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If you have assumed causality is necessary, you have already assumed god.

The assumption then is that "the world"/nature/universe is uniform everywhere and will remain so into the future. Causes are only known by induction, ...

Maybe negation is spacial 'a' doesn't seem to entail anything except itself, but '-a' seems to entail 'a' Does '-a' suggest a logical space.

Norms and conventions merge at points. The driver may speed because it is the norm, but the same person will stop at on a red light because this conve...

https://youtu.be/dT2owtxkU8k

Not a myth, more like a fantasy, Lacan, unlike Freud, thought the unconscious is linguistic but not like a structured grammatical language. A sea of r...

Perhaps the difference between the speed limit as convention, and driving 10 miles over the speed limit as normative.

Sure

Do you think norms are part of the game or do you think they define the game?

https://youtu.be/namFjcOgHSE

A thread on normativity would potentially be pretty interesting. Is it like truth: can't do without it, but can't discover any conceptual scaffolding ...

Historically, the longest period of relative peace on earth was during Pax Romana which lasted 206 years. The facade of a representational form of gov...

Leo Strauss called Aristotle "the founder of political science because he is the discoverer of moral virtue". The City/Society, which is natural to ma...

Facebook also had a couple of rogue chatbots that developed their own language, and Facebook also took them down. Re-education

Love and hate are emotions, and emotion all have intensities, some greater than others.

We live immersed in language and thought, there is no path to the great outdoors. Interpretations are not all equal. Some are more probability than ot...

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Yea, well "the dude abides", even in the inversion of social construction.

Of course Italian is the sexiest language.

In my opinion Picasso's Cubism was more his reaction to Cezanne's art works.

I agree that artists and scientists are a product of their times, just as much as we are products of our time. But while science progresses, the arts ...

OK, back in FL I think we perceive more than just raw impression, that the world is structured in a 'natural' order, which is understood and intuited ...

Interesting, I didn't know about that. I was reading a book review and the author pointed to this quote. I am interested in the imagination, which see...

Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg )

Hey Creative, thanks I am still considering what you said, but I am traveling, dead tired right now,

Well I am not so sure that it is self-evident what is meant by "material beings". It seems clear that we share a very close affiliation with our mater...

I knew someone who did it. He said it was amazing, it blew his mind. It can be done, they have facilities everywhere. It's getting there.

I've always thought about taking a sky diving lesson.

If you grew up in Germany in the mid 1930s would subugating Jews, Gypsies and others not benefit you. No, I don't think utility can be inherently good...

What interested me about this article is the implication that habituation in perception enables the brain to skip its constructive thought/belief func...

I agree with what you said but this blank tablet, is biologically constructed such that language acquisition comes built-in, a la Chomsky, The structu...

Yes, there is a long way to go, the fight is hard, but (and who knows what damage Trump can do) we seem have made some progress. Yes, blacks, minoriti...

Would you say that blacks and other minorities are being treated better today than say 70 years ago. Isn't it a little quick to assume as in the case ...

Actions that "benefit or don't". I understand as being based on utility.

No. Utility is not morality

Pleasure can only be experienced in doing something such as watching a movie, it is never experienced on its own, it never an end in itself, it is alw...

I think there is a difference between observer dependent facts such as the value we assign to paper currency and observer independent facts such as th...

I don't see how duty can be reduced to a biologic fact or function. The actions we think we ought to do, are socially constructed. Their reality depen...

Searle talks about status functions as the product of collective intentionality in which we assign subjective reality to certain facts, such as money....

So social constructs such as Justice, Freedom as ends

That's cheating. People are not "things" I don't think pleasure can be an end in itself, it has to hold hands with something else to be experienced. M...

(Y) I Like Searle's concept of social vs objective ontology. Our ability to create reality by declaration, as a social function.

I agree, forget Jane. Still trying to sort out your position regarding perception versus judgement/belief. How is the construction, the existentialist...

Refutation of idealism?

http://historicautoattractions.com/s/Images/One-Piece-At-A-Time.jpg

The discussion is inane. Postmodernism describes a period.

The author's credentials here.

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I think either child would scream holler and cry. Perhaps if we use your existential contingency process here. I am mad a Jane, and something I would ...

OK Creative but Yes, our access is physiological sensory perception, but I think it's two processes, which is kinda what I thought you were on about i...