OK I will try. There is in current culture an implicit dichotomy around religious ideas; it is expected that one is either a believer or one is not. B...
'The wanton disrespect that these elected Republicans showed Mueller was perhaps the most alarming testament yet to Trump’s total conquest of the Part...
'while watching what happened on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, when Robert Mueller, the former special counsel, testified before two House committees, I ...
Trump has so corrupted the public discourse that he succeeds in getting millions of people to think false is true, down is up, bad is good. 'It is wha...
Well said! I have only smatterings and inklings of these ideas, which have seeped in somehow, transmitted by the vestigial memories of my cultural her...
I really think this is mistaken also. The root of ‘noumenal’ is ‘nous’, so the noumenal are ideal objects, things that are known by reason or by nous....
I believe it is, I think this is based on a faulty grasp of the kind of duality involved. Forms only manifest as particulars, but the forms are what g...
There simply isn't the time. If I feel as though whomever I'm corresponding with is actually interested then I will participate, but most of these kin...
But there are not two things - there’s simply ‘how things appear to us’ as distinct from ‘how they really are’. The whole point of making the distinct...
The doctrinal answer is: because our judgement of quality is based on like and dislike, and the will is corrupted, ergo the judgement is faulty. Moder...
Bishop George Berkeley, 'esse est percipe'. There is no independently-existing material substance, but only perceptions; the only truly existing being...
the EU has said unequivocally that it is not open to renegotiation, that the deal that's been offered is the only one available. Johnson's threat of l...
As I understand it, Johnson's only task is to get the Parliament to vote 'yes' for something that they have already voted against three times previous...
When it's no longer a hypothetical question, it appears in a different light. Like, the experience of pain is different to the pharmaceutical knowledg...
It’s idle to imagine a world in which there could be no suffering. To be born is to be subject to suffering. It’s the most inconvenient of truths, esp...
‘The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, released Monday, found that 73 percent of white evangelical Christians approve of the job Trump is doing as ...
Found another snippet on Platonic realism, from Augustine, again. He's talking about 'the principle of intelligibility' i.e. things are only intelligi...
In my view, we don't know enough about nature to categorically declare what is 'super' to it. But if you read history and the literature of religions,...
Right. It's a lesson I learned from discovering the Hindu god Siva, 'the destroyer'. The deity is also terrible, awful, in the true sense of the word ...
Here it is again https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3ISYAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA24&ots=qR3TB2kKBD&dq=augustine%20intelligible%20objects&pg=PA24#v=onepage&q&f...
Yes, well, crocodiles and dragonflies have some degree of awareness, but zero intellect! I agree that science can't explain consciousness, but the pro...
But, you also say What I'm questioning is the notion that an account can be given of intelligible objects (such as number) in purely mentalistic terms...
So do you think the law of the excluded middle, or the Pythagorean theorem, only came into existence with h. sapiens; or that such principles are eter...
You're simply throwing out dumb materialism, it's not worth discussing. I think it's more the case that you're having trouble saying anything coherent...
We don't know that; it is the operative delusion of materialism. In any case, if I write something that annoys you, like I just did, that changes the ...
This also supports my view that the main reason people disavow free will is because it’s scary. Freedom entails responsibility, and a lot of people ca...
Because one changes one’s mind for a reason. Physical causality operates at a different level - actually a lower level, because without reason, we cou...
I'm having trouble understanding how 'changing your mind' is reconcilable with 'determinism'. If you are able to change your mind, then how is that no...
But I’m not criticising dualism. I hold a kind of dualist view myself, as a kind of working hypothesis. That is the basic point, that is where the arg...
Mueller testifies in front of Congress Wednesday, broadcast live, although the depressing fact is that if the Mueller report hasn’t sunk Trump yet, th...
I think the comparison with stock market pricing is completely unjustified. The predictive capacities of physics are an essential part of the science....
I obviously agree, but I also deplore the way Trump monopolises the media all over the world by making outrageous statements and then setting off casc...
I have a depressing feeling you're right. The Democrats have really got to stop being a rabble and get behind a sensible centrist candidate. From 15,0...
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