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It might be worth considering the Buddhist criticism of substance ontologies in this regard. As is well-known, Buddhists ‘deconstruct’ the notion of a...

The ‘doctrine of evil as privation of the good’ says that sinners are not punished except for by having refused salvation. Evil itself is the mere abs...

atrocious OP. Almost like atheist trolling. I read the first sentence and starting replying, then read the remainder and regretted it. If some kindly ...

No. I’m simply pointing out that the general style of the analysis - the division into ‘subject and predicate’ - is strongly reminiscent of Aristoteli...

You're question is one of classical metaphysics. The passage on predication is very much Aristotelian; as Kelly Ross puts it: 'the Aristotelian "form"...

Hi KevinB - I don't suppose you have read, or have in mind, the kinds of issues that are described in Kuhn's famous book, Structure of Scientific Revo...

It's obviously a tough question. As you know, I'm not a philosophical/ scientific materialist (not saying that to cast aspersions on those who are.) B...

My very first class in comparative religion was devoted to the task 'define religion'. To our surprise, we failed. But that passage I quoted from Royc...

Do you really wish it were easy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLUCoS1JiyY

But do you.

Of course, but you can have reasons for not doing that, and sometimes those reasons can be subjectively compelling. Again that's where skilled counsel...

I had a great Listmania! list on Amazon but Amazon has nixed those lists and it’s disappeared. But titles for non-mathematicians are Quantum by Manjit...

Beat me why you've been asking this question on philosphy forums for ten years. I don't understand what it is you are trying to find out, or why.

But the issue is, when you're in that place, the problem is not obvious, and having others say that it is doesn't help. That's where good counsellors/...

I read something the other week which stuck with me. It was an interview with a woman who fell into the role of counselling people online. The point s...

And I suggest that is because it is a metaphysical issue, not a physics issue. I don't if you glanced at the article I mentioned by Ruth Kastner, but ...

I'm referring to the amount of time taken, the duration of the exposure. So it's not 'vague'. One of the posters who responded to the thread on Physic...

One way of understanding the basis of Buddhist meditation is that it's a process of 'dis-identification'. All things are shown to be anicca/anatta/duk...

But even in saying that, you're setting yourself up to not succeed. It's almost like you want to believe it. Just saying.

Endorphins are helpful. Google exercise treats depression. I think part of the problem is dwelling on it, also. That is when it becomes a self-reinfor...

Thomas Nagel has written a lot about this; see The Core of Mind and Cosmos. This is also discussed at length in The Last Word and The View from Nowher...

From Maverick Philosopher - an abstract of Josiah Royce’s philosophy of religion: Most folks here fall into those who don’t - which is OK, it’s a secu...

The point I tried to articulate was about whether this means that time (being 'rate') is not a factor; which also that means that space (i.e. proximit...

What is being called into question through QM is the independent reality of atoms as material particles. If you believe that the world ultimately come...

Please see Post # 16, which says: Which you yourself have already dismissed. So, interesting that you agree with an answer there, which you dismissed ...

Well, this being a Philosophy Forum, we would rather hope to find some here, would we not? Then again, if everything is ‘subjective experience’, maybe...

That 'something' is the 'act of observation' which reduces all the probabilities to one particular one, namely, the observed one. Prior to that observ...

But doesn’t the whole question of ‘which interpretation’ - Copenhagen, MWI, etc - revolve around ‘the measurement problem’? Isn’t the ontological stat...

Your OP sounds exactly like what an Ayer or a Carnap would say. There is of course much more to the subject but not from this starting-point.

I think the video is OK. I posted a question about this experiment on Physics Forum and that is exactly what I was told there. And as for the claim th...

I hope that it's not impertinent of one of Stove's ex-students to say that I think he utterly failed to comprehend Kant (and Plato). I mean, very shar...

So you're basically a positivist, then?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc What is the consensus regarding the factuality of this video? Because if it is accurate then the mystery i...

Which means, they don't understand context, and context is derived from culture, and so on. This is a fatal flaw in so-called AI. Which allows me to q...

I can see how applied maths is empirical, but not pure maths.

So do you think it's correct to say that there are no actual atoms in the original sense of 'indivisible particles'? In that, what is perceived as 'pa...

There is no such thing as ‘religion’ simpliciter. The term is a name for many different strands of practice, belief, and discipline from diverse cultu...

What’s going on in Venezuela is an absolute tragedy and a crisis for the region. If only the UN or some other global body had the means to intervene, ...

Seems to me the current bull market is due to factors that have been in put in place since the recovery from the GFC. It takes several years for polic...

I recall in Brian Greene’s book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, he discusses whether the observer effect is due to literally interfering with the object of...

A further thought - do you think there’s a resemblance between what you’re saying here, and the celebrated anecdote about Samuel Johnson? This is that...

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I had the same thought - but they might say that if all the sane members of the Administration were to do that, then the fox would be well and truly l...

I think what you're calling 'subjective awareness' is what I would call 'discursive awareness' i.e. things which we can bring consciously to mind, or ...

I think there's a certain lack of sensitivity to the actual subject of philosophy in this OP. I mean, if you consider the Socratic dialogues, the main...

https://www.e-torredebabel.com/shorthistoryofphilosophy/ashorthistoryofphilosophy-alexander.htm Nicely formatted resource site.

Animals can learn, and even display problem-solving, along with empathy, aggression, compassion, and many other abilities. But they don't speak and th...

Again, animals have awareness, but not the ability to abstract and judge, to say 'this means that', or 'this thing is the same type as that thing'. An...

The problem I invariably find with Kant, Fichte, Schelling, et al, is the enormously complicated and voluminous nature of their works. I am very much ...