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Alright then, what is the situation your end? Are you a BiV or a BiS?

So in fine, either one considers ideas to be 'physical', or one must concede that there are things that exist, such as ideas, that aren't physical. Th...

No, I'm saying that it makes no difference from the stand point of the witness. And you are the witness, not the judge.

We philosophers leave such behaviors to MAGA capped trolls. You see, the quality of one's thought can be measured by the reputation of one's scapegoat...

You could blame it on Descartes. We all do it...

Hey, monkeys have feelings too!

You can measure the intensity of a magnetic field, though.

In the end the two channels of information converge into the minds of the scientists. So there's no avoiding the subjective dimension of reality. Phys...

Let me precise that, when writing "perceivable by the senses", I should have added a few caveats such as: "aided by any apparatus e.g. microscope, rad...

Why yes, that's the point. You can weight matter alright, but you cannot weight the idea that matter is all there is, because ideas are not physical a...

No no no, I'm just saying there's no essential difference between the two situations. If the sim that the BiV is fed looks exactly like some sort of r...

By that I mean you cannot weight, measure or see materialism. If "physical" means "perceivable by the senses", them materialism is non-physical. There...

I said that materialism is just an idea. Do you disagree?

Bene qui latuit, bene vixit, is indeed a verse by Ovid.

I don't know about yours, but my body is a little more than just an idea.

Yes, there were other reasons than just the political risk of spilling too many beans. Those reasons are expressed by the Socrates figure himself in t...

Still not convinced. Your body is not, actually, the same thing as the way you perceive your body. We have this Kantian incapacity to reach reality as...

I'm a fan of Aristotle, and he studied under Plato so I guess I should temper my critique of the latter.

For a long time it was. Democracy itself implies freedom of thought and expression, so democrats are bound to tolerate critiques of democracy. But thi...

There is also zero evidence that "the Platonic tradition" wasn't grossly distorted by the neo-platonists. You seem to be wedged to their views, or to ...

When France got confined last year, the government made a distinction between essential services and non-essential ones. Musicians were considered non...

You can dream of a house; you can imagine a house; you can see a picture of a house; so there are ways in which the image of a house can form within a...

Because you wrote: — 180 Proof We can only apprehend matter via our perceptions and thoughts. If the latter do not exist, then we have no evidence tha...

I am not confusing them, actually. Just asking: If thoughts do not exist, what's the evidence that matter exists?

You can trust your perceptions to tell you something about this supposedly virtual reality in which you find yourself. Just like if you are a brain in...

If "physical" was a well defined concept, "non-physical" would be easy to define. So let's try and define "physical". Definitions by Oxford Languages:...

Are you saying that clouds could exist but not the sky, or that the sky could exist but not clouds? I repeat: If thoughts do not exist, what's the evi...

The problem I see with that is that us human minds live in a mental world, in ideas. Each and everyone of our thoughts is abstract. So by this Meaning...

You don't need advice from me, but I think you are losing your time with Apo. The guy is not smart enough nor intellectually honest enough, period. I ...

For Sama is a documentary film produced and narrated by Waad Al-Kateab, and directed by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts. When Waad was forced to leave...

As we discussed before, there is very little room for religion in the Republic: no priesthood, no oracles, no temples.

We don't have the act of accusation and don't know precisely what the charges were. My point was that politics and religion were intertwined in many c...

Indeed, and the railways are an apt example. I actually think the rail network in France is an asset for the future. But the price to pay for such a n...

There were a humongous amount of changes in the religious sphere during this near millenary, and chances are that any platonic oral tradition got heav...

Yes. Let me try and do some theory here. Going on a limb perhaps? I see several levels of interpenetration between religions and politics here: 1. Tra...

So what is the weight of the number 5, then? Or the letter A?

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one sees rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- the fo...

So it all hinges on the definition of 'matter and energy'. And no one knows what matter is, exactly... so we haven't made much progress. Like, is Beet...

This is an important point. If such ideas were corruptive of the youth, why could one freely buy Anaxagoras' books "in the orchestra for a drachma" at...

:grin: (However, if everyone puts his or her fun staff out of the regular threads, aren't those going to become exceedingly dry?)

This is about Burundi, its beauty, but also the many hate crimes that were committed there over the years. It is hard to translate the lyrics without ...

Mind posting them?

I'm here to please.

I agree that the nations that move forward are generally those that do NOT implement a laissez faire policy, but more frequently those who can develop...

Please feel free to invent whatever you want to about me.

You see, we dance Our body, we balance We touch each other We kiss each other on the mouth Even, hear We say we love each other But it's only some kin...

Fair enough. Even no industrial policy is a sort of industrial policy, in effect.

Sure, you could always see it differently, but this is at least what she was saying at the time.

What exactly do you mean by "physical" and "non-physical"? As already pointed out by others, these terms mean very little...

Thatcher hated the very idea of an industrial strategy, sustainable or not. Hers was a laissez-faire policy; she believed that state interventions in ...