Hence my frequent referral to 'domains of discourse'. By that I mean, specific cultural rubrics. I've looked into the origin of that term, and origina...
He should have been impeached when the opportunity arose, obviously, and would have been, but for Mitch McConnell's gutlessness. The Republican Party ...
Again - relativises the subject by categorising it as belief. The question was not whether one believes it were true. For the purpose of the argument,...
This analogy is not about music or composition. It's about the fact that music comprises individual sounds which, by themselves, are not music. It is ...
Perhaps 'cares' is the wrong word, but the organism persists, it heals from injury, and it reproduces. Something which minerals do not. The point bein...
Julian Barbour is an independent scholar who also argues that time doesn't exist. I haven't listened to the whole presentation, but it might be of int...
It has been pointed out, that while Associated Press and Reuters have now been banned from White House briefings, that the official Russian state medi...
This esteemed rabbi was on his death bed. Many of his former students and admirers filed in to pay their respects and sing his praises - his learning,...
But that is precisely what revealed truth means. It is the entire meaning of the Bible. It doesn’t mean you have to believe it. For secular philosophy...
not as I understand it - ontotheology was the concentration on beings instead of Being, but writ large as the ‘supreme being’ But you are not Socrates...
Further to this thought-provoking question - I have been considering the idea that the appearance of organisms just is the appearance of the rudimenta...
Energy policy and environmentalism are issues. The liberals are running for nuclear power. Trump’s election has cast doubt over climate change amelior...
Speaking of melody, you might have missed this quote I provided a few weeks back Which supports my view, that time is meaningless without there being ...
Let’s not forget that just this week, the US refused to endorse a UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion. Trump is to all intents a Kremlin asset ...
I am :100: behind Zelenskyy. He stood his ground while Trump and Vance tried to strong-arm him into a signing a deal that would be favourable to Putin...
I think the point of the neural binding problem and its relationship to Chalmers’ paper is that it has a specific scope. It’s not a philosophical anal...
I read once, on a long-vanished blog, that the various arguments for God by the scholastics were never intended to convert non-believers. They were pr...
bear in mind, any series or collections of tones is only a tune when somebody recognises it as such. ‘It would be possible to describe everything scie...
That’s the polite version. There are opinions bubbling up that Trusk will precipitate a very serious recession, which will begin to become apparent in...
Note, I said 'subjectivizing'. That is different to 'inter-subjective validation'. What you are saying is that what I'm tagging 'higher knowledge' can...
I want to return to this passage as I'd like to discuss it some more. This is the process whereby all of the various aspects and forms of an object ar...
There's a more current advocate of a kind of divided brain theory, Iain McGilchrist, a psychiatrist, who has written The Divided Brain, The Master and...
I would have thought, with your interests, that you would recognise that there are domains of discourse within which specialised forms of philosophica...
That’s what I mean by ‘subjectivising’ - that you regard such claims as possibly noble, but basically subjective. Whereas I don’t think they are *eith...
You're limiting valid knowledge claims to the propostional, even while denying it! Two of the three points you make are in the form of 'this type of k...
Nothing whatever. I present ideas and texts, and then discuss them. If they irritate you, which they apparently do, then by all means don't participat...
@"ssu" - what's your view of this 'resource-sharing' deal between the US and Ukraine? My first response was 'horrible', because Trump is exacting trib...
Didn't that come about to some extent with the Bible? God seeing the world as 'good'? I believe Plotinus expressed a similar idea - his main oppositio...
Oh, no doubt. I'm one of that generation that used to sit around reading Alan Watts and D T Suzuki and believing that you could just 'get it'. But I r...
Ah. Interesting. I recall the folk wisdom often quoted at wedding ceremonies, about the different kinds of love - eros, philia, agap?, storge and so o...
He did so by re-defining its scope, not declaring it otiose, in the way that positivism did. Remember one of his key works is Prolegomena to any futur...
The point about the importance of detachment. The context is: Isn't he saying here that 'attachment' is what introduces 'bias'? That it prevents seein...
Aren't exploration of those sorts of questions fundamental to philosophy proper? I know the analytical-plain language types don't think so, but then, ...
I was going to ask the same question as @"Tom Storm" but I see he beat me to it. Very well. Going back to the sources of the 'writhings and thickets o...
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