I wouldn't show you that you are wrong, I would say simply that the case hasn't been made. Why would I accept this claim? What is it about the natural...
The issue here might be that anyone can argue that their paradigm is better than another paradigm - isn't this what creationists do when they poo-poo ...
Tipping isn't a big thing Australia. Sometimes people tip at a restaurant for excellent service or exceptional cheffing. Generally the price is the pr...
Further to my above response - it doesn't matter how deep you go into the process of life, the point is you are still committing the naturalistic fall...
You can't get an ought from an is. Oh, I see Jesus got there before me. Just because you have determined that something is nature doing its job does n...
Agree with most of your feedback to BF. Indeed. Poetry now inhabits a cultural backwater, like bocce or folk dancing - there's a cognoscenti for it, b...
Quite right. No reading or study involved. I'm fairly sure the intuition I know is acquired by paying attention to experience and being able to recogn...
If God is real, why would human reason or our conceptual frameworks even begin to describe or understand what god can or cannot do? Or what god is. Th...
Yes, I see that. It's not cats on mats or plumbs in iceboxes that are the main problem, it's the very values we live by and for. When someone says, 'T...
Good point. I tend to think of metaphor as a kind of pattern matching process. Interestingly when people have object recognition deficiencies in demen...
Isn't this leading towards anti-realism? It also sounds a bit like 'shut up and calculate'. That said, this has generally been my utilitarian or pragm...
Nice conclusion. Of course logical positivism is untenable based on this too. In the end what all this seems to amount to (as I read it) is that for a...
I think the beauty of Lawson’s promise (which I still don’t understand) is that if there’s no realist theory of language then discussions about effete...
As I wrote earlier, minimalism (simple living) is defiantly one example. It's a significant, worldwide anti-consumerist philosophy and I know quite a ...
Not at all, I enjoyed your contribution. We're all in this together. I'm generally interested in philosophical ideas - these often have no bearing on ...
Probably right, similar to @"plaque flag"s take. Agree, but I guess this is a pragmatic understanding of language, which doesn't address the question ...
Yes, good points. I tend to keep coming back to similar notions of 'semantic finitude' too. This may well be the case, which either amuses me or makes...
I have no world in mind. I am simply interested in what others think of this matter. If this means they need to describe a particular world before the...
I don't think so. For me intuition is just a type of sense making. It brings me no joy. It's just a brute fact of interacting with others. It reminds ...
I suspect we are thinking of intuition differently. For me, in the work I do (moderately reliable) intuition means being able to grasp almost immediat...
I'm typing this while I'm liaising with the government about funding for the end of financial year acquittals. It's like shoveling dirt but not as muc...
Thank you and very interesting. I shall mull over them. Your change of mind here is worth noting. What brings you back to realism in ethics and aesthe...
Yes. I am close to a couple of Catholic sisters and for each of them, everything they own fits into one suitcase. They essentially have a couple of ch...
I suspect this right - I have certainly had those stats pointed out in seminars on organizational pschology. One complication with intuition is that i...
All reporting comes from a point of view - some more so than others. If we are fortunate, it is the point of view of the robust journalist who may wor...
Interesting. What do you have in mind - evolution or deliberate transformation? In my sketch here I am imagining that we (Kant and us) would not be ab...
Oh nice.. I agree we can't image the different senses, but can't we imagine that they might have an entirely different dimensionality to inhabit? As '...
Perhaps a silly question - but if, as Kant and subsequent others suggest, space and time are built into our cognitive apparatus and not the universe ,...
Thank you for this, but I'm not sure I follow. What are you saying this tells us about language? That its relationship with the world is one of an irr...
Yes, I think I see this and agree. As I said earlier, most of us probably recognize we are tied to a world of ideas and platforms built by our ancesto...
Yes, I do appreciate this and I understand something of the source material. We know our ideas can be tracked back to other ideas. What I am referring...
Wasn't meant to be a cartoon, it's simply what I hear when I read him put it like this: - Contingency, Irony and Solidarity It's not my intention to m...
No, it was a provocation about the relativistic dimensions of postmodern thinking. But your point is interesting. And given Putin' s war is blessed by...
No, that much I don't find problematic. I don't take @"Joshs" for a sophist and perhaps that's not what you meant. I think he has a very particular an...
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