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It is the problem of induction, an ontological problem which creates epistemological issues. We propose self evident 'truths', universals/absolutes up...

I don't have a lawn to mow anymore, which is fine but there were things I liked about mowing. One of my friends over in UK told me that he bought a ro...

I agree with most of what you outlined and additionally I think that while reason and logic are important to our experience of life, so are friendship...

Reminds me of Buckminster Fuller's 'less is more' which he called Ephemeralization: Wiki Almost like a pragmatic reinterpretation of Occam's Razor.

No quite, I can't think of any reason why anything must/should or ought to exist, versus nothing. Any such reason fails, it suggests faith not reason....

What makes Swineburn's conversation about God a rational conversation? Does he rationally prove the existence of God or?

Maybe, but I like Hamlet and his father, the Ghost who I think represents Hamlet's intentionality, as an external need (as if an ideology) to compel h...

The only brute that I can think of is the contingency of everything, the fact that what is, could possibly be otherwise. if you bring God into the dis...

Do you talk to yourself? If yes then you are reflexive, if not then how do you do that?

Trump as Michael Corleone wannabe http://billmoyers.com/story/comey-got-face-trumps-godfather-fantasy/ https://youtu.be/JLy6W0Lm3oI

Very much in the style of Trump, what you believe is true is true, that's not realism, that is idealism.

And you use a study based on the cultural experiences of United States women in committed relationships to try to somehow demonstrate that lust is not...

That article is isn't germane or explicative of lust :s , it is in fact mind numbing.

Funny, I'm almost entirely opposite of you here. Some indigenous native cultures don't seem to have any sort of Western styled cultural modesty about ...

Bitcoin went from $580.00 US to $3000 US last year, so no stable track record, but it does have great potential...it could be a world-wide currency in...

I don't think a word is a skill I learn, I do think the use of a word, how it fits into my use of it to communicate is a skill. A word is a sound desi...

"And there'd be nothing wrong with it if I did say that, according to everybody that I read today, but I did not say that." I don't think he is so muc...

So the Tories have made an extreme right turn, in exchange for power?

"Why is the sky blue?" an explanation for why it is blue and not red can be given, but you cannot explain why that explanation and not some other expl...

Meno asked Socrates if virtue can be taught and Socrates asked Meno 'what is virtue' then Meno asked Socrates, if you don't know what something is how...

But TS I don't think any explanation of a brain impulses, nerve impulses, or electro-chemical signals can even potentially encompass the significance ...

As I intimated I don't think any full explanation is possible, therefore any such criteria would in principle be otiose.

Well I really can't see how you can say it's not impoverished. If the concept were 'rich', insightful or even pragmatic then it could fully explain ho...

Then as I said it is an impoverished concept.

Then we should be on the same page. I was not sure since some people want to entirely reduce mind to brain processes, and I don't agree with that.

So you think thought determines existence?

As I stated in my reply to you

Do you believe minds exist?

No, as I said, it can't be distinguishable from my body, which is in Florida

And I answered it to the best of my ability, my concept of mind is inclusive, with my body

I believe I have a location and I don't separate me from my body.

Nope

Yep

I don't think we separate ourselves from the world, until we become aware of our self. It is only upon attainment of self consciousness that a child b...

God is a "type of higher consciousness" that we "connect" with by "looking 'up into the present', and this experience is not communicable, "but it's a...

I just looked under those names. Here is graph: /uploads/resized/files/28/nwzn7exugg1gxwu9.png This info is also shown geographically:/uploads/resized...

Plato, Kant, Descartes, Aristotle, in that order were the top Google searches worldwide over the last 5 years. Plato appeared to be significantly more...

So are you saying that truth/falsity are not judgements but statements of fact (or not), that their content does not contain any value claims. If some...

How about truth/falsity. If something is true isn't that a value judgement, is it objective or subjective? Don't truths about the world like scientifi...

I think the real miracle is that the universe appears to be uniform, causally based, I don't accept that there is any necessity behind this, it is jus...

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Point of view. The person who transcends the ethical out of love or force of will, is unethical by definition but I don't think that translates into t...

They seem very much alike, both leap and in doing so transcend the ethical same as Abe and perhaps Gauguin

Can the Knight of Faith fall in love with anyone besides god? Can the Ubermensch love anyone except her/himself?

Yes, and I don't agree that philosophic arguments about god are about God. I think these arguments conflate the search for the absolute/universal/god,...

I think part of your answer lies in "desired results" Rationality is a tool that we can use to plan, to decide a course of action. At its thinnest rat...

So then what kind of belief do you hold, is it the perfect being god, a personal god. or? and why?

I am agnostic, what type of atheist are you?

Isn't choice primarily about the future (repetition is about the past), what we anticipate will happen when we act in a certain manner. We negate the ...

In addition to the city of NY liking Fearless Girl, she generated according to Bloomberg's estimates $7.4 million in free public relations for State S...