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You have the memory-span of a gold fish. Throughout the conversation you have been insisting that "Metaphysical problems/questions are undecidable", now suddenly all the context evaporated and "metaphysics" is just a word. Why the rapid deflationism? II see you care nothing for ...

I have no idea what the question even means. How is that even possible?!? You asked 'Is metaphysics undecidable'?' I don't know what this means. How can a word be undecidable? I'll happily answer the question if you make it clear. The meaning of the English question "Are metaphysical questions...

Duncan Butlin wrote: ↑Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:55 pm Gentlemen, please stand down -- I must first speak to my lady readers.

Here's a great answer to a roughly sim8ilar question. Someone asks a question about 'the wife of a friend' at 31.30 and receives a wonderful answer.

https://youtu.be/XXxAjoSaNjk

Women are widely understood to be more emotional than men (XX/XY, nevermind the "debate"). And there is good anthropological logic as well as historical common understanding to support that conclusion. To the extent women are in fact more emotional, they are less evolved than men. (Group ...

What is the most important question in philosophy? What question or problem is a prerequisite for solving all others? Great question!!! Metaphysical questions are so closely entangled that any one will do. But some questions are more immediately useful than others. I have almost no doubt that the b...

On a philosophy forum some evidence would be appropriate. There are certainly some posters who lower the tone here, and I would suggest the OP has successfully done so. This sort of insulting approach has no place in polite company. But it would be fair if some evidence was provided. You'd have to s...

Impenitent wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:39 pm clearcutting fire lanes would have saved millions of acres

environmentalist democrats wouldn't allow it

they will become the next fire wall

utopia

-Imp

Maybe. But I suspect it wouldn't have made a great difference given the fierceness of the fires. This is not a normal situation.

Skepdick wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:21 pm Implicit Question: Is metaphysics undecidable?

I have no idea what the question even means. Don't worry, we're on different planets. It happens sometimes.

What is inside your head is a model of the world (representational consciousness), while also being one and the same with the world (the Absolute). Nondualism is correct, you just seem to be stuck in a popular but wrong version of it, which was and is promoted by psychologically weak, escapist narc...

I don't understand why you cannot find an argument but just shout at me. Why not quote a philosopher who agrees with you. or give me an example of a decidable metaphysical question? Have you even thought about what I'm saying? It's not even slightly contentious. I did ALL of the above things! 1. I ...

It's pretty basic stuff that the collapse of the knower-known distinction has nothing to do with certain knowledge. There is no longer the 'you' / the 'subject', that knows 'things', 'objects'. This dualistic illusion is transcended, and it is realized that it's all one and the same process really,...

Other than what? I find physicists are often braver and better thinkers than university philosophers. Schrodinger and Paul Davies are among my favourites. The standard in physics has dropped with the passing of the quantum pioneers but the education system is much narrower these days. Historians ten...

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YOU! YOU are arguing against it and you can't even see it!!! Some metaphysical phenomena are decidable. Some metaphysical problems are undecidable. The discrimination between decidable and undecidable problems is precisely the concern of Computer Science. I don't understand why you cannot find an a...

But if you can show that certain knowledge is possible, then do so. Annoyingly I can't find the quote, but I believe Aristotle notes somewhere that certain knowledge is identical with its object. This would be my view. It the collapse of the knower-known distinction that allows certain knowledge. T...