At Notre Dame Phil Reviews (NDPR), John Palmer responded to Rickless' Parmenides in some detail. Don't get me wrong, I love modern logical reconstruct...
By me, absolute is unconditional, supreme; and objective is mechanical, mind independent. The golden rule assumes that all men are objectively reasona...
Isn't the golden rule an objective rule for moral values? Personal empathy, more or less of it might be a secondary guide that overrides an objective ...
Yes, but everyone else is also missing that understanding. There is plenty of interpretation and opinion. Some people think it was just a lesson in lo...
If Plato were alive he would ask the same questions. The SEP has hundreds of articles on modern logic, and many on ancient Western and Eastern logic. ...
You are blessed to be living in Sweden. A country needs excess resources to be able to give charity to its needy. When our grand orange offered to buy...
Both or either. The US as a country cares about Ukraine as a country. People in either sense are at a different level of discourse and are a secondary...
I don't get this refrain. You and I caring about all people is nice, but countries aren't you and I. Why on Earth would any country be concerned with ...
A legitimate issue. What happens if the US decides to step away from its leadership role in NATO, not now, but after a couple of years? Will the milit...
After the American and Russian poster boy old farts die off who will direct American foreign policy and for what end, say in two years? Should Europe ...
You're making the case against your own position. World politics is changing drastically in the wake of technological and economic globalization. Old ...
Most political issues are objectively more subtle than bad guys good guys. The nutjobs you mention are taking their pro-Putin stance on orders from th...
That's seen as a problem in the US. We don't want to defend other countries for their sake anymore. We do not want to deploy more than the 100,000 US ...
The naturalistic account requires language to originate not in biological processes at a simpler more basic level of individuality of our physiology a...
Sciences have specialties and sub-specialties as delineated by their aims, methods of observation and analysis, and their semi-private insider jargon....
It's hard to be green. The Celestial Handbook says that there is only one green star. Others have denied even this one instance. But that can't be so,...
No, it's an attempt at finding scientistic 'fact' oriented foundations for realism. Does science have such facts? Is general formalized language suita...
This does not even require organisms as it is also true of any two bricks in a wall or in the extreme case of any two electrons that don't even have s...
Good point. The flip side of absolute natural laws is that they are not relative. This may seem obvious, but similar elimination of relativity from mo...
Nicely done, but you're shifting around between different philosophies here. Heraclitus denied the value of non-scientific thought altogether. Plato, ...
Heraclitean and Cratylean knowledge of change cannot possibly be anything like Eleatic Aristotelian or modern language-philosophical knowledge of stat...
Thank you for that explanation. But I often find the talk pages on Wikipedia more informative than the articles themselves, especially on philosophica...
Well said. "... all things move and nothing remains still, and he likens the universe to the current of a river, saying that you cannot step twice int...
It's reasonable that Cratylus was a great philosopher and not an idiot, otherwise what would have been the point to lampoon him? What he said was that...
Mathematical physics are dynamical systems where anything that is mathematically possible is also physically possible until the theory is shown to vio...
Well after the Cuban missile crisis was over, it was reported that Kennedy and top officials were living in bunkers during the denouement, totally unb...
Non-contradiction as an ontological principle is axiomatically prescriptive therefore infallible wherever it is applicable. However, non-contradiction...
We tend to think of cause-effect as a simple and direct relation tied together by some unseen underlying commonality. Like when a billiard ball hits a...
I agree with the urgency of the environmentalist argument, but in these illustrations ancient historical data might not represent the same cause and e...
If you feel strongly enough to get paid less, then you need to look at small liberal private schools that might agree to offer your broader Western cu...
I expected that modern technology would have proven cumbersome tanks and even expensive airplanes obsoleted by this war. Movements of large machines c...
Interesting point. Materialism can't decide between traditional tactile objects, the ones we can touch, and the modern physical worlds of Newton, Eins...
I don't think it's that simple. Most scientific evidence is partial or inconclusive or unconvincing. For the sake of argument, let's assume a universa...
With the war slowly escalating global nuclear war is becoming more likely each day. The advantage of nuclear war over environmental destruction is tha...
Why would arguments about time be physicalist? Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse o...
Sure, in a laboratory we can make things, but nature doesn't think things out beforehand. But I doubt that either proposed upwards or downwards direct...
Natural complexes like termites, bees, flocks of geese, trees, clouds, tornadoes, ice, rocks, volcanoes, platypuses and people are fascinating whether...
The universe is about 70% dark energy. Dark energy is timeless. Another 25% is dark 'matter' that could also be timeless. The remaining 5% is plasma, ...
True, but there is always the possibility of a nuclear winter lasting years. Like what happened in 1815-1816 following the volcanic eruption of mount ...
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