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Agree. Really glad to see someone here who appreciates this. Are you familiar with philosopher of science Michel Bitbol? He has some very interesting ...

Welcome. I thnk part of the problem is that 'god' has been turned into a concept, a word with a set of historical associations. And as it's mostly ass...

There are no facts in Trumpworld.

On the noumenal: I actually think Kant's use of the term is rather confused. Early in his career he wrote a thesis on Plato's forms, but then later re...

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What I mean is, that to say that there's a representation of, or a representation and, is suggestive of representative realism, which is more like Loc...

This is Locke’s representative realism, not Kant.

That’s because you see it a through the materialist paradigm, that mind is an output of brain. What if there are biological fields (like Sheldrake’s m...

Beware the dark side, Luke ;-)

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To be honest, my initial reaction to this event was not another ‘oh what has Trump done now’. It seemed to me the kind of action that any US President...

I voted climate change, but if I had two choices over-population would have been #2.

Well, that’s just not so. Maybe you’re not a native English speaker? Buildings and furniture are structures and artefacts. The point is that beings ar...

Wouldn't disagree. But I am hoping nevertheless to probe that construction, rather than simply assume it. I am interested in the role of the observing...

Oh, I'm sorry, then. I thought this was a philosophical discussion. I will, however, be edified in my newfound knowledge that buildings are beings. So...

Don't you think that the issue of the 'hard problem of consciousness' and Chalmer's and Nagel's arguments as to why the natural sciences can't suffici...

What I’m arguing is that to place 'beings' on the same plane as 'objects', is to overlook their fundamental nature as beings. But if you ask what it i...

Note this qualification in that Wikipedia article: Which is the point I'm making. We do not, in common usage, refer to inanimate things as 'beings' - ...

The dictionary is ample evidence for a simple point.

:up: You and I are designated 'beings', and buildings are not. It's simple English. You plainly misunderstood the passage you quoted from me. Would yo...

You must have misunderstood what I was writing about. In no way was I 'denying empathy'. Maybe read through the previous comments in this thread to se...

And which branch of science is primarily concerned with empathy?

This goes back to a point I have raised in the past about the etymological derivation of the term 'ontology'. I pointed out that, according to an onli...

I never claimed this. I have said 'being' in the noun form refers to living creatures. The noun form - as in ‘a being’ - is not used in relation to in...

In English, the word ‘being’ applies to living creatures. Chairs and other object are artifacts, objects, tools, etc, but they’re not designated as ‘b...

This is a commentary on Sondland's testimony to the impeachment enquiry adapted from media sources. So, NOs, I'm not going to waste time on bullshit g...

Sondland’s overall overheard call from Trump and his subsequent testimony that there was a quid pro quo. In other words Sondland’s presumptions were p...

Which was attested by several thousand pages of witness testimony. It's a Ming vase, by the way.

All of this was in order to coerce President Zelenksy to announce an investigation into the Bidens so as to undermine his 2020 campaign. So, as always...

There's a book called The Case for God, Karen Armstrong, 2009. It's not a book of religious apologetics, but an essay in the history of ideas. She tra...

Major NY Times story from a few days back - an inside look at what was happening in the back rooms during Trump’s 84-day illegal hold on Ukraine aid f...

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'Common way of putting it 'where? Living creatures are defined as ‘beings’. It would incorrect to describe minerals or manufactured artefacts as 'bein...

:up: However, there's something that this glosses over: that if Bob is hit by the branch and injured, he's rushed to hospital and cared for, whereas t...

You might have a 'concept of language' but I don't see how that advances understanding of language. It's too multifaceted to reduce to a concept. Perf...

Light is not composed of atoms. Regardless of the physical components of experience, there is an element that can’t be understood in physical terms, w...

Reason is not a concept, but a faculty, which allows for the development of concepts.

Not at all. What does 'supernatural' mean? It means, can't be brought within the ambit of current science, can't be objectively validated or proven or...

Burned alive underwater! Must have taken some powerful magic. However it’s false, the burning of heretics didn’t start until many centuries later, med...

Well, glad we sorted that out!

I understand the expression 'sentient beings' to mean creatures endowed with sense. So I would take the expression 'beings' to include all sentient cr...

Even in your apparently simple construction, there's something unstated, which is that 'Bob' is an object for Alice, whereas Alice is an object for Bo...

‘Miracles are not against nature, only what we know about nature’ ~ St. Augustine.

More fool them.

Not true. Voters rejected labor on many grounds but climate change hardly figured. (Might have been different had the vote been held now.) But the bac...

Actually in that reference you give, Pauli says, ironically, that one should no more rack one’s brains about whether something one cannot know exists ...

Thanks. That was the rhetorical point I was working towards.

The issue is, why Einstein, and why that question. It's related to a point that Jorn Doe picked up on, but is not really related to this thread, so I ...

You know that Albert Einstein famously asked that very question. The exact quote is: As recalled by his biographer Abraham Pais. Why did Einstein, of ...

Right. Let's all pray for a super-volcano, then. Maybe Yellowstone. It might make a lot of North America uninhabitable for a century or so, but consid...