The universe of modern science is what can be measured with telescopes and so forth, so of course it would be absurd to consider a universe so constru...
It's not just a tool, or rather, if it is, it's a meta-tool, something used to make tools. Knowing maths, you can make tools you could otherwise not: ...
Finally a gutsy Republican Congressman, Justin Amash, has stated that he believes there are grounds for impeachment in the Mueller findings. Hopefully...
The point about qm, is that it casts into doubt the notion that on a fundamental level, the real universe exists in a particular way, independently of...
The point was simply that there is nothing like that in Camus' philosophy. His philosophy was called 'absurdism', that life is fundamentally absurd, a...
Zen is grounded in the literature of Prajñ?p?ramit? which can be literally translated as 'wisdom gone beyond'. This is a matter of fact, not interpret...
Of course it's not. Zen is grounded in the literature of Prajñ?p?ramit? which can be literally translated as 'wisdom gone beyond'. The denial of anyth...
So, what in Camus’ Sisyphus corresponds with Nirv??a? Certainly in some readings of Zen - ‘Chop wood, draw water’ - there’s a sense of finding the tra...
I'm not trained in physics past high school level, but I've read quite a bit about the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics. It's a lot mor...
Perhaps your’re right. As as I said before, I don’t see how strict determinism can be defended in light of uncertainty. It seems to undermine it at th...
The problem with this criticism is that mistakenly equates what is 'out there', in other words what exists in the manifold domain of objects, with the...
Well, this grew out of a consideration of the nature of ideas, and whether or in what sense they're physical. In the case of plans, formulas, and spec...
But I decided to take up the argument, of my own free will. I could just as easily have not done so. So if my participation is by my own choice, and h...
I will try again. My argument is that if one's beliefs and actions are determined by external causes, whether biological or other, then one cannot cla...
But in the Christian view, Christ's sacrifice put an end to all sacrifice, as it was the ultimate sacrifice - God sacrificing his own son. Hence the i...
I often reflect that we don't fully appreciate the setting of that story, which was ancient tribal culture in which sacrifice was integral. It was a u...
schopenhauer at least sees light at the end of the tunnel, in terms of askesis, and also art. But Camus https://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/0...
But we still validate all of those discoveries against experience. That is what experiment and observation does, after all; you predict what will happ...
I made an argument, which you so far have given no indication of having understood. That doesn’t follow at all. There are many ideas which could never...
No, it changes as a consequence of physical force, not as a consequence of persuasion. Because you're a rational being, able to be persuaded. Objects ...
What’s that got to do with it? A computer is a device built by humans, to compute. It does so very well. Furthermore a computer doesn’t ‘agree’ except...
That’s LaPlace’s daemon, right? Well, the problem there is Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle torpedoes it. Reality is in some fundamental sense indet...
Remember Hume was 'enquiring into the foundations of human understanding'. He accepted that it is possible to know deductive proofs with certainty, th...
Slate: Trump's Tariffs are actually a Huge Tax Hike Of course, to the base, it doesn't matter. We all know the GOP hates and would never approve raisi...
That's even more mistaken. At least biology recognises that living creatures are ontologically distinct from billiard balls. And sure, if you drop a h...
It really seems that Trump is convinced the Mueller Report was an illegal conspiracy, intended to bring him down, and was basically a coup attempt. As...
Because if your beliefs are determined by biology, then you are not amenable to persuasion. If I persuade you that you are indeed acting on the basis ...
Democrats could point out that tariffs are actually taxes and that what it really means is that Trump is raising taxes. There’s no greater poison for ...
In which case, what’s the point of responding? Because no matter what I say, you’re not amenable to reason; you’re only ever going to respond accordin...
My first question to you is, did you write this of your own free will, or were you compelled to say it? If the former, your thesis fails; if the latte...
It is entirely true, Wallows. It might indeed 'hurt China', it might do what tariffs are supposed to do, it might even be a desirable thing, but China...
China does not pay the tariffs - the receiving country pays them. All that said, I have read the Dems are in support of tariffs and reining China in. ...
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