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The common wheel took a genius to discover, some cultures never did. To dig under what ought to be obvious but isn't is one important purpose of philo...
April 25, 2021 at 08:13
Name calling of 'relativism', being unfamiliar to simple-minded readers (that's everyone) has been the traditional way of spitting on the work of dead...
April 23, 2021 at 14:29
"Philosophy is: to reject false arguments -- Witt Big Typescript" Insistent negative philosophy is a hallmark of W's analytic (analogous to Kant's 'cr...
April 18, 2021 at 22:42
In some ways, they must be. W brings in both abstract generalizations like beauty and more concrete generalizations like leaf. Both are expressed by w...
April 18, 2021 at 00:19
Notably, the Preface to the BB is addressed to Russell to look over with "so many points ... just hinted at". I read that as a modest plea for additio...
April 17, 2021 at 01:20
Mental furniture that would present us with mental objects has major drawbacks. The mind, like the outside world, is a complex chaotically functioning...
April 11, 2021 at 02:59
Seeing color is difficult to untangle from our philosophical perspective because we need to ignore physical, physiological, and psychological approach...
April 10, 2021 at 15:21
At least all of the above. Color is not entirely out there for us to see even under fixed conditions. Color is an evolutionary theatrical interpretive...
April 09, 2021 at 14:28
Science can only quantify instrumental readings. The readings are interpreted (guessed) to reflect some scientific aspect of nature. Personal experien...
April 09, 2021 at 13:57
I know with certainty that I have a back even though I cannot see it. Furthermore, this is personal subjective knowledge that I cannot doubt. You or W...
April 08, 2021 at 20:04
I couldn't possibly know that because I deny that your 'absolute truth' has any meaning to anyone else, further more, I challenge you to demonstrate t...
April 06, 2021 at 18:45
There is no absolute truth outside of absolutist dogma. To an antirealist, pluralist, or relativist 'absolute' truth is complete nonsense because it d...
April 05, 2021 at 18:54
To say that "Relativism is the view that truth and knowledge are not absolute or invariable, but dependent upon viewpoint, circumstances or historical...
April 05, 2021 at 03:10
This is also correct. The rules for empirical knowledge are different than those for deductive mathematics. Empirically we can never ever be certain b...
April 04, 2021 at 11:38
The axioms of math are!
April 04, 2021 at 00:13
I don't think that holds. We can justifiably deny that his foot is not a hand, but there is no way to be certain, and that's the key distinction, that...
April 03, 2021 at 23:57
Relativist opinions are not competing truths one stronger than another in comparison. They are opinions contingent on more or less universal circumsta...
April 02, 2021 at 20:30
To assert that I know is different from agreeing that you know that I know and again from a dogmatic we know. No-one can reasonably doubt Moore when h...
March 24, 2021 at 01:30
Seems to me that proofs can neither be independently created nor discovered. Even together, creativity with serendipitous discovery aren't sufficient ...
March 22, 2021 at 01:18
A popular science-math weekly used to offer challenges for readers to submit original proofs for mathematical theorems. The Pythagorean theorem receiv...
March 21, 2021 at 16:33
We don't have two adjacent portions before the marker. The marker is a pointer that demarcates but does not split the line thereby making it discontin...
March 20, 2021 at 17:52
Doesn't quite sound right from a philosophical perspective. Realism is about things and objects, but science is not. Both math and science are primari...
March 19, 2021 at 00:37
Why isn't Aristotle's solution just circular because it makes the results of a mathematical construction prior to the construction itself? Plato start...
March 15, 2021 at 00:17
Wouldn't that depend on whether you are seeking a logic based objective prescriptive ethics or a pragmatic de facto psychological or social explanatio...
March 06, 2021 at 17:32
Evolution is the process of any change over time. In a more narrow biological sense, evolution is random spread of differences followed by statistical...
February 28, 2021 at 18:45
So then I suppose that you would likely favor presentism and materialism that simplifies judgment closer to immediate wants and sensibilities. That wo...
February 22, 2021 at 22:19
Could be. In societies where culture, state, religion, or obligation were placed higher than personal needs, execution of the physically or socially u...
February 22, 2021 at 16:33
I think of modernity not as an age or a period in history but as exponential progress in some ways and exponential decay in others as humanity moves f...
February 22, 2021 at 00:51
Interactions on the internet are a sample of humanity as a whole. Whatever you see, whether seen by you as positive or negative depends on where you a...
February 20, 2021 at 09:44
I'm quite sure you have this backwards. The reason you confound doctrinal materialism with brain physiological oriented scientism is to pretend to an ...
February 17, 2021 at 16:34
Heraclitus's Fire has quite a bit to do with science because Heraclitan Logos, rather than being an after the fact explanatory story, is intended to b...
February 12, 2021 at 19:06
How pravda -- The ying-yang gods of america, saint Bernie and the teflon Don
February 09, 2021 at 13:16
This is beginning to sound more like the usual winter influenza where a newly mixed vaccine needs to be administered annually just to keep the serious...
February 08, 2021 at 20:31
Why not the ending point? Or the only real moment?
February 04, 2021 at 21:11
Who are the criminals, the doctors, scientists, or those ignorant politicians? Maybe viruses are just too smart for us, they can mutate in a day but i...
February 01, 2021 at 00:34
Yes. In nature, as opposed to math or logic, no two things are ever identical or equal in every way. They may be equivalent in certain respects but no...
January 29, 2021 at 22:13
A neutral surveys of the breakdown of Biden's appointments might be helpful. CNN PPS Brookings What is noteworthy is the delay in the Senate on confir...
January 29, 2021 at 19:55
As he should. No?
January 29, 2021 at 18:42
Not all claims require proof by the claimant. If I claim Biden can't swim is the proof on me? Perhaps positive claims require proof but negative claim...
January 29, 2021 at 18:40
To be fair to me, why would I think that Trump's initial appointees were political choices rather than based on competence? What norms should I use? A...
January 29, 2021 at 14:59
Am I the only one a alarmed by the many socially correct rather than competence and accomplishment based appointments of the new administration? Ideol...
January 28, 2021 at 14:45
Even when nothing is produced, desperate lives make for desperate measures. In a materialist world lotto fever can rule the markets. With the internet...
January 27, 2021 at 16:43
Western philosophy almost entirely consists of discussions on minor points made by Plato. To appreciate any of this one must first read Plato and Plat...
January 20, 2021 at 15:16
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From now on I'll only post in ancient Greek and Latin to avoid the bot.
January 12, 2021 at 18:09
I'm a maximal constitutional conservative thus long-time rabid anti-trampist, ejected from the ongoing political continuum and the republican party. W...
January 09, 2021 at 15:34
And this is supported by reference to Plato's Socratic discussion of 'snub nose' and form of 'Snubness' at 1037a? Unfortunately, Aristotle was a logic...
January 08, 2021 at 15:48
Maybe your question is not well formed? To Plato, there ought to be only three forms of number, namely none, one, many. 7 is not a platonic form capab...
January 07, 2021 at 11:06
I would think that = is appropriate for equivalence in physics for symbols or quantities with mixed implicit or explicit units attached, as in E=mc^2....
January 07, 2021 at 03:45
Well said and I agree with you. Let me just point to a clearly written CNN article on COVID mutations which may not be entirely exhaustive but is stil...
January 06, 2021 at 23:32
Plato was concerned with the identity of the transcendent soul, the identity of Forms in relation to particulars, and the identity of abstract parts w...
January 04, 2021 at 00:11