Whatever else it may be, you are going to get stuck on the word "is" and try to find some "essence" or a common attribute common to the word which may...
You can't get out of your skin to a neutral perspective free of bias. In other words, we are irredeemably biased beings. If the pain is too strong for...
They do. One common rebuttal is that they are deluded or fooling themselves. I say if they are, good for them. Likewise if a poor person goes all in o...
One of his came out a week ago: https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Homer-L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3-Krasznahorkai/dp/0811227979/ref=sr_1_1?crid=149FD2G9HHW6K&keywor...
I didn't have in mind my own stuff, except in so far as I've been influenced by what I've studied. I don't mind "losing stuff" if I learn. ;) I was no...
As I see it, it focuses on a rather narrow area of the world - important, no doubt - that of "absolute presuppositions". Other traditions, say, pragma...
It's not about parroting, it's to gain an elementary understanding and then build up from that. I think you and aletheist have helped in that. The log...
Alright but, which of his writings do you consider to be helpful when looking into the categories. He wrote about them quite frequently, but are there...
It seems as if Collingwood is ignoring the world (the concern of metaphysics) and focusing instead on intended meaning. Anyone can use the term "metap...
It's what she uses as a way to connect sentences, it could be annoying to some, I thought it worked well. As for the subject matter, yes, it doesn't s...
Which pessimist argument? There's different varieties to choose from. I guess we could say that a general statement could be life is not worth living,...
It's difficult to separate, in fact probably not possible, our biological inclinations with our developed reflective nature. The tendency in nature of...
Ah, well once it gets off into mathematics I get lost. Which is why looking for an epistemic-metaphical example suits my needs. If I can grasp that, t...
Damn man, Ducks Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann was an awesome book. 1000 pages, one sentence (yes, one.), stream of consciousness. Delightful, quirky, em...
Yes, it does help quite a bit. My doubt would be with 1sts then. If I "do away" with firsts, it would be a ball lacking colour "only"? It's difficult ...
:clap: Thanks for that very detailed post. I'll be sure to read it several times to make better sense of it. It covers a lot of ground. Just as a gene...
I think that we can put it aside and leave this thread as a general discussion of Parmenides, that way if someone wants to speak about him, whether hi...
Yeah, this dialogue is just not fun. It's interesting in so far as it offers a critique of the theory of forms, but it assumes this type of "the one",...
I wanted to ask to anyone here. Is there anyone in this forum who knows Peirce's work well or some aspects of it well? I want to understand his catego...
That's fine and understandable. The only issue you may have is that when people ask do we have selves or is the world ideal and the like, you'll find ...
No no no. That won't do. Metaphysics is the stuff of the transcendent. Metaphysics is that which lies beyond the physics. Metaphysics is what Kant tri...
I recall that the main point was being hammered over and over again, but that was a few years ago. I'll refresh my reading, if I get the same feeling ...
It might be better to say "metaphysics" is, whatever people who work and study on this subject say it is. That will lead to some poor quality New Age ...
The best we can say is that the universe is all there is, unless the multiverse theory happens to be true, which is difficult to test at the moment. I...
Maybe this is the case, maybe it's not. We have to "stop the buck" somewhere otherwise we go down an infinite chain of postulates. We don't know enoug...
Depends on how we think of cause. It's not impossible that the universe came into being for no reason or cause. Someone can say that makes no sense at...
Things remain the same. People will continue to speak about metaphysics and you'll be limited to speaking about "C-metaphysics". It's good you found a...
Depends on which field you want to go in. Most analytic philosophy, if not a good part of it, is rather technical focusing often on extremely narrow t...
Susan Haack picks up on that in her The World According to Innocent Realism. She discusses fiction and how it relates to the world and concludes that ...
That's the problem. We have many definitions, sometimes incompatible with each other, so we have to choose one. Or leave the topic ambiguous. I think ...
"They say that the name metaphysics is almost accidental, it was just the book by Aristotle that came after the book called ‘Physics’, so it doesn’t r...
Well, I suppose this is why we are in philosophy forum, to argue till' we're blue in the face. It only gets bad when we start arguing about trees exis...
They respected him deeply. I suppose the appeal here is that the idea of one-ness is simple and difficult to argue against. Like if someone says there...
Funny that I saw your reply as I was typing, otherwise I would keep postponing. By this point, it's impossible not to have our ideas contaminated by m...
Well I'll start by saying something, otherwise it's easy to get intimidated and not say anything. Because this text is really dense and difficult. I'v...
It's "built in" to the way we experience the world. We just can't enter into the head of another person, we can only see bodies. The closest analogy o...
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