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In: Is there a way to disprove mind-brain supervenience?  — view comment
"Nigelian reduction" you mean Nagelian reduction? I kept on thinking about Nigella Lawson cooking :rofl:
April 03, 2018 at 20:46
In: Being? Working? Both?  — view comment
[reply="tim wood;169176" Spirit is a virtually real construction, in the same way logic, and mathematics are virtually objectively real.
April 03, 2018 at 19:22
In: Being? Working? Both?  — view comment
I don't think of it quite the same way you have presented it. Thinking about this problem in terms of reality which you ended up at, the following is ...
April 03, 2018 at 12:01
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
The Fibonacci sequence https://youtu.be/EDlC7oG_2W4
April 02, 2018 at 19:38
In: Word of the day - Not to be mistaken for "Word de jour."  — view comment
Irregardless Merriam Webster definition of irregardless: nonstandard : regardless https://youtu.be/alaWhMJ51Yw
April 02, 2018 at 18:31
In: How can the universe exist without us?  — view comment
If no thought would entail that the thought is a contingent component in the world, and not identical with the world, therefore the idealist position ...
April 02, 2018 at 10:32
In: Vegan Ethics  — view comment
Groundwork Kant seems to make a pretty clear cut distinction between persons and animals, with animals having only relative value. The state of the an...
April 02, 2018 at 02:40
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
https://youtu.be/efSRzm0jnuk
April 01, 2018 at 15:41
In: Israel and Palestine  — view comment
So you don't think there is a legitimate way to distinguish Anti-Zionism from Antisemitism?
April 01, 2018 at 13:18
In: How actions can be right or wrong  — view comment
The consequential approach has problems. Many times our actions can yield several results, which we cannot clearly delimit prior to the action, so how...
April 01, 2018 at 10:19
In: How can the universe exist without us?  — view comment
The phenomenal world suggests a material world but that world is for us, and while it cannot be known as it is, it certainly is, with or without us.
March 31, 2018 at 12:47
In: Fact, Fiction and the Gray (do "Facts" actually exist?)  — view comment
Truth is formal, static unchanging Fact is empirical, approximate, becoming
March 31, 2018 at 01:49
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/rsEne1ZiQrk
March 30, 2018 at 17:52
In: The Awe of the Man Made  — view comment
We are part of nature, and so are the things we make out of nature. It is in what we do with what is around us that makes the difference. Things qua t...
March 30, 2018 at 11:38
In: What happened to my Israel discussion?  — view comment
Your topic was hardly developed, and your position on the topic was not stated.
March 30, 2018 at 03:43
In: Lust for risk  — view comment
I think this might be going in the wrong direction in regards to Bacon. The horrific image from Abu Ghraib reminded me of his painting, but this priso...
March 29, 2018 at 15:53
In: What makes life worth living?  — view comment
The people we love.
March 29, 2018 at 14:26
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/B6XKRx9xSIQ
March 29, 2018 at 00:52
In: Lust for risk  — view comment
Reflections of the beast within him.
March 28, 2018 at 23:33
In: Lust for risk  — view comment
He did multiple versions of the Crucifixion this one from 1933 http://ekladata.com/YiqlJRbMog3lshC5jkUu3siWuMM.jpg reminds me of the travesty of Abu G...
March 28, 2018 at 16:53
In: Lust for risk  — view comment
It is said that his best works occurred during his most punishing relationships. Gambling is a way to question/doubt fate, to wrestle with it, to sear...
March 28, 2018 at 01:50
In: Lust for risk  — view comment
Here is what Bacon had to say: https://youtu.be/RoydrDeejHU
March 27, 2018 at 15:50
In: National Debt and Monetary Policy  — view comment
I agree with his basic premise. Government has to start somewhere, and the difficulty is that we are in the midst of it. If you start a Bank or any bu...
March 27, 2018 at 12:27
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
The French are OK in small dribs
March 25, 2018 at 19:37
In: Choose: Morality or Immorality?  — view comment
Perhaps because no one can be completely unjust or immoral without performative contradictions and if so then perhaps it is necessary for those dedica...
