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Yes, I do understand that, I just can't see what relevance that could possibly have to quantum mechanics. I don't think it is really "in tune with Kan...
May 25, 2019 at 04:39
On that logic,political incorrectness, obviously.
May 25, 2019 at 03:11
Sure, I'm not denying that we may be able to offer some original insights and perspectives or that there is value in what happens here. But all of it ...
May 25, 2019 at 01:29
According to at least a few of the more philosophically minded physicists of recent times, Rovelli, Greene, Wheeler and De Witt, for example, time is ...
May 25, 2019 at 01:04
Would you seriously compare yourself to any one of the greats? I should also have pointed out that they are more comprehensive and systematic.
May 24, 2019 at 08:10
Yep.
May 24, 2019 at 08:04
The great philosophers are considered great philosophers for a reason. What we do here cannot be compared.
May 24, 2019 at 08:04
No they just are...
May 24, 2019 at 08:02
They are more original?
May 24, 2019 at 07:41
Yes, that seems to be a good and even necessary distinction, which was at least implied, if not explicit, in an earlier post where I wrote: So, we hav...
May 24, 2019 at 03:16
Nietzsche's attitude to Plato is far from unequivocal. But I could not, without the considerable effort involved in locating and presenting citations ...
May 24, 2019 at 02:04
That's true of that generation, and subsequent generations as well, who lament their sorry plight: that they don't have the wherewithal to consume to ...
May 24, 2019 at 01:27
Indeed, I know they're all "tangled up" in mine, so I agree! We can speak of those vectors as separate just as we can, and need to for the sake of int...
May 24, 2019 at 01:13
Codswallop!
May 24, 2019 at 01:05
I think there's no problem with philosophy as an "intellectual game", just as there's no problem with "art for art's sake". So, there is an aesthetica...
May 24, 2019 at 01:00
:smile: :cool:
May 23, 2019 at 23:43
:cool:
May 23, 2019 at 23:21
I agree that "proto-morality" is not "a domain of morals", and this agreement is related to several discussions about terminology I have had with @"cr...
May 23, 2019 at 23:18
No, I'm not making any claims about separate realms or anything like that. I'm just saying that what the various sciences typically deal with as compa...
May 23, 2019 at 22:59
:smile: Yes, I am mindful that we don't seem to be in disagreement.
May 23, 2019 at 02:49
Yes, but that is a different story about the way in which you think the sense of spirituality, of sacredness, has been lost, which I don't see has muc...
May 23, 2019 at 01:38
Being a hippy only defines a very small proportion of that generation, though.
May 23, 2019 at 01:13
What you say here is irrelevant to the point that @"Joshs" and I are discussing as I think is the remark by him that probably motivated your unnecessa...
May 23, 2019 at 00:54
All human disciplines and activities have their own methods and concerns and their unique evolutions of those and historical origins. Science, in its ...
May 23, 2019 at 00:15
Very early in the thread I said this: And you responded with this: I haven't changed my opinion at all form the above insofar as I would say that it l...
May 22, 2019 at 23:09
You seem to be referring here to phenomenological practice The best we can do is to articulate how our lives seem to us, in the most open and general ...
May 22, 2019 at 22:27
A simple, unnuanced definition of speech would be to say that it involves words, spoken or written. But the visual arts can obviously also speak to us...
May 21, 2019 at 00:00
I don't know, I think the notion of freedom of speech is pretty clear cut. Basically, hate speech is rightly disallowed. I guess the problem is that p...
May 20, 2019 at 08:05
Well, we've certainly managed to monetize life! The process, even the human economic and political process, is now so complex that we arguably cannot ...
May 20, 2019 at 06:40
OK, but I wasn't suggesting anything like a "hive mind", so I'm not sure what part you are disagreeing with.
May 20, 2019 at 05:55
We, collectively, are part of the world and the only way to significantly change the world is to significantly change the part known as yourself.
May 20, 2019 at 05:35
How the word "idea" is defined reflects what people ordinarily think an idea is. If you think that ideas are only had by humans and you conclude from ...
May 20, 2019 at 04:55
A complete waste of time, space and energy... :roll: Perhaps participants might want to consider that there are more important issues to be considered...
May 20, 2019 at 03:48
You didn't answer the question.
May 19, 2019 at 09:47
It's a feel, not a logical proposition. Do you believe the universe cares about us?
May 19, 2019 at 09:36
Oh well, as with anything you need to have a feel for it I guess...
May 19, 2019 at 06:37
Forget about changing the world. You can't unless you change yourself.
May 19, 2019 at 04:04
:lol: Or the enjoyable version: the uteropian funtossy. (Sorry, I find it hard to resist the urge to play with words).
May 19, 2019 at 02:43
Yes, that's why I dislike utilityrannyist ethics. The prescriptions are way too definite, and based on the delusion that the good can be quantified.
May 19, 2019 at 00:41
Practicality, Schmackticality! Practical considerations, lifted out of their proper context and deified, as UTILITY, both lead to, and grow out of, th...
May 19, 2019 at 00:25
A merely terminological difference, so we can leave that aside, since it wasn't about that I was asking. I can understand what you are saying (since i...
May 18, 2019 at 23:59
I appreciate that reference to Wittgenstein. :smile: Referring to Gautama we could say that we lay down the raft after crossing the river because ther...
May 18, 2019 at 23:55
Do you think there is any significant conceptual, as opposed to a merely terminological, difference between "I think that I know x" and "I believe tha...
May 18, 2019 at 23:44
"Established normative assessments": to me that sounds more like a definition of culture than of law, but I guess 'legal' could be parsed that way. :s...
May 18, 2019 at 23:38
I can see how that could be true from one perspective. On the other hand, have you read L'Etranger? Mersault awaits his execution, and he is consumed ...
May 18, 2019 at 23:35
Interesting! Where did you get that diagram? I'm not convinced by the idea that the ethical is necessarily encompassed by the legal, although within a...
May 18, 2019 at 23:10
The expedient blind eye is turned... :grin: Exactly! If I knew how to produce a Venn diagram on here without a ridiculous amount of effort, I would dr...
May 18, 2019 at 23:01
Yeah right, got it.... :roll:
May 18, 2019 at 22:56
You seem to be confusing knowledge with belief here. Looking at it from your kind of solipsistic perspective it could only be belief and nothing more....
May 18, 2019 at 22:54
Indeed, dude!
May 18, 2019 at 22:43