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It's a complicated situation, but I think it is a mistake to make absolute statements like 'Nationalism is an infantile disease'. It can be, yes, but it can also be a force for good. As ever, it is a… (View Post)
Music - You question the idea that an immaterial consciousness can give rise to extended matter. Rightly so I would say. But by the same token you must question the idea that extended matter can give… (View Post)
(Quote) Yes. In fact there is no room for a metaphysics with Him. Monotheism is not a systematic metaphysical theory but non-reductive and thus non-metaphysical, while Nagarjuna shows us how to compl… (View Post)
I'm reminded of my son's solution to the problem. When he was about 16 he asked me to explain what a pardox is. I stupidly picked Russell's paradox to explain. (The incoherence of the idea of a 'set … (View Post)
Yes. I don't think zero as usually defined is a paradox in maths, but as you say it becomes one when we try to use it to axiomatise mathematics or the universe. A universal zero may not be 'illogical… (View Post)