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A mode of being is not merely an attitude or a mood, but a whole, pervasive, encompassing orientation; a "form of life" to use Wittgenstein's phrase.

OK, there might be more than one way to do it, so the shapes have a very determinate logic as to how the ways they can fit together, but not necessari...

Sufficient reason is not coherently understood in terms of something being "its own reason", but in terms of its being caused by something else.

The analogy between putting together pieces whose 'shapes' have no reference to anything beyond themselves to form a representation of a horse, and pu...

I'm not sure what you mean by "definition of the person". It's common enough to say that people are defined by what they do. What people do is determi...

You have only yourself to thank for the outcome here, dude.

What is the world, if not a being? It is defined as the totality of immanent being. (Really, 'universe' is a better term because world has many uses m...

The content of what you say here appears to be agreeing with what I said, but your tone suggests disagreement, so I'm not sure what to make of it.

Sorry about that, it was meant to be a response to Thinker's Post 41. I must clicked the wrong 'reply'.

Analytic statements are true by definition, synthetic a priori statements are true not by definition, but because they are self-evident; we do not nee...

If the third world is on fire, and ours soon will be, it has nothing to do with religion and could not be cured by philosophy. It is due to economic g...

Alrighty, then...done and dusted! :)

Doctrinal orthodoxies are built up over very long periods and under the influence of many great minds. Of course there is no guarantee that political ...

You're entitled to those opinions; though many Christians would not share them. However, Muslims would agree, they honour Jesus as a great prophet, bu...

The existence of something is usually understood to be necessary if its essence involves existence. Necessity is not explainable in any terms beyond i...

There seem to be two kinds of brute facts: totalities and their attributes. Being is a totality. It is the brutest of all brute facts. Then we have qu...

Yes, the thing is that for many who call themselves 'Christian' the belief that Jesus was the unique Son of God is central, and this would seem to nec...

Beyond this, I'm not going to bother responding at all to such unsubstantiated alarmist rubbish. Yeah, keep on keepin' it simplistic, stupid! :-}

I'm not going to bother answering irrelevant questions based on misunderstanding. When you learn to read carefully we might be able to begin a discuss...

No, I haven't. An infinite being (nature, being or God, or whatever) would not be in the same class as us finite beings, regardless of whether that in...

No, but thinking they are is. >:)

I agree that no one knows what God is like. Characterizations of God are made on the basis of being metaphorical evocations, not of being literal desc...

Really? I must say I find that surprising. I would think he is not a skeptic in the radical Pyrrhonic sense, or at least doesn't see himself as such; ...

Hume's skepticism, if taken to its logical conclusion, would result in skepticism of memory; so we could have no warrant for claiming that the apple h...

Thanks for linking the book: I downloaded it and will be able to have a read later. I agree with all the points above. According to Frederick Beiser i...

I haven't ever suggested that any such thing makes sense. On the other hand you have completely failed to cite any empirical evidence for the How abou...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm3LEmFFj2g

LOL, yes, or perhaps even everywhere in everyone's imagination. >:) The studio version from Bone Machine is also on Youtube and worth a listen as it h...

There's no point in your attempting to now shift the topic of the argument. It has been what you have said that has failed to be relevant. You initial...

I don't think being a workaholic contradicts being in a dogmatic slumber. As to his ideas constantly changing; that may have been so during his pre-cr...

I thought this song reminded me of another but I couldn't place it until now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5G7fVuLJ6I

First I don't think it makes sense to refer to something at all if you're not prepared to attempt to define it. You admit that we can "speculate-hypot...

As I said. I am not sure it was Russell, but I am quite sure it was one of the analytic or positivist philosophers. Russell was no great admirer of Ka...

OK, but my point was just that as a threat it is neither the greatest threat (it is actually way down on the scale), nor is it a special class of thre...

That's true. He thought that reason leads inevitably to skepticism, and that Kant's project of rational faith via practical reason was misconceived. I...

It was backgammon.

I am not interested in your assertion that you have "explained elsewhere before". This is a present discussion; explain now. They both may cause your ...

Nothing you say is relevant to what I have arguing. You say that other external causes "have an influence" on your decisions. This is equivocal langua...

Both nonsense and denial? I would feel free to ignore you if I wanted to ignore you. Since I don't do you think I should feel constrained to ignore yo...

I'm glad to hear you're not "assured of your own superiority as you grow fat and alone and accumulate worthless garbage" then, and that you were not s...

Cos e weren't eavy enuff by imself? :s

Ahh, you've bought into the propaganda employed by politicians to keep you alarmed and feeling insecure, and employed by the media as sensationalism d...

I am. The logic of determinism and moral responsibility as understood in a kind of substantive, as opposed to a merely conventional, sense are certain...

That's a good point; logically, feelings as such, as distinct from reflexive awareness of them, or attitudes about them, cannot be illusory in the str...

If such medical technology is ever realized, there's simply no way it could be made available to everyone, or even to many. It would likely only be av...

Jesus, I have someone close to me who fits that description exactly. I've witnessed the pointless clinging and suffering that they dare not admit even...

Maybe Hume's hot today (among the Anglo/American Anal-ytics) because he's the ultimate poster boy for their brand of Atheism. I mean, he even (reputed...

There's a difference between doing what you want and doing everything you want. ;)

Good! It's a lot better than doing what you don't want to do; and then there's also no cause for complaint.

The answer to your dilemma is simple: don't post on the threads you are not interested in. Look for threads, here or elsewhere, that you are intereste...