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11 Aug 2009, 11:00 am
ruveyn wrote:
Sand wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Sand wrote:
What the hell! It makes as much sense as Christianity.
Rene Descartes thought otherwise.
ruveyn
I was never aware that Rene Descartes played video games.
He played the philosophical equivalent thereof as did Kant.See -Discourse on Method- (1637).. I Kant essentially proposed that we are all born with Virtual Reality Goggles that we can not remove. See -Critique of Pure Reason-.
Once you get past some of the superficial matters, you will see that many of our ideas have be knocking about for thousands of years. Just about every epistemological approach possible was dealt with by Plato. See -The Republc- -Theatatus- and -Timeaus-. Its all there. Bertrand Russell once wrote that every work in philosophy is a footnote to or a gloss on the works of Plato.
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11 Aug 2009, 11:07 am
Sand wrote:
Mentioning authorities does not answer my query.
You point has been discussed for thousands of years. It is still not resolved.
I mention these philosophical sources as historic reference. I do not buy Plato's approach for a single second. Plato begat Aristotle whom Hobbes and Hume denied. The soundest philosophy has been put forth by Hobbes, Hume and more recently, Popper.
Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Age: 100 Gender: Male Posts: 11,484 Location: Finland
11 Aug 2009, 11:13 am
ruveyn wrote:
Sand wrote:
Mentioning authorities does not answer my query.
You point has been discussed for thousands of years. It is still not resolved.
I mention these philosophical sources as historic reference. I do not buy Plato's approach for a single second. Plato begat Aristotle whom Hobbes and Hume denied. The soundest philosophy has been put forth by Hobbes, Hume and more recently, Popper.
ruveyn
My "point" was that here are alternatives to the theological structure proposed by Jewish and Christian and some other theologies. Your point seems to be that others had the same thought. That's OK with me but it's irrelevant.
11 Aug 2009, 11:00 am
