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February 11, 2018 at 12:18
In: Fear  — view comment
You need to smoke more, although I don't smoke that much anymore, vaping baby! Welcome to TPF
February 11, 2018 at 00:56
If I recall correctly the initial 'talk' was from an Asian father to his son. The 'talk' became known as something that went on in ethnic families, I ...
February 10, 2018 at 04:22
https://youtu.be/Ibz-QzoCaTQ
February 09, 2018 at 15:06
Friday..Pizza-bagel day! http://www.glutenfreeislife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/007-8.jpg
February 09, 2018 at 14:45
The Clinton Foundation...oh wait.
February 09, 2018 at 04:59
I recall reading how children observer occurrences, develop hypotheses and then test them, apparently on a inherently statistical basis which the pape...
February 09, 2018 at 03:24
Just trolling along. Isn't Bayesian inference based on induction?
February 09, 2018 at 01:52
I am not sure I agree with him regarding the post-modernists. For one thing he says that Postmodernism does not agree with the "Great Narrative" and y...
February 09, 2018 at 00:32
Does it matter? If all we have to go on are the manifestations of what we sense and the conclusions we draw from them then this is our reality. It is ...
February 08, 2018 at 00:37
Justin Carter was imprisoned for 5 months because he could not raise the $500,000 bail the Judge assessed for case. An anonymous person ended up posti...
February 07, 2018 at 13:35
The liar does not tell the truth so we must negate whatever the liar says regardless of any statement's he says. It does not matter if the content of ...
February 07, 2018 at 03:52
" It is fairly obvious to say that the great American Dream, with all it's hopes and aspirations has failed." I don't think that dreams can fail, rath...
February 06, 2018 at 03:16
NH 25 years. Hope Brady has new tricks this yr. The deflation of the ball was a pip.
February 04, 2018 at 21:25
Go Pats!
February 04, 2018 at 20:03
I have come to the conclusion that the phenomenal is reality, and the purpose of philosophy/science is to explain why what appears is as it appears. S...
February 04, 2018 at 18:29
I think its origin can be traced back to the Bill of Rights , with its Utopian aspiration: Here is quote from "The Epic of America" which Truslow wrot...
February 04, 2018 at 16:41
If you start with a determinate state (I would say concept not state but...) and negate it you get an indeterminable state (concept), and if you negat...
February 03, 2018 at 01:24
Every narrative is a mix, but Plato never suggested a set rules for behavior like some of the Stoics. The substance of Plato's dialogues is between th...
February 02, 2018 at 18:52
A shooting star's mold breaking time is limited, same with all originality.
February 02, 2018 at 17:19
We only see an infinitesimal part of all that is and most of that entirety was. Job 38-40
February 02, 2018 at 15:57
Esoteric vs exoteric
February 02, 2018 at 15:18
Mangoes like a shot of B12! https://youtu.be/kp4YpEShSKY
February 02, 2018 at 14:25
It's always February 2nd and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it. https://youtu.be/6VF5P7qLaEQ Phil said 6 more weeks of winter.
February 02, 2018 at 13:43
1972
February 01, 2018 at 18:21
All life interacts with its environment in some manner. Our organism is aware of itself acting in the world. That self-awareness is thought. The cogit...
February 01, 2018 at 14:17
Here is my favorite looking Alfa Romeo, the Montreal. It has its own owners club. https://13252-presscdn-0-94-pagely.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads...
February 01, 2018 at 12:43
Wow...shades of Amy Winehouse https://youtu.be/PA5uuBCtZ5k
January 31, 2018 at 23:56
I was surprised: Kant (100%) Augustine (63%) Protagoras (53%) Aquinas (46%) Aristotle (42%) Hume (42%) Sextus Empiricus (40%) Nietzsche (16%) Plato (0...
January 31, 2018 at 23:47
Quoting John Searle :D What I think is important here is that my thought sets off a chain of physical processes that end up with my arm going up.
January 31, 2018 at 20:48
If consciousness is the result certain potential processes of matter which occurs only when matter is constructed in a certain manner this suggests a ...
January 31, 2018 at 18:21
If you are into raw speed then (can you handle the Truth? :D) The 2018 Dodge SRT Demon is 418 hp (312 kW; 424 PS) per ton on 91 octane gasoline and 43...
January 31, 2018 at 13:53
I don't believe we have an essence beyond our organism, which includes our matter and form, what we call our self, the whole, the gestalt. We are neve...
January 31, 2018 at 12:55
The implication is Pantheism: https://youtu.be/OFNA8Tmh-wU
January 30, 2018 at 12:39
I wonder what was compared. It is hard to find equally equipped models, I saw a couple of youtube videos that suggest they are pretty close, the Merce...
January 29, 2018 at 23:10
I think the Mercedes is the head of the class for luxury, space, ride, but it is more of a cruiser. It has twin turbos integrated into the motor, so y...
January 29, 2018 at 05:44
I read an interesting thread about JP here
January 29, 2018 at 04:58
But do you see god as one, as a deity, or as a force in nature
January 29, 2018 at 04:38
Well his wife might consider it an important story, noticed she cancelled out on Davos trip. The UK/AU press has published a lot of rumors about a spa...
January 29, 2018 at 01:09
I don't believe there is any necessary correspondence between logic and the world. The principal of sufficient reason cannot be proved because there i...
January 29, 2018 at 00:14
Consider three movements: 1) S is hypothesized 2) S becomes destabilized as it it is negated (-S) 3) S' the synthesis of S & -S Determinate negation.
January 28, 2018 at 20:31
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/25/george-soros-facebook-and-google-are-a-menace-to-society
January 28, 2018 at 00:56
Reason has become instrumental to point where, somewhat like computers, human's can pick up threads of rational arguments, recombine them without thin...
January 26, 2018 at 18:59
Perhaps anxiety is metaphorically similar to creation ex nihilo, but unlike the rectification of nothing, this 'nothing' is primal in us. Anxiety as a...
January 26, 2018 at 13:39
"...but you do not agree that this division is a true, or real one." This assumes that what is real or true is out there, and I don't agree . Reality ...
January 25, 2018 at 17:42
While we can all agree when some one is dead, it is quite different when it comes to whether or not someone was or was not offended, or needed to be o...
January 25, 2018 at 16:09
Regardless, let's consider the proposition I mentioned, "the human being consists of body and soul". This is a statement of what it means to be a huma...
January 25, 2018 at 14:07
January 25, 2018 at 13:51
In: #MeToo  — view comment
Donald Trump Jr. on SiriusXM radio program The Opie & Anthony Show back in 2013. The acorn does not fall far from the tree.
January 24, 2018 at 15:18
Perhaps for conceptual art, but even here it is a stretch. Sure the artist has an idea, but that idea must be made into something, otherwise it is not...
January 24, 2018 at 04:32