea what 'it' is, or even if 'it' exists, and it's never observed any such thing. That would be a huge headline! Dark matter is used t...
Mistaken. In the case of radio waves, wind, and germs, we have a precise physical description of these, even if they're not visible to the naked eye. ...
Data collected from radio-telescopes of distant stellar objects is direct - you're seeing the light waves or radio waves emitted by the object. It's n...
I don't think that in before modernity it was ever assumed that suffering was something that could be completely avoided. If you can imagine what our ...
The scene in the oval office after the Barr interview: https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fdanidiplacido%...
Check out this OP. Meanwhile, sudden outbreak of sanity from an unexpected source: https://nyti.ms/2tVh4jH] Trump's meddling in the judiciary is yet a...
Coming into existence, then. Hard to imagine how this could be observed, isn't it? Or what kind of physical theory could account for that? I think tha...
They have *never* been observed. There's an inference that they must exist because of their effect, but nobody has a clue about their nature. Dark mat...
Not sure that I can. It’s a one-sentence paraphrase of an argument I read about but I don’t have enough information to elaborate on it. But it makes i...
but no. that's the least real aspect of experience. basically you're appealing to common sense. I value hedonic experiences like anyone else, but they...
You're writing from the perspective of ego - one ego amongst others - which is perfectly natural in an individualist culture. And the basic orientatio...
I had drafted a response along those lines but Jamalrob beat me to it. So, you're basically against those things which most differentiate humans from ...
The distinction is fundamental to Kant. Sorry, no, that was unclear on my part. Yes, Kant used the term 'transcendent' to mean 'beyond the scope of em...
I don't see how anyone can watch that Helsinki performance and still believe that Trump is acting in American interests. Not possible. As for the Demo...
Matters of law, and the abuse thereof, are not decided by public elections, but by the penal code. Those who flout the penal code ought to be subject ...
'"I call all cognition transcendental that is occupied not so much with objects but rather with our mode of cognition of objects insofar as this is to...
But you say: What I said was you’re misrepresenting transcendental idealism, in that you don’t convey an understanding of what Kant means by ‘transcen...
I think that philosophically, the question comes down to the rejection of the possibility of intentional action at a fundamental ontological level. On...
I think it's generally assumed that in the absence of the purportedly intentional act of creation by a divine intelligence, then the alternative must ...
there's a basic point of Kant's transcendental arguments that I think you have missed. This is the idea that the intellectual faculties which render e...
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