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:up: This is one definition. On the other hand, it seems most plausible that there is a whole universe of phenomena, only the tiniest fraction of whic...

Wheeler's diagram suggests that nature can be carved up in any number of ways. A good mathematician (which I'm not) would be able to tell you how many...

The idea that the way we carve up nature is purely arbitrary seems highly implausible given that we all, even animals, seem to carve it up the same wa...

Not "must be wrong" but rather "could be wrong" depending on context. Surely it depends on what is meant by "phenomenal object", as to whether it woul...

This all seems very hand-wavy. You don't say what the purported confusion is. If all you are saying is that it seems to you that there is a lack of cl...

I'm not defending Pfizer.

Not by reading your post. :roll:

:up: I'm not a believer in astrology, although I have taken an interest in it in the past due to finding its symbolism interesting. I learned how to d...

:rofl: Your egregious confirmation bias is hilarious! This is merely a claim, not established fact. From here

I'm saying that the Stoics, the Epicureans and the Neoplatonists, as three examples. had very definite and different metaphysical postulates which for...

It seems plausible to me to think that perception is conceptually mediated. At the very least things seen, which are obviously not isolated from the r...

This charaterization of astrology seems insignificant; I'd say astrology imagines a magical relationship- a correspondence between the cosmos and the ...

This statement seems not to be at all clear...much use for who and for what?

I don't disagree with that, but my point was that these ancient schools had metaphysical ideas which underpinned their ethical practices. It is arguab...

I agree with what you say about the intersubjective conventional notions of identity, subjectivity and objectivity. I was only pointing out that cell ...

Yes, it's ridiculous to claim that vaccines were any kind of "government plot"; here in Australia, Scott Morrison's government was criticised for not ...

It doesn't show me that. I also don't see parsimony in the belief that the physical realm doesn't exist; instead, I see that as contravening Peirce's ...

Metabolism and homeostasis are internally regulated. Another point is that the ship of Theseus could be considered to be the same ship or a different ...

I had in mind self-regulation, homeostasis and metabolism, so my point holds. Also identical twins are not the same person because they do not inhabit...

If all the cells in our bodies, in organisms generally, contain a unique DNA sequence that defines them then that is different than the 'ship of These...

Yes, I agree it does. I guess I was still caught up in the exchange with @"unenlightened".

Nice!

I don't think the same criteria for identity that apply to self-organizing systems such as biological organisms are relevant in the case of ships.

:ok:

I agree that it is tautologously true that we cannot know what we cannot know. My only point was that this says nothing about the existence of whateve...

This may be true in the "quest" for enlightenment, but in the context of everyday pursuits, and the enrichment of life in terms of interest, it doesn'...

We are constantly changing, all the cells that constitute our bodies replaced every seven or so years according to some accounts. On the other hand, a...

Both Stoicism and Epicureanism had their metaphysics which are not empirically testable. It would seem there are as many "practical wisdoms" as there ...

Are you asking whether you or I will arrive at more clarity? I find clarity in drawing any distinction that seems valid. I don't find the sweeping jud...

The judgements we make in science and some of the judgements we make in life are empirically based. In life many other kinds of judgements are made on...

Sure, we make judgements, inferences to what we think are the best explanations. But in philosophy, where consensus seems impossible, as opposed to sc...

A subtle distinction? Say I want to be an artist and I see my goal is to be the best artist I can be. Or my desire to go on a journey of artistic disc...

Useful for whom? The fact that you do not see any importance in what you think of as speculating about how we can point at something we cannot point a...

If they exist absent humans then their existence is "in itself", rather than 'for us" and we don't know that existence and can only imagine it in 'for...

The term 'existence' does not have to be restricted to 'exists for us'. You can stipulate that the term is restricted in that way as you are using it,...

I don't believe I misunderstood what you were saying, I simply disagree. It seems rather it is you that misunderstood what I was saying; It should be ...

It doesn't follow that because something is "nothing to us" that it is non-existent. In any case the in itself is not nothing to us except sensorially...

We know how things appear to us. There is no guarantee that these appearances give us exhaustive knowledge of how things are or that the nature of thi...

I understand the term to signify the sheer existence of a thing as distinct from its existence for us. We cannot know what that existence is because a...

If 'world' and 'everything' are synonymous, and things exist, then why would we say the world does not exist? If you narrowly define existence as pert...

Just what the world needs—more magnates as political leaders. :roll:

So, according to you no goal is worthwhile even if pursuing it leads to interesting, enlivening or inspiring experiences or enlightening insights?

""All As are Bs, all Bs are Cs, therefore all As are Cs" is a valid argument" is true, just as "all bachelors are unmarried" is true; that is, it woul...

I don't think this is right: the statement is valid, but in that abstract generic form is not truth apt. It needs to be given content in order to be t...

Interesting goals perhaps, or at least goals that enable interesting journeys?

If that is what you want...

They are the same question; if the existence of the world depended on your perception of it, it would not be at all external to perception. If we have...

You introduced the idea of constant joy and happiness as a goal, whereas as I have not addressed that question, or the OP's question, at all except in...

Our belief in the external world and causation are habitual based on the experienced reliable presence of objects and invariance of objects and the ob...

Do you believe in the existence of a universal subject?