Philosophical Speculations

*Putting on the dualist hat* Lou, I don't think you're missing anything, it's just a matter how you see things. Your reference; The notion of God; can be interpreted as there being dualistic structures present that we normally are not aware of. It doesn't invalidate dualism. (as long as we speak of...

*Putting on the dualist hat* Lou, I don't think you're missing anything, it's just a matter how you see things. Your reference; The notion of God; can be interpreted as there being dualistic structures present that we normally are not aware of. It doesn't invalidate dualism. (as long as we speak of ...

perception the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses . That wouldn't normally encompass the "inner world". Nevertheless, your argument still is beside the point. Naïve realism believes we can become directly aware of objects in the external world through th...

Personally, I'm more of an Aphex Twin fan


But this is good! Thank you for the tip, Eugene!

The Revolution will not be Televised.

in a twist of tragic irony, undermine all objective ethics. Awesome! That has been my intuition for a long time. Then again, it all boils down to what you mean with "objective" and "ethics", but I'll stop being annoying for now. By that I mean a stable and objectively verifiable...

in a twist of tragic irony, undermine all objective ethics.

Awesome! That has been my intuition for a long time.
Then again, it all boils down to what you mean with "objective" and "ethics", but I'll stop being annoying for now.

Let me rephrase this to see if I understand your question correctly. you are saying: """ Given that we have a dualist ontology of the world ultimately being made out of the entities "good" and 'evil", how can it be seen as objectively "good" to transcend them?...

A different aspect of knowing is that it's never absolute. YOU (the knower) decides whether to treat a specific concept "the concept of there being a cat in the box" as true or not. There's always probability that you're wrong; but for practical purposes , In order to get anywhere in life,...

Is there a cat in the box? I don't know I open the box. Look, there's a cat!. There is a cat in the box. I know there is a cat in the box. How did I go from not knowing to knowing? I was given new information (which I then processed). Unless you're going all philosophical on me :p and this knwoldege...