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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Can free-will/determinism be anything other than universal?

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: Meleagar Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:49 am (GMT -5) wanabe wrote: Meleagar, Well get along just fine. Solid posts. Curious though, do you think that all are capable of free will? I work with facts (neutral descriptions of actual experience using simple labels), which I accept at ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Can free-will/determinism be anything other than universal?

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: athena Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:10 am (GMT -5) wanabe wrote: Im glad we agree. I dont think free will is locked in at child hood; like some Freudian ideal . One can begin at any time. Oh, yes, I agree with you, a person can learn how to strengthen his/her self will later in life, but ...
  9 hours ago

• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Can free-will/determinism be anything other than universal?

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: wanabe Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:23 am (GMT -5) Im glad we agree. I dont think free will is locked in at child hood; like some Freudian ideal . One can begin at any time. _________________ Anything is possible; nothing is as it seems.Transcend feeble language by communicating through Direct ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Can free-will/determinism be anything other than universal?

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: athena Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:13 am (GMT -5) wanabe wrote: Im one of those, maybe the those. fyi if people want to call me out on something directly PLEASE do so. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All are capable of free will, it is merely an exercise. If one exercises more, their free ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Can free-will/determinism be anything other than universal?

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: wanabe Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:37 pm (GMT -5) Meleagar, Well get along just fine. Solid posts. Curious though, do you think that all are capable of free will? _________________ Anything is possible; nothing is as it seems.Transcend feeble language by communicating through Direct Perception."What you ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: understanding reality

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: athena Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:17 pm (GMT -5) Quote: can it be confirmed by our inherent intuition and relative understanding of the principles of spirit and soul? Intuition is a curious thing. My experiences with intuition tell me there is more to reality than what the eye sees.
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: understanding reality

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: James S Saint Subject: Re: understanding reality Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:11 pm (GMT -5) ape wrote: Hegels statement that "everything carries with it its own negation". The only way we can know anything is by contrast with an opposite . What is the opposite of a 3-legged cow? You cant ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: understanding reality

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: ape Subject: Re: understanding reality Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:42 pm (GMT -5) scottmartinlocke wrote: if we really understad reality we have to come to terms with the inner mind as well as physical reality.? Hi sml! Excellent! It takes the inner reality/IR of our minds to make ...
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• Translation and Information

  
  Larval Subjects . — Authority: 541
  I’m a bit groggy this morning. Last night my three year old daughter smacked her forehead against the coffee table and we had to take a trip to the emergency room. Seven stitches and five hours later we finally got home around one thirty in the morning and then didn’t get asleep until four or four thirty. I’m ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Why something instead of nothing?

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: James S Saint Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:51 pm (GMT -5) The "one hand clapping" question is rhetorical so as to bring to light that in order to have effect, there must be opposition.
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Why something instead of nothing?

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: JPhillips Subject: Nothingness Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:47 am (GMT -5) Santini As far as probability being based on math rather than science, you are right. You are still just playing the semantics game. I have to word what I am trying to say exactly right or else my argument is void, I guess. ...
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• A Brief Remark on Virtualism

  
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  One common criticism of Deleuze and DeLanda is that their ontolog(ies) suffer from what might be called “virtualism”. It’s important that some might not consider this a failing and that there is, I believe, a way of interpreting these thinkers so that this problem largely disappears. Roughly, virtualism would ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Can free-will/determinism be anything other than universal?

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: Meleagar Subject: Re: Can free-will/determinism be anything other than univers Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:18 am (GMT -5) pjkeeley wrote: At least one user has posted comments alluding to a belief that they have free-will, but that other users on the forum might not. Im assuming from how these ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Can free-will/determinism be anything other than universal?

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: wanabe Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:03 am (GMT -5) Im one of those, maybe the those. fyi if people want to call me out on something directly PLEASE do so. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All are capable of free will, it is merely an exercise. If one exercises more, their free will is stronger. If one ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Can free-will/determinism be anything other than universal?

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: Belinda Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:36 am (GMT -5) What if some chosen people were favoured by God with Free Will, and others were not so favoured? This presupposes God, but Free Will also always presupposes either God or some other other-worldly influence. _________________ Socialist
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Why something instead of nothing?

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: Santini Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:54 am (GMT -5) PrivateVoid : Why could something have not come from nothing? Merely defining the world in that way (i.e., "nothing comes from nothing") does not mean that it did not once happen outside the universe. Again, to me, it is no more imaginable that something ...
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• I Am Grateful: A Top Ten List

  
  Adiaha — Authority: 121
  10.     My iMac computer 9.       NetFlix 8.        106 Facebook Fans 7.         Having some intelligence, I really do thank the heavens for this and look forward to expanding my intellectual capabilities. 6.         My smile 5.         My HD Flip 4.         ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Why something instead of nothing?

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: JPhillips Subject: Somethingness Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:02 am (GMT -5) PirateVoid No I was not speaking to anyone in particular; just giving my own opinion. Some of us dont understand how others say everything was the result of a random accident. Probability theory, which is based on science, ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: The Essence of everything must itself be conscious.

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: wanabe Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:04 pm (GMT -5) Before We knew that atoms existed there were still atoms were there not Belinda . They still behaved in the same way, alchemy provides records of this to some degree. We have never experienced a black hole, but we know they exist. There is some thing we ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Why something instead of nothing?

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: PrivateVoid Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:04 pm (GMT -5) JPhilips: Quote: If you believe nothing existed before the Big Bang, then you must believe something evolved from nothing. In case you were addressing the original post, that was not the implied statement in my original question. ...
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