Both Derain and Banksy are artists. But are they equally great? If greatness is determined by monetary value, they are probably equally great as a Ban...
:100: If Frances Hutcheson is correct, and the appreciation of beauty is innate within humans, and described as "uniformity amidst variety", this clea...
Let there be an object in the world. Suppose this object has been named "Derain's Drying the Sails 1905". There are different styles of painting, incl...
I agree that there are two considerations, the subjective and the objective. The subjective is about what exists in the mind and the objective is abou...
It is true that if a person is put into a situation new to them, then they will probably gain new knowledge from it. For example, if in holiday in Mar...
What exactly is teaching knowledge of a wasp sting, the teacher or the wasp sting? The person learns the feel of a wasp sting from the wasp sting itse...
There is knowledge "about" something and there is knowledge "of" something. A sommelier can teach a Mormon "about" Merlot, such that Merlot is a dark ...
Suppose you are stung by a wasp and say that you feel pain, but I don't believe that you actually feel pain. Is it possible that you can prove to me t...
It may well be the case that it is logically impossible for any tradition or practice to be complete. By their very nature, any tradition or practice ...
Yes, within the aesthetic tradition that Banksy is a great artist, then the non-relative judgment may be made that Banksy is a great artist. But withi...
You make the case that the problem of epistemology, what we know and how we know it, derives from reason rather than any aesthetic. You make the case ...
As you say, the physical works of Banksy and Derain stand independently of how they are either priced in the art market or described by art critics. F...
Within the tradition that agrees paintings such as Banksy's "Girl with Balloon" has aesthetic value as works of art, then Banksy's "Girl with Balloon"...
I agree. I know intuitively and aesthetically that Derain's "Drying the Sails" is an important piece of art and I also know intuitively and aesthetica...
According to Copilot (which seems correct), Descartes is a linear thinker, using deductive step-by-step reasoning. Heidegger, however, is a wholistic ...
For philosophy to progress, aesthetics must be a thing, as there is a natural limit to reason and logic. Aesthetics is able to transcend both reason a...
And then you have Eddy Keming Chan saying... Dr. Don Lincoln is a Senior Scientist at Fermilab and Eddy Keming Chen is an Associate Professor at the U...
In classical mechanics, the evidence is that this universe is deterministic. In a deterministic world, it seems clear that teleology is not a valid th...
There is no certainty that there is a quantum foam. Quantum foam is only a theory (Wikipedia - quantum foam). Some interpret quantum mechanics as desc...
Is there any evidence that the universe is probabilistic? For example, the equation {d = 0.5 * g * t^{2}} gives the distance an object falls under gra...
"My hope was to elicit both kinds of writing, at least, if with more effort than we usually put into OP's and responses." This challenge was a fantast...
It is not so much as preferring analytic to creative philosophical writing, or vice versa, as both have their place within philosophy. Philosophy need...
Radical individualism is a coherent political philosophy that may work in certain contexts and not in others. It may work in a hippy commune of a doze...
Yes, but that does mean that an unworkable philosophy must be a paradox. =============================================================================...
The essay is about individuals who pretend to be radical individualists but in fact rely on authoritarian, collective institutions that wield immense ...
That radical individualism may in practice be unworkable doesn't make it a paradox. It is no more a paradox than Icarus' attempt at flight using a pai...
It depends what is meant by "Institution". I am sure many parents would sacrifice their lives for the institution of their family, and if they did wou...
There is the concept of "chair" in the mind in thought and language and particular instantiations of it in the world, such as "this chair". Similarly,...
If the OP is correct, in that logic is the automatic by-product of existence itself, then Kant's project in his Critique of Pure Reason has failed. Th...
The Law of Identity is about identity in logic and is not relevant to personal identity. Dimitri's weight, which changes through his life, certainly d...
The Law of Identity states that a thing is identical with itself. Yes, the name Dimitri Papadopoulos, born in Athens in 1855, points to a particular u...
Suppose Dimitri was photographed in May and wrote the letter in June. In what way is Dimitri in May identical to Dimitri in June? There are many ways ...
The Law of Identity is one of the three traditional laws of thought. By the Law of Identity, a being is identical to itself. I tend to agree that our ...
I agree that philosophy should not ignore modern physics, but this is not necessarily the case with quantum mechanics, where there is still much disag...
I must be missing what you are saying. As time is relative, space is relative. As there is no absolute point in space, there is no absolute point in t...
I agree when you say "The supposed object, the particle, is a real empirically observable object" This particle can only exist at one position at one ...
An object, or a particle, in space and time can only be at one position at one time (ignoring any debate in quantum mechanics). In other words, a part...
It is interesting that since 2019 the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 79...
Yes, the philosophical essay does have a narrower scope than philosophical writing. Philosophical writing can include the novel, the poetic, the aphor...
Yes, we can only know the object the edge of the object is at x = 1.2 metres empirically. But how can we know that this happens when t = 75 seconds, i...
Imagine an object moving through space. Suppose at t = 75 seconds the edge of the object is at x = 1.2 metres. Suppose at t = 80 seconds the edge of t...
I have taken the following from an article by Zhen Liang - IS SPACE DISCRETE? AN INQUIRY INTO THE REALITY OF PLANCK LENGTH AND ITS PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLI...
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