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I personally use no fixed and universal ontology. I believe that such fixed and universal ontologies do not actually exist, and that if they existed t...

I'm afraid I've never given much thought to the issue of universals. The issue of relations is important to my systemic metaphysics, to the idea that ...

Okay, but if there's two cats in your box, they can keep each other company, play or fight one another. Right? Now, if I were to put two cats in the s...

I see a difference between relations and universals, though.

See below. Do note that these particles exist in the same universe. Therefore they are already in a relation with one another, a spatial relation: the...

Yeah? So what?

Yes. Thinking about it some more: if relations do not exist, then what can possibly exist? The concept of "the world" or "the universe" implies interc...

Thanks, that makes the thesis -- at least your interpretation -- a bit clearer. Still, I am not quite sure why Glasgow should be aware of its geograph...

Nevertheless, I find the OP quite confused. For instance, Steven French is not presented, nor is his argument FOR eliminativism of tables. Instead the...

To OP is extremely confused, and responding in the same terms would only add more confusion.

I wonder sometimes if we live in different universes. Most folks I know don't care about St Augustine or even know who he was. Count me in too: i've n...

Yep. It's hard to see who's more of a dork, between a religious literalist and an atheist proselytiser.

Most welcome!

You'd have to tell me where in the Bible does it say that Jesus was a god. Maybe. Most Christians are only vaguely committed to the actual teachings n...

I'm not. Historically some Christians have taken the resurrection as figurative, ie Jesus showing himself to his followers but not in the flesh, rathe...

That applies perfectly to Socrates and Plato too. In fact it applies to quite a few philosophers. But these points have all to do with religious belie...

We agree that materialism doesn't matter, then. Although one could perhaps stress its historical significance as a standard element of Marxism and oth...

Of course we can. The historicity of this or that philosopher is a matter for historians to debate. What matters to the philosopher is the message. On...

Okay, so materialism is some kind of electric current in your brain. Fair enough. But why should my brain's electric currents care about your brain's ...

By definition, a broken clock doesn't work, so your proposition makes no sense. A proposition equivalent to "it was raining and we thought otherwise,"...

I think I don't love you anymore She told me yesterday It burst in the air Like a gunshot I think I don't love you anymore She threw out yesterday Bet...

What material is your materialism made of? Wool? Iron? Silicon? Is your materialism liquid at ambient temperature, or gaseous, or solid? How much does...

Gender is a cultural concept anyway. The corresponding biological concept is called "sex".

You bet. Note that many astronomy pictures, including from Hubble, are in false colors, eg colors code for certain wavelengths rather than be the real...

That's not my experience. It takes some strength to give life for instance, and that's no small gift.

I like him too, mainly because he has managed to remain honest and resist the lobbyists and other temptations in Washington. But he never was 'in powe...

And why does looking like a democracy imply term limits and separation of powers? Okay. Name any politician who is in your opinion a 'goody two-shoes'...

It's not sudden, it takes some time to take effect. Take Erdogan: he started as a democrat and ends as a tyran. Same with Bonaparte, or the French soc...

Odd that he's mentioned only now, for a discussion that he started.

It's my opinion that it's a fact.

Aristotle started the trend by pointing out that the world cannot possibly have been created out of nothing, and hence must be eternal. Since then man...

Sorry to bother you with it.

Studies about men in a certain cultural context may say more about the culture than about men. In nowadays culture nobody can criticize women without ...

Not a terminology I am familiar with. To be clear, I am not saying that power is bad per se. I am not an anarchist, I recognise the need for leadershi...

Jane Birkin - Les clés du paradis https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2s55IYJxR3c I've got the keys to heaven I who have never got anything I've got the key...

According to some philosophers, paradise is here on earth; it happens when we treat each other right. Si l'enfer c'est les autres, le paradis aussi. A...

The phrase "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" is attributed to Lord Acton who I suppose had his fair share of incompeten...

I mean power in the political sense: the power to direct and coerce other people. It can get to your head.

Yes it does and no, we haven't.

His song saved me when I was a kid, though.

The past and future could be an infinite cycle if big bangs and big crunches for all we know.

Not according to St Polnareff.

Michel Polnareff - On ira tous au paradis https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8FMFxaT-n7U We will all go to paradise, even me Blessed or cursed, we'll go Wi...

1) You are assuming that some thing(s) "made up the past", an assumption which a) I don't understand as phrased -- what do you mean? -- and b) that ma...

Sure. Nevertheless, it remains a fact that power corrupts and that men have more power than women in many societies. Therefore men tend to be more exp...

That is correct. Contrary to popular belief, we'll all make it to paradise, even me!

Biologically speaking, males and females have important differences but morally speaking, I think they are the same beast, by and large. I suspect tha...

Any evidence of that, or should we take your word for it?

Why do you find that absurd, pray tell? What I (and most poll respondents) find counter intuitive is rather the idea of a possible begining and a poss...

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