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So far I've said that where there is one of a thing there are invariably more of like kind, and like good materialists we have to accept that there is no opposite observation to this, and that therefore the existence of solitary one-off things is as unreal as flying pink elephants Why? There was on...

The universe is, by definition, everything. The clue is in the word. Bernard here just uses the word in a somewhat different way. It does not need a location to have an identity- where is 'politics'? ; where is "Englishness" Never said otherwise. I just argued that the physical universe d...

His theory qualifies the conditions when people are to be treated with respect. That's why it didn't stop the nazis. Kant's philosophy was well-known throughout Germany. But, since Kant only applied it to certain people, those whom were worthy of its application, the nazis could accept Kant and sti...

Hope you enjoyed seeing the dog chasing its tail! Sure did :) If I understood, then: 1. You do not claim the existence of many Everythings ("cosmoses"), but the existence of many "universes". 2. A universe would be an observable whole; or maybe a physical whole; or maybe a space...

he would have been able to magically place them in a compartment and just do his pure philosophy Magic or not, it's just a fact. I repeat:  And in fact, countless people have studied Kant's philosophy with interest, without being aware of any racist side in him. How convincing is a philosophy on et...

Hello. Bernard, what you claim sounds self contradictory. You say that since there is an Everything, there must be many Everythings. However, if A is an Everything, and B is another Everything, then A is not an Everything. Since then A does not contain every thing (it does not contain B). So A is bo...

First, even if Kant were a racist, and a philosopher, it doesn't follow that his racism was logically related to his philosophy. And in fact, countless people have studied Kant's philosophy with interest, without being aware of any racist side in him. Second, Kant has natural-scientific credentials ...