Wayfarer

Can you see any connection between philosophy of science and what I’m attempting to argue for? Because I’m not talking about science.

Have you ever studied any philosophy of science—Kuhn, Polanyi, Feyerabend, that sort of thing?

I wouldn’t say that space and time are “entirely mind-dependent” in the sense of being subjective or personal. I’m not saying they’re imaginary or arb...

both of which reinforce my point that time has an ineluctably subjective element. That doesn't mean that it is subjective or only in the mind but that...

That picture of the photon passing through every point on a classical trajectory assumes a deterministic path and a continuous sequence of objective i...

So I think I’m actually agreeing with the post I responded to, but I didn’t read it very carefully.

Well, if it’s true that the strong force was a small percent different, then matter would not form, the fact that it’s a logical possibility that it m...

How do possible worlds intersect with the anthropic cosmological principle? As is well known this principle states that had a very small number of con...

A book on the subject of this thread: Heidegger, Neoplatonism, and the History of Being: Relation as Ontological Ground, James Filler YouTube dialog o...

the Dharmakaya is nevertheless real - but never to be made the subject of dogmatic belief. But that is definitely another thread (or forum!)

Space and time are not imaginary, but nor are they properties of things in themselves. They are forms of intuition—that is, they belong to the structu...

Because it is—or was—embodied in a living philosophy, not merely in the textbooks of scholars. And indeed, the origin of those schools of thought does...

I think you’re making an honest attempt. Plato certainly would not entertain the later, Christian dogma of ‘ideas in the mind of God’, but due to the ...

Surely. But to say that time has a subjective element, does not therefore say that it is simply subjective. All subjects can measure time according to...

There’s this kind of Darth Vader force field effect from the political right. You see it with Trump. Maybe the false illusion of certainty in a world ...

My younger sister’s example is instructive. She’s married to a public prosecutor, lovely chap, but straight out of a Somerset Maugham novel. Very old-...

However, if you drill down, the basis of the 'conceptual analysis' turns out to be scientific. If you discarded scientific cosmology, atomic physics, ...

Plus you have Rinehart stomping around saying that they're not far enough to the Right. And that dreadful Madame Lash on Sky News (Abbott's former dom...

you're welcome. Recommend the book if you can get hold of a copy.

I don't agree that they will maintain the hard right that Spud inflicted on them. Ley says they have no choice but to move to the centre, and I think ...

I think, neither. The liberal-conservative parties can only be a realistic electoral prospect in coalition. If the separation is permanent I can’t see...

Any!

Are there any? Or is truth always a mental construct?

There’s an element of faith, but there are also signs and milestones. But I’m fully expecting you to declare ‘but we can never know that’, as you gene...

@"tim wood" mentions the book The Theological Origins of Modernity, Michael Allen Gillespie, which I read just as I started posting on forums, around ...

Recall the koan, 'first there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.' 'First, there is a mountain' refers to before training, before...

Metaphysics is first philosophy, it starts from first principles. Descartes started his famous meditation on Cogito with exactly that 'wiping the slat...

As I’ve mentioned several times in this thread and elsewhere, this depends on the understanding that there are degrees of reality (or realness?) I sup...

It’s a temporary separation, ‘let’s live apart and work things out’. Early in the election cycle. They have no chance of any kind of electoral success...

‘Play something we can dance to!’ :rofl:

I’m not inclined towards any kind of philosophy that tries to treat mind (or consciousness) as something objective. Of course the functions of conscio...

Epistemic idealism - what we know is shaped by how we know. And empirical realist - not saying that the world is all in the mind. But that it has an i...

I think I have provided one, but that you're not interested in it, or think that it's absurd, for calling into question what you think is obvious. Aga...

Actually I do have to circle back to this. The point at issue was the supposed mind-independence of the objects of classical physics. That is made exp...

What did I miss?

Hardly representative. Attachment to any experience is discouraged in Buddhist training. Samma samadhi is the guiding principle. Nobody has brought up...

:up: I've quoted that exact passage a number of times recently, because it makes a crucial point: that subjective awareness cannot be eliminated from ...

And the obvious response is, one of degrees. One might experience some degree of awakening, short of reaching any kind of plateau of wisdom. A Pali Bu...

I appreciate your thoughtful engagement throughout this exchange, and I recognize that my arguments are unlikely to shift your position. But I would l...

Agree. Although I would cautiously add, that it may only be known first-person, but it's not a matter of personal prediliction. I'm in good company, t...

Not at all. There is a practically infinite number of textbooks and philosophers nowadays. (I read in Nous magazine the other day that at any given mo...

Spinoza never used the term ‘material substance’. His term is simply Substantia—“that which exists in itself and is conceived through itself” (Ethics ...

I mentioned it recently, with regards to his re-statement of traditional ontology and the levels of being.

The divided line

So perhaps you might find a passage in Spinoza which supports that contention.

I can't claim to be adept at it, but at least I think I understand the point.

Misinterpreting again. It’s not that it’s solely a ‘matter of personal opinion’. It’s that levels of reality correspond with levels of being and knowi...

Spinoza is not a materialist in the modern reductionist sense. He held that reality expresses itself equally through both Thought and Extension, so re...

Perfect statement of modern moral relativism (and/or the ‘Cartesian anxiety). Unfortunately for you, you’re not actually a bystander.

But the evidence, in this case, is by its nature first-person. I might have a genuine insight, but unless I’m a brilliant artist or novelist, then not...