Philosophical Speculations

Lao Tsu reminds us that there are always two ways of looking at these issues. He says the Tao cannot be spoken, but also that we must speak about it. It is just that we must speak about it as something we cannot speak about . Indeed, as the Tao Te Ching states right up front in its opening lines, &...

We cannot use logic to talk about 'the thing in itself', because logic requires spatio-temporal individuation (there is no logic without individuation). Time and space are conditions of our possible experience of the world, and it is illegitimate to extend them to what lies beyond our possible expe...

The Jocob Collier video is perfect, Pity to take the mickey out of such a great musician, but it's very clever.

These discussions always end in this way. There was no implied insult since you did not make up the word. .There was a question and a straightforward criticism of the word and the idea. As for materialists I'd suggest it's best not to confuse them further. But as you don't wish to argue the point we...

The term 'satchitananda' was coined by people who knew what they were talking about and it has a clear meaning and useful role. It is not a new theoretical idea but a description. Clearly I do not interpret the Heart Sutra as do you. No problem. . . What do you make of this? It seems that Meister Ec...

What's to argue about? At some point every linguistic term was a neologism, and given that language is continuously evolving as more of them are eventually invented, then what reason is there for thinking this should not continue to be the case? It is clearly what we as creative, metacognitive, ima...

tt is not about beliefs and what we accept or do not. It is about logic and reason. Duialism and monism fail under analysis and this is demonstrable. This is the reason why the philosophy department is unable to formulate a workable fundamental theory. Thus if dualism is true it would follow that R...

Yeah - I'm done. I see no reason to invent new words like mumorphism. I'll stay clear of it till it finds it's way into the dictionary. [/i] I couldn't disagree more, since as you are well aware of Lao Tzu's aphorism that true words seem paradoxical, this seems to almost necessitate paradox-embraci...

Yeah - I'm done. I see no reason to invent new words like mumorphism. I'll stay clear of it till it finds it's way into the dictionary.

I know we can talk about materialism being devoid of meaning, but people don't seem to care. Especially young people. They don't care about life having meaning, they just care about people being treated equally, resources being divided equally, taxing the rich, etc.. Not saying these are bad things...