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1. Do you believe God exists? Yes. However, I can also understand why other people don't believe it. There are many reasons why non-theists do not believe in God. What is your understanding why other people don't believe it? I used to be a theist but have now graduated to be a non-theist based on i...

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Godelian harped and dogmatically insisted on Peano & & Dedekind's Axioms as Platonic realities independent of the human conditions, but actually Peano & & Dedekind's Axioms Ultimately Experienced, i.e. contingent to the human conditions. https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?...

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The ONE RULE for LIFE - Immanuel Kant's Moral Philosophy by Mark Manson - in pictorial form https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nz0iaNvVpE One of the Rule for Life is this; Kant expresses the principle of humanity (PH) as follows: “ Act in such a way that you treat humanity , whether in your own person...

Here is a write-up on Kant from DW-media. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUY20tXsOfg&t=284s Note the point re Kant's racism is a misrepresentation of Kant's overall message. Use your brain! With that message, Immanuel Kant called on people to think for themselves. Born 300 years ago in Königsbe...

I raised this thread on the same book by Rorty Rorty - No Mind-Independent Reality https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32188 What I am interested with Rorty is his condemnation of the very proud, arrogant but ignorant, Analytic Philosophers [PH, FDP, etc.] who insist upon and are...

My views of Objective/Subjective are expressed in these threads; There are Two Senses of Reality https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?t=40265 1. Human-based FSERC sense -most realistic 2. Philosophical Realism sense - mind independence, thus illusory What is Philosophical Objectivity? https...

https://forum.philosophynow.org/download/file.php?id=5041 I want to add a deviation to the above; Kant expresses the principle of humanity (PH) as follows: “ Act in such a way that you treat humanity , whether in your own person or in the person of any other , never merely as a means , but always a...

No. Incest has the potential for recessive unfit mutations to express themselves phenotypically. I cannot play any role in propogating unfit genes. But the opposite. By allowing these genes to express themselves it lowers the chance of those genes propogating to the degree which it impedes the repr...

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The uses and abuses of mathematics in early modern philosophy: introduction
https://link.springer.com/article/10.10 ... 017-1670-y

Notes: KIV

Godelian is one good example and practitioner of Mathematicism in a very fundamentalist and dogmatic sense. Mathematicism is 'the effort to employ the formal structure and rigorous method of mathematics as a model for the conduct of philosophy'.[1] or else it is the epistemological view that reality...

Whether incest is genetically harmful to humans or not, it cannot explain why so many cultures proscribed marriage to some cousons and mandate it for others. This suggests that there must be some other reason for the marriage rules. In addition, if we are genetically programed to object to incest w...

Incest increases the reproduction of unfit mutations, but it also propagates the same genes making them more vulnerable to shifting environmental circumstances. No. Incest has the potential for recessive unfit mutations to express themselves phenotypically. I cannot play any role in propogating unf...