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. OK, that seems fair enough.

I agree and wasn't making any claim for the truth of determinism. I've always thought that compatibilism is a fudge, though, because the logics of det...

If course you can believe that. If determinism is true then you will either be determined to believe that or not. And the determination could of cours...

It's not clear what point you are trying to make with this.

What's the problem with saying this is often, pre-reflectively, the case, but that with sufficient self examination the tendency may be overcome, and ...

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I don't think the statement that the arts, and the various kinds of aesthetic experiences associated with them do not support any particular metaphysi...

If you think there is a danger that poetry will "lead you down the garden Path" then I think I'll leave you to it.

Well none of those, in contrast to logic, are discursive phenomena. They are phenomenological phenomena in that to speak about them is to speak about,...

If you don't like poetry if you see it as merely "spin" then that's your right. But if you don't like it, why talk about it? Surely if it is all spin ...

No, it looks the same. All I can see is you quoting a passage that affirms a couple of things and then a question as to why I think all of "this" is f...

It's not a "spin" though, it is an aesthethic response.

Why all of what is false?

I agree that metaphysical perspectives are not rationally, but affectively motivated. I also understand that it is pretty normal for people to enterta...

I'm not saying there are no dark poems; would anyone read them, though if there were no beauty in them? My point was that they do not conceal, by glos...

I can't make any sense of the idea of a musical metaphysic. For me music evokes feelings; among them feelings of the sublime, feelings of awe, feeling...

I'd call it a good poem if not a great one. I wouldn't say it romanticizes death; I'd say it describes the death of the young man and the indifference...

I would say there is no particular metaphysics of poetry, although poetry may have its metaphysical musings and allusions no doubt.

Out Out by Robert Frost The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when t...

I didn't say good poets focus on the ugliness of life; that would be to enhance ugliness and conceal beauty. Good poets neither enhance nor conceal ei...

The best poets do not "conceal ugliness" or 'enhance beauty". Life is both ugly and beautiful, both heaven and hell and the good poets tell it like it...

That paper seems to be saying that the risk is greater after vaccination and a positive test for covid than it is with vaccination alone. In other wor...

You've been reading the wrong poets, mate.

I'd say all valid paradigms are consistent with (what we know of) reality, until they're not. If they're not it means they've been falsified by some n...

Well, something changes doesn't it, such that if we were to be there after it had happened, we would see the tree fallen?

If it's true that the vaccines minimize infection rates compared to the unvaccinated and if variants are more likely to arise when more people are inf...

But the world is brimful with relations that don't require us to be noticing them, or even involve us at all, in order to exist. :up: The codes and pa...

Then the question is whether if you were vaccinated, caught covid and survived you would still gain natural immunity as you would if unvaccinated. If ...

What, your seeing the sun come above the horizon is not an event in nature? Or is not ;the earth becoming progressively illuminated also an event, eve...

It's looking that way, and I think all the more due to what seems to be a growing social discord opening the possibility of conflict and even some vio...

Yeah, funny that!

Likewise.

The risks are minimal though it seems, unless you are privy to some evidence which has escaped my attention. And if by "cost" you are referring to the...

I love his work!

That is an Anselm Kiefer painting, no?

The Australian government based on its medical advice advocates 80%. I agree with you that resources should be shared equitably, but if supply is not ...

I'm not sure what point you are making here, Josh.

Good point about art history making sense!

I don't think that's true at all. Technique obviously differs with the materials that are used and the aims of the artist. Different mark-making will ...

That's interesting. Odd that it seems to contradict the other study. In any case the question that seems to arise if the findings of this study are ac...

This study seems to indicate that naturally acquired immunity is not as effective as vaccine acquired immunity: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/341034...

OK, maybe I didn't read the article closely enough. I agree with you that it's important to get the information as to why a patient has been admitted ...

Above is what I presume to be a passage from Dennett quoted by Nagel in the passge you asked me to look at again. As I read it Dennett is saying that ...

Again I have to disagree. Dennett thinks the first person perspective is not what we think it is, not that it is an illusion. Our perceptual and affec...

I;d say he's biased. If he wasn't he would have said "numbers that actually might not translate into disease burden (since he is speaking about studie...

It's still there on my computer. The universal mind must be malfunctioning.

Wouldn't you say the world must have been created when the first humans arose somewhere around 300,000 years ago?

I don't know about the "less well said", but I agree that the objectivity of science seems to unsettle some. I don't see it as diminishing anything "s...

Who is dispensing ad homs now? I said I don't know whether Nagel genuinely or willfully misunderstands Dennett. That is not an ad hom; it is just me b...

I did say that perhaps he is doing that. I really don't know, but if he claims that for Dennett consciousness (or agency or free will) don't exist the...