Philosophical Speculations

Ah, ok, so here is one more: Short and sweet article about the illogic that metaphysical extremes, such as being vs. non-being, mind vs matter etc. form valid pairs of contradiction. I wonder, at the very moment of making such statement, if Peter was at the same time aware and non-aware of making t...

While I am in agreement with Peter's main claim in this essay -- that Buddhism contains no contradictions, that is, is fully compatible with Aristotelian logic, I do have two big differences with him. The first is that he includes as a pair of extremes to be shunned: idealism and materialism. Extre...

Peter Jones is a great thinker and apparently a keen supporter of Aristotle's logic. But I wonder what he thinks of the intuitionist logic idea that the truth of any proposition must be proved by direct evidence. Intuitionist logic does not allow applying LEM to infinities parts of which can't be n...

Aristotle, Nagarjuna and the Law of Non-Contradiction in Buddhist Philosophy
Peter G Jones

https://philarchive.org/archive/JONANA-6

Short and sweet article about the illogic that metaphysical extremes, such as being vs. non-being, mind vs matter etc. form valid pairs of contradiction.

ParadoxZone, Nice to hear your stories. I think it's easier, much more pragmatic, when the women make the initiative, and make it clear, as reading the "signs" is often way too hard for stupid males. You made me wonder, why did you turn down request by the Helsinki girl? As it happens, my ...

Even with some so-called 'black Irish' roots, and of the same linguistic family, I still need to turn on the subtitles for some of that Gaeilge-steeped dialect and lexicon, never mind the Joycesque morphological quirkiness. Ah, the Joyosesque dialect of Irish-Elkish, a linguistic I-Sol-Ate of the F...

ParadoxZone wrote: ↑Wed Jul 28, 2021 4:33 am The later realisation that "forever" doesn't actually mean forever is a nice one. Comforting, anyway.

Yeah. The flow is very nice, without hurry, without clock bossing you.

Ah, Ireland! When I was a young man, my second Interrail trip was to Ireland, a pilgrimage to Guinness factory, music pubs and most importantly Joyce's tower. It was pouring rain that day, and I ended up in a road work tent with a toothless old guy, sharing a bottle of Bushmills. I couldn't understa...

Assuming this were a real problem (which I doubt, see Eugene's first comment), one way to imagine a solution is to say that in addition to collapsing superpositions, consciousness also creates them. For example, if we have a situation we may think up various ways to deal with it (creating a superpo...

So Santeri, yes facing fears, in general, is the best general advice. It's just that there's a time and a place for such advice. Being in a forest in Finland, with supportive people, seems to be a great situation for that advice. Other contexts, not so much. Some day I'll tell you about actually be...