Philosophy Now Forum

[quote=Alexiev post_id=671859 time=1696609236 user_id=24471] Our mythology suggests that the "American Way" is dilligence and hard work, which will be rewarded financially (and is morally admirable). This mythology is promoted by the Capitalists who fruitlessly wish that it were true. In f...

The Truth is whatever continuously replicates. A truth is an instance of The Truth, such as a fact or a perspective.

Science is rigor and rigorously testable results provide maximum certainty for all epistemic purposes. That all science is limited in scopesaays nothing about whether it accurately represents reality.

The purpose of all knowledge, wisdom, and understanding is actionable certainty.

Cognitive capacity created with specific design limitations in mind cannot be the same thing as intelligence which arose organically for general use. All the implications are different.

[quote="Trajk Logik" post_id=674100 time=1697727689 user_id=12607] said stuff [/quote] Actuality is undifferentiated stuff, ie Aether, Chaos or change qua change. Reality is the subset of Actually that is accessible to a mind and contains all recognized patterns. Objective v subjective as ...

As the best philosopher i should have my own sub here. What's up?

Academic credentials prove compliance, indicate knowledge, and say nothing of understanding.

Some more than others.

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[quote=Wizard22 post_id=666409 time=1694250822 user_id=22733] Objectivity is outside all human or animal conscious awareness. When you go to sleep at night, the sun, the moon, the earth all still exist. Objective existence does not require Subjective experience, to exist. You, your body, your life, ...

[quote=Age post_id=673787 time=1697604654 user_id=16237] [quote=Advocate post_id=673729 time=1697578078 user_id=15238] [quote=Atla post_id=673686 time=1697561947 user_id=15497] Looks like a minimalist, Occam's razor skeleton of Western philosophy to me. Colourless, tasteless instrumentalist stuff, b...

[quote=Atla post_id=673770 time=1697594883 user_id=15497] [quote=Advocate post_id=673729 time=1697578078 user_id=15238] The value is in the total set of answers which answers every metaphysical question, every "unanswerable" philosophy question, and puts all knowledge in context of all oth...

[quote=Atla post_id=673686 time=1697561947 user_id=15497] [quote=Iwannaplato post_id=673683 time=1697561233 user_id=3619] [quote=Atla post_id=673680 time=1697560105 user_id=15497] Well I don't know about his social and political philosophies, not my area. The rest seems to be okay, all fairly correc...

[quote=Atla post_id=673680 time=1697560105 user_id=15497] [quote=Iwannaplato post_id=673678 time=1697559553 user_id=3619] [quote=Atla post_id=673673 time=1697557980 user_id=15497] Well he honestly thinks that he's the first human in history who has developed a coherent sufficient philosophy of all t...