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19019 Amos
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Mar 1, 2008
12:42 pm
Grant: I accept your definitions of contingent, impossible and necessary, and I accept that all beings must be either contingent, impossible or necessary....
19020 Steve
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Mar 1, 2008
4:37 pm
Kevin writes: ___________ Could it be that a critical aspect of having a virtuous disposition is to be unbiased in regards to impressions? ___________ Yes, I...
19021 Steve
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Mar 1, 2008
5:04 pm
Jan quotes me: ___________ The philosophy of mind that follows from modern empiricism to me now seems quite in conflict with ancient philosophy of mind and so...
19022 Daniel Strain
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Mar 1, 2008
8:40 pm
Grant, Why can't something be logically necessary without being a being? Daniel...
19023 jan.garrett
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Mar 1, 2008
9:06 pm
At least in classical Stoicism, the universe is not an event, but a continuously existing thing consisting, ultimately of Zeus and "matter," or, if you like,...
19024 jan.garrett
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Mar 1, 2008
9:25 pm
I am afraid you have a very simplistic understanding of Lakoff's theory, in part because you have not read his book and in part because it's been several...
19025 Steve
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Mar 1, 2008
9:57 pm
Amos writes: ___________ For what it's worth, I agree with Daniel that philosophy cannot provide explanations of how the universe works or what the ultimate...
19026 Malcolm Schosha
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Mar 1, 2008
10:26 pm
These two need some adaptation from corporate to philosophical lingo: http://www.companyculture.com/topics/BullshitBingo.htm ...
19029 Robin Turner
selgusni Offline Send Email
Mar 2, 2008
12:21 pm
... This is sooo Douglas Adams! Robin -- "Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it." - Schkade and Kahneman ...
19030 Malcolm Schosha
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Mar 2, 2008
12:26 pm
This sounds like Deep Thought, the supercomputer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy ...
19031 Amos
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Mar 2, 2008
12:58 pm
Steve: You're right that we should use our skepticism to examine the beliefs that we are attached to. Generally, I have enough work using skepticism to...
19032 Daniel Strain
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Mar 2, 2008
2:47 pm
... A normative 'ought' can not be objectively real ever. ... Unless one realizes that the very notion of an 'ought' is an ethical notion (something that is...
19033 Daniel Strain
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Mar 2, 2008
3:00 pm
... continuously existing thing consisting, ultimately of Zeus and "matter," or, if you like, the union of its active and passive aspects. An event is...
19034 Steve
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Mar 2, 2008
6:06 pm
Erika asks: ___________ In order to clarify your positions, could the people who have been talking about whether or not LNBs have agency please define the...
19035 Steve
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Mar 2, 2008
6:27 pm
Grant writes: ___________ FWIW, I don't think there is any difference between "Science" [done correctly] and "Philosophy" [done correctly]. The rational thing...
19036 Malcolm Schosha
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Mar 2, 2008
8:28 pm
Steve, It seems to me that there is a world of difference between knowledge (science) and wisdom (philosophy). Malcolm. ........................... Steve...
19037 jan.garrett
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Mar 2, 2008
10:29 pm
Some people on this list (well, maybe just one frequent poster so it seems like more than one) use the term "reason" or "rationality" as if it were entirely...
19038 Steve
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Mar 3, 2008
12:00 am
Jan writes: ___________ Some people on this list (well, maybe just one frequent poster so it seems like more than one) use the term "reason" or "rationality"...
19039 Malcolm Schosha
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Mar 3, 2008
12:05 am
Jan wrote: Some people on this list (well, maybe just one frequent poster so it seems like more than one) use the term "reason" or "rationality" as if it were...
19040 Malcolm Schosha
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Mar 3, 2008
12:19 am
Steve, I don't think you could be the secret forum member Jan is referring to. You have not even been posting much recently. On the other hand, I have posted a...
19041 Sophia Shapira
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Mar 3, 2008
12:27 am
As some of you may know, there exist people called Jedi Realists - who are *not* STAR WARS fantasy roleplayers, but people who (inspired by the fictional Jedi)...
19042 jan.garrett
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Mar 3, 2008
12:50 am
Interesting analogy, Malcolm. Do philosophers have the equivalent of the pantone chart? What they do have is a rich technical vocabulary that has developed...
19043 Steve
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Mar 3, 2008
12:57 am
Malcolm writes: ___________ It seems to me that there is a world of difference between knowledge (science) and wisdom (philosophy). ___________ I quite agree...
19044 jan.garrett
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Mar 3, 2008
1:08 am
The pneuma is sometimes loosely rendered as "force field." It comes in at least four varieties, hexis, pneuma that gives unity to nonliving things (rocks, for...
19045 jan.garrett
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Mar 3, 2008
1:23 am
It seems to me that a second- and third-person perspective is also important in ethics. Read books ii-iv of Aristotle's Ethics where he discusses moral virtue...
19046 Mark Travis
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Mar 3, 2008
2:37 am
I think that two or more reasonable people can hold different opinions on the specific essence of reason. However, reason as phenomenon is "that...
19047 Malcolm Schosha
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Mar 3, 2008
12:20 pm
Sophia, It always seemed to me that, in Star Wars, "the Force" is an oblique reference to God; and the phrase "may the force be with you", is a paraphrase of...
19049 Daniel Strain
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Mar 3, 2008
2:58 pm
The exchange below is a nice summary of my exact point regarding the roles of philosophy and science. -Daniel ... Science ... Virtue ... they? One ... ...
19050 Grant Sterling
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Mar 3, 2008
3:32 pm
FWIW, my position is that there is no significant difference between philosophy and science [as I have already stated, at length] or between knowledge and...
19051 Grant Sterling
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Mar 3, 2008
3:33 pm
... I had made up my mind not to tell everyone that it's obviously Gich. :) -GCS...
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