Tom Storm

Sure. But my point wasn't about truth as such, it was about the nature and validity of science and empirical data, which surely has a compromised stat...

That's what I've been thinking. Do you suppose that perhaps Hoff is trying to avoid being too closely associated with traditional philosophy (idealism...

Nice. The twiddly maths lost me when I looked into this some time back. I'm assuming the interface theory is the computer desktop icon metaphor?

Ok then I totally don't understand what is being argued. I'm not sure how science can lead to truth when Hoff says we are hardwired by evolution to be...

Your wording is confusing to me. Are you just asking, if there were a god of this world, where there is prodigious suffering and good people also suff...

Ok. Thanks. Not your fault. So really Hoff's thesis is as we already gleaned - reality isn't what humans see - there is a reality but it's not apprehe...

Nice. Yes I think fearing life is definitely the key problem that I see in my work. But fearing life is actually fearing things like decisions, reject...

That's very thorough and i appreciate it. I don't really have much chance of knowing if any of this is well argued or not - that's where our comrades ...

Thanks. I thought it was referring to having 2 or 3 sock puppets on at once...

Why do people create sock puppets? What are they for?

That is interesting. I live two doors down from a church which has an hourly clock tower bell. I never hear it going off. Never. Perhaps if I were a B...

Yes, I think that summarises my understanding of how many people feel about death. I have the reverse reaction - if life is evanescent and everything ...

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No idea, but I wonder to what extent people are interested in participating in public discourse any more. Apart from the social media tosspots.

Original thinkers perhaps go elsewhere? Hmm... it's not really Mount Rushmore is it? Heidegger or Ryle?

Apprecaite the feedback. I hadn't even thought of this possibility. Can you say some more?

I had an excitation in a field with a farmer's daughter years ago and it did matter.

Your English is spectacularly good and I have to say I make mistakes often and I was born in an English speaking country. Here in Australia we might s...

:up: Yep. I'm happy to be a fool.

Good question. When I am on here I often find myself thinking that there are only two categories - honest interlocuters and dishonest ones. Now 'disho...

Ha! Sure. I generally prefer category lists with no more that 4 items and I took my cue from Tony Benn's account of the three types of politicians - s...

The problem with afterlife speculations is that we fill them with what we are like here on earth. How do we know what being in the afterlife for etern...

I don't disagree (how can I, when I have no real view on the matter?) but I'd like to explore this with you some more if that's ok. Is not a 'wise sta...

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I saw this a few years ago and found it fairly conventional - most of what is said here would apply to any number of subjects taught at university. Th...

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Food for thought. A rose by any other name?

There may well be useful nuances and details in his position which have been overlooked in our commentary. Would you mind highlighting these if you fi...

That's great - thanks.

I have no knowledge of Spinoza but my mother was 'into' him. I should have listened more closely to her... In these arguments I general factor out (or...

Indeed.

I brought up Kastrup as an example of evolution in idealsim - I know Hoffman agrees with (in his words) 90% of Kastrup's positon. But yes, strictly sp...

Thanks. It's complicated material and if you come at this with preconceptions you can miss the nuances. Which is something I've often done in the past...

Not that I have made the effort to study his argument here, but I believe Bernardo Kasturp incorporates evolution as being the gradual change of unive...

Just capped off the experience with Baz Luhrman's Elvis. It's a color saturated sitcom and if it's about anything at all, it's production design. I'm ...

Home after work. Watching a Russell Brand, Candace Owens podcast, awaiting a pizza and some goat's cheese fritters. Junk food of every kind at my plac...

Interesting. There must be a thread on it.

Do you have a robust refutation to Wittgenstein's private language argument?

Interesting. What's the nature of the gulf between these two? I've not heard this style of Platonic argument made before about this. Maybe I'm reading...

Lots of threads deal in some way with this topic. Including - https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14165/fear-of-death/ I'm an atheist who enjoys...

Do you mean the possibility of transcendence built into the process?

From an old thread "Should We Fear Death?" Death as eternal return... I should have realized there'd be more threads on this. I like what you said her...

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No real disagreement but how does this reflect on our capacity to talk meaningfully about ontology and metaphysics? Nevertheless it often does seem a ...

Well put series of ideas and nice summary and I'm not responding to disagree with this, just to clarify. Would it be more prudent to say 'there appear...

Yes, that seems to be the hub of it to me - what correspondence is there between the world and language? It's a pretty tentative connection and interp...

Good point. As I wrote before it seems that there is nothing that can't be justified by an appeal to faith.

Love Deadwood. Best TV I ever saw. Not crazy about Blood Meridian but it is extraordinary. I prefer Cormac's Suttree... talk about the blues.... Deadw...

As you know, Christian presuppositional apologists argue that atheism and naturalism is self-refuting and maintain that god grounds intelligibility, a...

I that right? I always thought time appeared to speed up because as you age a year represents only a small percentage of time you have already experie...