Are you remaining within the chapter? I've been reading the section, but the exact quote you gave I found in another section of the book, concerning t...
There's no optimal way to read, imo. We all have our biases, sympathies, ways of thinking. We may attempt to be as faithful as possible to what he's s...
Ah. In that case, "what we get out of it" seems to me to be misplaced, yes. But certainly, that concern, is a very natural and immediate issue that ar...
Once you get to the imagination, you may see something you find convincing, though he spends a good deal of time on it. Browsing it now, not in great ...
One option may be one of the things I cited, which is simply, we do not know - it may be one of those "secret springs", which we cannot understand. Of...
That was a fantastic, fantastic post, much better than what I could muster myself. I think the arguments you present as your reading of Hume are corre...
Russia conducts first nuclear weapons drill since Ukraine invasion https://www.ft.com/content/e28b0aa8-0260-4249-9954-4e346ebda68a The article is payw...
He does point it out a lot and I think he is factually correct about this, though carrying out experiments on conceptual posits might prove to be quit...
Very good post and you are quite right. In fact, assuming you don't already know this, Hume regarded his account to be an empirical theory, meaning sc...
It's a modern imposition, perhaps influenced by Kant when he categorized philosophers before him as "dogmatists" and "skeptics". But Descartes and Lei...
Pardon for giving a sloppy reply, which doesn't even address your question (reply below) , my reading of Hume was heavily influenced by Galen Strawson...
Yeah, I think this is going to be fun, many of the issues you raise based on what he says is quite important, and obviously open to interpretation, as...
It is sooo tempting to troll here and say, real is just another word for metaphysics. Because saying it twice is not funny. But still, I giggle becaus...
In so far as Hume is attempting to give a theoretical account of what's empirically available to us (according to his system), your conclusion does se...
Very interesting. I've read similar studies; it does however create an issue. If an infant can recognize an object, then it looks to me as if causalit...
It is a problem for Christians given that they present God with the usual attributes of wisdom, goodness and so on. But I've also asked myself the que...
I applaud the effort that went into this post. I'm afraid we won't proceed to any kind of agreement, so continued discussion will not be profitable fo...
Yeah, that's pretty much how it looks like to me too. And we don't know how successful the Ukranians will be in pushing Russia out, they appear to be ...
Yeah, I remember reading that. And it's true, though sadly, we can now see a literal fascist in Italy gaining power, so now Anti-Italian will be a thi...
Those are consequences of wars, they first proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk as part of Russia, then they launched an assault which they thought would be...
I'm sure he did. And it was a different Russia, no doubt. But why expand NATO, if Russia was so different then? It was NATO's goal to be the balance a...
He was given a gentleman agreement, which is now easy to deny. Here is the testimony of John Matlock, the last US diplomat in the USSR: https://respon...
That's the issue, the question now is what situation is that in which the least amount of people will be killed? Because they're already dying. The cu...
I think @Mikie has covered this pretty well, with the sources he's given. But this article gives an outline, for instance: https://www.npr.org/2022/01...
It's very hard to put an estimate on these things, it's not like physics. Overwhelmingly I think the evidence shows that NATO encroachment was the mai...
We agree that the war is a crime, that civilians should not be killed, that nuclear war should be averted, that Putin is a thug, that Europe will have...
Concerning your last statement, your type of arguments are hardly new either, it's not as if there are twenty different end games here. I see your poi...
But that's the thing, it's not once in a while, it must be stated in a three-post exchange. It's not that it takes skin off my nose to say it, it's th...
We live in insane times if every single time I post I have to say Putin is a criminal. It's a bit like saying guns are lethal during wartime (and outs...
Arguing for a stop to the war is not the same as standing or supporting Putin - it does not follow at all, logically speaking. I agree that the West i...
Well, people are bombarded with the "good vs. evil" picture all the time in the media and pop culture, so naturally this view transfers to the real wo...
But that’s full of mental phenomena, I don’t see a way around that. Take your example of an apple in front of you: you’ll say this is real. Perfect. N...
It could well be that actually. They wouldn't want more people leaving Russia at the moment. They might even be looking for Israeli settlers to join t...
I missed your reply. As I said to Mww, I think that the problem here is the issue of "purely" mental entities, that is, thinking about objects absent ...
I'd guess part of the issue - aside from the situation in Syria, which Israel is currently fine with - is that, Russia may make customs to Israel very...
No, I mean, Israel has its own interests that not-infrequently clash with the US' interests. Nevertheless, if they do sell weapons to Ukraine, it migh...
Very much so. And Israel is hesitant to sell weapons to Ukraine, as they are quite happy with the current arrangement in Syria. I suspect only the US ...
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