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Not really. It makes it more interesting.

Yeah but then, isn't illusion your default explanation for pretty much everything?

One classic example of how music connects to emotions is the contrast between the minor and major chords: major chords ( ie C, E, G) are said to be up...

In this context, mediation should not be seen as a problem but as a solution: perception would be impossible (or magical) without some sort of mediati...

I don't know Dylan enough to comment. I mean, I did listen to other albums but never "clicked". Rolling Stone is a good text.

Thanks for Paul Simon's Slip Slidin' Away. Ain't that the truth. One day my father came home with a new LP by this guy called Bob Dylan. This wouldn't...

No problem, death is a philosophical topic. I have thought about it but haven"t found a good idea yet.

It also invites us to examine the mediation itself and try to understand how it works, which is literally what Isaac is working on.

Right, in the non-pejorative meaning of 'unwarranred' (without evidence). Ahah. True that in an ID perspective, any attentive perception involves some...

The theory does not say that our trust in our observations is unwarranted, only that it has to be assumed. We have to trust our senses, at least until...

I agree, but still, the number of elements in a set depends on how the set is defined: what are its boundaries. I see countable sets as conceptual. In...

The essence of things is elusive. But the female sex is defined biologically as explained: the folks who get pregnant and give birth to new folks. The...

I've tried to use the technique in this post: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/510890

What would be this contradiction?

In mammals, the female is the sex that bears the offsprings. It means they have an organ called a uterus that allows the growth of new individuals of ...

Using Collingwood's presupposition analysis: 1) You are assuming there is such a thing as "the water molecule itself", as opposed to, say, one single ...

Same here. It is a very original and funny text. I like it a lot. And in fact I am already using his technique (which is similar to 'deconstructing') ...

In what way is the iPhone a thing, exactly?

It's not to troll, it's to protect themselves.

There is no reason to assume that people always say the truth. I my experience, they often say a fair share of the truth but rarely everything there i...

I used to agree with this idea that the emotional charge of a given piece of music was "obvious" or "objective" for all to hear but it is not the case...

The neonazis and their leader who almost toppled the US democracy are extreme right. FAUX News too.

They could tell us but then they'd have to turn us into mindless zombies like themselves.

I've read Spinoza a long time ago. It's not for me.

The problem with obtaining tips.

And I still maintain that you don't know what you're talking about.

The Illuminati.

This is a mistake. Before you can count anything, you have to set the boundaries of what you want to count. Those boundaries are not real, they are po...

I don't think so. In the prologue to his Summa Theologia, Thomas Aquinas wrote: Question 3 De Dei simplicitate ... Potest autem ostendi de Deo quomodo...

Right. Spinoza was not a cabalist and would have treated these sorts of things as superstition.

But that's a Jung quote, not a Spinoza quote.

Is there a connection between the sefirot of Kabbalah and Spinoza?

Aren't you contradicting yourself in those two paragraphs? In the first you say numbers have no mind- independent existence, and then you say the oppo...

IOW, the cogito.

That is not how I read the word pernicious, which to me implies that there is something untoward in the question. Otherwise all questions of philosoph...

Wittgenstein didn't write that much. There was very little in his prose that Heidegger could have used and I doubt he ever heard of Wittgenstein. In t...

Not by minds and their ideas, in any case.

Having read two-thirds of the piece, I would like to make the following tentative remarks. One is that I followed his reasoning and adhered to it, by ...

Talking about explosive joy, la Vie en Rose, from the same era as Trenet, is here played by Cyrille Aimée and the Emmet Cohen Trio. The music is as de...

This guy is err... brilliant.

The cultural debt to Trenet is acknowledged in this documentary, where generations of French singers speak of him, and sing his songs. It's not a biop...

He largely invented this genre, this mix of poetry and optimism that others started to copy. Until Trenet, the scene was dominated by realist songs ab...

Something like: there's no such thing as telepathy. You're not Luke, you don't really know what he feels or thinks, you only know what he reports to y...

Charles Trenet reinvented la chanson francaise. There is an era before him and another after him.

That you disagree with my thinking about numbers doesn't prove I am wrong, though. You don't actually argue a rival category: you don't say what type ...

I swapped my innocence for pride Crushed the end within my stride Said I'm strong, now I know that I'm a leaver I love the sound of you walking away, ...

This board is a reminder that intersubjectivity often fails.

Da vero.

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