It may be a common idea, there are quite a few in the idealist tradition who believe in this. But I at least wanted to narrow it down somewhat. I pers...
Yes. We may, for example say factual claims about fictional works. For instance, Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984 is a male and a party member, even tho...
I think it's science fiction. I think the goals are noble, but that it amounts essentially to a religion, wildly exaggerating what we can do with our ...
Yes an advanced alien would say that. The fact is that we intuit the Sun going round the Earth, we can't help seeing this clearly every day. We know t...
Yes. I suspect this is the case. Perhaps the grounds of reality are non-representable in nature, but nevertheless we are able to perceive its effects ...
I think this depends on how one thinks about metaphysics. If by metaphysics one takes it that the world is described by physics and that physics tells...
Actually, I think something like that is not completely crazy. Perhaps we have access to parts of the visual spectrum they do not have, as in, we can ...
Yes, that's true. What I'm trying to point out, is that there are things in the world which our instruments cannot capture, simply because we don't ha...
Yes. I mean, biology alone and I mean a specific subfield of it, would take a lifetime. Similar to many disciplines by now. So if we do want to specul...
I wasn't speaking about science when I gave my example about WWII, so I'm not sure I follow what you're saying in this part. It wasn't a scientific fa...
A fact is (often, not always) a proposition in which what is stated adheres to the situation the statement is aimed at elucidating. Thus, that World W...
I see. Ethically, I think I'd be inclined today (for it could change in the future) to a kind of gentle or sympathetic absurdism. That is, treat peopl...
It seems to me that our temporality is what guides philosophical endeavors. In a limited time, we have to make sense out of this "booming buzzing conf...
That would be the idea. And maybe nature works this way. Or maybe nature is too sophisticated for us as you say, which would make us agree on the main...
Hmm. It's a subtle distinction you're making, I think. I mostly have in mind the first option, that of another creature having a more complex or maybe...
Descartes already complained about it back in his time, that no one would be able to finish reading all the books being published. If you strained you...
Well math is the application of numbers to some kind of structure. What this structure is, isn't clear. But I don't understand the notion that there i...
Jung may know God like I know about the numinous. The phrase is fine and in ordinary conversation is not terribly complicated to speak like this. Afte...
I don't find a tension in these ideas. But I do have a "metaphysical itch", so that may be why. I could imagine a different intelligent species from u...
Depends on the person, no? I mean, some people really are too far gone to reach common ground. But many are not. If one takes a path of sympathy to th...
Yes. And it many ways, it's counterintuitive. The most familiar things to us, say an ordinary tree or a slug or a flower are immediate percepts. Yet o...
It would be interesting to be able to have knowledge of the actual thing or phenomena that produces these effects in us, that is, what grounds the eff...
It's hard to answer that question without getting into semantics of what it means to "know" or to "have knowledge". I'll bypass all these sometimes so...
The anti-science stuff is used as a weapon since anybody can say that a study is biased or ideological or whatever. And it's not difficult to find a g...
Not quite, though there are similarities. Sadism implies liking to actively harm people. Schadenfreude doesn't necessarily carry a connotation of enjo...
There are certain feelings which aren't captured as neatly as one would in other languages. For example, in Spanish we sometimes say "Hasta siempre", ...
In the end, for our practical purposes, it should make no difference. If true, then we still need to apply laws to deter bad behavior all the while st...
A person thinks. Not a brain. I've never seen a brain think, or reflect or cognize. But people, on the other hand, do all these things. So thinking ta...
Senses and intellect. It's a synthesis of the two. Granted, we would not get far with intellect alone. But without intellect, the senses would be quit...
"At the very limit of his life, when familiar, differentiated daylight had become the edge of undifferentiated eternity, where words were only the spi...
But it's extremely difficult to begin a conversation without these buzzwords coming up very quickly. People want to save the mental effort of trying t...
Yes and no. He was quite a bit more nuanced in private affairs with his fellow Mont Pelerin and Chicago School contemporaries. I know that Phillip Mir...
This would be a topic in which much could be said if it were possible to measure wisdom. I don't know how that could be possible. Buddhism has many in...
I see it's an old thread, but an interesting question. Yes. Information is physical. This is not meant as a scientistic claim that anything worth talk...
I think Raymond Tallis gave a good answer to this question. Zeno's paradox arises when we mistake mathematical space for manifest reality. In our dail...
Been vaccinated and think people should have them in certain settings as mentioned in the poll. The vaccine passports are more complicated. Yeah, I kn...
Then there is no reason to suppose anything is going on, from a naturalistic perspective. And common sense too, I'd wager. But people differ when it c...
A while back. I liked it. Then again I think Heidegger is unique in that way, nobody else could continue constructing philosophy like he did. At least...
Honestly. I don't know. I've devoted significant time trying to figure this out. Of course I could be way wrong. The only conclusion I've been able to...
I think it is unavoidable to say "white lies" and living in a society in which brutal honesty is expected in every waking moment would be quite taxing...
The so called hard problem, how could "dead and stupid matter" lead to mind. I think that phrasing it this way is misleading. There are many hard prob...
"The relationship between the brain and the mind is a significant challenge both philosophically and scientifically. This is because of the difficulty...
Information is a word. If it is a property of the natural world, it seems to me to be nebulous if it is applied to so many different fields of inquiry...
If you're up to a quite challenging, but extremely fun philosophical book, I suggest you try Novel Explosives by Jim Gauer. If you want a lighter read...
Epistemically, I can't disagree. Metaphysically, however, I think we still have all options available. One can't speak of mind realistically if we tak...
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