This (quite long) essay, which I posted on another thread, is most excellent, and makes the issue rather clear, with plenty of evidence, but it has li...
Posting again here, the topic of the thread is interesting, putting aside the word "material". Is there an external world? Yes. But it's nature and ou...
No no, I mean, I agree with you. I don't think that they will invade - or I hope not at the very least. But one wonders, by doing these drills, are th...
Good article, thanks for sharing. :up: It's another variety of determinism. The difference being that this "superdeterminism" claims to show that even...
So far extensive military drills on large swaths of the island are underway. There are also some sanctions taking place, though I don't think it's hit...
Which is why it is helpful to think of time in terms of William James "specious present", that duration, perhaps 2 seconds or so, in which we combine ...
As an aside, I understand this to be the most nationalistic wing of Chinese media, so it might be an interesting source of info concerning what may ha...
Yes. This can be candy to politicians and an excellent excuse to avoid other pressing political concerns, usually of the domestic variety. But it's th...
If you could provide some sources for the times China has warned WWIII with those countries mentioned, I would appreciate it. I do know that for them ...
I don't agree. There is no need for provocation at this level, hell, even that dimwit at the New York Times, Thomas Friedman - for once - said that th...
:up: All this could have been avoided if Pelosi hadn't planned this visit. As you mention, the relevant actors. especially China, must react somehow, ...
US Navy deploys warships east of Taiwan ahead of Pelosi ‘trip’ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/2/us-navy-deploys-warships-east-of-taiwan-ahead-o...
All solipsism is a form of idealism, idealism need not be solipsist at all. Solipsism posits that only I exist and that everything else - crucially - ...
It's terminological by now. Descartes discovered things (Cartesian coordinate system) as did Kant with the nebular hypothesis. Locke based important p...
I'm quite skeptical of forming such far reaching connections between math and "real life", not because we don't use it, most of us do in some form of ...
How frequently will James Webb be releasing images? I know that a new one came out, concerning some purple-ish looking galaxy. But since the initial r...
I don't think this type of reasoning is persuasive. Even if we admit brute facts, they have to be brute because of something - a property, a law, a fe...
Well, the point of an election is to see which candidate ends up with the most votes. That takes into consideration those who do not vote. If, in effe...
Sure. Though liking math is something that few people are intuitively attracted to. One interesting question that arises as a follow-up to yours is, w...
Sure. We are typing on a keyboard and looking at a screen, you can touch it after all, your fingers don't go through it. We should keep in mind that w...
Single celled organisms are still with us, in some form or another, for 3.7 billion years. We have been around as is, roughly 100,000 years. Most crea...
If it is infinite, which is not yet clear. One thing to mention here is that intelligence seems to be a lethal mutation: the vast majority of life sho...
Mathematics once had a direct and unambiguous relationship with philosophy, Pythagoras, Euclid, Plato (Let No One Ignorant of Geometry Enter Here). Ba...
I did mine in Spain, which likely differs quite a bit in many respects from the US. Was it hard? If you like the subject - really like it - then the e...
Yes. This happens a lot, but then the individual arguing for or against this position should merely state what they mean by the debated term. If it's ...
Kastrup's arguments are interesting and sometimes useful. He does seem to me to vastly exaggerate issues pertaining to "alternative" personalities or ...
It's half the story. While it is undoubtedly true that we "only" perceive our own ideas - something that was taken for granted during the Golden Age o...
Very well said Joshs. :up: It's not an issue of naming, it's a conceptual issue, no small thing. To argue otherwise is to confuse an ontology for what...
I think your general gist in accurate, but would quibble with the quoted portion here. If we assume that some of the celestial bodies shown by James W...
We will need a transition, of course we cannot one month to another, or a year, stop all consumption of fossil fuels. Agreed. But to say we need *more...
Essentially, because of the energy crisis, the West should basically keep drilling and forget about green technology. Only doing more digging and dril...
Bone-chilling headline from the Wall Street Journal's editorial board. The West’s Climate Policy Debacle Utopian energy dreams are doing great economi...
I am being slightly silly, because I'm in that mood, but, let me be a bit more serious: We must begin with one assumption, at the very least, or we ca...
I'm here to suffer, I love it, everybody else does too. If not, things would be very boring, very quickly. Well, Schopenhauer pointed out, not an exac...
I thought we had a tacit agreement on this... Of course it's him, always. Anyway: The Logos by Mark de Silva Re-reading: A Treatise of Human Nature Vo...
It's an interesting phenomenon. Lots of people love the beginning at the ending (remember it best), then they forget what happened in the middle. That...
It's not one specific idea, although one could mention differance or hauntology or whatever else he argued, it's several factors. I won't go into deta...
These awards should be given relative to the time some of these figures lived in. Spinoza's arguments are somewhat difficult to re-articulate now, tho...
It wasn't meant as a jab at Janus at all. It's was an comment that immediately came to mind. And he is correct that we lack this award in "philosophy"...
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