Manuel

"While we can isolate the element of the given by these criteria of its unalterability and its character as sensuous feel or quality, we cannot descri...

We can't say what aspects of our own thought are futile. Maybe we realize that thinking about X was a waste of time or, one becomes aware that what on...

There's all kinds of traditions, views and personal quirks. So I assume there are some who think so. Like solipsism, it's not a question that can be r...

Welcome to my world. :naughty: :halo:

Never mind, poor attempt at mock surprise

Sure. Here a link to the dialogue: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/parmenides.html

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I don't know about Eastern Traditions to be able to say much about that, if that's what you have in mind when speaking of having no self. Though galax...

I'm not sure I understand. If you were to say the world is related to how we think about it, then that's fine. If we are thinking about ourselves the ...

That's a tough one. That would be the case if the self "T Clark" is a metaphysical entity. It seems to me that selves are epistemological entities rel...

Hah! That's one way of putting it. It's not my specialty but I'll try my best to contribute something. Sounds good to me. :up:

Ah, perfect, sounds fun. :ok: In terms of time, whatever works for you. I don't want to miss out because I didn't pay attention to dates.

I have no idea how this works though, in terms of when we read and where to discuss and so on.

I can do Plato, no problem.

Capital punishment still exists in Japan and South Korea, not only the US. Of course, this doesn't make it right, but other "developed countries" have...

Reply 2/2 We take the sense data from the world and represent it as a wall. We don't experience how we do this, we automatically do so. It's after thi...

Wow. That's some reply. I currently don't have the puzzlement that caused me to create this over a week ago, nevertheless I have to answer some of the...

It's C.I. Lewis I have in mind, not Kant. Sounds fair. :up:

Perhaps, psychology broadly considered, yes. It's a massive topic and not our most developed science by any means. In terms of Aristotle's original co...

It is a trashcan, but a trashcan is a concept imposed on the thing, it's also a human concept "trashcan", not a natural kind, which exist mind indepen...

Confessions of a Philosopher by Bryan Magee

Ah, always with the easy questions with you eh? :sweat: It's difficult to pin down. We may have similar epistemological concerns in terms of truth, re...

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Well, they are pretty related, even though people specialize in one field or another. You can't do epistemology without a world, and a world makes no ...

It's attempting to elucidate what is given descriptively, maybe it's a bad formulation. I'm assuming that when analyzing something given, what we capt...

She calls science "a loose federations of interrelated kinds of inquiry."

Whatever is given to creatures like us (which is very difficult to tease out), must be of a nature that it can partly be apprehended by us in percepti...

:up: Yep. We can't get out of our bodies to see how things might look like absent our specific perspective. There's always a pragmatic element to enqu...

As noted by you, both try to make sense of the world. The difference is that some aspects of philosophy have an empirical basis, whereas Religion use ...

Put in that way, it is true. The issue is articulating what is that "which gives rise to these considerations". Sense data? I don't know.

Sure, you cannot will the movements of planets or galaxies, in that sense reality is certainly independent of us. There is "world-making", to use Good...

Systematic racism exists everywhere. There's even racism here (Dominican Republic) by brown people towards more darkly toned brown people. Not to ment...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOqblSqx_VI

If not, then how do you make sense of anything? We can't simply guess at everything the other person is saying, we wouldn't know what to do. The probl...

Heh. That's true. Nature is powerful enough that in thousands of years, we should predict for some kind of intelligent life to return. Of course, sinc...

I'm not finding a place where to complain about stuff only philosophers or philosophically inclined people could ever conceive of complaining. Absent ...

At one point or other, it would seem normal to think we would disappear as a species. To have it be of our own conscious decision making, is sad.

One may not like him, but he's a capable politician. Which is a strange thing to say these days. I mean, sure. Not being too cynical about it, it's be...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/freylindsay/2021/09/13/world-bank-predicts-massive-internal-migration-from-climate-change-by-2050/?sh=49b8333510e4 The re...

Mass migration, serious food shortages, increased natural disasters, job scarcity, not being able to be outside a building for much time at all. If yo...

Yes, but, notice he spoke in English to the press, he could have left had he wanted to. Or said "no comment." Yeah, the press is a nightmare, but Macr...

That's the thing, it still is not set in stone that we will miss the target yet. If we do, it's very bad news. I don't have children, nor plan to, but...

Thanks for that reply. Did he explicitly mention Mainlander? The only thing I can recall explicitly is Nietzsche's condemnation of Mainlander's advoca...

That's quite optimistic you know. At least with us gone, the world has less worries. :joke:

Yeah, that's not with billions of people living in cities who don't know how to survive in the wilderness. If we are still here, I guess. It took abou...

We haven't faced something this big ever, involving the entire world population and the vanishing of countries and cities. We may adapt, but maybe bil...

Great article. These politicians are of low quality recently. Maybe it's a bias, but what they're saying is pretty embarrassing, in this case, the Aus...

Yeah, that's the gist of the logic. And the solution is really that straightforward. Stupid competition and bragging rights about "growth" and the lik...

We have no idea. We can gesture at some vague notions of "symmetry", or "simplicity" or "elegance", and have not a clue why we find things meaningful ...

Sooo... Based on headlines and a few articles read, so far everything has gone exactly as expected. By the time we get to 2030, we might actually see ...