One can dispense with the idea of the world as representation by accepting that the experiencing mind is part of the reality it experiences, and must ...
One can dispense with the idea of the world as representation by accepting that the experiencing mind is part of the reality it experiences, and must ...
Yes, I did, and no-one says something like: ...unless there's something wrong. Ernest went right to the head end, but I'm starting at the bottom. Eat ...
You're smart enough. That's not the problem. It's your impatience. You've got ideas, and leap at the keys to get them down. I know because I was the s...
I don't know if God exists or not, and furthermore, I know I don't know. In my philosophy it's important to acknowledge what can and cannot, reasonabl...
No worries, I'm not in a foul mood, and for what it's worth, I see now that I didn't actually mention drilling for magma until the very last sentence....
It's not a lack of nuance - it's a view that's informed by the evolutionary development of the organism in relation to a causal reality with definite ...
There is no necessary relationship between signifier and signified. The word for the thing, signifier, is not the thing itself, signified. Red is a th...
I mentioned harnessing magma heat energy using drilling technology. I've mentioned it often enough, and we've spoken often enough - you should know th...
Gee, you think there wasn't really a fat man stuck in a cave? I've been deceived! I do generally try to avoid killing people. If there were a way to a...
I'm delighted to be able to agree completely. People acting from a moral sense - define morality. Debates about if it was or wasn't moral, or in what ...
It does seem strange to me; I like answers, and I've found I've been quite successful in discovering them - but no-one wants to know. They're like you...
Asking "what did they do?" is a rhetorical question. It doesn't require an answer. Asking the question 'what did they do?' is to suggest that whatever...
David, If you highlight a passage within my post - as I will do with yours now, and then click the little curly arrow bottom left, next to where it sa...
That so, explain art - and not only creating art, but meaningful discussions about art. Explain what the artist thinks they are doing when painting a ...
In the trolley problem, instinctively, I'd pull the lever, kill one and save five. In this case, instinctively, I'd kill the fat man and escape - but ...
Were the inferential realist account an argument based in evolution, that had already acknowledged that the organism evolves in relation to a causal r...
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, and thank you for your secret support. But I can't fix it. I must let the chips fall where they may. I sa...
If objective reality exists, and we perceive it, surely the natural emphasis falls upon the validity of our understanding - and scientific method as a...
Dr Lindsay Carrol Thomas. Forensic Pathologist. Death Investigations - holistic approach. Enlarged photo of George Floyd's dead face, sealed in white ...
How do you get from: to: Egoistic delusion about the significance of my own existence; putting aside the "sonder" of being just a passer-by in the exp...
Drawing attention to your own post, everyone politely ignored - you now take exception to an honest opinion? This - is channelling my philosophy: I di...
Incorrect. How could we have evolved, swinging through the trees - looking to catch the next branch, running from lions, not falling over cliff edges,...
I wrote my post to explain the usefulness of truth, and you didn't read it before you replied. That's why you're confused - because you've made no eff...
Pardon me quoting myself for reference. *truthfulness is rarely known X *lot of information / (nearest thing I got to a tick, weird right!) *difficult...
Okay, I'll bite - but you may not like it. Seems to me, upon perusal - you've attacked every form of government, except Islam, while taking a sideswip...
I think morality should be left to politics, while for the sake of the functioning of legal systems, maintain a distinction between morality and law. ...
Philosophy tells us that the two are not exclusively dichotomous. On a venn diagram - chaos and order intersect, and in the intersection there's gover...
My approach to scepticism is based on the principle of sound reason known as Occam's Razor - which states that it is vain to do with more, that which ...
Defence cross: Not a pathologist. Police medical knowledge - no way near your expertise. Physics is dynamic, agreed? Yes! Biology similar - dynamic sy...
Dr Martin Tobin. critical and pulmonary care medicine. Chicago, Il. 45 years a doctor. Pulmonary - lungs. Aware of pre-existing conditions? Yes, seen ...
Waiting for the trial to start - discovered to my surprise that an old TV series, I always thought was real life, was actually fiction. https://en.wik...
Causality! There's a relationship between the validity of the knowledge bases of action, and the consequences of such action within a causal reality. ...
In truth, all our waste could be recycled, if we had the energy to do so. I'm not saying recycling would return 100% of the waste materials to use, bu...
I've thought about this a lot, and my conclusion is that truth is useful in a far more fundamental and long term sense - whereas the lie is short term...
My sympathies. That's what some people think philosophy is; hair splitting for hair splitting's sake. Define "people" lol Potentially, people live in ...
I would, but I fear that were I to condescend to forgive so minor an infraction, I should place myself on an impossibly narrow ledge with regard to my...
The past. The question you asked?! I can explain where norms and values come from. The behavioural intellligence of hunter gatherer tribes - looking a...
Bravo, only - my argument is more that morality is fundamentally a sense formed in the pre-intellectual, behaviourally intelligent ancestors of homo s...
Well okay then, let's go back to consider your assertion that: Where do norms and values come from? Do they grow on trees? Are they mined from deep in...
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