As Russell discusses - I believe in his An Outline of Philosophy - there are degrees of solipsism, as well as degrees of skepticism. Probably the most...
I can see that. You have to keep in mind, that the best minds - people like Schopenhauer and Russell, couldn't refute it: it is irrefutable. But that'...
Once you consider that there are several problems that arise that are one the same level with solipsism, in terms of being irrefutable by reason, you ...
While working through Leibniz New Essays on Human Understanding, I randomly decided I needed a bit of a break from the classical tradition, so am re-r...
It's interesting that you mention Dennett. I would agree that his views on consciousness being an illusion might lead one to think that he takes a det...
If someone is being honest, say, a religious person or scholar, they can use metaphysical arguments for political ends and even do this in good faith,...
This is horrific. We are just dying to race to oblivion, there is no end in sight. The more this goes on, the bigger the risks of someone making a mis...
It was very good and interesting. True, it became difficult and heavy-going in several places, particularly when he becomes repetitive. So, some parts...
@"Maw" Just finished The Melancholy of Resistance - it took longer than I would have liked, I lost a bit of focus towards the last 3rd of the book, wi...
We can't help anthropomorphizing. What we can avoid is that in the anthropomorphizing, we actually believe that this machine has cognition, or even co...
I have played around with the previous version - the one currently freely available now, I think the one you are mentioning is somewhat better, but th...
The comment about the competition of power reminds me a bit of Plato's dislike of the Sophists, who argued for the sake of winning an argument, not fo...
It depends on what you mean by "philosophy". If you mean by this word, what "ordinary" people commonly regard as "that's my philosophy", then philosop...
That I do see rather clearly (in so far as anything he writes can belled "clear"), his conservative stance in terms of being rooted to nature and foll...
That much is sensible. Especially when it reaches to the level of metaphysics and epistemology, knowing a bit of the science of the time really helps ...
They did - and it makes sense too, given the recent experience of the war at the time. I believe Arendt eventually forgave him - I don't think she was...
Yes, that's the sense I now get of Heidegger, of being an oracle teasing of things to come, without giving a full revelation. But the journey is still...
I entirely agree. What bothers me, is that these threads don't even try to engage in any positive or interesting parts Heidegger may have said. In fac...
Yeah, as you know, Chomsky is by far my biggest influence, and even if he actually read Being and Time (he didn't, he read Intro to Metaphysics), I do...
Which I can understand to an extent. Even though the same must be true of, say, Hegel, I currently cannot assign much value to him, but he must have s...
He was a piece of shit as a person, I used to be a big fan, am now much less so, but not because I already did not know of his involvement with Nazism...
I mean if one takes into account modern physics, we cannot say the universe is deterministic, it is probabilistic, so strict determinism cannot arise,...
Here I think being simple-minded or naive may be of some help. What definitions, outside of those given in mathematics, is a complete or at least sati...
I'm familiar with Locke and Hume, who speak about these things. For Locke what we perceive are ideas which are directly caused by objects. Hume says s...
I mean, it depends on what you consider a "buffer" here. We need eyes (and a brain) to see, we need ears to hear, and so on. Now, some people aren't a...
It's a fantastic question, and a most difficult one to solve, given that we have to assume certain things that cannot be proven: external world, perma...
Maybe. It is still pure madness to play around with this. The risks couldn't be higher. I get the idea of sending a message, but, it's pretty wild. No...
It's only circular if you assume you are correct, i.e., that AN is the same as abolitionists fighting against slavery. The problem is in your assumpti...
US had to crash drone into Black Sea after damage: Pentagon The US military was forced to crash its MQ-9 Reaper surveillance drone because of the dama...
Well unless I speak of the living, I cannot speak at all. For as you know, people do not exist have no moral rights - they don't exist! Therefore, I a...
Then you go on to give the standard reply that pain is an obvious evil and that no one deserves it, yet people aren't owed pleasure, etc., etc. I doub...
Nah - it's called a "red herring" and a ad hom merely because the topic does not what to be discussed - it is actually relevant. Why? Because if peopl...
You see that this goes back to the argument of "inexistent being" being harmed. You've discussed this several times, probably too much. But a lot of t...
And I have replied. Again, 8 months is kind of a long time for a discussion that was meant for a different poster and a different context in mind. The...
Many reasons surely. Incidentally, the post you replied to is 8 months old. I have no interest in discussing anti-natalism, maybe others will. I find ...
It's hard to generalize when speaking of so many people. I do not doubt that many of them suffer. But they don't solely suffer, there are other things...
I'm sorry - I was not aware I was having a particular issue with the elusive now. Just the same issues most other philosophers have pointed out - so u...
That the present exists is undeniable? It's problematic - as is the general nature of temporality. We cannot pin the right-nowness of the present, it ...
Hah! Yeah - that's one of the reasons I have been hesitant to read him, he's quite difficult to read. There's plenty of good philosophy that is writte...
I did not know about this quote. I have to read up on Aristotle, a bit embarrassed to admit I know very, very little of his thought. Thanks for sharin...
One could make a case that being and experience require each other. For if we lacked the latter, we could not recognize the former. Sure, you can say ...
I mean, you are right, "intelligence" could be used metaphorically - but then it's unclear as to what this means. We can describe physics in terms of ...
All this worry about AI when we have much, much more serious problems with regular human I, makes me think such worries are very much misaligned. Also...
Exactly - his philosophy can be polarizing. It is interesting, but his previous works, before Process and Reality, specifically, The Concept of Nature...
:up: Not that they call it this, Lewis calls it conceptual analysis of the given in experience, whereas Tallis calls his approach "epistogony", litera...
There are important economic factors here, no doubt as you showed in the article you shared. And indeed, there may well be other economic factors whic...
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