I think most people think that whomever agrees with their position is better in some way, and whomever doesn't is worse in some way. That's human natu...
Calling lying honest is playing a language game that is designed to alleviate a person's guilt for what they feel is intuitively wrong. One can imagin...
Well, that's not what I meant, but for the sake of argument, I'll play along for now. BTW, I missed your post because you didn't mention me. Just as a...
That's sort of a weird question to answer. The strictly rational answer is "nothing". I see nothing to make me believe that there is any god, so I don...
Sorry if this has been covered (I'm not up to reading all 28 pages of this thread), but Gordon Pennycook's work on Psuedo-profound bullshit seems to s...
I think it's worth noting that if there was a historical Jesus and/or Buddha, there's no way to reliably confirm that what they said or believed is re...
That's a very fair answer, but I think it ignores that the term "spiritual" has cultural and historical baggage, and unspoken assumptions associated w...
Being and doing aren't a dichotomy, they're just two different things. That's exactly my point, and exactly why reason and emotion are also not dichot...
Yes, I'm sympathetic to that camp, so it looks more like science subsuming elements of philosophy that were previously not available to science, rathe...
I only have one year of an education degree from 30 years ago, so my knowledge of pedagogy is both outdated and limited, but a Google search seems to ...
Normally when I discuss the way people interact, it's pretty easy to agree on some basic things, like how people commonly speak. I'm open to the idea ...
Is this ironic performance art? I'm asking, because this response strikes me as being pedantic. We can absolutely imagine cases where what I said wasn...
Well, we agree about much, based on your post. I think that context, and specifically what is the goal or benefit of a particular analysis, is central...
It feels as though no matter how reasonable a proposal I ofder, you are dead set against saying "Yes. That's a reasonable proposal". So I'm asking If,...
Really? If I say "Gin is bad" I wouldn't expect you to stop drinking it. I would assume you interpreted it as being synonymous with "I don't like gin"...
Okay, we still agree. There is an experiencer and that which is experienced. Still in the same page. What's the next step in reasoning? One step at a ...
The anti-Dennett ideology. You seem to be focused on taking sides, and you seem to have pre-concluded that his side is the wrong one, regardless of wh...
So, if I am reading you correctly, the shared point of agreement in my experience is that I have experiences? Is this is more or less correct? I'd app...
Either I'm not understanding you or vice versa, because I have no idea where this response is coming from. I know people use the word in conversations...
So it's all personal opinion? Does that mean you could never judge yourself to be pedantic? Does that mean that there are no community or social stand...
Spirituality and materiality are concepts. Polarity is a conceptual framework that you proposed to fit these concepts into. I pointed out that they do...
North and south are poles of geographical direction, and conceptually cannot exist separate from each other. The notion of south is meaningless outsid...
Fair enough. Let me leave you with this thought to meditate on though. If you have an idea that requires that you relitigate the nature of rationality...
I don't want to know more about apples (at least not yet), I want to know what you mean when you say "apple". For crying out loud, that's why I'm aski...
You're telling me what intuition does, and where it fits in your conception of the world. You're not telling me what it is. I'm sorry, but I really do...
I'm not making fun of you. My response is honest. To the degree that you are defining intuition, you are defining it in such a way that assumes your w...
So you are making up a meaning for the word (at odds with the common english meaning), based on a conception of the world that others don't share with...
That's what the word means in English. Edit: Are you proposing that you know that you're correct by the sort of intuition that Kant proposed? He was s...
I'm not sure what you mean when you say that a premise is emotional. I suspect that this is a false dichotomy between reason and emotion. Reason is a ...
A baseline of commonality is required for useful discussion, and we do not share that baseline, if your claims are genuine. If you genuinely believe t...
Through the application of reasoning and evidence. If you rely on intuition above rationality, as you claim, then you are, by definition, being irrati...
Once you start to distinguish between brute facts and contingent facts, I think you are heading down the wrong road. If facts are simply states of aff...
To some extent it does. No theory perfectly accounts for all phenomena, but an "all body" approach is 100% consistent with all of these phenomena. The...
Do you know this to be true, or is this just an intuition? I ask, because it's not information that most people have access to reliable sources for. I...
Yup. because the statement "a single reality that exists underneath everyday perception" still implies a duality between "the real" and "the perceived...
Sorry, I did miss that. In what way do you mean "inner" and "outer"? Do you mean to make the distinction between subjective and objective, public and ...
Nor I, and I thought my comment about theological arguments not proving the existence of any god people actually worship at a church was particularly ...
First, yes, I think that was his point. Maybe not in it's entirety, but encapsulated, I think it was. Second, do you mean elude, as in evade, or illud...
That's the dualist definition I am familiar with and understand clearly. It is the most common use of the term by those who ascribe to a religion. I a...
They're not wholly separate things. What you say becomes apparent in how you say it. Everything you said in the first post I commented on has a morsel...
To the appeal that there's something to describe, outside of what can be described, I can only quote Wittgenstein "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof o...
If I was calling you an asshole, I'd call you an asshole. I was critiquing your writing, not you. I actually appreciate that. I remember you from the ...
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