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Hence my reference to apparatchiks. It’s obvious Trump intends to rule by decree and bypass both House and Senate. And he’s protected by the absolute ...

Having outraged half the nation by acquitting numerous violent offenders and secessionists who assaulted and in some cases murdered police officers on...

Revealed religion used to be regarded as a source of knowledge. Prophecy was a part of that, as was ritual, symbolism, and sacred lore. It is believed...

Agree. Thanks for your input, as always. I think I will continue with this book now, having previously been having second thoughts about it.

:up: :pray: Husserl noticed this, of course.

Nothing like it, and I've done both! Dive in. ChatGPT is programmed to be friendly and approachable, and it is. Open a free account, copy your OP into...

So the amnesty for Jan 6th rioters amounts to sanctioning Trump’s right-wing militia partners, straight out of the Authoritarian Playbook, as Rachel M...

Have you been interacting much with any of the Large Language Models? If not, I suggest it is one way to get some insights into these questions. Not t...

Could you elucidate the bearing this has on the OP? For example how this might provide a basis for ethical normativity?

@"Mww" - like others, I appreciate your guidance in these difficult matters. But I'm kind of stuck on something arising from the discussion of the las...

An insanity which is the new normal. Or so we are to believe. Trump is now protected by the Supreme Court ruling which gives him total immunity from p...

In one of his first official acts, Trump has pardoned nearly all the felons convicted of the disgraceful assault on the US Capitol Building, 6th Janua...

Also, my remark about 'scientism' was in response to an essay that the thread originator wrote and linked to, specifically:

Probably the place to discuss this is in the thread on the topic, that's if you have anything further to add.

That is a very poignant interview with DBH and Curt Jaimungal. (He's had back surgery and is looking much thinner, I notice.) I have to respect his ho...

I might take that in. I bought his last book All Things are Full of Gods, and didn't much like the format, and it spends a lot of time rehearsing argu...

Secular philosophies certainly believe it is. Religious philosophies, on various grounds, do not. Maybe the religious patients you have tended are tor...

The thread is about religion and suffering, so it is relevant to re-state the implicit claim of religious philosophies variously designated as salvati...

Very good book, was on college curricula for many a year.

Not that there has been none, but there was plainly a massive sea change in the conception of man's place in the universe, from imago dei to Bertrand ...

Fascism in the US starts tomorrow. New variety: techno-fascim. Not as blatant as the older versions, but far more insidious.

I’m a bit confused about what exactly you’re pursuing in this thread. The original post was a link to a physics professor’s thoughts about the relatio...

And saying that the Buddha’s enlightenment is a ‘language phenomenon’ doesn’t?

I’m saying it’s an arguable implication of Kant’s intent, and that you’re making a polemical mountain out of an interpretive molehill.

There is also an understanding of non-conceptual wisdom. In yogic terminology concepts are ‘vikalpa’, mental constructions. They are not necessarily e...

I guess you could say that. As I’ve often related, I’m pretty typical of the boomer generation, in whom some such convictions were planted by the popu...

When Kant writes, "The I think must be able to accompany all my representations," he underscores that this "I think" is the unifying activity of consc...

I think, possibly, what this thread about, is not skepticism so much as unbelief. The intention to blow away the cobwebs of inherited beliefs and star...

I too like magpies, as I live here, and there's a large clan in my neighbourhood, but am puzzled by the bearing it has on the question at hand. If the...

And I for one am not persuaded by your claim. I spelled out the exact passage in which you said he does this, and compared it to the passage in Kant, ...

I'd also question the depiction of mathematics as a tool. It's more than a tool: it's a power. It is not coincidental that arithmetic and geometry cam...

Something Fichte was very fond of saying, I believe. I've also been exploring similar themes through the perspective of phenomenology of biology, Evan...

I don't see that. I think Gautama's discovery overflowed the bounds of what can be spoken. Hence the famous 'Flower Sermon' which is the apocryphal or...

Could you explain that a little further? A passage that I highlighted, adjacent to the one you quoted, is: That seems to at least suggest the non-dual...

But I can't see how he does that. Rödl says: Which I checked against the Norman Kemp Smith translation of the Critique: So, again, how is it a lie? I ...

Still reckon The Tao of Physics is alright. Capra interviewed Heisenberg extensively while preparing the draft. @"Arcane Sandwich" - you know that boo...

Trump doesn’t want to govern, but rule. He basically hates the government, unless and until he can make it conform to his will.

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Another straightforward point I would make is to ask, how much of science is dependent upon the identification of the quantifiable attributes of pheno...

I think skepticism started out very differently to what it has become. It started as 'withholding judgement regarding that which is not evident', rath...

Have a glance at a recent long thread on a similar topic, Mathematical Platonism.

The paragraph preceeding the endnote is as follows: Norman Kemp Smith translation of the Critique of Pure Reason p153: (I take it that Rödl's comment ...

Presumably, they will have seeds. All you need, is patience.

There is something I want to add, which I think you will understand. It is that 'spending time' and 'making an effort' in meditation counts for nothin...

It's kind of down to the least worst option. As it so often is.

That’s OK! I appreciate your courtesy.

Blistering critique of Albo in today’s SMH which I’m afraid is pretty on-target.

I don’t really go in for such comparisons. I will sometimes post graphics or videos to make a point, but rarely, and usually when their direct.

Perhaps not but it seems natural that Aquinas would see the ‘unmoved mover’ as at least an analogy for the Divine Intellect?

I suggest that before you contact Priest, you could develop the idea a bit more by running it through ChatGPT. It will give you feedback on whether it...