Wayfarer

That is your description, written so as to support the point you're making. But it was not how Gödel understood it himself. Gödel’s view of mathematic...

I expect their daily bombing will continue, but I fear Putin is planning something spectacularly awful by way of responding to Spiderweb. An obvious t...

But physicalism will nevertheless insist that traditional religious practices, whether African or other, will depend on causes which ultimately superv...

I’m pretty worried about what Putin is going to do to avenge the Spiderweb attacks. It is going to have to be something spectacularly awful. Let’s hop...

Straw man description of idealism. Idealists don’t believe the world is all in the mind.

Doesn't the second claim contradict the first? How is the statement 'truth (in- and by-itself) does not exist' not a metaphysical claim? I see the log...

--- The point I was making is that, during the heyday of modern physics, it was widely believed that the methods of the new sciences—which, of course,...

Which was my point. Adaptive ability is not an argument for the veracity of judgement.

Cockroaches have survived a lot longer than h. sapiens. Does that mean they have valid knowledge?

hence the ascendancy of biosemiotics, something I’ve learned a lot about here.

I thought you would pick it up, but I’m referring to the famous Fifth Solvay Conference, 1927, which introduced quantum physics to the world, and unde...

Why has physics become paradigmatic for science, generally? Isn’t it because of the universal scope and unerring accuracy of its predictions and calcu...

‘The only thing that unites all postmodernism is the hatred of Plato” ~ remark by Vervaeke in online dialogue.

I was taking issue with meaning as the ‘creation of conscious beings’ if by that you mean something invented or projected by us onto the world as a ki...

Redefining it in semantic terms is a deflationary or minimalist move. This aligns with the disquotational theory of truth (e.g. “’Snow is white’ is tr...

I think it's indubitably true that the apparent conflict between the idea of ‘grand design’, on the one hand, and the meme of fortuitous origins, on t...

Situated historically, modern materialism arose as a consequence of, and part of, Rennaissance humanism, allied with intellectual movements such as th...

That's close to the Protagorean view — that truth is always relative to the perceiver or to the community's standards of justification ('man is the me...

It's very interesting, isn't it, that a meeting with the Guru is called 'darshan', meaning 'auspicious vision'. It is exactly that sense which can be ...

During my mis-spent youth, I blundered into a menial job at Sydney’s Mater Misericordiae hospital as ‘causality wardsman’. (I say ‘blundered’ because ...

A fitting epilogue for this blackest of episodes in official malfeasance.

That if I have six beers in the fridge, and you come and drink one, there will be five remaining, everything else being equal. But to provide more con...

This is a rich and dense essay with many profound insights, and elaborates on a theme I've been exploring albeit with considerably greater erudition t...

I see your point. So could you say that Wittgenstein's hinges can in some sense be situated, or understood in terms of lived existence and 'language g...

I’ve been reviewing YouTube documentaries on current Chinese technology and architecture and it seems to me they’re streaking ahead. Of course some of...

Splendid composition. Isn't this rather a long-winded way of saying that there are indeed necessary truths? That necessary truths can't be, and don't ...

'You got no cards, Zelenskyy' ~ Donald Trump, Oval Office, April.

So, do you have any information on the results of that assessment?

“Hey boss we’ve melted another drill head!” “Don’t tell me that, that’s five in the last three months! And they’re $13 million a piece. You gotta do b...

As a matter of free choice! That was what I took this to mean: But as I’ve said, it’s not an all-or-nothing proposition. As I said already, if the PSR...

I read it decades ago but I’ve only recently come to see what it’s about

You might find a schoolbook example of a platonic riddle relevant in the context: A man (not a man) Throws a stone (not a stone) At a bird (not a bird...

I’m quite familiar with Freudian terminology. It’s simply that it’s misplaced in the context. The paper you cite states or implies that it’s a ‘feasib...

Well I’m not sure but pretty certain it ain’t due to Freudian repression. Probably more to do with cold hard economics.

If you google ‘geothermal energy’ there is plenty of information around, with live projects in many countries. On cursory reading, the main obstacle i...

I think the key is, that it has to mean something. We have to have some skin in the game otherwise what does it matter? Who prevails in an internet de...

I'm flummoxed as to why you or anyone would find deteminism beautiful. But then, you just said that physics is 'determined by subjective requirements'...

The most direct way of responding would be that truth can be distinguished from delusion or falsehood. That truth is what remains when delusion is ove...

But any normal human can converse in rational language, which relies on abstractions. I've quoted this previously but it bears repeating: So much of t...

He was - but don’t you think there’s something essential about spontaneity? Democritus had to introduce the famous ‘swerve’ to allow for the unpredict...

If philosophy becomes merely a matter of keeping our language games internally consistent, then it risks becoming a kind of syntax-policing—about sayi...

Musk is officially out of Government. By any objective account the entire episode was an abject failure. But spare a thought for the many careers ruin...

There's a similar term in Buddhism, namely 'citta' which means both 'mind' and 'heart', depending on the context - the organ of knowledge or insight. ...

Appreciated! Polanyi covered a lot of the same territory as Thomas Kuhn even though he wasn't as well known. I always really liked his work.

Plato’s so-called ‘Forms’ might be better understood as principles of intelligibility —not ghostly objects in another realm, but the structural ground...

Your depiction of the forms is something of a caricature. All I can say is, do more readings.

Beats me why they’re getting so much media attention. It will be good when Parliament resumes and there’s some actual legislative action to talk about...

Completely agree! I think the ‘meta-algorithm’ you refer to might be close to what Roger Penrose was getting at in his Emperor’s New Mind. But overall...

That’s a philosophically pregnant phrase if ever there was one. I’m fascinated by that idea.

In a culture of revealed truth, the Commandments weren't simply 'objective' principles to be observed from a distance, nor were they subjective wishes...