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 ...
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...
A perfect being should possess existence, but it cannot maintained that solely by virtue of this conception existence is entailed. "Kant-- following -...
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...
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...
Sounds like you are getting all knotted up. Descartes masin task in the Meditations is epistemological certainty not ontological, what is correct is t...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Thinking more about this, I recall that infanticide was common in certain cultures, and not just ancient cultures. Wikipedia What is considered Normat...
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...
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...
I don't think consciousness is synonymous with awareness. I think consciousness is reflective awareness. We observe all sorts of creatures that appear...
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...
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...
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...
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