March 25, 2018 at 12:10
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/a7fzkqLozwA
March 23, 2018 at 14:49
In: My moral problem  — view comment
You must have some things you value, if this work is emphatic with your existing values, and you desire to do it, then yes. Stay in tune.
March 21, 2018 at 23:24
In: Beautiful Structures  — view comment
https://youtu.be/M1Q-EbX6dso
March 21, 2018 at 19:02
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Cambridge Analytica bosses claimed they invented 'Crooked Hillary' campaign, won Donald Trump the presidency...so much for Trump's nicknaming talent. ...
March 21, 2018 at 17:09
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
https://youtu.be/TspMx-bCAYY
March 20, 2018 at 12:02
In: Separating The Art From The Artist  — view comment
Hi and welcome to TPF, nice 1st post. I think that psychoanalysis can help explain the dynamics of a work of art, but in doing this, it seems to forge...
March 19, 2018 at 20:22
In: Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)  — view comment
Maybe be, but if so it will set off a shit storm like we have not seen since the 60's I think. Both the DEMs and the GOP are warning him not to fire M...
March 18, 2018 at 23:40
In: Society of the Spectacle  — view comment
I listened to the podcasts that @"Baden" referenced and I could not help but to think of Thomas Kuhn's notion of Paradigm in which scientists Kuhn tho...
March 18, 2018 at 21:42
In: Does communication require volition?  — view comment
There are such things as Freudian slips. Feud thought the unconscious is dynamic, but I doubt it and I don't think it is volitional, perhaps it is mor...
March 17, 2018 at 03:02
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
Exterminate your tensions with Dalek mindfulness. https://youtu.be/e59guruVL4o
March 15, 2018 at 23:51
In: Identity Politics & The Marxist Lie Of White Privilege?  — view comment
Do you know if JP ever responded to this letter from his student. I looked but I didn't see the author's name.
March 15, 2018 at 23:27
In: Philosophical Quotes About Art  — view comment
I'm reading "seeing the invisible on Kandinsky" by Michel Henry Expressing the inexpressible.
March 15, 2018 at 13:44
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
I was always wanted to find the perfect "Try Pots" “Queequeg,” said I, “do you think that we can make out a supper for us both on one clam?” However, ...
March 15, 2018 at 11:19
In: What are you listening to right now?  — view comment
https://youtu.be/teilBW9qQ3U
March 15, 2018 at 02:47
In: Word de jour  — view comment
https://youtu.be/RL-wyUEqXYM
March 14, 2018 at 03:36
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
https://i1.wp.com/awesci.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Capture.png
March 14, 2018 at 02:02
In: Morality without feeling  — view comment
Perhaps this comes down to the difference between knowledge and belief. If you have made a definitive judgement about the rightness or wrongness of an...
March 13, 2018 at 12:45
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
The Independent
March 13, 2018 at 11:59
In: Morality without feeling  — view comment
In The Wrath of Khan (1982), Spock says, “Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” Captain Kirk answers, “Or ...
March 12, 2018 at 17:19
In: Can you really change your gender?  — view comment
She didn't have to make a choice to stay the way she was. Many people lead lives of quiet desperation yearning to be what they could be yet remaining ...
March 11, 2018 at 14:57
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
It was not a just war, if such a thing is possible, maybe WWII.
March 11, 2018 at 14:55
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Not so much so...It is a protest poem about being sent to East, and the fear of death, of being released from life.
March 11, 2018 at 14:45
In: Can you really change your gender?  — view comment
Yes I agree that she realized that was who she is, but she still had to make the choice and a very serious commitment to make this realization possibl...
March 11, 2018 at 14:37
In: Can you really change your gender?  — view comment
Well I am not transgender, but I have a good friend going through a transition right now taking hormone therapy. He is in process of becoming a she an...
March 11, 2018 at 14:26
In: Can you really change your gender?  — view comment
No surprises here guys
March 11, 2018 at 14:18
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