Yes, if truth were not a relation between a proposition (or belief) claiming (or believing) whatever and something else that provides the conditions f...
I think it's just a post just going around in circles, making it seem complex, but it is the inevitable going around in circles when trying to claim n...
Is your belief that Paris is the capital of France true or merely justified? If you want to say it's true and justified then it would count as knowled...
Personally I think the attempt to separate logic from temporality and spatiality is doomed to fail, or to yield an insipid and uninteresting logic, th...
Yes, I realize this is not Schopenhauer; it is precisely what I think he is lacking, that is nuance. I just see no reason whatever to identify the tra...
I see no reason to posit some transcendent overarching Will to explain its phenomenal manifestations. I suppose you could say that just as there is th...
Further admissions? Of course I am "doing argument"; I am examining the actual and interpretive possibilities. It seems you think I have contradicted ...
Could it be both raining and not raining on Earth at any given time? Place is relative and the same goes for time. It can't be both raining and not ra...
What does that mean in English? If it means "raining or not raining, but not both" then it is not always true, but more likely always false, because i...
How can it be true (under my interpretation) regardless of location if it can be both raining and not raining at the same place at different times or ...
It was not a "blanket denial of the research" but an expression of doubt that the research could be relevant to the point I made that most people don'...
Not if the "or" is thought of as exclusive, as in "it's either raining or it's not raining". Do you take the "or" to be exclusive, or do you think tha...
That depends on whether you count it raining and not raining at different times at the same place or at different places at the same time as counterex...
I never pretended to have read the linked research; if you thought that it was entirely your own imagining. But wait, you didn't think I had read it a...
No, not a long stretch at all, because both formulas are untrue without implicit reference to time and place. Unless you have a counter-argument good ...
If it is to be true "it's raining, or it isn't" implicitly references time and place, since it can be raining at one place and/ or time and not rainin...
It corresponds to the fact that it is always either raining or not raining at any place and time; shortening that to just "anywhere" which says nothin...
That's right, my hasty bad; it corresponds to the fact that at any place and time it is always either raining or not raining, which amounts to much th...
Spinoza's idea of conatus is precisely that of "striving", not "sort of an enjoyment of being in its fullness"; that would be more thriving. I don't s...
I don't have time to read things others reference. If you want to make a point of argument, then quote the referenced paper. The fact that the researc...
Of course the will may be thought of as having an unconscious aspect, but I don't see this as constituting a good analogy with the notion of the absol...
I don't agree. Just as things are things-for-us, meaning things as experienced and conceived of by us, so are space, time and causation such as they a...
My criticism of Schopenhauer's understanding of the "thing in itself", and of his critique of Kant's idea of "things in themselves" (that there cannot...
Hegel's prose is dense; and he's not the most elegant writer. I've only read the Phenomenology (and I cannot claim to have thoroughly and closely read...
I don't find anything to disagree with in what you've written here. The only point I'd make is that when we are considering long-term austerity measur...
I agree he's a very good writer; I just don't think that highly of his ideas, or his interpretation and critique of Kant. A second rate philosopher as...
The "Ein Sof" in Jewish mystical thought has nothing whatever to do with "Will". And the creator God is not merely blind will either. Why do you seek ...
Right, in a way I think government is the most important factor, since they make the policy decisions. But government, even one with the best will in ...
I'm talking about giving up the SUVs and driving tiny cars, or taking public transport, or using bicycles, giving up the international and domestic ai...
There is, potentially at least, a plethora of meanings of life. Why should there be only one? The very thought that there is only one forecloses the p...
To frame all that we experience "interiorly" or "somatically", that is whatever perceptual access we have to the body/mind, as "will", as Schopenhauer...
I grant that when it comes to extended or complex events people can fail to notice and/or remember things. An honest account in those kinds of cases n...
I think you would be right assuming that most people cannot accept the personal sacrifices that would be necessary, in terms of reduction of energy an...
Smil mostly offers analyses that purport to show how things are and what is achievable. I think he would say there's no point telling people we should...
Why would an honest opinion about, say, what happened not be an accurate account of what happened? Perhaps you could give an example showing how these...
I don't see that; it seems to me that the logic in common is simply correspondence of what we say (or not) with some kind of actuality. For me it star...
The answer is that the whole formulations do not correspond to anything, but the underlying logic is that the quoted sentence on the left in each case...
What could a truthful account of an event be if not an accurate portrayal of what happened? The question is not about how we can know whether an accou...
What do you mean by asking for a "necessary relation"? Aren't all relations contingent...on context? The contingent relation would be one of correlati...
What does telling the truth consist in if not giving an honest and accurate account. What does giving an honest and accurate account consist in if not...
It's a hard sell to be sure! I don't know about "rational" but the "jam the foot to the floor" attitude, although not the one consciously held, seems ...
Right, that is the specific greenhouse problem. But there are many others which have arisen due to the fossil-fuel given capacity for exponential grow...
:up: I think it's kind of an irony that people think the problem is merely political, when it seems that the only sense in which the problem is signif...
I'm following Smil and what seems plausible given the immense size and complexity of the fossil fueled energy infrastructure. I'm always open to count...
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