But remember why I was making this point. The discussion is about 'objects and subjects' and by implication, the role of 'the objective sciences' in r...
Strictly speaking it means mind and matter are different substances - in the philosophical sense, not the everyday sense, which is radically different...
The nature of matter is still an unknown, despite the construction of the largest and most expensive apparatus in history to investigate it. It has le...
Sure. There's nothing dualist about it - concepts are the simple residuum of the effects of sensations. That's completely accurate. I did an essay on ...
The 'magical woo' involved is simply that of interpreting signs and signals, without which no discoveries of the kind you mention would ever have been...
Ever heard of Wilder Penfield? He was a Canadian neurosurgeon and a pioneer of modern neurosurgery. Among the curious facts about neurosurgery is that...
Read up on the Scottish Enlightenment. It was a big influence on Darwin's thinking. Oriented towards science, away from anything deemed 'spiritual', i...
It's rather glib, don't you think? Chalmers' opening paragraph: I'm wary of your dismissal of the problem as being either 'terminological confusion' o...
Because they can’t be objectively specified or defined. Think about the objects of physics. They are the objectively-measurable entities par excellenc...
'Reify' means 'turn into some thing', where 'res' means 'a thing'. I suspect Mayr's complaint is that, in line with Darwinian materialism. the notion ...
Anyone read or reading Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism, Sebastian Rodl ? (The first sentence of the abstract ...
A lot of what you say here seems sound to me, but have to take exception to this phrase. Science itself doesn't know what about mathematics makes it s...
They didn’t, though. You have to realize Nos is a disinformation agent, everything he says is a lie. Pointless to argue, though, because Trump will be...
the whole point of the Trump presidency is that he's completely taken over and corrupted the Republican Party and is in the process of demonstrating t...
This ain't news, Creative, McConnell himself said on live TV that there is zero chance of Trump being convicted and it's why the accepted wisdom is, n...
The demands for document were deemed 'invalid' by Trump and his flunkies on spurious grounds and his refusal to provide them is one of the two charges...
My advice whenever this comes up, is start with an historical approach, and specifically with the pre-Socratics, leading on to Plato. There's a vast a...
And why don't they have 'the material?' Because Trump has prevented the investigators from receiving it - one of the two things he's being tried for! ...
If you had six beers in the fridge, and I took some of them, then you would have less than what you put in. How many less, would be contingent on how ...
Not a mere illusion. Things have a degree of reality. But it's based on a implicit realism which is itself a mental construction - vorstellung, I beli...
Even to make this argument there have to be necessary truths. If what you argue is only contingent, then it has no binding power, as it only happens t...
But that is just what is at issue. For the purpose of making this point, there is no 'object itself'! In everything you say, you are starting from the...
well as we've drifted so far from the OP then I'll keep playing along. I would interpret this as a statement of Plato's attitude towards written texts...
I'm speculating about the origin of the idea that 'existence is a perfection'. I'm not speaking from the perspective of Christian doctrine or philosop...
I think one unstated premise in much of this is the archaic notion of 'the Pleroma'. The Pleroma was the divine fullness, the sense of the immense abu...
The Wikipedia page on the Trump Ukraine scandal has a very useful digest of the facts of the case, along with a list of all of the witnesses who testi...
That is what they’re saying, but it has no foundation in fact. Furthermore the impeachment enquiry was established on the basis of witness testimony a...
I’ve been reading about Trump’s impeachment defence. Basically, the argument is another expression of contempt for Congress and the law. By denying th...
But the passage you have quoted does not support your criticism: In saying this, you're assuming the reality of the object outside your judgement of i...
Kant would not claim that 'an object is a representation of something unknown'. That is much more like representative realism which is the idea that o...
Look, the guy that devised Big Bang theory was Georges LeMaitre, who was a Jesuit as well as a scientist. But - here’s the thing - the Pope started to...
What a touching expression of faith! And so sincere, also, which makes it extra special. But the thing is, there can't be evidence for 'other universe...
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