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I don't think Biden people had such high expectations. It is quite enough that he out-lasted the personal pressure of lies and insults that melted Tru...
October 02, 2020 at 21:25
Trump has a bigger button
October 02, 2020 at 18:04
Besides, Trump is well insured against all contingencies. @VPOTUS goes to church every Sunday.
October 02, 2020 at 11:42
Nothing to worry. It's a hoax. Fake news.
October 02, 2020 at 10:13
An Analytic philosopher, like Tarski, Davidson, or JerseyFlight, trying to analyse truth within analytic philosopy is sawing the branch on which he si...
September 30, 2020 at 09:36
You're beating a dead horse. Analytic philosophy has been done for a while now. What remains are teaching jobs to train throngs of paying students for...
September 29, 2020 at 06:13
Great posts ! Sounds like you're enjoying Plato as much as I do. Plato is as deep as the ocean, and one can fish for insights at all depths. Translati...
September 28, 2020 at 00:37
Psychic research can be easily and inexpensively conducted even by middle schoolers. Funding is not the problem. Academics value their research time a...
September 26, 2020 at 22:55
There might be a difference between psychic telepathy and demonstrable scientific telepathy. Ordinary language is a superposition upon a vague cultura...
September 26, 2020 at 12:13
This insight is right on target. It is not the case that analytic philosophy is vacuous or useless or fruitless. Rather, the charge should be that it ...
September 26, 2020 at 01:46
America, I weep for you.
September 25, 2020 at 13:04
If there are objects and there is space then isn't space just a complementary object that we know less about? Isn't it just a matter of assigning some...
September 24, 2020 at 15:53
An excellent point. This is also the most effective way to interpret professor Plato. Something like the Theaetetus was written to fly over the heads ...
September 24, 2020 at 02:20
This is one reason why people have trouble understanding Plotinus. Metaphysical concepts which have contrary incompatible underlying assumptions canno...
September 24, 2020 at 01:49
Isn't there a difference between the Good and the One? Usually the One is associated with Parmenides and the Good with Plato with the metaphysical dis...
September 23, 2020 at 11:07
Biden only says that the health care system, as well as the rights of marginalized groups are at stake and that should he win he will nominate a black...
September 21, 2020 at 10:34
The two philosophers had different agendas. Plato wasn't the one who argued his way to the hemlock.
September 19, 2020 at 22:55
Did Plato say that or was it the character Socrates in a dramatic dialogue. Shakespeare says "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse" or was it said...
September 19, 2020 at 20:50
:up: very much At the least, a 21st Century metaphysics should not be in ignorance or violation of recent science.
September 18, 2020 at 01:42
What is reality? Reality is the totality of everything that surrounds me, everything that has the capacity to be sensed or to be thought about by me, ...
September 17, 2020 at 11:47
Or perhaps in the sense that the photon goes through neither A1 nor A2 because there is never any particle photon at any instant. A wave version follo...
September 16, 2020 at 13:28
To see the future, compare the GB chart to France which is perhaps a month ahead in development.
September 12, 2020 at 17:41
Most early deaths of the elderly were probably due to COVID followed by a secondary bacterial infection which drew strong immune response from the pat...
September 12, 2020 at 16:34
Proof can be positive or negative. In science, as @"aporiap" already said above, no positive proof is possible but it can be proven that something is ...
September 11, 2020 at 22:05
The statistics for COVID coming from various countries are not directly comparable because collection and reporting of data depend on the cooperation ...
September 11, 2020 at 21:19
Minimally, the potential of evolving time space and some initial laws of physics had to be possible, even if only with an infinitesimal probability. N...
September 11, 2020 at 10:06
In all ways, I am always absolutely here now.
September 10, 2020 at 11:47
That's philosophy in a nutshell
September 10, 2020 at 02:57
Everything flows sounds like a metaphor for denying stasis in a dynamic world. All is change would probably be a more useful modern catch phrase. Chan...
September 10, 2020 at 01:36
Thank you. Being a newbie I did not want to bust into your conversation.
September 10, 2020 at 00:00
Sorry, I should not have addressed you. Now we have to look at haystack. My point was purely philosophical: The scientific noumenal world of the noted...
September 09, 2020 at 19:12
Sort of, maybe? Wasn't Kant recruited by both camps? Isn't the heart of the issue is that while some noumenal world is indisputable, noumenal objects ...
September 09, 2020 at 11:39
In science or in philosophy?
September 08, 2020 at 13:57
As Kant well understood, there is personal private experience and then there is public instrumental scientific experience. For science, it can be take...
September 07, 2020 at 21:29
Propositions are merely a formality of dictionary words bundled through a simple manageable logic. They are a useful tool for the practice of formal p...
September 07, 2020 at 14:04
Given those two choices, I can't even imagine anyone actually being an antirealist. Realism is a useful but unnecessary philosophical fantasy. A non-p...
September 07, 2020 at 13:36
I've got plenty of nothing. I've just checked and there's nothing in my pocket. Now, I have nothing to say, nothing to show, nothing to think about, n...
September 07, 2020 at 12:05