I see you are pretending to take seriously the ironic answer so as to run away from the actual answer which followed. Not so subtle. Quite transparent...
Do you have the page number where he said this? Not ringing any bells yet. Don’t be so hard on yourself. I don’t take your anti-totalising rants to he...
Instantly? Gee, I’m impressed by your memory for books you might have read 30 years ago that failed to capture your imagination. Well, clearly you are...
Oh I see. I didn’t think much of his first book and so I should have read his latest? Here is a previous discussion anyway.... https://thephilosophyfo...
The job application just went in. Thanks. That was the article I was looking at too. This does feel the key - the search for invariance, the search fo...
How is it the bone in the throat? Do you mean that if everyone self-actualises as the highest personal good, then no one is left to give them respect....
Maybe you missed the point at which I entered this conversation. My geopolitically informed view is that even a buffoon can’t damage the US in an end ...
I’m indifferent to the degree it doesn’t impact on my freedoms. That is the “personal” answer anyone would give who is unable to talk about a wider vi...
Because I really have no idea who you want to be answering. I had assumed you wanted the answer from "entropy's point of view", so that is what I gave...
In history circles, it is well understood as a term. And the idea that history could have a direction, a trajectory, is also highly disputed. Hegel's ...
I replied that the US likes to say the government should keep its nose out of people's business. That is the social context that in fact constrains US...
That reply is as lame as it gets. You say it is an interesting question until the moment it gets asked. Then run away. It's an incredibly easy questio...
Sure. There can be a definite act of dissent because there is that one law. You have confirmed what I just said. What would dissent even look like if ...
The US population could just refuse to go to work, to socially distance, to wear masks and wash their hands. The US "ethic" surely says that in a soci...
Yeah. That sounds like a “good reason” to resist something. So out of spite, you will spread your arms, step off the cliff, and thus demonstrate your ...
Stop being an idiot. Why is carbon dioxide stable? Because one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms collectively form a lower energy state than the same t...
And that is what I have said. It is foundational. It is the ground of the natural world. So whatever else follows, there is already an “ethics” - as i...
Tough question because maybe there just aren’t no right answers and any view would be context-dependent. To pick up on the points I raised, if we aske...
So pragmatics or what? Give your best example of an ethical precept you feel is fundamental. We can then see how it stacks up against the logic of the...
You continue to misrepresent. Thermodynamics constrains what we can do. The ethical question then becomes, is there some good reason to resist the gen...
And so how do you define “ethics”? How does Banno define “ethics”? If one is troubled by the old is-ought chestnut, this must be because one is alread...
Rather than complaining, make your case. What are you waiting for? Your requests for clarification are a familiar tactic. I gave you an answer. Why sh...
No. You have no interest in venturing out of your lair to explore another point of view. You accuse me of ambiguity. I have told you your Procrustean ...
That is why I said they were the origin. The breaking is still an ongoing progress. Yep. And it was a useful division. Atomism and reductionism produc...
I don’t see a problem at all. But maybe that’s just because I don’t take a rigid approach to classificatory systems. My constraints based thinking is ...
Just read and digest what I wrote. Stop trying to dumb it back down to fit your tired rhetorical template. If you can point out a flaw in my constrain...
:up: You’re right about the grandmother hypothesis. My use of “senescent” is more technical here as it is a term that can be applied to biological sys...
I don’t see how science is even possible without metaphysics. Metaphysics is simply that attitude of mind that is willing to seek for an overarching r...
That’s fine. The natural philosophy view does seek to include all four Aristotlean causes including finality. But it also isn’t claiming anything myst...
Yeah, nah. The whole is-ought issue is what I seek to bypass. Thermodynamics enshrines a probabilistic approach to ontology. So all one can say about ...
Again, if I don’t accept that criterion, the problem as stated doesn’t exist for me. Just because a paradox can be proposed and accepted as such doesn...
Such questions provide their own answers. The one can only be in contrast to the many. And vice versa. At the very first step you are caught in the ne...
I don’t see this is an issue if ontology is allowed to come to the Aristotelean conclusion that substantial being is complex. The answer to the questi...
The psychological machinery at work here is the difference between habitual and attentional processing. If you operate at the level of habit, you have...
I would say the distinction is simple. The actual opposition here is between ontology and epistemology. Metaphysics is the overarching discipline brok...
Erm. That's why I put poison in quotes. What was poison - a toxic byproduct - for primitive anaerobic life then became the basis of a photosynthetic w...
Couple of points to expand upon. Isn't it interesting how religion is a racket? In European history, it was a state-owned racket and even a state-owin...
My question is still whether there is anything real being debated as opposed to a lot of suddenly frightened and anxious people dividing into interest...
Sure. But probabilty itself is a measure of the predictable. Chaos has an equilibrium structure and isn’t actually “chaotic”. It is only our descripti...
I agree that what is truly at stake has become hard to discern. What we are presented with in the media are two caricature extremes - woke cancel cult...
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