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Rolf
December 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Kalosyni’s post in the thread Dignitas founder Ludwig Minelli, dies by assisted suicide aged 92.I thought it might be good to post this, since we have talked about "death with dignity" here on the forum. Here is a news article about him:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79x8x82gy4o
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Raphael Raul
December 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM Replied to the thread Dignitas founder Ludwig Minelli, dies by assisted suicide aged 92.PostHello Kalosyni, thanks for sharing the link to the 2010 interview with Ludwig Minelli.
I leave you a link to an article on the renowned botanist David Godall, who at 104 chose to end his life by medical suicide at the Basel clinic in Switzerland circa… -
Kalosyni
Reaction (Post)December 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM https://www.newscientist.com/article/250665…-as-we-know-it/
Growing evidence of the plausibility of life like and perhaps unlike our own on other worlds.
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Joshua
December 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to TauPhi’s post in the thread Epicurean Physics and Canonics at Three Levels of Reality.[…]
Fascinating post, Joshua . I would argue, and it's partly a speculation on my behalf, that ancient Epicureans suggested a way to get to the truth behind the veil by introducing what some call a fourth criterion of truth - image perceptions of the… -
Cassius
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to TauPhi’s post in the thread Epicurean Physics and Canonics at Three Levels of Reality.[…]
Fascinating post, Joshua . I would argue, and it's partly a speculation on my behalf, that ancient Epicureans suggested a way to get to the truth behind the veil by introducing what some call a fourth criterion of truth - image perceptions of the… -
TauPhi
December 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM Replied to the thread Epicurean Physics and Canonics at Three Levels of Reality.Post[…]
Fascinating post, Joshua . I would argue, and it's partly a speculation on my behalf, that ancient Epicureans suggested a way to get to the truth behind the veil by introducing what some call a fourth criterion of truth - image perceptions of the… -
Bryan
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Joshua’s post in the thread Epicurean Physics and Canonics at Three Levels of Reality.As part of our ongoing preparation for the podcast's return to Lucretius in late 2025/early 2026, I've been thinking about new ways to explain the core concepts efficiently. This is one recent idea I've been turning over in my head to that end.
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kochiekoch
December 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM Reacted withReaction (Post) to Cassius’s post in the thread Sorites Argument Referenced in Cicero's Academic Questions.The sorites question is going to come up again in upcoming podcast episodes so I am posting this as a refresher (Edited from Grok). I suspect there are a lot of people like me who aren't very familiar with this question or its unusual name. However the… -
Cassius
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM Replied to the thread Epicurean Physics and Canonics at Three Levels of Reality.PostYes that's one of the key quotes. There are several paragraphs in that section that are packed with info. -
Cassius
December 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM Reacted withReaction (Post)
to Joshua’s post in the thread Epicurean Physics and Canonics at Three Levels of Reality.[…]
Thank you! I knew you had brought this up before, but I could not recall your source. Here is one relevant passage from Sedley;
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