Tom Storm

I think you are responding to my first question. Self-refuting axioms are some of my favorite things. I'm, not trying to be a dick but I don't underst...

So you're saying these are absolute truths? What does this mean?

I don't understand what this means, it needs context, Bret. Can you demonstrate what you mean by this is a couple of sentences. What is a potent force...

The discussion seems very clear. He is asking us:- :up: Everyone seems to be rifling though Plato's cabinet...

No idea if what you say is correct. I have no real apetite for this line of thinking. I am not a scientist or a metaphysician. Personally, I doubt tha...

My view is that 'truth' is the product of human cognition and imagination; it's provisional and perspectival. Mostly I'm interested in how people cond...

Good stuff, thanks.

This does seem important. Do you have any particular views on Truthmaker Theory? I would have thought that was self-evident to most folk. I think wher...

That's hard to swallow.

We managed to save three beauties from the disease and our local government used to provide some arborist protections against elm beetle here every fe...

Nice. We had a small orchard for many years in the hills near Melbourne. Dozens of nut trees, walnut, pecan, macadamia, hazel, chestnuts, three hundre...

Does this mean I don't have to read and try to understand Merleau-Ponty or Heidegger now? :razz: :cool:

I'm considering this where I am too. Generally I go for evergreens and Australian natives - given my location. But I am very partial to Japanese Maple...

I hear you, but for me this is being a bit too concrete or literal. Death is often described as the end of suffering - which technically it is likely ...

Yes, well this seems to be where the fun is found.

Yep, fair enough - I think this point has also been made by others here in passing. I've generally held to the presuppositions that I live in a realit...

I think it's pretty common to go through phases thinking/feeling like this, especially in the first third of life. Most people I know had periods of a...

Great. Appreciated.

Aren't exegetical work ups sometimes needed to contextualize or clarify positions? Or am I missing something? :wink:

Totally up to you. There are billions of reasons (you make your own meaning through your use of time, your job, interests, friends, family, nature, pe...

Quick question: I find it hard to understand what the nuances of difference are between 'innate capacities for complex cognition' and an 'innate , and...

Doesn't Schopenhauer qualify as a #1 without a divine foundation? His notion of a blind, striving, instinctive Will, which is not metacognitive, isn't...

Thanks. :up:

That's a lovely bit of writing. It does suggest a kind of progress (rather than an emerging truth) any further thoughts on this? Are we able to say th...

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So I'm agreeing with your broader point that we can’t even see what counts as the right detail without having the right big picture and I'm expressing...

Interesting take on my response. Do you take me as condescending? Not my intention.

You are probably right. Which is kind of why I have never bothered to worry about details. The chances of determining or identifying the correct big p...

Interesting. Which of the famous idealists are dualists? Isn't the notion that 'all which exists is mentation' eg, Schopenhauer, a monist claim? Numbe...

Cool. Three bald assertions which don't seem to hold up very well. But they do sound like functional rhetoric. :wink: You seem aggrieved. Life is evid...

I'd not heard this Asimov quote before, it's a good one. :up:

Nice. One question I often ponder - is idealism largely sustained by intrinsic flaws in old-school materialist arguments and misunderstandings about r...

Is it true that Rogan once wrote a definitive book on psychophysical parallelism, but tore it up one weekend making filters for his continental jazz c...

This is a common rhetorical device used by evangelical apologists all the time - 'You atheists have faith in reason/science.' Seems an inadequate appr...

I have never liked stand up comedy, but at least Hicks seemed intermittently insightful. Rogan seems to me to be a bit of a try-hard plonker, and thes...

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This is very interesting. Thanks. I found this essay by Steven R. Palmquist on a comparison between aspects of Kant and Tao. https://philarchive.org/a...

I don't have time to explore this in any depth and forgive my awkward phrasing - but a continuing question I have (which may be of relevance to mental...

No. I find them invaluable. :wink:

I think they are electing clowns because clowns appear not to be a product of the system viewed as hopeless, broken and corrupt. A clown like Trump ha...

I'm not so sure. I once dreamt I was fluent in French (I'm not). I was talking it and understanding it in the logic of a dream state. But life often s...

Sounds about right.

You and me both, Pie. I've written here before that even if idealism is true, it makes no difference to how I live my life. A perfect illusion of a ma...

I hear you. :pray: :smile:

I had a compelling night a few years ago with some twins. Isn't that a type of sandwich too? There was bread involved, but that was afterwards...

My cat's from a Del Toro film - as an Aussie, I'm unfortunately from a Baz Luhrmann film - too much color and movement and questionable music.

No. Berkeley has everything or 'empirical reality' held in place by the mind of god who allows us to share a world which exists independent of our men...

Interesting. What if not knowing all is built into the grammar of solipsism or such figments? It is possible to imagine a voice without a body and the...

That's only the Catholics, which many Christians see as a kind of heresy anyway. Christianity also holds that there should be no hierarchy and that ea...

The spiders here are hairy and grey and around 4-5 inches. They like to park themselves on my ceiling. Occasionally they drop down onto us, unwelcome ...