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Thanks for the laugh.

I don't know about dice but a God who doesn't play at something would get very bored. Eternity is a long time, especially towards the end... Our Guy g...

So when God plays with Himself, He plays dice?

Great entry! John Prine and Iris Dement - In Spite of Ourselves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-YzlbgEOOA

One bit of cultural trivia this forum might find interesting is the Afghan (Pashto) female poetic form called landay. Landays are composed of only two...

It would be a start. I seriously doubt they will grant inheritance to women as required by the Shariah... Tragically, Afghan women have used many ways...

The thing is: if Afghanistan neighbour X (say Pakistan) decides against meddling in Afghanistan, other neighbours (say India, China or Russia) might s...

Not to be pedant but Afghanistan is a Central Asian state.

That's what Afghans love to say. But the truth is that Afghan tribalism and factionalism have always attracted foreign meddling.

Last year, after 20 years in Afghanistan, the U.S. signed an accord with the Taliban agreeing to withdraw American troops if the Taliban severed ties ...

The shape that things take.

Generally speaking, materialists have very poor self awareness. Which I guess is logical since they don't believe in self awareness.

Yes. To be historically complete, there was a first brush up with modernity during the reign of Amanullah Khan in the 1920's. It also led to a popular...

Let me add that many of these madrassas are funded by one Islamic party or another, and are often used as ideological training grounds, as PoMo would ...

The problem with Afghans is not their education level. One issue is that democracy is totally foreign to them, who tend to decide things by consensus ...

Good quote.

@"Isaac"'s problem is that he needs to eliminate something, otherwise he can't pretend to be an "eliminative materialist", but he doesn't know what to...

You're not much of an eliminativist...

Okay so your version only eliminates the good things in life, like tastes and smells and music, but not some tasteless, emotionless version of mental ...

What exactly do you attempt to eliminate in your "eliminative materialism"?

Why, the human mind gets eliminated, but not the productions of the human mind?

Isn't the entire canon of cognitive science part of what gets eliminated, and if not, why not?

Correct. That reads like mumbo-jumbo. I miss the part where anything mental gets "eliminated". Who are "we", if not some selves? Look, my intuition-ba...

He might have no particular problem with the default definition of truth, as the adequacy between a representation (or model) and what it attempts to ...

It does, if it pretends to be possibly true.

For one, there's no reason to assume any particular truth because truth remains undefined in your model. What you spoke of was just better fit / contr...

It has the exact same chances of being true than any other neuronal noise, like @"Wayfarer"'s or mine...

The point is that any model for the human mind needs to be compatible with the possibility of its own emergence as a possibly true model. Let us call ...

It seems that your neurons are not good enough to understand what they themselves are saying... You explained that your neurons created an eliminative...

Why, your eliminative materialist model generated by neurons in your brain. What else? If it looks good to your neurons, then it's good for you, but i...

Okay, so it all depends on what looks good to you.

What's the difference between a person who looks around and concludes God must have made it happen, and a guy who looks around and concludes matter mu...

So your eliminative materialist model is generated by neurons in your brain, like some sort of 'woo'?

And how would that be, if you don't mind explaining?

So Collingwood treated Kantian a priori principles as examples of presupposition.

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The song was indeed popularized by Billie Holiday. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7MLdMYX-WHE It has a long history though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...

How do models arise in an eliminative materialist model?

Which connects with structuralism, and PoMo, although Collingwood's philosophy is more logically structured than that of the err... French structurali...

Andrea Motis is my type of trumpetist: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MfGKntocz1c Never had nothing No one to care That's why I seem to have More than ...

You know how these things are, highly subjective I mean. My type of girl, she's not your type and vice versa. Which is great as it means there's a typ...

Ok. Then in ECG fashion we should ask what is the question that this supposition answers. And that would be: is there something? But this question is ...

Which in turn presupposes that some things exist, I guess.

Dear Amity, you've been the most active contributor here; much appreciated. I'm so very glad you like this thread. :-)

Interesting, and yes I know a little musical theory, and appreciate odd tempos. I played the bass on an African cover of the Mission Impossible theme ...

Good find. Who are these guys? Thanks to and for posting the full lyrics of their entries. I had never got the sense of Chapman's song for instance, n...

There are also APs about space and time. Eg "the arrow of time flies one way only".

Indeed, this is another one. I would say express it as "my senses don't lie, most of times". "Most of times" is to allow for (rare) observation errors...

However, the supposition that "logic dependably works", that one can trust logic, is an absolute one. You cannot prove that logic is true or efficacio...

There was a pessimistic vibe in CLS -- and a prescient one at that, having 70 years ago predicted ecological doom by way of overpopulation and overdev...