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...
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...
"Philosophy is: to reject false arguments -- Witt Big Typescript" Insistent negative philosophy is a hallmark of W's analytic (analogous to Kant's 'cr...
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...
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...
Mental furniture that would present us with mental objects has major drawbacks. The mind, like the outside world, is a complex chaotically functioning...
Seeing color is difficult to untangle from our philosophical perspective because we need to ignore physical, physiological, and psychological approach...
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...
Science can only quantify instrumental readings. The readings are interpreted (guessed) to reflect some scientific aspect of nature. Personal experien...
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...
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...
There is no absolute truth outside of absolutist dogma. To an antirealist, pluralist, or relativist 'absolute' truth is complete nonsense because it d...
To say that "Relativism is the view that truth and knowledge are not absolute or invariable, but dependent upon viewpoint, circumstances or historical...
This is also correct. The rules for empirical knowledge are different than those for deductive mathematics. Empirically we can never ever be certain b...
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...
Relativist opinions are not competing truths one stronger than another in comparison. They are opinions contingent on more or less universal circumsta...
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...
Seems to me that proofs can neither be independently created nor discovered. Even together, creativity with serendipitous discovery aren't sufficient ...
A popular science-math weekly used to offer challenges for readers to submit original proofs for mathematical theorems. The Pythagorean theorem receiv...
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...
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...
Why isn't Aristotle's solution just circular because it makes the results of a mathematical construction prior to the construction itself? Plato start...
Wouldn't that depend on whether you are seeking a logic based objective prescriptive ethics or a pragmatic de facto psychological or social explanatio...
Evolution is the process of any change over time. In a more narrow biological sense, evolution is random spread of differences followed by statistical...
So then I suppose that you would likely favor presentism and materialism that simplifies judgment closer to immediate wants and sensibilities. That wo...
Could be. In societies where culture, state, religion, or obligation were placed higher than personal needs, execution of the physically or socially u...
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...
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...
I'm quite sure you have this backwards. The reason you confound doctrinal materialism with brain physiological oriented scientism is to pretend to an ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Am I the only one a alarmed by the many socially correct rather than competence and accomplishment based appointments of the new administration? Ideol...
Even when nothing is produced, desperate lives make for desperate measures. In a materialist world lotto fever can rule the markets. With the internet...
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...
I'm a maximal constitutional conservative thus long-time rabid anti-trampist, ejected from the ongoing political continuum and the republican party. W...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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