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There is none of that kind of postulation in calculus, even though from the start the modeling of movement in calculus is fictive in the sense that it...

I don't agree with this; I think 'materiality' as a concept is obviously (by definition) conceptual. But material things are sensed, even animals find...

Yes, but none of that actually says anything about what it could mean for something conceptual to exist independently of the human mind. The odd thing...

What kind of existence does a material object have? A material existence. What kind of existence does conceptual information have? A conceptual existe...

I think this is a good point; the same should apply to flu and any other potentially lethal infectious disease as applies to covid.

:up: Keep rollin' that boulder...

I draw no conclusions from altered states, however profound they may seem, because I see no reason to. As for "purpose", I suppose the attractive natu...

:up: Mostly, although I don't think anyone understands the consequences fully, because to do that would be to know the future.

If the math involved in structural engineering has worked for a hundred plus years, it seems very implausible to think it would suddenly cease working...

I used to think that. And I agree the prospects do not look that great. But the future is unknown, and the more positive the general attitude is towar...

If we can't possibly know whether there is someone who knows or not what relevance could it have to us anyway? If there were someone who knows, how co...

No dichotomy! I didn't intend anything like you think I did. I said that we can know ourselves better with the added benefit of science. That doesn't ...

He is being jokingly cynical; taking a shot at those who, for example, identify as another gender, or as aboriginal although they are only one sixteen...

Statistically speaking it is harmless to almost everyone. Common medications like ibuprofen, statins, PPIs, the contraceptive pill, etc, etc all harm ...

Yes, I suppose degree of danger is a judgement call. In any case the pragmatic situation will be that those who refuse the vaccine will have to, wheth...

You're implying that those who won't accept the vaccine won't be able to quit military service? You may be right, but they may be dishonorably dischar...

If your personal position is based on antisocial thinking then you can expect some marginalization: In fact you are marginalizing yourself on account ...

The situation is not as extreme largely on account of vaccination. Also people may be taking covid more seriously. This is a new situation and we lear...

You have to wear the required uniform, follow strict orders and put up with things that many people would or could, not to be in the military. To take...

Yes, but MondoR has been brainwashed by propaganda. Stupidity bears its own costs. Juts like with the law: ignorance being no excuse.

That is provisionally mandatory: you can leave the army if you don't like it.

No one is being forced, so there is no change of contract. I don't understand your other sentence.

And yet no one is being forced; so you are arguing against a strawman.

That's an alarmist "slippery slope" argument; it has no rational bite. People are not being asked to do anything remotely dangerous.

You're not showing any knowledge or intelligence on the subject, so why should I believe you don't need to be educated?

Nobody is being forced except provisionally; that is if you want to do X. The choice is still yours. In any case, why shouldn't People be expected to ...

Other people can still get infected and although their risk of hospitalization or dying is greatly reduced there is still a risk. Also if they have a ...

Thanks Josh, I like and agree with what Gendlin seems to be saying in those quotes. Being a lover of poetry I agree that there is no end to the possib...

Is there anything you know about yourself that is not couched in cultural terms? Or represented in a public language? Are these not ultimately "someon...

Exactly! It is inferred, or imagined if you prefer, that the experience is given by, or is a union with, God, for example. On the other hand there may...

When it is said that the experience is mystical, and that it is a union or it is called "theosis" which brings in the further idea of union with God, ...

The inference is not involved in the experience, which, sans inference is just affect, but in what we call the experience, and what we take its signif...

The flawed creator deity of the Gnostics is so much more lovable than Yahweh; since we can insult him with impunity.

More apposite, I think, would be to say that a subject can only be had by an illusion.

Is there anything much more that can be said? Talking about parallel universes has come about due to us technologically augmenting what we can see alo...

:rofl: Absolutely sum-ptuous! :yum:

'Struggle against' if that's more to your liking. Interesting question: are the structural properties of things intrinsic or extrinsic? To me 'intrins...

Philosophy is the battle against "intrinsic natures", that are the hypostatized progeny of the scientific and commonsense inquiry into extrinsic natur...

I agree with this. When the ability to abstract was realized through symbolic language we were no longer constrained to follow the ageless patterns of...

You may find this article interesting: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/human-ancestors-may-have-evolved-physical-ability-speak-more-25-m...

I'm not talking about Plato though ( OK, I may have gone off topic, but the topic of this thread is shadowy in any case); I'm talking specifically abo...

A weird image! He looks pretty relaxed, though.

If we can know ourselves without neuroscience, it may be possible to know ourselves even better with the aid of neuroscience. Don't forget that Varela...

Doesn't the synthetic a priori, according to Kant, require prior actual experience to be able to then realize what is necessarily involved in all poss...

There's "know thyself" and then there's "know thyself better".

If it can be done it will be done. If it can be done, then why not do it?

I agree with this. I'm not sure we could work out "proportions" very definitely, but in principle I think it's a good way of looking at it. But it wou...

I perhaps didn't explain it very well. What I meant was to take six objects and separate them into groups. So you separate them into groups of two and...

Sure, it might be rejected by "standard issue" physicalists, but it's an alternative explanation to positing that consciousness survives the death of ...

I still think W's notion of family resemblances is more accurate to the facts of usage than the ancient idea of essences. But each to their own I gues...