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You need to read more carefully and see that I have already acknowledged that we can empirically know that something is the case without knowing why i...

Well at least it provides some sardonic amusement on those lonely mornings of little intellectual stimulation.

Brilliant argument bar tricks. I have come to expect no less from you. :rofl: Sadly, "Reason" seems not to be shining her light on you, despite your p...

Ah, Ok. It seems obvious that it's both natural and man made.

You're conflating the empirical context in which we can of course know that something is the case without knowing why with the rational context in whi...

All you know there is what others value, whether reasonably or not. People usually have reasons for valuing what they do, and if you ask them they wil...

Another poor analogy! Sarah is a person who can tell you or show you through her actions what she values. How do know what this fictitious "Reason" of...

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Do you mean that people of various ages are either natural or man made?

The point is that analogy fails because you know the burglar performed a particular action, and you also know why she performed the action. When it co...

This analogy fails because you know why the burglar burgled your home: it was in order to steal things. We don't have access to "capital 'R' Reason", ...

Can you present any reasoned disagreement in relation to the idea that humans have contributed to global warming, and that the burning of enormous qua...

Yes, and I am saying that defining ultimate reality as either ideality or physicality is to reify notions that derive from our understandings of pheno...

I haven't said that. I have said that if all we have to draw upon on in order to educate ourselves about climate change is the work of climate scienti...

There's no point criticising scientific consensus on climate change from the layperson's position of relative ignorance. We don't have time for such s...

If you don't know why "she" thinks things are the case, then how do you know that "her" thinking them to be the case makes them true? Also, if reason ...

Perhaps I should be? :wink:

I just came across this, which sums the situation up nicely, I think: To use my own terminology, Earth System Disruption (ESD) is driving Human System...

Yes, not Crowley's Thelema: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law".

Yes, 'true' is an adjective, attribute or property; while 'truth' is a noun. But is there a salient difference between what is true and truth, or the ...

On the basis of what would reason assert anything to be the case? Is it not possible that the bases could differ in different contexts?

So, do you mean to ask people how and what, from their economic, sociological, psychological or whatever perspectives, they think and feel about clima...

It doesn't seem to me that we are talking about the same things, or at least in the same way about things, so I don't know how to respond.

What do you think will happen if, when debts are called in and they cannot be paid, they are not absolved? War of all against all for money, when ther...

I agree with what you say here. certainly academic philosophy is irrelevant. I don't know if you would call it "philosophy" but clearheaded critical t...

I can understand why you would think "ultimate or absolute reality" is "ideal" for us as opposed to phenomenal reality which is concrete or physical f...

When it comes to scientific matters who better to listen to than the experts, just as with any other profession?

It's a hundred years.,,actually less...the 4 degrees rise in average global temperature is predicted to occur by 2100.

The current rapid climate change is either human induced, or at least influenced, or it is not. The truth of the matter has nothing to do with philoso...

How do you know they're not? @"leo" is right; as soon as you say there is some ultimate reality or realization to be attained, then you are no relativ...

I think this is a possible scenario. An alternative scenario is that all debt will have to be absolved when it becomes obvious that there is not suffi...

I think the only way to verify or falsify theoretical predictions is to observe. But when predictions are observed to obtain, no matter how many times...

A dualism between rational thought and feeling? For me rational thought is not mystical in its deliberations and outcomes; they are paragons of determ...

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I agree with this, physicality, just as is mentality, is inextricably context relative: the first to the context of perception and the second to the c...

As you say the "correct view" is perspective relative. That's all it can ever be: it cannot be absolute, because that would require, per impossible, a...

:up: :up: As I see it you got it just right, Brother Crank: that's uncommon, so well done!

"Do humans deserve happiness"? No, in the immortal words of Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser: "Life wasn't meant to be easy".

Agreed, the human discursive understanding of human experience certainly seems ineluctably dualistic. When thinking metaphysically in terms of substan...

Sure, but I didn't "dismiss" them; I simply put them in their proper place as I understand it. It's also because they address different kinds of varia...

Yes, but these are not "hard" empirical sciences, and so no definitive empirical answer can presently be given to the questions. We can think what wil...

I'd say we cannot prove anything at all, except in relative contexts. So, that leaves the question as to which duality is the more plausible or whethe...

It's not just a matter of technology, but is a question of human will, ability to coordinate global action, overcome complacency and general denialism...

I think the major factor is the inertia of the system itself. What would seem to be necessary to effect even a stabilization of climate change, let al...

Now you've bamboozled me! :yikes: Edit: I just noticed you wrote "nearly self-evident"; what a sloppy reader I am sometimes! But that raises the quest...

I think those are relatively minor contributing factors in the production of the current situation.

One problem is that almost everyone wants someone else to do something about it. Very few are prepared to do what is necessary of their own volition b...

This would seem to be historically borne out. It seems that in these days of identity politics minorities do not get excluded completely if their voic...

That's an interesting left of field extrapolation!