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Thanks, great questions, but I am facing a mountain of unpacking :-* , so later slater.
April 30, 2017 at 15:46
Injustice is profitable...Thrasymachus, Plato's "Republic". thread that may intersect with your OP]
April 30, 2017 at 15:33
I said you said and I answered Now you want to step outside the frame, as it were, and suggest that I am rendering reason qua reason "impotent",' but ...
April 30, 2017 at 13:33
MU, I think that man has set reason as its 'god', the perfection we glimpse in its purity, and I it think this is an intrinsic part of modern man's ps...
April 30, 2017 at 02:19
Hi, happy we agree here.
April 30, 2017 at 02:10
A perfect being should possess existence, but it cannot maintained that solely by virtue of this conception existence is entailed. "Kant-- following -...
April 30, 2017 at 02:07
Well you put my cart before the horse. I said I am agnostic, so my "if" is meaningful, because I am not sure if there is a God or not, however I am su...
April 28, 2017 at 01:26
I am moving today, but I will respond perhaps at end of day, assuming I can still think coherently.
April 27, 2017 at 13:21
Me Of course if there is no God, then there is no reason why the principle of sufficient reasons holds. The world is just the way it is, the causal ar...
April 27, 2017 at 11:54
If the PSR applies to all things, then it applies to all becomings.
April 27, 2017 at 04:02
Because thinking is active, it's the realization of being, but what is, what exists is passive because it does not necessarily think.
April 25, 2017 at 22:10
Sounds like you are getting all knotted up. Descartes masin task in the Meditations is epistemological certainty not ontological, what is correct is t...
April 25, 2017 at 21:19
Well a Georgia Chinese Cracker might just appeal to a dump-ling house.
April 25, 2017 at 19:33
Descartes response to Mersenne: What do you mean by "correct", some people think cogito sum is a performative statement which is only 'correct' when i...
April 25, 2017 at 19:21
Well it would have to be a problem in principle: that subjective reality in principle can't be reduced to objective reality, that this is a category e...
April 25, 2017 at 00:26
I agree https://youtu.be/E18yZD8LyB8
April 23, 2017 at 20:47
Let me ask you, how could you not know this? My desk is very reticent. You want to say there are ambiguities, but how did we get on to life anyhow? Yo...
April 23, 2017 at 19:49
Yes, that's my position and I doubt life as a non-random event. I think life must be a potentiality of matter, to be alive something must have a form ...
April 23, 2017 at 18:46
Well let me ask you if you think the your experience of a red firetruck is a passive affair, that its givenness is the content of your experience of i...
April 23, 2017 at 18:13
It is objectively true that you are on the moon, but I don't think whatever could possibly comprise that experience, or for that matter any experience...
April 23, 2017 at 15:20
April 23, 2017 at 13:13
Do you think that being a friend confers certain responsibilities, duties, which you do not owe strangers. Will you feel guilty if you do not help you...
April 23, 2017 at 12:45
But isn't this the point of the Mary's room thought experiment: the subjective experience of being on the moon cannot be adequately described objectiv...
April 23, 2017 at 02:25
I have always like the idea of the fertile crescent, which is also somewhat Freudian I guess.
April 22, 2017 at 22:10
What's a "true civilization"?
April 22, 2017 at 19:22
Hi and thank you for your reply. Most of the information I read suggest that the main components of what comprise life will probably have to come toge...
April 22, 2017 at 19:19
Studies of people, born blind, who then suddenly become able to see (such as those who undergo cataract surgery), suggest they have to learn how to in...
April 22, 2017 at 14:11
"Cheeto Jesus"
April 22, 2017 at 04:39
Ok, couple of thoughts. If I claim the X is the case, and that it entails that X is independent of thought, how did I get to X in the first place if n...
April 22, 2017 at 01:43
I can't see your pain, I can only feel mine, so how do I know it is the case.
April 21, 2017 at 23:00
So the hammer is real, but my pain when I hit my finger is not?
April 21, 2017 at 22:37
So physicalism has a monopoly on the meaning of being a realist? I think Subjectivity has just as much a claim to ontological reality as what is mind ...
April 21, 2017 at 18:48
Why isn't the position the color is inside and not outside is not a realist position. as in objective vs subjective realism. Are you saying our subjec...
April 21, 2017 at 17:03
(Y) What is the media?
April 21, 2017 at 16:24
Thinking more about this, I recall that infanticide was common in certain cultures, and not just ancient cultures. Wikipedia What is considered Normat...
April 21, 2017 at 16:21
The Will and the Whale: Glory and the Horizon of Defiance in Melville's Moby Dick Hanaà Berrezoug Dr Moulay Tahar University 2014
April 20, 2017 at 23:23
I continue slowly working my way through bars & pubs in South East Florida. One of my occasional haunts is the Blue Front BBQ. Interesting art deco bu...
April 20, 2017 at 19:18
The article you reference says that secularism is increasing based on polls and other studies around the world currently, but it also projects a retur...
April 20, 2017 at 11:43
I don't think consciousness is synonymous with awareness. I think consciousness is reflective awareness. We observe all sorts of creatures that appear...
April 20, 2017 at 11:40
The West has expanded over the years, to the point where its ideology now regularly clashes with the East in all the ways you have itemized. Ideologic...
April 19, 2017 at 13:00
Many clubs have presidents, and/or other people who make necessary decisions for the club as a whole. I suspect that it is due to undesirable behavior...
April 18, 2017 at 21:47
K, but I thought his motto, last election was 'Tippecanoe and Hanover Too'
April 18, 2017 at 21:02
So which party are you ... Whig?
April 18, 2017 at 19:59
Hey thank you for your kind comment.
April 18, 2017 at 18:44
(Y)
April 18, 2017 at 13:31
Religion thrives on the fear of "dead in a ditch". It transforms fear into hope for the faithful, for a life of bliss, a fetishized hope for eternal l...
April 18, 2017 at 13:24
(Y)
April 18, 2017 at 11:45
You really need to something about your roads. Cyclist survived, but he is critical condition.
April 17, 2017 at 18:29
Thinking is always being, being is not always thinking
April 17, 2017 at 18:21
Perhaps there are just definitions.
April 17, 2017 at 11:38