As I keep saying, there is need for a value judgement, a qualitative criterion of what is best. In Platonism it was the Idea of the Good, later subsum...
I've thought about this. Obviously something I suffer from, as do many. But I think from a Buddhist perspective, it is an aspect of Kle?a, 'defiled co...
Yeah I must stop doom-scrolling and posting about Trump. I see no silver lining whatever, only a long series of f***ups and outrages, which have alrea...
I think that's close. I do notice that many discusses revolve around what might constitute a properly-worded proposition, what can be truly said. But ...
As I see it, nearly all these debates are implicitly centred around the correspondence theory of truth, the way in which propositions do or do not cor...
Regardless, it's already obvious that one of DJT's major aims is to extract vengeance on the Department of Justice for prosecuting cases against him. ...
I came of age in the 60's as I often mention and the way I used to view Jesus then was as a peripatetic teacher of spiritual enlightenment. The Kingdo...
Rubbish. I could stand on a street corner in Washington DC and pass out flyers accusing the US Government of corruption and at worst be moved along by...
'If there is one single point which underlies the entire illusion of modern scientific materialism, it is the idea of the mind-independent object'. 'O...
I don't buy the 'all sides are the same' argument at this point in history. In US politics, one particular important player is notoriously mendacious,...
Wouldn't that require complete abandonment of culture and society, medicine and technology? 'The bottom' you would need to start from would be like ex...
I read Federico Faggin's 'Silicon' last year, and have started his 'Irreducible'. This last one is difficult material and there's a lot about it I don...
Firstly, well-written OP — kudos for presenting a cohesive argument. However, I wonder if the reliance on 'evolutionary principles' here may be leanin...
Trump selects Matt Gaetz as AG I would say the reputation of Gaetz in Congress, even amongst Republicans, is 'notorious sleazebag', although 'weasel' ...
surely it must have something to do with the non-alphabetic characters in the thread title. Not that I know, but it seems obvious. Probably something ...
can you blame them? The whole US public sector is alternately furious and terrified of what is going to happen. The EPA will be gutted, the Justice De...
Post Truth will really have it's day in the sun on Trump's Day One, when he pardons all those who had been criminally convicted for the January 6th ou...
thank you, fair assessement. Well, for those presupposed to doubt it, there are plenty of grounds for doubt. For those predisposed to believe it, ther...
Something that might be considered is the requirement for a purportedly universal religious faith - Catholic means universal or all-encompassing - to ...
Without wanting to hijack the thread, this is where the big debate about the decline of scholastic metaphysics and the ascendancy of nominalism and em...
At first he who invented any art whatever that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was some...
How fast is the universe expanding? These are big, literally cosmic questions, and astronomers continue to struggle to nail down the answers. Differen...
I was sent to an Anglican school, but father was very unsympathetic to religion so left it up to me. Although to be honest, part of it was that it see...
Mostly? :yikes: As far as panpsychism is concerned - please have a read of the post I entered in the Quantum Classical thread about Federico Faggin. I...
Agree. I think I understand the radical nature of the Resurrection. It's not reasonable, or 'nice', or comfortable. I guess the fact that I believe it...
Agree with the quoted verse from Paul. I don't self-identify as Christian, nor attend Christian services apart from those associated with social event...
Agree. Well, maybe, but how would you go about exploring the question? Of course, it's a famously knotty philosophical problem. That is why I referred...
Not at all, although I suppose it came across like that. It's more like the idea of 'higher' cuts against the grain of popular opinion. By a vertical ...
I think Aristotle is often cited in that literature. There’s no escaping some notion of final causation in biology. Not quite what I was driving at bu...
I was an admirer until he took over Twitter. I'm still in awe of Space X and its reversible rockets. But he's since said and done a lot of things whic...
Musk himself posted it. It's a photoshopped copy of the image he posted when he took over Twitter. If you haven't been following, Musk has morphed fro...
That's the only way philosophical and scientific materialism can frame the problem - mind as a product of material causation, as is everything else. B...
I've said a number of times, and many others also, Trump is a demagogue. See the Wiki entry on same: Those unhindered by facts start with a tremendous...
I will add again, a lot of the post-election analysis is that Trump’s constant airing of grievance and victimhood carried a lot of votes from those wh...
I’m sorry but I’m one of those stodgy old-fashioned types who believe that 2+2=4 is true in all possible worlds. I can’t see how a world would hold to...
It also might be recalled that Trump’s Republican Party is a completely different party to any other Republican President’s party. Many of his policie...
Readers might be interested to know of a book that has been published this year which addresses the relationship between quantum and classical physics...
True, that, but it's also the phemenon of turning against incumbency. If the Regime doesn't deliver, it'll be a revolving door as far as the electorat...
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