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Not sure I entirely agree with your summation/thoughts there. If there is nothing to oppose, then there is no opposition. Being/Virtue are rendered useless/meaningless if not defined by or against something. Can there be Good without Evil (classic example). If there is no opposition, then why are pe...

Sure, it's just as subjective as believing in God..what god, who's god, what flavor of god would you like? A person has to place an ontological cornerstone somewhere, some choose religion others choose culture...to me that ontological cornerstone could just likely be a grand ol' "lie" (lie...

And here's another! If one is all that there is in existence, solipsism, that means you are the sole source of the Problem of Evil in your existence. Every rape, every murder, every unpleasant thing that has ever happened to you, was you doing it to yourself. Simply because there is no one else in y...

Here's one; If one is a solipsist, do they need to do anything? Say actually work out the world they wish, or desire to have. IF they have it all already in their own little cave. There is no need to work it out. And here's a practical test to try it out, try sitting in a room, by oneself (for that'...

Oh, I want to tilt at this; 1. What can I know? I know myself, through knowing that I know nothing, and in turn I am Nothing unless I make myself something. 2. What do I have to do? I have to do what makes sense at the time, and in accord with my then present beliefs/virtues given the circumstances ...

Hmmm.... .... Hopefully it is public domain now so I don't have to pay a arm and a leg for it. You actually can find it in the Philosophy Now archives by clicking on the "External Links" button on the Wikipedia entry. If you haven't found it already. It's where I read it, and I think how ...

Old news, take The Last Messiah ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Messiah ) mindset elsewhere is my opinion.

Cool, about the periodic table, I didn't know anyone was reformatting it. From the looks of it they're opening up so it's easier to explore "heavier elements". When I took nuclear chem, there was a lauded "Island of Stability" where there was speculated heavier elements that coul...

I think a clarification of what "language" is may be called for. Along with "rational". At least in your question, and what your terms/definitions are. Binary is a language to some, and it could be just simple as "ugh" and "ugg" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

Man, I remember when I took British Lit. in college, and the prof. read a ye olde' English poem (I'm talking pre-Chaucer, and some Chaucer). Things got confusing, but really interesting fast. Being that it covered a little bit of the history in the class where the prof. talked about the angle-saxons...

Ah, epigenetics. I touched briefly upon the subject in college, but it was only covered up to the point where methalaytion of the DNA/RNA strands was starting to happen. In essence, the profs. conveyed that epigenetics allowed for a sense (only a sense) of larmarkian evolution. That stressors can ch...

Radix economy is something I'm still trying to understand myself. Some of your comments, namely Aristotle's Square of Contradiction, reminded me of a mnemonic we learned in Physical chemistry for Thermodynamics; The Thermodynamic Square https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_square & http:/...

Constrained probability space. I have a given history based upon prior actions that constrain future actions that I may take. Free will is the ability to choose from those future actions, and try to determine a course of action. Ex; I was offered a variety of forums to join in a survey of the google...

Hmm, not sure how to jump back into this conversation at the moment, but it seems to me like this may be an under-researched field. The reason I started looking into this type of logic goes back a couple of years to where "I felt like I was thinking in binary" (Either/or fallacies, and Bla...

For someone who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia you seem to be handling the symptoms pretty well. Considering the "life experiences" you have had part of the reason you manifest these symptoms may be "as a survival mechanism through creativity". In simple terms you underst...