The issue of betrayed trust is sort of besides the point. A person can utter an obvious falsehood without intending any deception, and our senses can ...
Ah, I think I see the confusion. I meant "metaphysics," as in the entire discipline, not a particular metaphysics. It's much easier to locate the set ...
So the truth of what you just wrote only holds within the context of taken-for-granted, unquestioned presuppositions? Why must all presuppositions be ...
Maybe; I was thinking more of the back and forth between different metaphysicians over history. I mean, this really depends on what you mean by "prove...
That's an interesting post. I've seen a few arguments that the success of eternalism in physics, to the extent that many popular physics texts openly ...
I was actually going to make a thread on just this subject. I think that, as we try to get more precise and definite in our language, we can begin to ...
This is sort of a red herring. The threat from Aegis Ashore is that it can shoot down Russia's ballistic missiles, not that the cells there could be u...
...and yet here you are, trying to argue for a view of what is true, or at least "what is the case." I don't think it can be otherwise. Even the think...
:up: :100: Agreed. As Steven Jensen says in his "The Human Person," if one begins in the "box" of the mind (or inside the "box" of language) one never...
Exactly. Not to mention that questions like "are virtual particles real?" or "are species real?" are ontological questions about "what truly exists." ...
Yes, this is a key pillar of his thought. Hegel saw that it was a mistake to try to reduce all of being to the objective. He resisted the modern tende...
I don't know if this makes a difference. The relationship the ball (physical) stands in to people (physical) has changed due to the death of all peopl...
This seems to highlight a problem with superveniance rather than a problem with physicalism more broadly. You have a similar sort of problem when a de...
Well, I mean, the US already forward deployed its biolabs to Kyiv to work on "Slav-killing super viruses" that would be dispersed into Russia via "bat...
It might be helpful to look at how such indicies are developed. No methodology is perfect, but they tend to embody the methodological choices politica...
I've often considered this. Are we missing some sort of esoteric oral tradition that justifies Plato's claim that philosophers are not fully trained u...
Well, it seems to me that shooting people for having the audacity to think they have the right to live on the land they were born on is part of the pr...
I'm not even sure if removing the settlers is beneficial. Just as it is beneficial to have Arab-Israelis represent a sizeable part of the Israeli elec...
Isn't this sort of like saying "man's over evolved eyes are a curse upon him. If man didn't constantly constrict his pupils to block out the incoming ...
Yes, this would be a great idea. If you had strong (perhaps legislatively mandated) guilds/associations for each large sector of the economy (e.g. hea...
Sort of on topic, when I heard of Zapffe my initial thoughts were: A. What makes certain things in conciousness "artificial?" What could this even mea...
I definitely wouldn't mind just completely getting rid of the US Senate. Having a chamber based on arbitrary borders where a 2/3rds majority is requir...
Just wanted to note that the Thomas Riker situation only implies body-soul dualism, not the often associated ideas of the immortality and immutability...
Like I said, I might not be very helpful :rofl: . The whole scale thing is just something I've seen thrown out in favor of pessimism quite often. I us...
I don't know if I have much to add. I read Grimscribe as part of a book club a while back and I really liked it. I've had people explain "Conspiracy A...
Post-modernists can't misread a philosopher. They just read different s. Protagoras and Gorgias become the heros of the Platonic Dialogues. :cool: The...
It's particularly silly because it's been pointed out several times that: A. Hamas won 44% of the vote in that election, not even a majority. They bea...
Right, I'm not sure acting is necessarily any more traumatic than going to a big family gathering, a big digital art exhibit, a crowded city, flying o...
A weird decision-making process from Iran. They are losing face over not engaging Israel as Hamas is destroyed and getting into it with the US and UK ...
Unfortunately, even if Trump loses, America politics are going to remain incredibly broken. The US cannot even follow through on its commitments to Uk...
Just to clarify though, the body/soul - instrument/harmony analogy is Pythagorean, not Platonic. Plato has Socrates argue against the analogy in the P...
Right, "human shields," generally refers to placing civilians around active military operations or forcing them to stay near such operations. Resettle...
I figured as much, but I think the analogy actually is quite good in some ways. For in the case of the Soviets, we see a state that was in every way j...
You don't even need to stretch it to "occasionally." The Soviets were part of the Allies and they committed war crimes on an industrial scale, and als...
Strong emergence would show the analogy is simply wrong, as Plato is arguing, although it would be wrong in a different way. With strong emergence, we...
That's a good point. Also a good point. But I was speaking mainly in reference to his third argument, that the mind appears to control the body (at le...
I was just reading the Phaedo for a class and it hit me that Plato's argument that the soul cannot be analogous to a harmony is literally the same arg...
This whole post goes to MacIntyre's thesis. The assumption that, if man has a telos, it must be defined in terms of some sort of divine command theory...
It's a two way street. "Virtuality" is a philosophical concept that existed prior to the idea of "virtual particles," (how they get their name). But n...
From an external perspective, yes, but I don't see how this solves the problem that if it is possible for an uncaused event to "create" time, then suc...
It seems to me that in many ancient and medieval ethical systems it would be both. There is on the one hand man's telos, which is internal to man (plu...
By "start to exist," I simply mean: 1. Is uncaused / has no prior causal history. 2. Is not eternal, without beginning or end. The English language is...
Caleb Scharf writes a lot of information theoretic interpretations of evolution (and just about everything else really.) One neat idea he has is that ...
This reminds me of MacIntyre's premise in "After Virtue." He makes a parallel to the sci-fi novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz," where, after the apocaly...
"Things either happen or they don't," seems to miss how some things are contingent on others. For example, flipping a fair coin and having it come up ...
Absolutely. That's one of the main things you need the higher level "global" state for, securing rights. I don't know what you mean about China. In it...
The EU was contacted and was going to use resources already dedicated to Operation Atlanta, but Spain vetoed it. But it seems like all the ships in th...
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