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I seem to recall Bill Haley and the Comets 'Rock Around the Clock' is often said to be the first bona fide world-wide rock'n'roll hit song, although W...

I'm saying that in effect, karma and 'divine judgement' add up to something similar. Christianity has God's judgement, in Buddhism, the consequences o...

Karma - means the same. In Buddhism, there's no Supreme Deity handing out rewards and punishment but there are hell realms all the same.

legend has it that a DJ (name escapes me) starting using 'rocking and rolling' (predictably sailor's slang) in place of Rythm and Blues, which is was ...

Probably in the 1950's, with American radio.

Had to invent the Fender amp first, and they didn't have electronics. Nor, for that matter, Levi's jeans. Roll Over Beethoven

Or even..... Ever read about A J Ayer's near death experience?

I don't prefer it, I cited it because he makes a similar point to that made in the OP, in respect of the geneology of the idea of 'substance' in the m...

When you have something useful to add, perhaps you might come back. I do fear divine judgement. Not so much the others.

Evidence that Thomas Nagel is 'making it up'. So I will flesh it out a bit. Now might be the place to bust out the often-quoted passage from Thomas Na...

And the evidence for that would be.....?

Yet you presume to tell others that you know what they have or haven't read. I’d put it like this: In the Ethics (which I did study as an undergraduat...

I've noticed that also. It's a far cry from the milieu I encountered when I first started posting on forums (mind you the first one I joined was the n...

I watched an exceedingly interesting documentary on the way that the basic outline of the Table of Elements was constructed in a single weekend by Dmi...

Yes, but this is a philosophy forum and that is my area of interest. Science - or natural philosophy - has a more limited scope than philosophy proper...

Trump is criticizing Walmart, one of the largest (if not the largest) US retailer, for saying that tarriffs will cause prices to increase. He says the...

Agree that Peirce's prose can be very obscure. It is no coincidence that Greek science and philosophy laid the earliest foundations for the 'scientifi...

You say that even if physicalism’s account of mental activity is deficient, that doesn’t defeat our basic belief in an external world that we perceive...

Big CNN analysis of Musk and DOGE now that Musk has stepped back. It points out that absent Musk, DOGE has well and truly embedded itself all across G...

No. He's saying - and he says it very clearly - that the world, objects, and things, ARE ideas. Look at it from the perspective of cognitive science: ...

The appeal to 'brute fact' seems convenient but is ultimately uninformative. Calling something a brute fact doesn’t explain it—it just brings inquiry ...

My answer would be that the in-itself—the world as it is entirely apart from any relation to an observer—cannot be said to be non-existent. Of course ...

Martin Heidegger says that the initial interpretation of the word <ousia> was lost in its translation to the Latin. As a consequence it was also lost ...

That’s it. This is what I believe Kant means by the ‘in itself’, as distinct from ‘the phenomenal’. The issue is, empiricism tends to take what exists...

‘Soul’ was one term used to translate the Greek ‘psuche’ which lives on as ‘psyche’. ‘Spirit’ originally comes from ‘pneuma’, meaning ‘breath’, or ‘an...

Aristotle’s Fourfold Distinction Aristotle already identifies a hierarchy of souls in De Anima: Inanimate (minerals, elements): no soul, mere material...

More from the Sachs entry on Aristotle Metaphysics: it is clear from this that Aristotle differentiates living beings from other kinds of objects.

It’s true that Aristotle uses being (to on) in a broad sense to include many kinds of things. But in Physics and Metaphysics, he also clearly distingu...

You better mind the details. The devil's in them, or so it is said.

As the OP suggests, the term we translate as 'substance' originally comes from the Greek ousia, a form of the Greek verb 'to be'. There was no direct ...

It’s a zen koan!

https://aeon.co/essays/charles-sanders-peirce-was-americas-greatest-thinker

I don't think the Australian Greens are going to exercise much influence in this Parliament. I notice that Larrisa Waters said she intends to work con...

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Yes, I completely agree with it. It highlights the role of the mind in stitching together - synthesising - a set of otherwise disconnected facts into ...

That was the point of the original post. I’m attempting to describe how the oxymoronic conception of ‘mental substance’ was arrived at.

I don't think that's correct. He's an exceedingly complex writer with a vast corpus of work which is still being sorted and edited. But he (along with...

'Complement' is a good way of putting it. There are some aspects of Aristotelian philosophy that have made a comeback in current science. Not his Phys...

Do you really call other persons and animals objects? That’s precisely my point—the term object is misleading in this context. (And as a historical no...

I appreciate the clarification about particularity, but I think this risks reading Aristotle through the modern, objective point of view to which we a...

Thank you. I'm continuing to learn how much philosophy feeds into politics and vice versa.

Yes, I have little exposure to Adorno, save some readings from his Dialectics of the Enlightenment, which overall I found congenial. So, one question ...

Isn’t a lot of this just a tacit prohibition on anything that could be considered outside the scope of natural sciences, evolutionary biology, and so ...

I'm kind of re-constructing all this from the debris of modern philosophy - rather like forensic pathology, working backwards from scattered remains t...

More from Thomist psychology: For Aristotle, nous is the faculty that enables rational thought. It is distinct from sensory perception, including the ...

A lot of this conversation is bedevilled by the absence of any relationship with what used to be known as revealed truth. @"Hanover"'s posts a few pag...

Obviously, there are vast differences between ancient and modern, and we know an enormous amount more than did they, in a scientific sense. That is no...

Intuition is knowing without knowing how you know. That, anyway, is my intuition.

In the long run, 'substantia' became the English 'substance', but again, it developed a different meaning over time, to denote 'a material with unifor...