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That's fine. But what does it mean to 'assume' a law of nature that isn't actually real? That's the crux of the problem of induction and the problem o...
March 06, 2021 at 18:42
Justify it? No. Not in the philosophical sense of the word justify. But you could justify it to yourself, and I don't know if most people really need ...
March 06, 2021 at 18:40
All nominalistic philosophies, to my mind, all lead to absolute skepticism, nihilism and basically Postmodernism. So I share this sentiment, that form...
March 06, 2021 at 18:39
I share this sentiment, but let me explain why it doesn't matter, whether you believe that or not. If you're not an aesthetic realist, if you are an a...
March 06, 2021 at 18:37
I like your idea, but I am an Idealist. Materiality has never been proven or demonstrated, just claimed. The only thing we have true access to in the ...
March 06, 2021 at 18:34
I am a qualified non-dualist. What that means is that there is, at once, both difference and nondifference. Duality and nonduality. How this can be ex...
March 06, 2021 at 18:31
It's definitely possible. There are two extremes. All positions are equally true and only seemingly different. (sort-of perennialism, universalism, pa...
March 06, 2021 at 18:28
Interesting. Well, I know emotivism because I once held that view. I don't know prescriptivism. If I did, that might shed some light on the answer. Bu...
March 06, 2021 at 18:12
Alright, science deals with particular sets of phenomena. Right? So, it deals with particular objects or things I see or perceive. For example, the ph...
March 06, 2021 at 18:06
" that my consciousness springs forth from and is contained within a deteriorating mass of biological complexity." Which is just an unproved assertion...
March 06, 2021 at 18:01
Well, in our tradition, there's no penultimate end to the world. Neither was there any true beginning to the world. It's just a cycle of things moving...
March 06, 2021 at 17:59
Nope. I have thoughts on the position, but not the paper. :)
March 06, 2021 at 17:55
I don't see why. If there's no moral thing-in-itself than the number of positions you have on it are merely descriptions of a non-thing anyway. I'll p...
March 06, 2021 at 17:53