Benjamin Udell wrote:
Brent, list,
Your explication seems to turn on a pun. "End" as something of value
doesn't imply a beginning.
To the contrary an end or goal or terminus generally entails a beginning.
A person interested in this subject from a theoretical viewpoint does
have to confr
Brent, list,
>>> Your explication seems to turn on a pun. "End" as something of value
>>> doesn't imply a beginning.
>> To the contrary an end or goal or terminus generally entails a beginning. A
>> person interested in this subject from a theoretical viewpoint does have to
>> confront that.
Benjamin Udell wrote:
Brent, list
Your explication seems to turn on a pun. "End" as something of value
doesn't imply a beginning.
To the contrary an end or goal or terminus generally entails a beginning. A
person interested in this subject from a theoretical viewpoint does have to
confront
Brent, list
> Your explication seems to turn on a pun. "End" as something of value doesn't
> imply a beginning.
To the contrary an end or goal or terminus generally entails a beginning. A
person interested in this subject from a theoretical viewpoint does have to
confront that. It may help to
Benjamin Udell wrote:
Tom, Brent, Bruno, list,
Bruno wrote & Brent agreed,
> I think everyone has religious faith...
I don't think that I could go along with that, at least not in the
strict sense of "religion" -- true enough, religion has, at its core,
valuings with regard to power and s
Tom, Brent, Bruno, list,
Bruno wrote & Brent agreed,
> I think everyone has religious faith...
I don't think that I could go along with that, at least not in the strict
sense of "religion" -- true enough, religion has, at its core, valuings with
regard to power and submission, ruling and b
"...even the statement 'I am not making sense' does not make sense
because I don't believe in sense. I'll shut up... and be alone... and
die..."
Tom
Tom wrote:
what are we left with?
To make my point more plain, I will give my own answer to this
question. If we abandon a belief in truth, or if we totally separate
truth from our lives, then what are we left with? We are left devoid
of meaning in our lives. We would end up with som
Bruno wrote:
I think everyone has religious faith...
Amen, Bruno, and Ben also! This is of course a searing statement,
which goes back to why the word "theology" is taboo. As it's commonly
said, the two topics to stay away from in conversation are religion and
politics.
But, without usin
Bruno, Bent, list,
Sometimes I use the word "opinion" to refer to a theoretical belief, as opposed
to a practical belief. In those terms, if I believe something, then I'm willing
to act practically, on the basis of that belief under potentially
discorroborative circumstances as they currently a
Le 29-janv.-06, à 20:02, Brent Meeker a écrit :
I largely agree with Stathis. I note a subtle difference in language
between Danny and Stathis. Danny refers to "believe in". I don't
think a scientist ever "believes in" a theory.
All right, you use "believe in" (quote included!) for the "
Hi Marc,
I share with you a feeling that there is
something missing in the static picture of mathematical truth as painted in
Platonism; there is no fundamental sense of where Becoming originates. It has
been a perpetual problem for Platonist to explain how to derive our sense
of chang
Le 27-janv.-06, à 10:08, Marc Geddes a écrit :
For one thing: Are platonic mathematical entities really static and
timeless like platonist philosophers say? What if platonic
mathematical entities can 'change state' somehow ? What if they're
dynamic? And what if the *movement* of platonic
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