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Two jet airplanes.

Probably the same organisation that put the explosives in the Twin Towers and orchestrated the JFK killing. They're all around us, in fact there's a g...

Do you think the measure of the validity of that issue can be ascertained scientifically?

Sceptics rule them out; believers rule them in; philiosophers keep an open mind.

Sorry - hence Augustine’s saying - ‘Miracles are not contrary to nature, they’re contrary to what we know about nature’.

Hence Augustine’s question!

...asked the philosopher.

I think it’s a ref to people brandishing the Little Red Book. They should be aware of the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward.

There were indubitably acts of mass murder conducted by Sovet Russia and Communist China, among others. Doesn’t warrant hysteria but the fact remains.

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"Dimension" also has a figurative meaning. Previously, we have discussed whether religions are purely or only meaningful in a social or cultural sense...

I've reviewed this thread, and have belatedely added some further responses to questions about the Steve Pinker essay, Science is not the enemy of the...

‘Dimension’ in the sense of ‘an aspect or mode of existence or lived reality’.

'Miracles are not against nature but against what we know about nature' ~ St Augustine

I'm simply agreeing with Janus - that art has more than simply or only a social dimension, even though it does have a social dimension. The social dim...

Well said. I had something of an epiphany when I realised the power of the ‘theory of ideas’ - that ideas are real as possible modes of existence, but...

As you probably know, Krishnamurti and Bohm had a long-lasting friendship, many of their dialogues were published. That’s how I heard of Bohm in the f...

What’s happened is that we have become self-conscious in a novel way - we’re aware of ourselves as individuals in a way that wasn’t possible in earlie...

Well, a fair point and am glad we have gotten to it. As I’ve said previously I’ve always understood my ‘search’ in terms of the understanding of enlig...

How can this even be a question at this point? Abuse shouldn’t be a worry to us ‘chemical scum’, should it? And if it is a worry, you can console your...

‘To be, is to be related’ ~ Krishnamurti

I must admit, I’m struggling to understand the rationale here. On first glance, the thought that sprang to my mind was ‘compassion fatigue’ - the well...

From here.

Well, it makes sense for 'physicalists' - physicalists being those who believe exactly that only what is physical is real. But then, some physicalists...

That is true. But I take the 'hand not being able to grasp itself' as a fundamental axiom in philosophy, albeit one that has hardly been made explicit...

Well, that's a very clear explanation. I think where you and I have had disagreements previously, however, is whenever I attempt to say something abou...

By not declaring every problem amenable to a scientific solution; by recognising what is and isn't a scientific problem. I still think this OP in the ...

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My perspective on your posts on the issue is that they're an expression of a characteristically Protestant type of understanding of the interiority an...

Obviously, a very deep issues. The remark you're commenting on, is part of the heuristic that I have been developing derived from non-dualist philosop...

It's a casual conversation on an Internet forum. So far everything I've heard about Peterson, which is not much, seems agreeable enough. Can't see wha...

Well, the history of the subject, going back to the Greeks, is partially 'philosophy of nature', which is your area of interest, but it also has other...

One of my very favourite Hawking quotes: He might have found out by now ;-) Science relies on there being an 'epistemic gap' between knower and known....

Now there’s a rogue metaphor right there.... From that review: Notice ‘unfalsifiable’ being slipped in there? I wonder whose psychological theories of...

As you’re basically trolling.

Basically, Pseudonym, you’ve joined a philosophy forum with the express and sole aim of declaring that philosophy is meaningless, and that only scienc...

Gets my vote.

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSzCyflXcM0xmFJbfk4Emv98PI928bEWsb_qf7SrY-qzHTl9e1PMQ Canadian academic preparing for tutorial di...

I’ve listened to one YouTube lecture and also heard the interview referred to above yesterday. Can’t understand the hysterics about Peterson, seem qui...

I think as soon as h. sapiens reached - well - sapience - then her capacities could no longer be considered in only biological terms. As soon as the c...

I think you're mistaking darwinism for philosophy. Common error.

RIght! I stand corrected.

Hah. Well I’ve discovered the miracle of disposable contacts. But the analogy remains. BTW the Bloodninja story is almost word for word from Nietszche...

Well, I think the question has been answered. ‘Scientism’ is not a philosophy, but an attitude. It is a pejorative term, but it’s an attitude that des...

I appreciate your frankness. Where is there in science a commitment to the sacredness of every individual life, that is basic to Christianity, for exa...

Would we be right in saying that you think that everything other than science is ‘entirely subjective’, but that science itself is ‘entirely objective...

You have to learn to look at your spectacles and not just through them. Particularly challenging for realists.

Well said. I have always understood this to mean that the self is in an important sense 'the unknown knower', an idea which is also the subject of an ...

Thanks for bringing the thread back on track, and I think the vid does a good job canvassing the issue. I mean, it is very easy to be blasé about it, ...

That's what I meant - hence, 'spielfest' for an event where there are many speakers. The German word does indeed mean something different.