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I think the answer starts with 'learn Ancient Greek' :-| So, no, I don't expect that I could give any account of the 'idea of the intelligibility of t...

I took that to be the gist of your remark 'Whether it be 'things fall towards the Earth because of Newton's inverse square law of gravity' or 'the wor...

No, because I think within Platonism there is, I think, a terminus of explanation or a vision of the intelligibility of the Cosmos, which originated w...

@andrewk - your definition of 'intelligibility' is a perfectly normal one in day to day terms. But that's not what I was referring to. I was referring...

There's also the neat fact that, in sub-atomic physics, you can collide two things and end up with more than two, as the energy of the collision gets ...

What Darwinism has actually done is provide an explanation where there was none. A biological explanation - but at the cost of the devaluing of reason...

Here's the thing - 'intelligibility' basically means that something makes sense. And, since about, oh, I don't know, sometime in the 19th Century, the...

The reason 'science cannot tell us these things' is because it is not omniscience.

You've been saying such things for millenia.....

The qualifier ruins it. In the traditional understanding, something is either intelligible or it isn't.

Isn't that just plain relativism? Whatever suits you? You can dress it up with all manner of learned references but I think that is all you mean.

They don't take any care whatever. In their view, as all religion is reactionary superstitious nonsense, then it doesn't deserve any real analysis or ...

Harmony comes at the cost of all being in the same key, for starters. Nowadays, that is regarded as authoritarian.

Isn't there any empirical data?

Quite right! But imagine this scenario: before becoming a firefighter, there was another choice. Her father was a firefighter, and had impressed on he...

The first question is an example of inductive logic. The second is an example of deductive or a priori logic. It's a textbook example. You could perfo...

I wonder if it can be integrated with Quantum Darwinism:

you will notice that the post you're quoting was deleted by me, actually about 30 seconds after dashing it off, because I had second thoughts about be...

hey don't sweat it and I apologise also if I seemed brusque.

You toss these phrases off, as if it is all settled, as if understanding the issues is really simple. But it really is not, all you're communicating i...

What does 'form meaning' mean? The nature of meaning is far from obvious. There is a subsection of books on the subject 'the metaphysics of meaning' a...

'Computers outstrip any philosopher or mathematician in marching mechanically through a programmed set of logical maneuvers, but this was only because...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfGyIW7aHM

I already said that! That is what you were responding to already. You said 'could we create an artificial "I"', and I said, 'you would have to know wh...

It is true a priori.

These are two different arguments. I was referring to Hume's articulation of the is/ought problem, not his assertion that reason is the slave of the p...

if you think it's a dodge, how are you going to answer the question? X-)

When you say 'in the sense that a human is a being' - what other sense is there? Pick up a dictionary or an encyclopedia, and look up 'being' as a nou...

I still say, that if you think of it in terms of whether the device or neural network, or whatever, is actually a being, then you have answered the qu...

There is a famous New Age book called The Secred which made it's author a multi-millionaire. I don't believe in that kind of woo, either, but I don't ...

The 'slave to the passions' is a different subject. The passage I was referring to is this one: Emphasis added. The underlined phrases are the key to ...

The reson I 'don't understand' your posts are that they are totally unintelligible, they don't, and never have, made a lick of sense. The sooner every...

deleted. D'oh.

Awareness of the distinction between objective and subjective is very much bound up with the rise of modernism; I don't think that the medievals or ea...

Yes - but then one would fall foul of the thought police. You know this how? You confidently proclaim what others do and do not realise, do and do not...

Is the device a being? Because if it were, then you would have to recognize its rights to self-determination - you would have to ask it how it felt ab...

1 The words of the Teacher, a son of David, king in Jerusalem: 2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is mea...

The first paragraph contains the gist!

I didn't care too much for S's conception of will or his notorious pessimism but I thought the 'vorstellung' was profound.

Hey I agree that the Magee videos are great, I'm definitely a Magee fan. I have his Schopenhauer on all my devices.

actually the Magee videos are very stodgy....black and white TV, men wearing ties speaking in very BBC accents. I like them but it would never draw a ...

The forum before the one that just died - the old forum that got absorbed into Ask2Know - had an excellent collection of Youtube videos on philosophy....

I find most of the new atheists are engaged in 'straw God' arguments - they take what is the most caricatured version of the idea, namely that of youn...

My orientation was very much 'seeker' - convinced there was a 'higher state' which certain very special and rare individuals had realised. Very 60's. ...

I hear you. Hadn't thought about it from that perspective.

I think something like 'the great chain of being' - bearing in mind that particular terminology, and the Western model of it, are particular instances...

By the 'nature of order', one might be referring to, for example, the sequence of prime numbers or other such intellectual objects and formal laws, wh...

Went upstairs to watch TV only to hear f****ing Brian Cox declaring that 'the whole marvellous universe is just built out of very simple building bloc...

I know a lot of what I say is non-PC and it gets on a lot of people's nerves, but I don't have a tenure to defend or anything in print. I spend my day...

You're reading many things into my posts that I never say. Any religious philosophy would say that 'nature doesn't contain it's own cause' (although, ...