Agree. Is there a clear alternative? Isn't it necessarily the case that higher skilled expertise will likely be more useful and better paid than an un...
Yes. The very clear rules of what constitutes a darts game. There is even a darts regulation authority. Just because you call them 'special arts' mean...
Interesting. Are you someone who thinks art has a responsibility? Does your perspective risk a subjectivist aesthetic? Is all post-modern art free of ...
Is this epistemic or imaginative? Who can really say they know God? Well, I know they can say it, but it's hardly plausible. A figure of speech. Even ...
Based on the fact that philosophers hold different views on the subject. And there is no accepted definition of what consciousness is. But hey, I may ...
As someone who doesn't understand religious language, the only inference I see is that people imagine all kinds of things but it doesn't make those th...
As you say, speculation. I would imagine the more we achieve, the bigger the fantasy life. Nicely contextualized. :up: It's important not to read 'end...
That's for sure, several pages of no particular insight into what art is, as opposed to, say, the act of nose picking - which may also hold informatio...
The left and the right meet at the extreme back end. I work in the area of health services and directly liaise with government. I don't need to see an...
I don't have much of a foundational springboard. How I justify a belief generally depends on the nature of that belief. Most of my beliefs can be test...
That's wonderful and sounds likes a fitting statement for a grave marker. The only thing atheists have in common is one thing - a lack of belief in Go...
I'm not sure that politics as practiced involves coherent beliefs, more like loose themes and perceptions. The main game is getting elected and appeal...
Can you expand - I don't understand the point. I guess you would need to accept this myth or the point doesn't hold. Do you think your OP is intelligi...
Isn't it simply the case that politics has become tribal and dumbed down around themes such as freedom versus social control and that tribalism is gal...
I read this and it still doesn't resonate much. I understand that an objective account by beings who can't transcend their own perceptions is unlikely...
Unanswerable. There are good and bad academics and some university departments are subject to fads and agendas. Sometimes work transcends the universi...
What strikes me as ironic is this would be the view my uneducated grandmother would hold. It's very commonsensy and relies on a very literal interpret...
Of course there is also a centuries long tradition of philosophers, spiritual searchers and mystics taking on on a life of poverty, often turning thei...
I think it's more complex. I've met my share of prodigiously talented and wealthy men and women. Most of them were driven, anxious types and sometimes...
My issue with this is that people with religious morality often seek to change laws and behaviour of others - presumably to please God. We don't just ...
Yes. The other interpretation for 'source of all knowledge' is the recognition that human knowledge is fallible, tentative and piecemeal - it's source...
Recently came across this definition by Merleau-Ponty ‘Philosophy is not a particular body of knowledge; it is the vigilance which does not let us for...
People may always act in self-interest, but this can also include self-interested alturism. For instance, a healthy cooperative community benefits man...
Agree. I'm not a philosopher so if there's a specialist answer, I don't know it. But to say some statements are neither true or false, therefore they ...
I was thinking more about renegotiating a shared conversation that may not just be 'your terms' but a greater focus on 'our terms'. If that makes sens...
That gave me the biggest laugh I have had in ages, thanks. You sound like a gauche country cousin who has just seen a sculpture by Michelangelo and is...
Nice work. There's something august and poetic about your definitions of philosophy and science and, perhaps, if you don't mind me saying, a retributi...
The person who is born is the person who also dies. Does this mean it is true to say that a person is both born and dead? Isn't this how the ship depa...
Just my thinking through this - I may well be wrong. I thought we were looking for things that were true and false simultaneously. For your idea to be...
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