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The Judaic, Christian and Islamic Gods are pretty much universally understood to care, to be persons in some sense analogous to, but obviously not the...

I don't have time for much of a response right now, but I am curious: do you believe in a creator God that existed prior to the Universe, and who care...

There are many models of theism, to be sure, but there are just a few prominent and historically lasting classical notions of God, and the Abrahamic t...

We have no way of knowing that. Without them, then no us and the nature we are familiar with, but perhaps something else.

It depends on what you mean by "God" and "big black hole".

The latter may not have been in conflict with "fact and reason" six thousand years ago. The same may be said of our present beliefs in 6000 years (if ...

Didn't you mean to say "the old mallard"?

I think it is just a rational question, perhaps the primary one; but then I don't believe in any kinds of 'meta-questions'. Refusing to be rational ob...

However all kinds of antecedent reasonings, one's own as well as the pre-reflectively introjected reasonings of others, go to make up the constitution...

That seems about right.

I hadn't heard that one before. I googled it and found this; https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/349137-anti-joke-what-is-the-difference-between-a-du...

:cool:

I thought I was well-grounded in the groundlessness of existentiality. Is it back to the drawing board? :yikes:

The last paragraph, which I was adding as you responded, should answer that, I think. :smile:

All appeal to reasons and causes is a form of rationality. Rationality is a measuring (ratio) of ideas against experience, and our pre-reflective unde...

A portentifical and hoaroristically sluggestive mumbleation...Vive l'oulipo!

Thanks Tiff, that's nice to hear. :smile:

Time lives forever within the eternal, and the eternal lives forever within time. Eternity is the timeless completion of temporality. "Time is the mov...

https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#text=phenomenology+of+perception&property=title

Yes, I see what you mean, and I wasn't wanting to deny there is any irony in this aspect of the human condition. I guess I just wanted to dispel any i...

This is not true; Christian thinkers appropriated and extended Aristotle's conception of the soul. I don't see where you've dealt with that.

I think you're thinking too much in terms of 'either/or'; that we either understand affective states, and by extension the sense of the terms that ref...

How could the mind have "reasons for individuating things in the way it does" if there were no differences independent of the mind? This is nonsensica...

Right, so you do agree that 'soul' has sense, but not that 'immortal soul' does. But again, I must disagree with you, because we understand the sense ...

Yes, I think it's always a matter of degree of understanding, when it comes to affective states. Let's say you've never experienced murderous intent m...

This is where I think you are mistaken; the sense of words which refer to subjective states depend both on public expressions and private experiences ...

There are public expressions of ecstasy or beatitude, which can be associated with the word 'soul' just as public expressions of suffering due to dise...

Colour is dependent on the nature of a material (and the ambient light), not on the form it has. But then of course you could say the nature of the ma...

Differences that are perceived, obviously. My idea of matter is not unconventional. Matter is what is perceived. It is not precisely the same idea as ...

Sure, but there is no separation between form and matter, so they are as much material differences as they are formal differences. Also, when you say ...

Material differences are perceptual differences; they are essential to the recognition of objects. Every human face, for example, is different than ev...

No, even though you would obviously like to think so. I already admitted that differences can be the same, but only in the general sense. They can als...

The differences between any two sets of times may be the same or different in a purely temporal sense. In a material sense no two differences can be t...

Do we not feel the world as unheimlich precisely because we could lose it, and thus lose ourselves, at any moment? And on the other hand whenever choi...

I am not going around in circles: apparently it is your head that is spinning around in its attempt to find a way out of its morass of inconsistency a...

Explain then how there can be difference in general without there being particular differences; the idea makes no sense to me. Also, if there were no ...

You say there is difference, but no differences; to me that is a nonsensical statement. if there is difference then there is plurality and if there is...

The only differences you can reference which are always exactly the same, such as the numerical differences between pairs of numbers, are conceptual d...

Every difference is individual insofar as it is not exactly the same as any other difference. So, I argue that differentiation is a real phenomenon; t...

Sure, thanks for starting a thread on what I think is a very interesting and important topic.

I like Rilke's poetry, although I have read it only in English translation and, not being an adequate Deutscher sprecher, cannot comment on the 'clunk...

That's nonsense, Posty; I haven't assumed any such thing, and even if I had it would not be an example of said fallacy. I have said, or alluded to the...

Why would you say that? I even haven't talked about anything following anything else, much less about anything being caused by anything else. It seems...

Democracy in the US ? Dying or coming? It's a conundrum and I don't have anything original to say about it, so I'll quote the lyrics of one of my favo...

The way we see the world is conditioned by our attitudes, many of which are unreflectively taken for granted. Philosophy, (as well as other activities...

Why is it careless? Are you saying that nobody tells anybody? if you are then I would say that you are generalizing again and it is not true. And the ...

The fact that some people might misguidedly seek such experiences is irrelevant to what I have been arguing. People have to take responsibility for th...

This is a good approach, and some people find that hallucinogens and entheogens will help them to implement the changes that need to be made. There is...

Sure, and I have had absolutely terrifying experiences, in my case more to do with feeling i was about to die than worrying about the cops. The only p...

I have had some extremely positive and vivid memories of experiences on psilocybin, LSD and MDMA. These memories make perfect sense to me. They are no...