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No, the other 95 people simply don't understand the history/narratives behind the work, perhaps they don't have the proper education to appreciate the...
November 11, 2016 at 12:53
Perhaps they don't see whatever truth is in the work, it does nothing for them, it does not open up any possibilities in their lives. Atonal music is ...
November 11, 2016 at 12:41
Certainly if there is only one observer, that is the community, but no, not ad populum as I stated it is the relationship between matter, the narrativ...
November 11, 2016 at 12:14
Beauty is only beautiful if its intrinsic truth opens a new range of possibilities in the way that we conceptualize the our narratives about the art o...
November 11, 2016 at 04:44
Well that's part of the problem, how do we independently conceptualize time, since it's inherent in our conveyance of thought, our expressions in lang...
November 11, 2016 at 04:23
I think language is the tool by which we think, it constitutes thought. Our conception of time seems, to me, to be built into the syntax of language. ...
November 10, 2016 at 17:07
If valuation mediates between subject and object then the proof that every being has value lies in the cognitive truth content of that mediation.
November 10, 2016 at 12:52
Don't we perceive the effect and impute the cause. We use our reason and memory to do this, perhaps memory is inner 'space' (how we measure), then tim...
November 10, 2016 at 12:00
"It is those who dare, the obstinate, the barbarians who will take the world forward. We are the barbarians! The real idiots, populists and demagogues...
November 09, 2016 at 16:34
'All the way with Kanye' A 2020 vision.
November 09, 2016 at 13:53
I thought that quantum physics thinks that physical time is in principle otiose, encapsulated in the mathematics of space.
November 09, 2016 at 12:57
Canada's immigration website just crashed! http://www.businessinsider.com/canadian-immigration-site-crash-election-2016-11
November 09, 2016 at 05:05
In 10 hours we should know if its a boy or a girl.
November 08, 2016 at 22:47
I think Augustine explains the issue...the distension of the present: –Augustine of Hippo, Confessiones lib xi, cap xiv, sec 17 (ca. 400 CE)
November 08, 2016 at 12:27
Perhaps weirdly dovetailing into my conversation with TS, he thinks that our experiences can't be uploaded onto a disk, and he is probably right, but ...
November 07, 2016 at 22:47
No, but what does that mean? I think it means that our notions about such concepts such as identity are faulty, as you state we seem to have no such p...
November 07, 2016 at 22:29
I am not sure. Do you think all experiences would have to be down loaded? or just those experiences that are pertinent to identity (if tech was this a...
November 07, 2016 at 21:44
From Wikipedia: Gotham is also one of NYC's nicknames, also used by Washington Irving. The West Coast too la de da.
November 07, 2016 at 21:33
Hi and thanks, I am off for now, but I will think about it during the day.
November 07, 2016 at 13:40
I think there may be a basic error in saying 'my experience constitutes me'. Suppose everything that is embedded in the brain could be downloaded, put...
November 07, 2016 at 13:26
" 2015, Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has said the procedure (head anastomosis venture) might be feasible – with improved technology and more a...
November 07, 2016 at 12:55
There are 4,000 people in a half-mile voting line in Cincinnati today. Long wait times 3/4 hrs. and this is the early part of the voting.... :s
November 06, 2016 at 23:16
We've had superpowered heroes prior to Superman, but heroes like Achilles, or Hercules have divine components, while Superman's powers seem to be more...
November 06, 2016 at 22:13
Never mind! FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers Sunday the agency hasn’t changed its opinion that Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges...
November 06, 2016 at 20:47
That must be easier to say from the outside, then the inside.
November 06, 2016 at 13:53
Happened across this, kinda interesting going with the flow...the dilation of time https://youtu.be/HkTx2xR4MAs
November 06, 2016 at 03:54
Yes, and I have recently thought that this may be the wrong question. Universals are not things, concepts are not things, but they do have utility, wh...
November 05, 2016 at 20:10
The adoption of universals in dialogue, communication seem necessary. My point is that we can't get by in life without using them. We constuct our sen...
November 05, 2016 at 19:31
Sapientia I think we have to believe in universals, even though particulars are foundational. If universals are our own construction then don't we tru...
November 05, 2016 at 17:32
I listened to the video it was interesting. The impression I got is that he thinks beauty is that which is aesthetically pleasing, and he runs through...
November 05, 2016 at 01:26
I started reading the article on Freud, the two biographies that came out, but the article is suggesting that Freud's theories are not vitaly active t...
November 03, 2016 at 22:17
Hi Barry thanks, since posing my question I've read this in The Guardian:
November 03, 2016 at 20:18
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November 03, 2016 at 15:49
November 03, 2016 at 14:48
Isn't that exactly what your Supreme Court will be asked to decide, i.e., whether or not legislation is required to Brexit. How did the UK enter the E...
November 03, 2016 at 12:10
I don't disagree with anything you have outlined. I think there are endemic issues in our system that may not have had racial implications when implem...
November 03, 2016 at 11:59
If Parliament has to vote, will a one-off vote satisfy the court or will the court require a legal bill?
November 03, 2016 at 11:27
I wonder if there is noumenon, might it not be of two types: natural and man made. Where natural noumenon...trees, man, and other natural items cannot...
November 03, 2016 at 03:16
If you happen to find yourself in Sydney this week, you have the unique opportunity to have sex with the earth. You just need to stop by the "ecosexua...
November 02, 2016 at 16:11
No I was just responding to your last post. I don't think comely, pretty, handsome are beautiful, you may say well they are normative, but so what, I ...
November 02, 2016 at 02:54
BC Happy Birthday! I agree with very little you have written, however I do think there is such a thing as natural beauty, and manmade beauty. I think ...
November 02, 2016 at 02:07
I like rainbows, their beauty lies in their surprise, their contingency, their particularity and barring any Leprechauns, they are not commodifiable. ...
November 01, 2016 at 21:52
Different business balance sheets look very different from one another. A real estate investment corporation can have huge, non cash losses related to...
November 01, 2016 at 13:01
The belief in the noumenon sounds kinda like the belief in god, magical thinking to use an old term :) ...I suppose that only he could guarantee that ...
November 01, 2016 at 00:27
Genuine and Authenticity are synonymous but I think their emphasis is a little different as they are applied to human behavior. Genuine as what is hon...
October 30, 2016 at 12:39
If our character is determined by our actions, and work takes up much of what we do, then work determines our character to no small extent. How do gro...
October 29, 2016 at 16:13
Yes we have no control over our birth, and yes, in order to survive we must work, produce something that others will want, we must be able to particip...
October 29, 2016 at 14:46
Well I am self employed, so yea I am indebted to myself :) I have worked for others in the past. I don't think that work is a right in the sense that ...
October 29, 2016 at 12:50
The FBI is reopening its investigation of Clinton's emails, 11 days before the election and they have decided that there are too many new emails. That...
October 29, 2016 at 03:51
Beauty is a very broad term, which can refer to the natural beauty we can sense around us, or moral beauty, some say perfection & symmetry, or the ele...
October 28, 2016 at 11:46