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Was he admitted into a greater political position within the U.S.? Then he had to do something to get there the same as all the others. Who did he mis...
June 04, 2024 at 08:53
Physicists say lots of things that they come to later regret upon a cursory examination of their language. Perhaps they should keep their mouths shut ...
June 04, 2024 at 08:22
Except, if blindness yielded vast catechisms of iron-clad, faithful, resolve and beautiful imagery in our minds over the dullness of what lay before u...
May 23, 2024 at 02:50
None of them are evidence based as you've been mislead by the preferences of others who have strapped such interpretations to useful epicycles. The la...
May 18, 2024 at 05:13
Something more inline with what Milic calls the corpuscular-kinetic view of nature which arises almost entirely in certain respects from our imaginati...
May 08, 2024 at 09:00
@"javra" You can only go so far with the, ". . . but the experiments showcase its not rational to assume. . ." As given enough time someone could cons...
May 08, 2024 at 08:40
@"Wayfarer" @"javra" So I've now taken some time aside after finishing Metaphors We Live By from George Lakoff & Mark Johnson, The Philosophical Impac...
May 08, 2024 at 08:29
I admit it's a trope of philosophical and scientific thought to think so highly of only the most abstract things we can entertain ourselves with. Gali...
April 27, 2024 at 20:59
I'm not exactly sure. . . part of my journey here into these other works is motivated not by undoing the whole hardness of science nor is it entirely ...
April 27, 2024 at 09:09
I will take that to heart. Thank you.
April 26, 2024 at 07:55
I'm just worried this realization will decay away as others in the past have.
April 26, 2024 at 07:38
@"Wayfarer" I'm shaking right now and have tears streaming down my face as thinking on all this has driven me to an emotional self-revelation. I'm not...
April 26, 2024 at 07:14
@"Wayfarer" Despite the appeal and curiosity I hold to that approach of Lakoff and Johnson it doesn't seem to assuage the worry within of deeply misle...
April 25, 2024 at 19:28
You are not wrong in that assessment. In my life I have few interests and fewer things to be proud of in their stability as well as their personal mea...
April 25, 2024 at 18:36
They, figuratively, castrate themselves among those who have yielded themselves up as an audience. They attempt, however limited, to stretch out all p...
April 21, 2024 at 07:45
Which does depend on your definition of a what a belief even is. A cursory look at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy lists a number of predictab...
April 18, 2024 at 09:37
So perhaps there is then a hierarchy of belief differentiations similar to the ontological categories of Aristotle?
April 18, 2024 at 07:18
Well. . . there is a discussion that could perhaps go on without this obfuscation dealing with whether that intuition we call the certain/uncertain di...
April 17, 2024 at 03:31
I don't think saying 'knowledge is mere belief' solves the conundrum we all started with or what was the entire point of making up the 'knowledge' con...
April 17, 2024 at 03:13
I'm missing a lot of context here because you write so much and your philosophical thinking is rather dense but I feel as if there is really just a th...
April 17, 2024 at 03:07
Yes, but I'd emphasize that this guide is a delusional one which through religion or philosophy we acknowledge its unreality yet we desire to hold to ...
April 15, 2024 at 07:51
Obviously, its by society. A mischievous fellow who follows your every move who transcended the plurality of the many to confine itself it to your hea...
April 12, 2024 at 04:58
Its interesting to see someone who makes such a claim as to the identity of moral concerns as being confined largely to emotional concerns. Which is p...
April 12, 2024 at 04:50
He has a cheap E-book on Barnes & Nobles which outlines much of his thinking which is heavily influenced by Whitehead as well as Bergson among others....
April 10, 2024 at 06:46
Have you heard of Milik Capek? He is a writer and philosopher who has taken odds with spatialized approaches to the language of change/time present in...
April 10, 2024 at 03:27
Yes, but in doing so you could admit to a high degree of arbitrariness about it. I.E. be highly subjectivist about this choice or view it in the same ...
March 27, 2024 at 06:50
That is what I've been coming into conflict with but in a more generalized sense of meta-metaphysical attitudes. What happens to the god debate or the...
March 25, 2024 at 07:55
Come to think of it this seems to happen rather often in treatments of societal problems but generally not because of giving morality the lime light. ...
March 20, 2024 at 07:44
Such explicitly emotional times have passed and I have come to a homeostasis both in living with them as well as on such a personal level. However, cu...
March 20, 2024 at 02:04
I've had my fair share of posts a while back on these gender issues which in hindsight only appeared out of a pathetic defensive need. I had, at that ...
March 17, 2024 at 21:08
It's so peculiar to permit forms of perceived abnormality to such an irrational degree. Where does this naïve compassion/entertainment end and a repre...
March 16, 2024 at 07:32
Are we really at such a point that a 'discussion' mitigates other such concerns that may have primacy with regards to such extensive/extreme modificat...
March 15, 2024 at 09:45
Its the same, I'd say, for every person who considers themselves 'moral' or having fulfilled their moral duties as proven by some 'justification' so t...
March 09, 2024 at 03:46
I haven't personified what concepts lie in the field enough into flesh and blood. Nor has a clear methodological motive made itself clear to me. My ta...
February 17, 2024 at 10:45
I mean everyone here including myself. Any term you or me use is polluted by colloquial meanings and socially present biases. To call something "truth...
February 14, 2024 at 21:33
I wouldn't exactly say that only 'real life' does so. I've also felt. . . impeded. . . by the idle speculations of others here and elsewhere. To call ...
February 14, 2024 at 02:44
You know, this is something I thought about frequently a good while ago. The answer is still rather indeterminate but my circumstances have always see...
February 12, 2024 at 09:48
Perhaps it's the subversion of the ego then that brings about clarity. If not just by mental will but also by physical action on the self. Perhaps the...
February 11, 2024 at 09:28
I attempt to be 'quiet' about the choice metaphysically speaking. Whether they are substances or pure relations are question only with answers interna...
February 09, 2024 at 01:59
In lieu of my sparknote comments, I tend to want to think of them more as metaphorical tools in the physicists/philosophers tool box rather than as 's...
February 06, 2024 at 11:34
In a similar vein, I agree that the most interesting forms of relationism are those that are also the most unintuitive. If we want to avoid the claim ...
February 04, 2024 at 09:06
I'm glad you have! I must, though, apologize for all that I have written. The debate between substantivalists and relationists is one fraught with acc...
February 04, 2024 at 08:56
Now I remember why i've been sober for almost a year straight. Such thoughts are maddening and any attempt to satiate them is a pointless endeavour. ....
November 02, 2023 at 07:31
You know what is funny. One of the biggest issues posed for a feminist viewpoint is actually getting at a definition of unison among all woman and the...
June 02, 2023 at 02:15
Those subjective outlooks however question to what extent this biological fact is supposed to rule divide them in the first place. Notice how you have...
June 02, 2023 at 02:03
. . . and. . . the implication here?
June 01, 2023 at 19:51
If i'm understanding the analogy well enough here then this implies that you can't be too feminine as a male and therefore are 'appropriating' woman's...
June 01, 2023 at 19:05
So i'm going to use the words male and female to denote having respectively XY/XX chromosomes. I'm using the word women/men to regard the social/cultu...
June 01, 2023 at 18:41
Based on appearance, yes. Yes, it hasn't anything to do with chromosomes. Only whatever ISN'T chromosomes. . . so everything else. Unless you have a d...
June 01, 2023 at 07:19
. . . and a group is not your chromosomes so we are off to a good start here. No specific chromosomes specified or needed in such situations, yeah. It...
May 31, 2023 at 19:39