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Cassius
March 31, 2026 at 3:20 PM Replied to the thread Discussion of Blog Article - "Reality Does Not Require Being Eternally The Same".PostThank you Dave let me be clear as to the organization of the articles and address what some no doubt are wondering:
In these two articles I have taken my draft outline as well as prior articles I've written on these topics and input the mix to AI to help… -
DaveT
March 31, 2026 at 2:44 PM Replied to the thread Discussion of Blog Article - "Reality Does Not Require Being Eternally The Same".PostFirst off, this was such a well written piece in its structure, clarity and logic. I'm jealous of the style you have exhibited in constructing this as well as the recent review of Massimo Pigliuci's essay. This is really good writing. My only critical… -
Cassius
March 31, 2026 at 2:05 PM Replied to the thread Discussion of Blog Article - "Reality Does Not Require Being Eternally The Same".PostMartin it looks to me like I mention Kant once in the article, in a sentence that is focused on rejection of the senses:
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Martin
March 31, 2026 at 12:45 PM Replied to the thread Discussion of Blog Article - "Reality Does Not Require Being Eternally The Same".PostIt should be made clear that the article is rather against Plato's idealism. Putting Kant in the same bucket as Plato is wrong because Kant removed the ideal forms and Plato's nonsense that reality is truthfully revealed only by the logic of philosophers… -
Cassius
March 31, 2026 at 10:28 AM Commented on blog article Reality Does Not Require Being Always The Same.Comment (Blog Article)Discussion for this blog article will be here:
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Cassius
ThreadMarch 31, 2026 at 10:27 AM This will be the discussion thread for the blog article "Reality Does Not Require Being Eternally The Same" -
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Cassius
March 31, 2026 at 10:24 AM Wrote the blog article Reality Does Not Require Being Always The Same.Blog ArticleThis post is also available on Substack.
One of the deepest and most consequential divisions in the history of philosophy runs not between optimism and pessimism, or between free will and determinism, but between two fundamentally different answers to a… -
Cassius
Reaction (Post)March 31, 2026 at 9:43 AM The introduction of Warren's Cambridge Companion On Epicureanism says its chapters entitled "Epicurean atomism", "Cosmology and meteorology", "Psychology", and "Action and responsibility" are the ones which discuss "the major subject areas" of "physics… -
Eikadistes
Reaction (Post)March 31, 2026 at 8:43 AM The thing is, even Aristotle's Physics could be described as a text on metaphysics according to the modern meaning of that term. Both words, physics and metaphysics, had each of them one meaning in antiquity, and have both of them quite another meaning… -
Julia
Reaction (Post)March 31, 2026 at 8:28 AM I presume that the terms physics and metaphysics were available in both Greek and Latin, and the original Epicureans and then later the Romans could have established patterns of when to use each in discussing Epicurean philosophy.
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