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gurk

['Member']Joined: July 22, 2020 at 22:34Last active: February 05, 2021 at 15:152 discussions10 comments

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Oh no! Here's another "clear concept" for you: ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And ...
January 16, 2021 at 17:55
I mean, there's very little to disagree with here... Your point is that Dostoevsky was a Christian philosopher? It's like writing an essay to prove Ei...
January 16, 2021 at 17:42
To play devil's advocate (heh...) Satanism seems to have begun as LaVey's atheistic pseudoreligion, but over time the word "Satan" has come to mean va...
August 13, 2020 at 03:06
You know those facehuggers from the Alien movies, which lay eggs in your throat which then hatch and burst out your chest? I always wondered where the...
August 10, 2020 at 01:16
Sorry, I should have been more clear; I'm using "noumenon" in the Kantian sense. Here's a brief mention of Buddhist influence on Heidegger in Wikipedi...
August 02, 2020 at 00:37
Thank you for the clarifications @fdrake My understanding of Heidegger, and please correct me if I'm wrong, is as follows: 1. Cartesian ontology prove...
August 01, 2020 at 22:23
nevermind
August 01, 2020 at 15:26
This is violence against logic. What you're attempting to say is: \forall x ( \neg p \implies p ) \forall x (\neg p) \therefore \forall x (p) Translat...
July 31, 2020 at 20:01
That is a very thoughtful post. Some responses: The critique of logic you mention-- that we have to explicitly state relationships such as that the se...
July 31, 2020 at 18:18
Because if an opinion is logically unsound, then it is obviously inferior? Hence why I am asking for help understanding why this would not be the case...
July 31, 2020 at 16:59