Not great. :lol: It's harder than I was expecting and some of the distinctions he draws between inner and outer sense escape me. In fact, many of his ...
He found it puzzling that he couldn't find the idea of "necessary connection" in our ideas of causality. I admit that to me, the issue is at times a b...
What's the alternative to doing this for life? Going on intuition and emotion all the time? That's not going to help you get very far, in fact, it's l...
I'm finally - after much fear and trepidation, am reading Kant's Critique, and it certainly helps to have read a decent amount of commentary on it, ma...
I mean, I think the paradox he points out makes sense. The bit about him going a bit senile or losing steam has been going on for well over ten years....
Well, Putin certainly gave the Hawks in NATO the biggest gift he could possibly offer, and they will take it, as they have been. We will see how Russi...
But Russia hasn't and will not be able to control Ukraine. Why would Russia want to invade Finland and Sweden? Again, as far as we've seen, Russia's m...
There's no need for him to condemn Russia, which he has actually, several times. There's an abundance of criticism already readily available everywher...
He's quoting what he's read in the press, that's not his belief. I don't think it's hard for him to understand that concept at all. For instance, he's...
I mean yes, you can think about it this way, and you are right that Russia (if things don't escalate badly), will learn from this. But the idea of joi...
"Whereas notwithstanding it is most true that those corporeal qualities, which they think to be such real things existing in bodies without them, are ...
Yes. I think the Security Council ought to be dismantled, it's essentially a way for powerful nations to ignore whatever international laws they do no...
Bulgaria and Poland ‘refused’ to meet Russia’s roubles demand https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/26/russia-warns-poland-bulgaria-it-will-cut-off-ga...
Sure, though nukes were very much considered in Vietnam. The situation is a bit different. It's the unconscious comfort of thinking that it couldn't p...
I have in mind ordinary people, say many who are religious, which may amount to more than half of the world population. It's my impression that they o...
Sorry for my very brief reply earlier, it was too early and I only skimmed it. I read it better now. No, I mean, what you say is undoubtedly true. And...
I said that a year ago, when I got here. I probably would phrase it quite differently now. I'd say something like, for many people, there is such a th...
One last question, this is just curiosity, not attempting to start an argument or disagreement, I really want to see how you think about this: So righ...
That's a good question. What about things like alchemy and astrology and the people who believe in that stuff. Wouldn't they say they know it's true -...
Lavrov likes fear porn too. It's stupid to call it a bluff, even if it is one. Then again, why isn't it called fear porn when all the countries in Eur...
Russia’s Lavrov warns of ‘real’ danger of World War III Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that peace talks with Ukraine would continue, ...
Surely, not everything natural is good. Earthquakes are natural, but suck for people. Hemlock too if used in certain ways, so it's not as if natural i...
I hear this. The only issue, which I don't think is entirely trivial, is that we don't know what the limits of what "the natural" are. By this I do no...
Perice was an extreme genius. And would agree with him (and you) about universals. But as I said, I'm very much into Hume these days, reading a good d...
Yes, I skimmed that one, I suppose I'm more interested in the causation argument, and there is a paper on that, which is OK, but surely there is more ...
Hey man, sorry for this brief interruption, but you're exactly the person I want to ask. I'm trying to find literature on Peirce's reaction to some of...
Incidentally which book deals with this topic in a comprehensive manner? I have read one by Henry Allison, but It left me wanting more. The article li...
It's true. There are many figures involved, including the psychoanalysts, which may be considered "pre-scientific". But, one has to speak of William J...
Well. If we accept cosmology's standard answer, i.e. the Big Bang, then, perhaps, something like this can happen, something out of nothing. It makes n...
Well, yes. Ukraine's destruction is pretty much a given, how destroyed is an open question and depends on the relevant actors, mostly Russia. It's exc...
Obviously not Baden, but, I think chances could be better. It could be worse, but, not by much. This is going on way too long. And these sanctions cou...
That's pretty reasonable. The difficulty is in finding out which people deserve ridicule and which do not. To some extent, everyone has legitimate gri...
Sorry, I was distracted. I mean, perhaps. I think some explanations I've seem to verge on jingoism. But this whole "bad faith" stuff, it's not worth m...
I don't see the point of arguing after a certain amount of posts. It's roughly clear what each person thinks. But we do "reduce" each other into categ...
But then, how do you propose this ever gets solved? Looks to me like an infinite task. Not that is shouldn't be fought, but there's a lot of sensitivi...
I've only read half of Leibniz's New Essays before I figured I should read Locke before I finished this, and haven't got back to it. With what I can r...
Well, it's arguable that Leibnizian Monads could be categorized as such. But we don't know how they would be possible. Perhaps Cartesian souls too. Ju...
You mean human shields? According to the article, Israeli intelligence do not believe this will escalate to war. I hope they are right. But in a few d...
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/rocket-sirens-sound-over-gaza-border-1.10749254 Israel Intercepts Gaza Rocket After Sirens Sound on Border 2022, h...
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