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Alkis Piskas

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Maybe "believe in" is a little too much? It actually means to have faith or confidence in the existence of something. OK, I assume you mean just "beli...
August 30, 2023 at 18:01
Hi, Thanks for your always kind words. :pray: All these are only ideas. You too have offered very interesting and challenging ideas, as well as a new ...
August 27, 2023 at 17:17
Hi. I guess these are the "more than one questions" you are talking about, right? Well, I will answer thoroughly the first of them, as I cansider it m...
August 27, 2023 at 16:03
Hi. I guess these are the "more than one questions" you are talking about, right? Well, I will answer thoroughly the first of them, as I cansider it m...
August 27, 2023 at 15:59
Of course. Otherwise, if subjectivity were always "shared", the expression "shared subjectivity" would have no meaning, would it? :wink:
August 27, 2023 at 09:39
OK
August 26, 2023 at 18:03
"Shared subjectivity" (quoted) gets 9,300 results in Google. "Shared reality" (quoted) 317,000. :strong: :smile: I didn't say that "shared subjectivit...
August 26, 2023 at 15:33
You mean, when you are conscious, you are conscious indeed. But how do you know that you are not dreaming or hallucinating? You may be dreaming or hal...
August 26, 2023 at 05:22
I assume that this applied at the exact moment you were composing this topic. Because you cannot say "I am conscious" in general, i.e. with no time re...
August 25, 2023 at 18:12
Normally, this is true. But there may be cases that a proposition is ambiguous, or incomplete in some way, as I explained. So in these cases --and in ...
August 23, 2023 at 18:16
Interesting topic. There's no single thing that can be called "truth". There are different kinds of "truths" depending on what you are examining and f...
August 22, 2023 at 17:28
OK, Bob. As I said, I don't intend to continue this thread. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to participate in this topic.
August 19, 2023 at 18:57
From Dictionary.com we read about the meaning of the term "proposition" in specialized fields, that are included in philosophy: Rhetoric: A statement ...
August 19, 2023 at 17:03
A proposition is something that is suggested to be considered, accepted or done. It clearly refers to the future. A fact on the other hand refers to s...
August 19, 2023 at 05:00
A fact cannot be moral or immoral. Not for the reasons you are stating but by definition. A fact is something known to exist or having occured. It may...
August 18, 2023 at 17:57
Nice! And you used the right word: "motivated". It's the key to all knowlegdge and excellence. This is very evident in school, where the majority of s...
August 18, 2023 at 08:07
Good point. One must always have examples in life regarding a philosophical truth and be able to apply it in life.
August 17, 2023 at 18:02
... And after about 10 years one would be able to say, "Well, I know a little what philosophy is about." I started really learning philosophy in colle...
August 17, 2023 at 15:50
OK. (BTW, AI is very well defined. It's not an abstact idea. It's a concrete, scientific term. I told you to get acquainted with it, but ... who does?...
August 13, 2023 at 07:26
If you cannot define what "base reality" is, how can you witness it? :smile: It's like saying "I cannot know or feel how it is being in love, whatever...
August 12, 2023 at 17:26
I couldn't find what "compu-dasein" is. So I guess its a kind of term of yours, a combiination of a computer/computing and "dasein", the German term -...
August 12, 2023 at 17:16
Of coure, since "free will" is a philosophical concept and subject. Natural science and any other phyiscal science have nothing to do with it. (Even i...
August 11, 2023 at 17:54
Free will (freedom of choice and action) is not a biological manifestation. It is produced by and does not reside in cells. It is not something physic...
August 10, 2023 at 15:54
AI's purpose is to provide as much information as possible and solve problems. ChatGPT itself says that its purpose is "to help and be informative". B...
August 09, 2023 at 16:00
Only the element and story of the anthropomorphic creator is enough for a rational and honest being to reject it. Of course, this normally doesn't hap...
August 07, 2023 at 16:34
As long as dogmatisim or even biases caracterize a discussion, "umbrella" or any other terms become automatically "unfit for philsophical examination"...
August 06, 2023 at 17:09
It would be interesting to know who forms that opposition and how exactly the law hampers economic growth and property rights ...
August 06, 2023 at 17:02
As I see, you refuse to look up the terms. Well, you are not alone. You, along with all the others who hate or avoid to look up and/or examine closely...
August 06, 2023 at 16:57
Imagining, remembering, speculating, inferring, etc., are indeed thinking. Perceiving is a total different thing. It involves our senses and is a most...
August 05, 2023 at 17:26
Yes, that fits well.
August 04, 2023 at 09:14
I started to watch the video and will continue later. That's quite impressive from a psychiatrist. I mean I could expect it from a psychoanalyst ... B...
August 04, 2023 at 08:49
All this is quite interesting. Although I don't think the OP is talking about these exreme cases ... Anyway, it's always good to know. Thanks for the ...
August 03, 2023 at 12:17
Interesting. From what I know, psychology does not believe in soul or spirit or anything that is non-physical. It only believes in brain. Certainly, t...
August 03, 2023 at 10:11
At the time I was studying various philosophers --quite far in the past-- Berkeley appeared to me as quite an obscure philosopher and he remains so. J...
August 02, 2023 at 18:28
Where in psychiatry or psychotherapy appear the subjects of "caring for soul" and "preparation for death"? Where did you get all this from? :gasp:
August 02, 2023 at 17:18
Emerging from what exactly? What could be something on which both an objective and a subjective process can be applied? You offer "truth" as a prime e...
July 31, 2023 at 17:26
I don't know about "magic", but I can see "chaos" in your post! :smile: Scattered ideas here and there, with no purpose seen in the horizon ... Sorry ...
July 31, 2023 at 16:15
Thanks for your response to the article.
July 31, 2023 at 11:46
OK. Thanks for your response.
July 31, 2023 at 11:42
OK. Thanks four your reaction to the article, anyway.
July 31, 2023 at 11:41
The article says "It is desirable that the discussion has as many participants as possible", not everyone. That would be impossible, anyway. Then is a...
July 30, 2023 at 16:26
They might be. I'm not willing to analyze this. As I just said to Fooloso4, these are suggestions, ideas, criteria regarding a good discussion. Each p...
July 30, 2023 at 09:42
This may be true, but it is about guidelines as you yourself say. The post though was an article and not guidlenes, for which BTW only the TPF adminis...
July 30, 2023 at 09:14
Well, I must not complain. Yesterday I received an acknowledgement from T Clark. (But only after you have rocked the boat! :smile:) As I realized yest...
July 30, 2023 at 08:23
Thank you for your acknowledgment of my article, T Clark.
July 29, 2023 at 18:05
Hi! Javi! Well come back! Thanks for your (single) response to my article. Thanks a lot, Javi! I believe too it is good, but I see it more as a useful...
July 29, 2023 at 17:56
Right. Talking about free will, I believe is much more constructive. :smile:
July 26, 2023 at 16:25
A devout Chistian is not necessatily a fanatic, a zealously religious or someone who cannot think rationally, but instead he (for brevity) believes bl...
July 26, 2023 at 16:17
Do you mean, it is used to dissuade them from believing in God? Do you think that such a shallow --as I have expalined-- construct would succeed in th...
July 26, 2023 at 10:36
I can see the first point. I can't follow the rest ... Sorry. Ah, this explains everything! That's why I can't follow it! :grin:
July 25, 2023 at 17:55