A Seagull

Most of what passes for philosophy is best described as BS.

A wise man once said : "To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble!' Good advice I reckon.

The philosopher cat shall be on the roof.

Can you prove that or are you just guessing?

Meaning what?

Hume clearly differentiated between what he called 'matters of fact', ie facts about the real world, and what he called 'relations of ideas' ie abstra...

Yes consciousness is a mystery, I would only suggest it is a fundamental of our universe like space, time and quarks. As for why pain needs to be unpl...

Logic without information from the real world is entirely abstract. Logic with information from the real world is real. They are two entirely distinct...

What I mean is that: Philosophy requires assumptions, otherwise it goes nowhere. An assumption does not need justification, indeed justification itsel...

Said what?

First off congratulations on putting together a comprehensive yet concise philosophy in your Codex Q. It is no easy task to achieve that and no doubt ...

A problem is only a problem if you think it's a problem. What are these destructive conclusions of which you speak?

There is no problem of induction. That is the way the world is. There is no certainty. Certainty about the real world is an illusion or perhaps a delu...

I don't really know. Perhaps it is a problem awaiting your brilliance and insight to solve, or perhaps there is insufficient data..or perhaps undertak...

If we accept, as I think we do, that the Earth was created some 4.5 billion years ago when there was no life and that now there is a abundance and var...

Understanding is a bottomless pit. When people say they understand something what they mean is that they have made progress in finding a better theory...

Thank you for your detailed account of how numbers can be derived from empty sets and I don't doubt that modern mathematicians consider it fundamental...

Lots of things are inexplicable, perhaps even most things. Though I would say that the appearance of DNA a few billion years ago is a lot less inexpli...

Constructing fundamental mathematical objects out of sets is like constructing bricks out of houses.

DNA has no meaning of itself, only people with a model of the world can ascribe meaning to it when they incorporate the concept of DNA into their mode...

" Wouldn’t philosophy be dull if it was just science." Not if one prefers truth to fantasy.

The Lion and the Unicorn. The lion for stability and the unicorn for eternity.

But what do you say?

I don't think that evolution and morality are so very distinct. Evolution, as you say, deals with biology, but those biological organisms often live i...

If social Darwinism or evolutionary ethics do not fit in with the norms of ethics or morality it would seem far more sensible and rational to presume ...

There is no point to evolution.

My understanding of chemistry notation is that an element can be a substance made up of just one type of atom such as hydrogen gas, pure gold and grap...

Certainty is a state of mind. If you particularly seek certainty then you might try cultivating some myopia and blinkered or tunnel vision; a healthy ...

Just enjoy the sunset. It doesn't matter whether it is 'real' or not. The reality of the sunset {and most other things besides) is all you know, and m...

I think what it means is that you can shine a light into darkness to illuminate the dark areas but you cannot shine darkness into a light area to make...

While I don't disagree with you that idealism constitutes a valid view of the world, it must also allow that within the world of ideas there is also t...

If people submit to tyranny, they deserve to be kicked.

Satisfaction leads to complacency Complacency leads to decay Decay leads to squalor People are scared of squalor, so they avoid satisfaction. Solution...

Only an idealised computer will follow its instructions and only those instructions. A real computer will respond to input data according to its physi...

Tu lol

my favorite Australian comedians - Flight of the Conchords. Since when are these guys Australian? Are you out of your existential mind?

Then the first electron is travelling backwards in time. The diagram still doesn't make sense.

The arrows indicate the direction through time. 1 + 1 does not equal -1 + -1

A woman walks into a bar and asks the barman for a double entendre. So the barman gives her one!

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/download/777/elec%20posi%20photon..jpg The diagram looks incorrect to me as it does not follow the law of co...

Has rationality and logical analysis actually achieved anything at all? Perhaps you would like to elaborate?

Well there you have it. A subjective opinion posturing as objectivity.

I don't know what it is, or even if indeed there is one; but I am hoping to find out.

I don't know why you think that was melodramatic, there are lots of other philosophy forums out there. Perhaps the problem is that "The philosophy for...

It matters to me because I am a philosopher. I like to understand things. Further I do not accept things at face value, I prefer to look beneath the f...

Ok I have found the thread. So presumably it was just a few posts removed. But for what reason?

Not necessarily! Perhaps someone has spent a life time studying it and concluded that it, or at least 99% of it, IS stupid. That is the trouble with p...

And where are you then? One would be free of the clichés that so many would-be philosophers like to trot out!

No, you don't need new axioms. All you need to do is get rid of the old ones.

I think the term "Global heating' is more appropriate. It is like heating a mixture of water and ice. The mixture doesn't get any warmer, but the ice ...