Janus

Cheers, it seems we certainly agree about what is the core of philosophy. I've also come around to thinking that analytic philosophy (which I used to ...

I do ask that kind of question of myself—'how well can I face my own death?'. I don't dwell on it or become morbid about it, but I try to see what I a...

The salient thing about that is that even if there were a realm where cowness exists we could never find it or at least know that we had found it. For...

The idea of an absolute truth for us is self-refuting.

Whatever we say about what we are will not be an ultimate truth but will be merely an interpretation of the human condition based on human experience ...

I think this is an interesting issue only in that it highlights our epistemic limitations. How can one demonstrate that cows are cows? We perceive thi...

Thanks Amity for your response, and all your excellent exegesis of the stories as you interpret them. I have thought about what @"Tobias" said about t...

I agree, knowledge does not represent the world it presents the world, makes it present. More knowledge makes the world more present. Of course not, s...

Have we got to the Ultimate Truth About Reality yet? It seems there are questions around the question about the ultimate truth of reality that are mor...

I know what you mean. I think the idea that absolute truth can be experienced is completely incoherent. People (very unBuddhistically) cling to that i...

Right, I was merely mentioning those questions to try to highlight what seems to be the driving force behind many people's preoccupation with philosop...

More a mysterious, secret or understood-by-very-few sandwich I'd say.

:up: I just noticed I failed to specify that I was in the bush on weekends, not during the week so much.

When I was a kid living in Epping (a suburb of Sydney) there were corridors of bush (which I believe still mostly exist). I used to spend all day from...

The way I see it we trust science to the extent it works. Nothing can answer the question we don't seem to be able to help asking in various forms: 'W...

I don't know. Say veganism is not the answer. it doesn't necessarily follow that there is an answer. The probability is that we will just keep muddlin...

It would help if you noted which text the quoted passage is taken from.

If one is mistaken about what one perceives and this mistake leads to establishing a neural network which we would experience as a belief, then the sa...

Is the toothy maw going to eat the arcane sandwich? :wink: To answer a serious question—I'm not convinced that veganism is the answer. In order to fee...

:up: That's the way forward!

I'll meet you in the vomitorium. A wank-led lad?

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:rofl: You're so full-o-shit, Wayfarer. Dream on—you've never dealt adequately with any of my objections.

Sometimes, but mostly I drink Coopers Pale Ale. I guess I'm not most Australians.

Your argument should be support enough for your position. But you don't present arguments, you just cite authorities. Typical! Instead of engaging wit...

Yes, and I've read it; although more than ten years ago now. Is he an authority? Must I agree with him? Of course we do. The dog sees the ball I throw...

That's a good point. If to be a true moral agent is to act entirely free from self-interest and entirely in accordance with the moral law derived from...

Or perhaps you feel for them in their plight.

Animals also apprehend great numbers of things. but they don't have the language to name them and declare their quantities. They were probably first a...

No because their parents were not born then. It's an infinite regress of impossibility.

No, it was simply my forgetfulness— My statement and yours here seem to be saying the same thing. Perhaps I am misreading you. Kant's deontological et...

The problem I find here is that number does appear in the phenomenal world—we encounter great numbers of phenomena, and you seem to be ignoring that f...

You never answer the question so often posed to you. How could something that does not exist in space and time be real? Real in what sense? Is the "do...

OK, that's cool. But agreement often seems to be a conversation terminator. Where do we go from here? I don't think it's so black and white—either thi...

I don't know you and thus I have no idea what you might be serious about. I have and have had no intention of hassling you. You have been responding t...

How would I know? I've solved the OP to my own satisfaction, which no doubt will count for little for others. It's not clear to me that we are arguing...

I have jumped to no assumptions about you. Ironically it seems to be you who is projecting some concerns onto me such as that you seem to think I thin...

The only question in the post you are respionding to is this: and it is a rhertorical question. So I wasn't asking you anything. You ask me how I prop...

An unconditional good would be a good that was good in itself—a good that relied on no other conditions to establish its goodness. Perhaps it could al...

As I said earlier: "If the infinitely many integers are understood to be merely potential as a logical consequence of a conceptual operation—in this c...

Not perplexity, just plain old oddness. I'm not suggesting anything about essences; I think the very idea is problematic. Identity is just an idea. Th...

The odd thing about the idea of "in itself" is that it is saying "in its identity". Identity suggests integrity. When we eat the oyster, it is broken ...

Because once eaten they are no longer "in themselves" but in us?

Is that University of New England?

3. seems to be a post hoc judgement. Of course every thought is thought by me, because they are my thoughts, right? But what am I? It's like the cogit...

If the infinitely many integers are understood to be merely potential as a logical consequence of a conceptual operation—in this case iteration—and ar...

I agree it's not a pretence, it's a logical entailment. What we are doing here is not mathematics but philosophy of mathematics. So, all I'm saying is...

The solution to this is to say that there are potentially infinitely many integers. Once the logic of iteration is in place, there are potentially inf...

Firstly, in QM the so-called "observer problem" is not recognized uncontroversially as entailing that human consciousness is paradigmatically the obse...

If anything is said to be good, we can always ask on what grounds is it deemed to be good. If someone claims there is an unconditional good, then you ...