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It is an exact and accurate factual statement. As for the content - Millions disagree with you, most of them likely to have a lot more intelligence than your saintly self. For myself and many others Kant is one of the greatest philosophers of all time. And I refer you back to the statement about ot...

Since the CofPR, written by Kant, is not a book of facts, but an argument, then it is a necessary conclusion that Kant, above all others, DID know what he is talking about. That is not even an argument. Its just nonsense, Kantian nonsense if you like. It is an exact and accurate factual statement. ...

Sculptor wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 15, 2019 11:22 am

Since the CofPR, written by Kant, is not a book of facts, but an argument, then it is a necessary conclusion that Kant, above all others, DID know what he is talking about.

That is not even an argument. Its just nonsense, Kantian nonsense if you like.

I'd like to share to you my best philosophy packet. It has the best, supporting arguments for my philosophy. There's a discussion section as well, which addresses the objections others have to my philosophy. There are 3 parts to this, and I'll give you the Deviant Art links to them. If you decide t...

August 26, 2019 Bigotry or intolerance in all its forms is an extremely serious and crippling disease of individuals and the masses. Affected people suffering from this degenerate mental condition belong to a majority of the world population which could be called the "inhuman race" -- i.e. virtual ...

I believe that we, the human race, have been mistaken in our quest for money and power. Those two are the mirages of success. We cannot be successful in any endeavor of which we cannot know the outcome. It might just vanish tomorrow. The only way to know the outcome ahead of time is for there to be...

For myself I tend to never use "belief" since that can be used to state sure knowledge and faith based assertions; this makes the meaning of the word ambiguous. All words are inherently ambiguous, including these. It is why trying to make a rigorous philosophy that resides in the domain of words is...

Rossen Vassilev Jr. asks if modern physics has become too metaphysical. https://philosophynow.org/issues/133/Einstein_vs_Logical_Positivism The author wrote: "Soon, Karl Popper in his Logic of Scientific Discovery pointed out a problem with verification: no number of observations that agree with a ...

For myself I tend to never use "belief" since that can be used to state sure knowledge and faith based assertions; this makes the meaning of the word ambiguous. All words are inherently ambiguous, including these. It is why trying to make a rigorous philosophy that resides in the domain of words is...

It seems that quite a lot of what passes for philosophy is little more than playing with words and expecting the reader to make sense of it. Here is one of my favourites from Kant's Critique of pure reason: 'The foregoing deduction is an exposition of the pure conceptions of the understanding (and w...

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Mon Jul 15, 2019 8:42 pm

henry quirk wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 15, 2019 8:33 pm

Let's be fair: the communist has more than his fair share of kills notched on his bedpost, but he ain't the only one...

No...but by very, very far, the biggest offender in numbers. So that needs noting.

.. and no one does it to their own people quite like the communists...

Who was it who was discussing his anhedonia? Mozart Link or something? Because I'm hitting the same wall, and it's really sucking. I care enough to care that I have it, and don't want to go down the rabbit hole, but that's pretty much all I care about anymore. Perhaps we expect too much from this l...

:shock: So Anhedonia to you is just a synonym for getting bored with something? Wow!! Insight of the year. ... i do not employ 'intuition'. 'Intuition' is within, guiding and teaching. How? Give me an example of how this works for you. Clearly Age enjoys being annoying; s/he should be congratulated...

RCSaunders wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 11, 2019 3:20 pm

You believe an axiom is an assumption, because you believe what your teachers have taught you.
You have confused the ontological and epistemological, or rather have been taught that confusion and accepted it by faith.

You are talking complete nonsense.. so forget it.

So I will just conclude with this: There are some truths of the world such as 'Then Earth goes around the Sun in an elliptical orbit' and 'e**ip=-1', and these truths can be demonstrated from a few simple assumptions and a fairly complex sequence of inferences; but to claim that some banal statemen...