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What is the nature of the understanding that physicists and cosmologists claim ( or strive ) to attain through their mathematical constructs, impervious, as they are, to conceptual representation? The nature of the understanding is extrapolation, and math is a precise language. Full Definition of E...

One of our children earned a chemical engineering degree from a good university program, years ago. He said they were taught to work in teams, which went against the natural inclination of many students. The employers who hire from the school have input into what they want from the school. The membe...

I'd argue that even he has a somewhat narrow view of philosophy. He doesn't even really mention how philosophy results in the perfection of character. I fully disagree that no one can answer these questions so narrowly described as "philosophical." We've just yet to be creative enough. Bu...

HexHammer wrote:If you are really that smart to understand what you are saying youself …

Interesting statement. I’ll take your advice and listen.

[ Truth is classified by mind and duly labelled. Like me, you misspell. Labeled, and perhaps, also dully? I do misspell, yes , but I also have a spell checker! And no spelling mistakes here! label /ˈleɪb(ə)l/ verb past tense: labelled; past participle: labelled attach a label to (something). "...

When are you going to address the thread? Well huff and puff. (that’s humor for your dwindling indignation.) I think the urgent question is, when are you going to get serious and start offering up some philosophy? Perhaps you should put on your thinking cap and read the thread again, beginning to e...

Humour will not win any arguments. Truth is indeed and artefact of the mind, valued against human interests. When you figure this out you will be free of your medieval superstitions. Humour? Perhaps you give me too much credit. I just made a simple statement of fact, worded appropriately so that A_...

It's clearly stated that philosophy in itself isn't the path to truth Hex. First of all, as you see I took only part of what you wrote. I think what I write leaves your intended meaning unaffected, and it’s the part I want to comment on. I don’t know where it’s stated, but I agree. I think if one h...

Humour will not win any arguments. Truth is indeed and artefact of the mind, valued against human interests. When you figure this out you will be free of your medieval superstitions. Humour? Perhaps you give me too much credit. I just made a simple statement of fact, worded appropriately so that A_...

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A_Seagull wrote:

Walker wrote:[

Is truth created by mind, or is truth recognized by mind?

Truth is classified by mind and duly labelled.

Like me, you misspell. Labeled, and perhaps, also dully?

If there were no humans, there would be no problems, so sayth the critic of humans, neglecting to mention that without a world there would also be no problems, so what’s so evil about destroying the world? Nothing. Objectively destroying the world is neither good nor evil. And you say this knowing ...

So it’s arrogance you don’t like. There’s an easy cure for that. You should put more effort in thee, than in thou. If there were no humans to conceive of the world there would be no truth. Hobbes’, so how does this grab you. Let’s see if this can coax more than a quip from you. Let’s hyperbolate, so...

Hobbes’, howya been? You may have noted that like Picasso I’m more a practitioner than abstractionist or theoretician, and though conceptualizers may lay claim to the milieu of philosophy, their claim is valid because to communicate requires abstractions and conceptualizing, under these conditions. ...

The trouble is that philosophers don't know what truth is! They can't even agree on a working definition. They don't know how to identify it and don't know how to recognise it even if they did find it. Is this what makes philosophy valuable or is it a disadvantage of philosophy? It is problematic w...