Perhaps essence involves the combination of logical understandings with sympathetic intuitions/memories of what & how some thing is. A functional or g...
Nietzsche disagreed with Plato/Socratic emphasis on the Apollonian, he thought we are comprised of both Apollonian and Dionysian forces, each forming ...
Suppose God exists outside of time and causality in eternity, and suppose that all history, everything which has happened from beginning to end is a m...
I think establishment politicians here and in the EU would like us to continue our anti-Russian sanctions stance with the Russia. But much of the hist...
The basic conditions are in the process becoming outlined, the boundaries, the sufficient and necessary conditions with which, and without which any c...
Your question about the dog lead me off in another direction (for a minute). Do you think there are other types of entailment besides logical? I think...
Do you think entailment is sense dependent or reference dependent. Sense dependent is epistemological and reference dependent is ontological. If you c...
What is given could have always been otherwise. What does bringing other worlds into this context add? Must the positing of an absolutely contingent w...
I have been thinking about contingency recently, how the only necessary notion is that everything is contingent. If p is given, then it must necessari...
The law is the law, it is on the books. Religious blasphemy is against the law in Indonesia and it is strictly enforced. Australia and many other othe...
Two weeks ago a man was shot to death trying to help a woman being beaten in the middle of a parking lot outside a KMart (?). https://www.washingtonpo...
I like Tom Bombadil. He's not one of the main characters, but does save the group from the barrow-wight. He is kinda of an enigma, impervious to the p...
Not sure about beauty, he didn't say the nipple is an ornament. Well, have you ever seen male nipples that kept you in awe (non-pruriently)? I don't t...
There is reason to think that Socrates was guilty as charged. He was charged with corrupting the youth of the city and looking at two his two famous s...
Germany is in the position of having no choice but to integrate the 1.2 million refugees (1/6/16 WPost) it took in last year. While there is an appare...
Also doesn't Being face Non-Being in some sort of dialectic as Agamben suggests, and the synthesis of the dialectic is Becoming, but maybe the phrase ...
"It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been committed for fear of not looking sufficiently progressive." Political correctness gone awry....
I think I understand what you're saying: conception shapes perception, but a perception has to start somewhere and you suggest a 'raw' preconceptual e...
Meanwhile, I was still thinkin... This is a problem for the Kantian position that holds that whatever is 'in itself' is unknowable, that all we really...
Pope Francis also does not like fake news: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pope-blasts-sin-of-fake-news_us_58484584e4b08c82e8892eb2 . He went on t...
Pantheism is the belief that all of reality is identical with divinity, How does "Deus sit ipsum esse subsistens." separate or differentiate itself fr...
Meillassoux falls back on his argument for absolute contingency of everything that is thought, that epistemologically all we really know are the actua...
I have his book on order, just tracked it and found out it's going to previous address :( Anyway, I've been reading the secondary literature. He also ...
Suppose the drug in the water is strychnine and you die :’( Can either the realist or the idealist conceptualize not thinking, I don't think it can't ...
Trump foreign policy in 140 characters. Nixon was famous for his Madman Theory of International Politics. The unpredictable response of a madman has t...
Why isn't time simply changes in position in space, consider, perhaps nature is indifferent to time's span? If motion is simply changes in configurati...
Where is that "reference point" ...is it in space? Are we that "reference point"? Or is that "reference point" more theoretic as part of a systematic ...
No, two aspects of the same reality, as far as I can figure...not a dualism. The subject-predicate structure of propositions means the world must be c...
I think his concept of sense dependence is meant to keep his epistemological notion from collapsing into Idealism. The concept of the world is not pos...
I like that he bases his idea of truth, reality on epistemology and not ontology. I also like what I know of correalism (On order, expect to be receiv...
Quine opts for deflationary realism he holds that there is nothing more to existence than existential quantification, he thinks only statements about ...
If you understand that without freedom morality is not possible and if society recognizes certain behaviors to be antithetical to its existence then I...
Isn't that why society has laws, to force people to act in a certain manner, most laws prohibit actions and ascribe penalties to discourage certain ac...
I've always found the dream argument interesting. The argument only seems feasible (to me) because we understand the difference between being awake an...
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