apokrisis

This bit. Something I hadn’t said, but which you now claim as a fact worth considering.

How is that a helpful question? If this was what folk wanted, then you are rejecting Maslow’s hierarchy. You would now have to argue that bit of your ...

But famines can kill millions who didn’t want to die. Suicide is a minority pastime. So that’s a false equivalence to draw.

Well both are bad. But famine is worse. In reality, no one is forcing your to over-eat, especially if you voted for a self-actualising democracy that ...

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In its loosest sense, pragmatism simply says something works. A structure or form of organisation does the job. At a minimum, it is order that has the...

You asked what makes a government legitimate. You put forward the more specific example of a kingdom. You seemed to agree that notions of morality don...

Sure. You can go off and do your own thing. But why start from a neurobiological example that speaks to natural philosophy and its ontology of the org...

Give it a go then. Define a king without mentioning kingdoms. Define kingdoms without mentioning kings. If you can do it, your approach works. But you...

What did I say that you are now reacting against? This is how you might identify the beliefs which ground your own views here. So I argue from a viewp...

Sure. It would have to be resilient in the face of perturbations of all kinds. That is part of the design criteria. Theories of self-organising system...

But what purpose does this coupling serve? Is it a striving to avoid the white noise as an aversive stimulus or negative reinforcer? Where did such a ...

What is a king if he has no court, no lords and ladies, no knights or servants? There has to be some kind of hierarchy in place otherwise a king lacks...

You sound a little vague and uncertain about borderline cases. And the fact that you can't simply deny intent is support for my position. Yep. It's al...

How could you answer sensibly without defining the size and sophistication of the "kingdom" to be run? Is it a group of 100 or a billion? Is it stone ...

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What's missing is the intent to make some actual change in the world. A biosemiotic view of Dishbrain, and predictive coding in general, is that it is...

If you really want to boil it down, I would say that it ingrains the habit of counterfactual thinking. It forces us to arrive at truth by way of disco...

This is going well.

Do you mean philosophy or metaphysics?

So what’s your point? What’s at stake?

What? Not even one of the things at stake under the umbrella definition of metaphysics? Is this now your claim? And what do you mean by speculative ph...

So metaphysics is civics? Is that what you want to argue? Be my guest.

Civics rather than metaphysics looks to be what you describe in lauding an Ivy League education for the US elite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classi...

I think you are mixing up Greek metaphysics with Roman civics here.

Nice go at boundary policing. But ontic structural realism?

Well either humans are shaped by living within the constraints of nature, of they are becoming gods who switch places to be the global constraints on ...

I’d like to see a list of all the global elite who trained in metaphysics rather than law, accountancy, engineering, etc. If metaphysics is the tech o...

OK. I thought you were replying to my point that metaphysics speaks to a particular logic of being rather than being some kind of unmoored, pluralisti...

Metaphysics seeks the structure of being in its most general sense. Ethics seeks the structure of human well-being. One is cosmic in scope. A totalisi...

The hemispheres are dichotomised – or lateralised – but in a way that is designed to go synergistically together. Right hemisphere emphasises global c...

Chaos can grow if divergence ain’t constrained. The real world problem is the maths may have formal exactness, but measurement is informal and thus in...

Sorry if you’re bored. :roll:

In what sense inaccessible? Do you mean that generalisation actually ends up cutting its connection to the particular? That shouldn’t happen if it is ...

What would a philosophy of reading or cooking look like? I would suggest that it would take something everyday and seek to place it within a more abst...

You are being ridiculously sensitive, taking criticism of your position as criticism of yourself. Besides, what I actually said was… :roll:

You would have to unpack that. Any sources that do that for you?

Insults?

Another fan of Peirce.

A finality?

As a Peircean, I would even want to talk in terms of propensities. But let's not scare folk too much. If you have shaved your head bald, then that exc...

The advantage lies in making explicit that truth or reality are what the process of inquiry arrives at in its asymptotic limit. True is true, and real...

I’m no fan of the US. I’ve avoided even travelling there for 25 years. But the US level of provocation was tiny compared to the level of Russian escal...

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Nope. Irreverence as the correct response to pomposity. You just about employ the Royal we in your posts. You certainly rely on the booming paternal v...

Is that what they call a rhetorical question? :smile:

Feel free to make mention of what my narrative fails to incorporate. I’ve been known to change my mind. :grin:

And your posts make my point. You have a mind so narrowed by reductionist logicism that it can't even comprehend any other "other". Your insults thus ...

Translation: I can't argue against it, so therefore I will call it unimportant. Always the same old, same old.

Only if you believe predicate logic to be more foundational than dialectical logic. Only if you commit to a reductionist notion of linear cause and ef...