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The Jesus Head wrote:The issue is can you accept that there need not be
sameness to coexist.

Of course. But so what?

Please note that I will not be answering any further questions here since, jousting is not for me and time is money, as they say. An open discussion forum is always going to attract all kinds of contributors. I find it useful, (having a not-great memory), to place contributions (and contributors, i...

Well TJH, there's nothing in here that I disagree with at all! :D Is that good news or bad :?: One of the principles of Liberal thought is "tolerance" in society where agreement cannot be realised. This is all that you have left to be able to live in harmony in a world in which truth is e...

Well yes. I noticed you called it a fact. But you called it a fact on the basis that you called it a fact? We entitled to our own facts now? I called it a fact on the basis of reason not on the basis that it was a fact since, as my essay plainly suggests, truth appears singular to each observer .Yo...

Well yes. I noticed you called it a fact. But you called it a fact on the basis that you called it a fact? We entitled to our own facts now?

The Jesus Head wrote: Sorry but Im not answering that one again.

Ok. No probs. Can you point me to where you answered it before, please?

Thundril OK, so I'm not a philosopher, since I have no such lofty aspiration. Have you? I'm comfortable saying I am a philosopher. For example, do you believe that the statement 'there is an aspiration to discover a truth that is a truth for everyone' is itself a truth for everyone? Of course it ca...

So where does this leave one in terms of the practice of philosophy? On this forum your perpetual arguments are ,in a sense fruitless , in achieving agreement. Not because the arguments are necessarily flawed ,but because the arguments are not in alignment , with the ultimate goal of a singular tru...

MJA wrote:

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Oh yeah.

silly me. (forehead slap!)

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I used to have a pair of loons. It was the early 1970's and my one and only attempt to be fashionable. Ever. They were they worst trousers I ever wore.

I regret to announce that I’ve written a book. It takes the idea of philosophy of science seriously, and expects other scientists to do so too. Which they haven’t until now. I show how historical sciences can give very different results when you do philosophy right. Readers are told they can skip t...

It would be a very odd universe if all the electrons ended up in one clump, and all the protons in another.

TJH, why are you so unhappy? Happiness is an illusion; so too is unhappiness. Life is good, even if rather short. It's shorter than you think if you measure it by an eternity of death. People are good, or as good as they can be, most of the time. People are predators and they wax and wane their cha...

Does Isiah, or any other Scripture, have anything meaningful to say to people who don't think they're surrounded by enemies?