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7/07/2015 6:47 pm  #1


Hello

Hello, everyone.

I am a mathematician with an amateur interest in philosophy.  For several years now, I've been learning a lot from Feser's posts and from the helpful and knowledgeable commentors that his blog attracts.  I'm excited to see that some of these commentors are starting a free-standing forum here.

My own philosophical outlook, both by nature and on reflection, is atheistic, materialistic, and reductionistic.  In other words, from the A-T standpoint, wrong, wrong, wrong!  So I've always appreciated the patience with which my questions have been answered by the commentors on Feser's blog.  Thanks to them, I have some glimmering of the monumental intellectual power of the A-T ediface.  If I am indeed radically wrong in my worldview, then A-T, among all the systems that I know, seems most likely to be right.  I'm looking forward to learning more about this system here.

 

7/07/2015 6:53 pm  #2


Re: Hello

Always calm, interesting questions, too. It's good to see you around.

 

7/07/2015 7:43 pm  #3


Re: Hello

Hey, Tyrrell! Welcome.

 

7/07/2015 10:27 pm  #4


Re: Hello

Welcome!

Tyrrell McAllister wrote:

atheistic, materialistic, and reductionistic. . . . wrong, wrong, wrong!

There is a beautiful line in Gilson's The Unity of Philosophical Experience: "We may wholly disagree with Hegel, or with Comte, but nobody can read their encyclopedias without finding there an inexhaustable source of partial truths and of acute observations" (pp. 242ff).

 

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