Manuel

In a certain sense, yes. That's part of it, until it becomes part of empirical investigation, then it's stops being called metaphysics.

Metaphysics arises from the mismatch between what we can experience given the creatures that we are, and the craving that we have for knowledge which ...

Currently Reading: The Revisionaries by A.R. Moxon Re-reading: A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality by Ralph Cudworth Even though I ve...

The problem arises immediately when when you counterpose "thought" with the "physical world". One must explain why thought cannot be physical. What is...

That's how I see it too. It would be rather strange indeed if the things we saw, for some reason, looked as they do to us, absent us. That is, river a...

Thanks! That's the real truth. :wink:

Yes. Science turned into scienticism makes for very poor philosophy, in fact, leaves most of it out. As to the world absent people, there are vague no...

Of course. In all likelihood, I am quite mistaken in several of my views and beliefs, maybe most of them.

It's not clear to me. You can speak of this topic as you wish, that's not a problem. We agree on physics. I think you are using reality in the sense o...

Well, now it depends on what you mean by reality. Do you mean everything ranging from human beings, ideas, Gods, to a rock onto a novel? There's littl...

I think I'm using this distinction too much, and it perhaps strays from the intended use, but, I think Sellars' distinction between the manifest image...

I think we basically reach a point in which we cannot discover the "ultimate aims" of nature, that is a final explanation or cause. We can go so far a...

Man, this "hard problem" really captures the imagination of folks. But we can put aside other hard problems, which, we never had an answer for. So the...

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I can see that my projections are pretty smart and often clash with each other. :cool:

I'm very sorry to hear about these issues you are having with your sister. Mental disorders are extremely complicated to deal with, and absent some go...

Well, that's a bit of a relief. Now we have to hope poorer countries get enough vaccines so as to stop new variants from arising.

Yes. And I think Schopenhauer was quite acute in making that observation. Somehow, at bottom, we are all one thing. Somehow the appearance of differen...

Then it is a mere difference on the use of our words. A structure or an event unperceived by a conscious being capable of making these discriminations...

It makes sense given those circumstances.

I'm confused. I would've sworn in another conversation we had that you thought the idea was useful. I currently re-reading Cudworth, a persecutor to K...

Why is that surprising? It's a novelty and they still get food. I think we're assuming surprises must be negative or have negative connotations. I don...

Conditions for those experiments are a bit suspect. They put a mouse in a cage with a lever containing some kind of drug. With nothing else to do, bor...

It's not clear based on what they say. Perhaps we should distinguish surprise from stimulus and think of it as a kind of continuum. An organism would ...

If life is the complexification of processes that lead to ever more elaborate organisms, given the right atmospheric conditions, then the first life t...

We can get stuck on Kant, which is fine, there's lots of stuff there. We can also simplify a bit while still being as accurate as we can be and we say...

We have two meanings of the word "philosophy", perhaps unfortunately. There's the traditional meaning going back to the Greeks, which many people here...

Very interesting and useful. Thanks.

I had in mind ontology and metaphysics, not so much general worldly affairs. In that respect, who we are, what's going to happen, what should I do and...

Yeah. Even in questions which we could make some progress or elucidate the topics, it will only appeal to very few people. I have in mind something li...

Welp, we'll see how much this omicron varient has already spread. It seems to me that once they've detected it as a new strain, it's already too late....

:lol: Damn man, you're firing on all cylinders today. Reread Allais' interpretation of Kant - the best one there is currently. It's very interesting. ...

It's impossible to say. It's also astonishing how quickly we've learned so much, we've only had about, what, 300 to 400 years of science. Imagine if w...

I'm not going to give you the "left wing" spiel you've probably heard thousands of times. I'll only limit my comments to saying that the institutions ...

It's not easy under any circumstance. I think minority rights could be respected in a more democratic society, but there's no guarantee. If they don't...

The problem is not central planning per se, institutions are made by people, not laws of physics. The issue with how central planning has been carried...

There are different notions of nothing too. One thing is to say there can't be "nothing" in the universe, there's always a quantum vacuum, which is so...

Maybe there was always something. Our best science can only predict up close to the big bang. Then it breaks down. But from the big bang to "before" i...

I am also above my abilities here, but that's never stopped a discussion, so, I'll ask: Shouldn't the second law of thermodynamics be called a "habit"...

The Morning Star - Karl Ove Knausgaard Re-reading: Manifest Reality: Kant's Idealism and his Realism by Lucy Allais

It's a good question and again, I think that part of it has to do with what naïve realism imples for you. If it implies that stones and rivers would b...

Yes, we need to observe the stone, otherwise we have no data to work with. When we investigate in close detail what this stone is made of, we discover...

It depends on what naïve realism is taken to mean. The way discussed in the OP looks to me as a variety of realism. Naïve realism is the view is that ...

Agree, although Republicans distort even this as if she were speaking rudely. I don't think it's sexist, it makes sense to me. I doubt she will turn i...

He is. I'm not a fan, but I have to give him credit he is quite capable. If AOC were a man, she would not get nearly as much crap. I'm pretty confiden...

Of course, you can be honest (while still maintaining decency) outside of official office hours, but once inside, just behave as expected. Bernie is g...

Yep. He does say what a lot of people think. And I won't lie to you and say I did not thoroughly enjoy Trump destroying the other Republican candidate...

Yes, China has said so, and given the history of China in the 20th century, I get that perspective and I have no reason to believe they are bluffing. ...

Varoufakis speaks of this very well and does Ashoka Modi. Otherwise try looking at Varoufakis' lectures based on his Adults in the Room to hear some r...