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No, because it's not a question of democratic governance. Just because large numbers of people believe something, doesn't mean it's true. It's not dec...

I think the same general objection applies to Kant as it does to Schopenhauer's metaphysics. But one question is, does non-Euclidean geometry invalida...

You're simply affirming what you believe and bandying words about. The fact that 'millions of people' do something, proves nothing apart from that's w...

It's useless to debate with those who don't understand the meaning of basic terminology, such as 'measurable' and 'scientific'.

If you want evidence that a photon hit a plate, then you can find the mark on the plate where the photon hit it. You can also find evidence of the spe...

Seemed related to me: If it's not, I'll but out and go back to earning a living. X-)

A comment on Euclidean geometry and relativity by philosopher Kelly Ross: http://www.friesian.com/penrose.htm

Or, more likely, Bannon is a scheming, power-mad revolutionary who has worked out a way to actually enact his program of 'destroying the establishment...

The trouble with that is, 'causes and effects' only operate given certain constraints and conditions. Why atoms and molecules have the properties they...

I think the most consistently anti-idolatory spiritual teacher was Krishnamurti. He understood how the mind can make idols out of anything it thinks i...

A relevant review.

About Steve Bannon: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/22/steve-bannon-trump-s-top-guy-told-me-he-was-a-leninist.html This is the guy that ...

Semantics- Grammatical rules for assigning meaning to a sentence. Syntax- Grammatical rules for specifying correct word order and inflectional structu...

The Republicans Deal with the Devil, David Brooks.

Meaning is a question of semantics not syntax although the two are interdependent. Searle and others all go into that.

I think an implicit issue with these arguments is the weakness of the notion of an 'immaterial substance'. I think it's a self-contradictory notion in...

I had the idea that Schopenhauer disagreed with Kant's usage of 'noumenon': The World as Will and Representation(vol. 1, Dover edition 1966, ISBN 0-48...

That's not Christian attitude - it's dualist. I imagine some gnostic sects might agree, but as I understand the Christian view, the soul and the body ...

The problem is that physicalism has now been hoist by its own petard. It is shown beyond doubt that physical stuff is nearly all empty space. A visual...

Why the west is blind to Russian propoganda.

A lot to respond to there! At this moment I'm commuting with an iPad so can only respond to just a few points but will come back again. When I refer t...

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Check! No problems there. But one question I would ask is this - if the source of the 'upwardly acting causes' - material and efficient - is the groun...

With the help from the Man on the Grassy Knoll.

The Executive Order was drafted by Steve Bannon, white supremacist (and now an appointee to the National Security Council which never usually includes...

Today's installment is: the rationale for the campaign of organised xenophobia and racial discrimination that Trump has passed by executive decree is ...

Subjective meaning, that is.

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Have a look at this title - Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Charles Seife, http://a.co/6JhDf3i goes into the history of the idea of zero. One...

I have no idea of what that allusion means - I guess I could google it, but won't bother at this moment. OK, here's another way of picturing it - you ...

But there might be a reason for it, other than it just being the meaningless process that it is often said to be. Part of the game might be finding th...

I think a large part of the answer is historical. Part of the charter of scientific societies, such as the Royal Society, which is (I think) the oldes...

Sorry, made rude remark, since deleted. What I will say is, I really fail to grasp that point, therefore will refrain from further comment on this par...

Iluminating remark, from one who has been known to spell 'Worlds' with a capital W. ;-) Just to reiterate: This actually has nothing to do with evolut...

Here's a d-zombie: ;-) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Duck_of_Vaucanson.jpg/220px-Duck_of_Vaucanson.jpg

the fact that people advocating such views prefer Freud is a validation of my attitude, I feel.

That's a succinct illustration of 'scientism vs humanism'. There are no persons, only gene-carriers. It's opponents (of which I'm one) would say that ...

What if the processes of evolution are also creative? That 'the Universe' somehow needs to manifest itself in the form of conscious sentient beings wh...

OK now I see. I studied a lot of Freud's essays as part of an arts degree, doing psychology, and also his general theories. I think Freud was obviousl...

This is a philosophy forum, where arguments and points for debate are written out. It's OK to provide links to videos and other materials to support s...

I think this is a promotional post for the two attached youtube videos.

But you're generalising. Weather prediction is notoriously unreliable, due to the large number of factors involved. There are many sciences that make ...

Nonsense.

Well, without the holographic references, I *agree* that there is a subjective aspect to what are generally understood as 'facts', but you're going to...

that, I agree with although I'm not sure how you got there :-)

has a p zombie ever been observed?

'Robot' doesn't come up on that page. (Well, according to the robot that searched it.)

I think hypotheses need to be supported by facts. An hypothesis needs to be able to account for the facts, and if it is contradicted by the facts, the...

Materialism is the default in a secular age, because it is presented as being an account of what really exists when superstitious ideas such as religi...

I have noticed elsewhere that Wittgenstein is sometimes compared to Zen (specifically as depicted in the lectures of D T Suzuki, a contemporary.) Such...