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The creative process consists of taking matter and forming it. I don't agree that this is only about social purpose to art, which is important in that...

yes, matter, the constituents of pigments, words, notes, et al. These are properties of form, not matter. I agree that surprise has a lot to do with i...

Maybe we are misunderstanding, I agree that all we can say is that the cat is on the chair, because it is manifest. I thought you mean't that this 'is...

The phenomenology of the 'cat is on the chair' presupposes that we can say the cat is on the chair, but not that the cat is ontically on the chair, si...

I agree to some extent with the article you referenced, as I stated to MU, but then let me quote your question. If there is truth it can only be said ...

Halsey's poem is powerful testament https://youtu.be/fTeWgThw_Lw

Look at the rubber glove illusion, which, I think suggests that your perception that thought it is going on in your head is part of the multi-sensory ...

We can say why the stick looks bent in a glass of water, or why gravity affects us the way it does, we can truthfully explain why things appear the wa...

Assuming we all confront the same world, then reality is all we can say about what is manifest in it. If so then epistemology's locus of truth then li...

I got the impression that the purpose of this new Canadian law is to try to formalize transsexual's rights in legal terms of labor, housing, and other...

Listened to part of his broadcast. Got to the part about Obama saying Libya is a "Shit Show" which he said after Qaddafi's death in regards to acceler...

I think everyone has the right to say "no", and typically the force of that statement ought to be respected.

So then was "fleshed out enough"? https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/145834

Socrates by all reports was an ugly man. Alcibiades described him as a little bearded man, (a sileni ...drunken old man with the legs and ears of a ho...

It seemed to be about the height of Mt. Everest. it was addressed to Apo, perhaps in response, related to the thread on Wittgenstein, Dummett, and ant...

Missing Mr. B's thread, I imagine it was not categorized as modishly requested, or?

Both are social constructions, which are not constituted in nature, only made real by the existence of society who believes in their reality, same goe...

The original painters looked pretty happy https://vimeo.com/155309506

Free Will is an illusion in the same way a field goal is an illusion.

I think there must be a relationship between the violence that is experienced in unjust rule and the violence used against such a system, in an effort...

I agree and I think a true Scotsman likes it any way it comes.

Do you like Scotch neat or on the rocks?

Perhaps absolute determinism primarily refers to the concrete world we experience and free will to the social reality we experience. Depending on whic...

https://whyevolutionistrue.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/dc1608071.jpg

If I recall correctly, Aristotle was writing to and for a class of gentleman in Athens society, if so, then his position is not unexpected, and I thin...

At what point do you start calling a man a woman, if you know they are going through a change of gender. From the get go, or do you wait until the cha...

I don't think he believes he is a racist. There is a type of racism that does not believe it is racist. People who are not overtly racist in their dea...

Mango trees are everywhere in SE FL. These from backyard of place where I used to live./uploads/resized/files/br/0q4jnoosb4kz6umh.jpg They were tart-s...

I think it is the ends or the goals of our actions which determine whether or not they are selfless or selfish, and not the intensity of pleasure or l...

Trump: "I am not a racist" Nixon: "I am not a crook" Two shitheads.

Reading William James. I guess we will have to disagree here, I don't think that perfection can be qualified or limited in any manner. ps. good night.

Actually I don't disagree, I have recently thought that some sort of plural pantheism might be close to the case. However, I took this discussion to b...

Well tell me what do you think god is?

The question makes no sense. Perfection is a state of being, it is not for anything except itself.

Perfection is only understood in regard to what is not perfect.

Noun:the condition, state, or quality of being free or as free as possible from all flaws or defects.

Depends on how you define god...as I stated...

What? Does that mean?

All concepts are subjective.

If by 'God' you mean a perfect being, then no I don't think so. If god is perfect he can have no flaw and not being logical is a flaw. If perfection i...

Thanks, I like that argument. I deny a deity, but I agree with the presence of something(s) out of which everything became.

People seemed to have practiced religions from the get-go all over the world. Pew currently estimates 84% of the world claim to have some sort of rela...

Fancy argument that leads no where, since it implies that god is of one with nothing.

Gibberish.

Hey, I thought Thomas agrees with creation ex nihilo.

Apparently, quantum fields must exist in order for something to come from Krauss's 'nothing', in Albert's pov.

You don't see " David Albert of Columbia said about Krauss’s book in The New York Times." in the article?

Look at Albert's criticism of Krauss which appeared in NYTimes review of books.

There is a dispute about this.

From the universe's point of view it may be all based off chance, no intelligence required. Of course we don't like that idea.