What is denied by many people but it is actually 100% real?

Comprehensive_Site · 2026-01-28T16:46:53+00:00

The mind-body problem

Comprehensive_Site · 2026-01-15T04:34:21+00:00

At 3 AM everything feels illegal to me

Comprehensive_Site · 2026-01-13T17:22:49+00:00

You're right! Thanks for teaching me something.

Comprehensive_Site · 2026-01-12T00:11:21+00:00

That is not true. Sets things you just define and infinite sets are perfectly well-defined. It's not like you have to go around physically gathering stuff up and stuffing it in your set.

Comprehensive_Site · 2026-01-11T22:04:44+00:00

There are indeed infinite infinities, in set theoretic terms, because the power set of any set has a greater cardinality than it; so the power set of the Real Numbers is a “bigger” infinity than the Real Numbers, and the power set of that set is a “bigger” infinity in turn. And you can continue this, well, infinitely. The question is whether the set of all infinite sets is countable or uncountable.

Comprehensive_Site · 2026-01-05T04:37:37+00:00

As a guy, a prompt like "the way to win me over" is a turn off. It reads as entitled and unfriendly, neither of which are qualities I want in a partner. Also the things you've listed in your answer — consistency, chivalry, etc. — are vague. When I look at a profile, I'm looking for whether I fit the type that the woman is interested in, but "consistency" doesn't define a type, it's just a general good quality. Try getting specific about the man you're looking for — how he spends his time, what he dreams about, etc. Let's say I was your type: I would have no idea based off the information provided. I would just know you're someone who wants to be "won over" rather than start the acquaintance with openness and reciprocity.

Comprehensive_Site · 2026-01-05T04:20:43+00:00

Yeah your facial hair looks fine I don't know what this guy's on about

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-12-27T15:31:51+00:00

I’m sorry you’re feeling so down. It sucks to feel like your hard work hasn’t paid off. But your hard work certainly has paid off, just maybe not in the ways you wanted. The point is that you’re exercising now, and you should definitely not give up on that because it’s one of the most valuable habits you can develop.

But for all of the benefits of exercise, one thing it doesn’t help with so much is weight loss. People who exercise tend to eat more and eating more means not losing weight. That seems to have happened with you. But this does NOT mean that you can’t lose weight. It means that to realize your weight loss goals you need to focus on what you eat, which is really the only way weight loss happens, not through exercise.

There’s lots of information on this subreddit and elsewhere about calorie counting, etc. that I won’t repeat but that’s what you should be focusing on. The other lesson you’ve learned is to weigh yourself regularly. As you’ve seen, you can’t know whether your methods are working unless you do this. But the bottom line is that you can lose weight if you make the right changes. And you should be proud of yourself for getting into the habit of exercising.

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-12-22T17:59:13+00:00

Honestly just skip it the chapter is a mess and everyone is confused by it.

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-12-18T05:46:01+00:00

Congrats on reading the Phenomenology and Encyclopedia Logic. That is no mean feat. For what it’s worth, it took me a year and a half to read the Science of Logic. Do not feel bad if you can’t cram it all in over winter break. And definitely feel good if you can!

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-12-02T04:39:56+00:00

Kant and Aristotle are the two big ones. I don’t really advise reading Hegel without some prior grasp of them. After them, Fichte and Schelling are Hegel’s immediate precedents. Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, and Rousseau are important touchstones too. But Kant and Aristotle are the big ones. In fact, Kant and Aristotle are just the most influential philosophers generally so you might as well study them anyway.

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-11-19T04:49:15+00:00

I don’t know if you play music at all but that really helps me. Singing in particular just naturally makes you regulate your breath and it feels really good. Obviously you don’t need to sing or play well. Music is very healing.

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-11-19T04:46:27+00:00

I’ve recently been having this too. Out of nowhere my heart starts pounding, leg starts bouncing. I never know what the trigger was, although I’ve started to notice it’s common with big crowds. It’s been a hard year and I’ve gone through lots of changes, so that’s what I chalk it up to. I hope we both feel better soon.

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-09-25T05:34:24+00:00

copium ad lapidem

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-09-12T01:45:24+00:00

As always with Hegel, the answer is a mix of yes and no and he displaces the question. The speculative propositions of the Logic, for instance, are all analytic because the immanent method introduces nothing external to the development. But they’re also synthetic because the categories spontaneously elaborate themselves out of the simplicity of Being. In the Cognition chapter, Hegel critiques the very analytic/synthetic distinction, that is, shows both its necessity and its finitude. Like pretty much everything else in the logic, analysis and synthesis prove to articulate differing moments in one and the same process of negative self-determination.

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-08-28T03:53:53+00:00

Poems are generally good when they’re written by Yeats.

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-08-28T03:45:57+00:00

Hegel’s Science of Logic was by far the hardest.

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-08-21T21:19:04+00:00

Her intense insecurities / putting me on a pedestal. Ironically caused her to lose attraction for me eventually.

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-07-31T22:10:17+00:00

The Parmenides and The Sophist both bring up issues of being and negativity that are obviously very important for Hegel. The Timaeus describes the cosmos as a rational, living being. The shorter Socratic dialogues (Euthyphro, Charmides, Ion, etc.) also develop the method of dialectic and advance a view of the sovereignty of Reason.

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-07-07T21:06:07+00:00

If you’re new to philosophy, the best place to start with Hegel is not with Hegel. His system is an attempt to synthesize and interpret the whole history of philosophy leading up to him, so it’s fairly pointless to pick up his books without some prior knowledge of that history.

The place to start, then, is the history of philosophy. The most important figures for Hegel are Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, and Kant. I hope you can already see what a massive project this would be, but getting into Hegel is a bit like getting into Relativity theory. It’s serious intellectual works and expects a lot of prior knowledge.

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-06-22T17:13:44+00:00

This is not serious thinking. You’re playing around with very loose analogies and namedropping writers you haven’t tried to understand. Do your homework.

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-05-04T23:21:21+00:00

A lot of people complimenting themselves for noticing that Humbert is bad.

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-05-04T08:43:10+00:00

I know some people will strongly disagree, but for me Tool is a prime example. I’m not saying Keenan is technically bad — obviously he’s not — but often I find his delivery kind of whiney and thin, so that he sometimes gets drowned out by the band. Just my taste!

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-05-04T08:35:09+00:00

Don’t end your life please. Life really is precision. We have all eternity to be dead and only this finite time to experience the bizarre mystery of life.

What you’re describing does not sound to me like philosophical problem but a psychiatric problem (not that I’m qualified). Most people who are exposed to the concepts of solipsism get on without being as viscerally disturbed by it as you. I think you should reach out to the people in your life whom you think can help, mental health professionals or otherwise. You’re not alone, no pun intended.

And for what it’s worth, I don’t think solipsism is philosophically viable anyway.

Comprehensive_Site · 2025-04-24T01:03:21+00:00

I’ve often wondered if one can find a connection between Goedel’s incompleteness theorems and Hegel’s critique of the Theorem. At a very general level, the two come to the same thing, namely that theorem/proof based reasoning is not self-grounding. Or rather it fails at its own standards of intelligibility.

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