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There’s a lot I agree with in this OP, but I think the framing assumes a sharper 'either-or' than the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) really requ...

I have read that Peirce held to realism concerning universals. There's a tantalising fragment in a review of a book about Peirce and the 'threat of no...

Can they? Is it? Those are assumptions - the central assumptions of scientific materialism. And you don't present arguments for it: you present it as ...

But I say that concepts are not physical - they're the relations of ideas. And the idea that concepts or rational inference can be understood as physi...

But we're not required to know that. It's not necessary to know anything of the complexities of neuroscience to understand the principle of intelligib...

If you read the OP, the point is that the meaning of substance in philosophy is not 'an unchanging material', but that is how it has come to be (mis)i...

Thanks for the reply, this conversation is requiring that I do some research on concepts of time in relativity and philosophy, which I'm learning from...

As Paul Keating would observe from time to time, 'the dogs bark. The caravan moves on.'

Rinehart's living in Trump la-la land. She's utterly besotted with the Donald, no idea of the Australian electorate per se. She and all the Sky News c...

It's her obvious thirst for power that bugs me. My comment was made in respose to her saying yesterday that 'the Australian people would love to see h...

Geez this Albert Namatjira Price has tickets on herself. Glad her party is going to be in the wilderness for the next decade or so.

Since drafting this OP a month ago, I've re-visited some of the references I gave at the outset. Looking at the SEP and IEP entries again, it is clear...

I just watched Brian Cox explain the incomprehensible minuteness of the Planck Length: if you expanded a single proton to the size of the solar system...

This definition seems to blur two quite different senses of the term being. In contemporary English, "beings" typically refers to individual entities—...

So I was just listening to Fareed Zakaria declare DOGE ‘an abject failure’. Of the $165b savings it claims to have made, media analysis indicates a fi...

At least one of you does, anyway. (Or it might only be me.)

It's paywalled. The Telegraph is a conservative outlet. But I'm sure there are leftist threats to free speech. A few years back I looked into the case...

Hope this isn't geoblocked, it's from a Sydney morning TV show couple of days back: feature interview with Australian guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel, wh...

Plibersek: from environment to social services. Hardly a demotion although the media seems to want to frame it as such. Michelle Rowlands takes over a...

Thanks, Banno. I appreciate you pressing for clarity. Let me try to make my position more explicit. The real issue here is not whether we can use word...

I'm was not familiar with this terminology, so I sought help from the Oracle, who provided some helpful clarifications along these lines, although hav...

You won't see it because you're representing a philosophical attitude (analytic philosophy) which has long since eschewed any idea of an hierarchical ...

Again that is the very reification that you previously criticized. ‘Reification’ is derived from the root ‘res’ which means ‘thing’ (it is also the ro...

An historical myth. According to my sources it has some truth mixed with exaggeration. Around 1233, Pope Gregory IX issued a papal bull called Vox in ...

Also, I do have confidence in some of the individual ministers. I think overall Chris Bowen has been effective in Climate Change. Jim Chalmers is high...

I think the best that can be hoped for is competence. But that is something.

Hey the ABC vote counter how has Labor at 92 - which I think is the largest majority since Federation, unless I’m mistaken.

I’d be interested in an elaboration of that. Would that be the minds of animals other than h.sapiens, or ‘mind’ in a more abstract sense?

I’m not saying that what they’re proposing is a good thing. I can *kind of* understand the motivation, because the influx of undocumented migrants is ...

One my lecturers in philosophy wryly pointed out that Hume’s condemnation at the end of his Treatise actually applies to the Treatise. ‘Take any book ...

I know I’ve already said plenty, but your comment has stayed with me—partly because it touches on a deep philosophical issue that I’ve reflected on be...

It isn’t settled yet, until the final announcements are made by Albanese. I should wait until then.

OK, how about ‘no time outside the measurement of time’. I refer back to the earlier quote: The objections to this seem to be that time is ‘obviously’...

So the Trump administration has finally acknowledged something I’ve pointed out for a long while. That is that the writ of habeas corpus, the presumpt...

Everything I say here is well within the bounds of philosophy of religion in which this thread is situated, although it will be meaningless to positiv...

I don’t at all but I recognise the metaphor. I don’t generally quote scripture, but one of the New Testament aphorisms is ‘blessed are the pure of hea...

Totally other thread - but it’s along the lines I suggested. Early modern science and philosophy - Galileo, Newton, Descartes - the division of mind f...

As I said.

Right. Should have been ‘me’ then, rather than:

Can’t disagree but increasing tax rates on higher incomes is necessary and it would be a forward step if a Republican congress does it.

You have this tendency to regard your own experience as the sole criteria for what anyone else should accept.

shame that Dreyfus and Husic were rolled by factions - but that’s politics, I guess. I do wonder if Dreyfus will resign his seat, though. After such s...

I would like to believe that a higher intelligence makes perfect sense, but sense that we’re not able to apprehend - after all we see ‘through a glass...

So, which? Death can’t be avoided but if there does turn out to be an afterlife then what one has or has not done may indeed be highly significant.

Yes, all true. Anyway, it’s been interesting to see how big a story it has been, it’s been headlines here in Australia ever since Francis’ demise. The...

Well, knock me down with a feather. Trump has told Johnston that he wants him to support raising tax rates on high incomes :yikes: - something the Rep...

I guess, but the stress laid on nationality (and also to some degree nationalism) sits awkwardly with the supposed universality of the Catholic faith.

The oft-stated idea that the Buddha says there is no self, tout courte, is mistaken. The Buddha denied there was a permanent self 'set like a post' or...

What's dawning on me is not at all romantic: it's the fear of God's judgement which is said to occur at the time of death. (That struck me recently wh...

However, if there really is a life beyond this one, then foreclosing it would be momentous, would it not? If you don't believe in it, it is only a mat...