Manuel

I suspect the problem resides in our not knowing well enough how to categorize "purely" mental objects. But then, this rock I see here, is partially m...

Ukraine to Officially Submit Request for Air Defense Supplies From Israel https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-10-18/ty-article/ukraine-requests-i...

"Real", as is used in English is an honorific word, adding little substance to what is being discussed. If a person tells you this is the "real deal" ...

Hah! However, Raymond Tallis' books frequently deal with the "view from nowhere" topic, even if not (always) stated directly.

Whatever floats his boat. I think there are plenty of different views here, even if some views are somewhat more popular than others. Nevertheless, fi...

Thank you for the info. I PM'ed with him with relative frequency, we shared plenty of similar ideas - with some disagreements of course, which were mi...

Damn. That's a shame and a loss for this forum. Well, hopefully there will be other Buddhist-Idealist-Platonists around, they are rather underrepresen...

He said this in some manner? Last I see from his posts he was engaged in discussions as usual. I figure given that he's been here for so long, he woul...

Hopefully he's just taking a break or on a vacation or something along those lines.

Also I wanted to say, I think by next week I'd like to start a reading group focusing on Hume's section about the existence of external objects, it ma...

Really? Or are you guessing? Haven't seen him in a long time, it would be a shame cause he's quite interesting.

Sam Harris is mediocre at very, very best. At worst he's just a useful idiot, probably believes what he says about torture and AI and the woke left. H...

I believe it was a product of Israeli propaganda, which serves to silence critics of Israel. The rights that should be afforded, and are granted at le...

Mww, is Mww. He's great! :)

:rofl: That's extraordinary. I think mathematical conceptions are different in nature than world phenomena. A perfect tree does not exist of course, b...

I think it's kind of the opposite, as I see it: we see imperfect triangles all the time, which makes us think of triangles (which are perfect in our m...

Pfffft. May I invite you good Sir, to read Lacan and Derrida? :joke:

Hmmm. I would not be surprised if there were cases of people who lacked the capacity to visualize such elementary figures. But the vast majority of pe...

It could be a bit of both, but the example you give was used by Descartes, if I don't misremember. And Cudworth too, though his examples were more var...

No travesty at all. Hume has a ridiculous amount of quotable sentences, paragraphs and even pages. Good on you for trying that style of writing out, i...

I think this thought experiment doesn't work for the present case, but let's see. Well, the US would use it's might military to flatten Iraq, in this ...

Very much so, the simple fact that almost everybody can use Twitter to boast about something or to report on an event, very much affects the reactions...

You pretty much nailed it, spot on, and very astute observation with Sun Tsu. I think we have good reason to believe that Putin actually feels this wa...

Probably not. I mean, the Russian army was basically walking into Ukraine thinking they would be welcomed in many cases. It plays a big part, no doubt...

Correct. Nevertheless, Afghanistan was nowhere near the level of importance to the USSR as Ukraine is now. Nor was it for the United States. Russia ha...

Good to know you care so deeply about Ukrainians. But I did start the thread, way before we had any idea it could reach this level of magnitude. I don...

IF the word latches on to something, and we can isolate a state before an event and afterwards, and we notice the effect changes the state, we would l...

I don't think it's hard really. The more humiliation Russia suffers, the more they missiles they will use to flatten Ukraine. It's not the "actual opp...

That's kind of the point I made. Sensible ones (for the time they were writing in) also include Locke, Smith, Mill, Hume, Russell, Kant, Dewey and man...

You are correct, and one tries to be accommodating to those who are next to Russia, or close to it. Totally understandable position. We all think we a...

This is very important and it seems other people have a hard time understanding this, when it should be quite simple to get. I think I've only seen on...

This depends on what you mean by "substance". I've been re-reading Locke again, and he raises this problem in very, very interesting ways. Actually, o...

I do know I am talking to a Finn, we have raised it a few times actually. That's interesting intelligence, and believable. But one thing is having suc...

So now Putin is like Hitler, carrying out literal genocide and wanting to conquer, not "merely" all of Europe, but also the rest of the world? He coul...

Quite right. And I happen to think that his dualism is often misunderstood. He thought he could explain the whole physical (non-mental) world in terms...

I had in mind Russia (the Russian state) in general rather than Putin himself, who does have most of the power. Netanyahu is a compulsive liar, Bolson...

This point generalized to virtually every government in the world. They all commit crimes to differing degrees, but agreeing with them doesn't make on...

The main point here, for me, regardless of how the attacks were carried out, is that this has increased military offensive, as we are seeing daily wit...

I've been a bit busy today and my brain is a bit gone. Just from skimming, agree on some points, others not so much. Thanks for the detailed response,...

I currently cannot access the NYT articles, which are paywalled. You are correct that there is no link given for this claim. As for the terrorist atta...

Forgot who was asking, but here is the evidence of US/Ukraine bombing of bridge: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/10/10/ymsa-o10.html

I assume that when one says "Russia" or the "US" or "Ukraine", one is not referring to a land mass, much less to millions of people, with different op...

Here's me thinking that wanting a nuclear war should suffice on pain of stupidity...

Of course. Then again changes take place a person at a time, at all levels of society. Even if the circle is very small, it's still a circle.

Correct. Either one is in a position to directly influence the war (US, Europe, Russia) or one talks about it as a pressing issue, an issue that deser...

I don't know how long we have, so that my generation could also be going out with yours. It is frustrating to have a conversation on this topic. I gen...

And believe it is morally commendable. I did? I don't remember saying that, but this thread is very long. If I did say so, then it was a stupid thing ...

Frank, I have said I don't know, over 10 times that what Russia is doing is criminal. I don't know if you want me to recite a poem about how stupid th...

I said that the only moral aspect I could have a positive contribution on is what my Governments do or do not do. Even in that aspect my impact is min...

It wouldn't. Of course not. Yet we live in the real world, in which consequences happen if a major country suffers humiliation. It does not in any way...