I agree with your analysis.
I have no real interest in continuing this thread.
Me either. At least when I read yours and @ARM's long posts, I get something out of it. With these, there is no meaningful substance.
I'm reading as essay by Jean Borella responding in part to Hawking's Grand Design, which is what Smith responded to in his Science and Myth, except Smith did so with a background in physics, and Borella is purely philosophic in his approach. One thing he notes is how Hawking seems to lean on Heidegger - or rather, go beyond him - by simply dismissing any need for an explanation of why there is being. It "just is", as you say. It amounts to a rejection of the principle of sufficient reason, which I think is a rejection of intelligibility itself.
This has nothing to do with poal.
Catbox has an ssl issue and rejects upload requests from poal when submitting a direct link. Try to upload your image to pic8. It will work.
Haha. I'll be your magic black man, like the guy from The Green Mile.
EDIT: Please call me Deepak Shakur.
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