In materialism? Really? To say that quantum mechanics is the study of physical stuff is an admission of defeat? That's surprising. Liquidity is define...
Yeah, sure. But then what happens when one chosen person is instructed by God to say, kill another chosen person and yet this latter one is instructed...
Then you are working with an outdated notion of materialism. I mean, you can use it if you like. It has no relevance to what's happening now because t...
Based on what I've seen thanks to you and YuYuHunter, I can't wait for the translation. Mostly his epistemic/metaphysical stuff. His pessimism is a bi...
Yes, correct. He based that in large part to the creative aspect of language use. I'm offering Chomsky's version of events. Which I've found to be acc...
At bottom, this is mostly a terminological dispute, not so much of substance. I think that's important to point out. Panpsychism aside, Strawson's mat...
I don't think that formulation captures what Strawson in saying, because if we say that a table is conscious, we would associate it with our own intui...
Yes. It is mysterious and such radical emergence is usually ridiculed by many modern philosophers. They refer to it as "magical emergence". It was tak...
Yes. But the claim Strawson makes is that phenomena are experience-involving or experience-realizing. This means that the phenomena we interact with r...
What's at bottom are the ultimates, which involve or realize experience. When these ultimates organize in a certain way, then you get consciousness as...
According to Strawson's materialism, it does not follow that things need to be conscious. What follows is that the phenomena we interact with in the w...
As usual in these types of discussions :100: Yes, this phrase "nothing but" reminds me of another one, quite similar, as is the case when someone says...
This is my area of expertise. Strawson uses physicalism and materialism interchangeably. The point for him is that his materialism says that the natur...
I believe this was the case for the Taba negotiations. Namely commit to resolution 242, with some modifications and land exchange. This meant that Isr...
What is the problem with seemings in Kant? I've read some of him, but I don't recall thinking to myself that this was a problem for his philosophy, un...
But I'm assuming that people believe that the commands given by God are moral, because they are given by God. He wouldn't command me to do something i...
Sure. But that path of reductionism just leads to ever smaller relations of units of stuff. If that provides a satisfactory answer to those that use s...
Sure. But it doesn't offer an explanation which isn't tautological as to why you should or should not do X, Y or Z. It may appear clear. Doesn't mean ...
Maybe. When we first managed to articulate our thoughts many things, if not all things were caused by different kinds of gods. It provides some kind o...
Sure! I like Kant. But compared to you, I wouldn't dare provide even a bare bones description of what I think he's articulating. I'd be massively emba...
Ok? If I were a dog, I wouldn't be able to write dogs don't have language. They seem to lack a science forming faculty as well. But maybe they're hidi...
Cudworth postulated things in themselves before Kant and Chomsky thinks Cudworth ideas are more interesting than Kant, he doesn't think "things in the...
:100: Yes. Science gives us models to frame reality. Reality as it appears to human beings, which appear to include aspects of reality that are mind-i...
Well bad threads in terms of woo-like subjects at least offers the opportunity for some here to show why such thinking is bad for rational discourse. ...
There is no contradiction in saying science studies reality, but that it does not reach thing in themselves. It needn't even come from Kant, Russell s...
Sorry. I worded it badly, All I meant to say that even if the victims situation (the Palestinians expulsion) was caused by victims too (Jews in WWII)....
I haven't typed the words "human nature" until just now. I don't know why it should be a problem, because humans have a nature, being that we are natu...
I see it, but I guess I'm not really understanding the point. Like you said it's subtle. If by free agency you mean the each member in Israel and the ...
In a certain sense this is correct. It's correct that Israel helped create Hamas to weaken the PLO, which by the time Hamas branched out into a politi...
Wittgenstein has a point, not all, but a point: We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still no...
But I also think it might be important to point out that it's not always trivial separating science from the scientist. It's not as if science is "out...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/21/jubilation-in-gaza-as-ceasefire-takes-effect-palestine-israel-live Things are still very tense in Jerusalem.....
I don't think so. This restricts whatever "knowledge" is, and includes things such as knowledge by luck or knowledge by accident. This is probably als...
That's interesting. Also a bit worrisome if it happened to me, not that this applies to you at all. I'd be afraid that there's nothing new that I coul...
Probably true here again. I hope not. I was hearing about a certain faction in Iraq wanting to get involved if this fighting continued. If this cease ...
I'm quite new here, but I'll give my 2 cents on the general topic. I used to be a consistent poster on another sports-related site, was there for abou...
Science as in Sean Carroll, Carlo Rovelli or Noam Chomsky is good. Science as in Richard Dawkins or Lawrence Krauss is still ok, but is missing quite ...
They're going to be the last ones to change. But when they do they'll claim moral indignation at the world's indifference, bla bla. Nothing new. Hope ...
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