I'm still responding to your saying they shouldn't bring it up in philosophical contexts. I haven't said that you, for example, should say they are re...
This would be true for any belief, it seems to me, regardless of ontology. But yes, in a philosophy context, generally, people are expected to back up...
It depends on the context, but people assert things all the time based on faulty epistemology/self-knowledge/rushes to judgment and so on. This includ...
One can certainly decide it was a hallucination. Or a less charged way to think of it would be that one mistook a shadow, plus a sound, and formed a p...
Taking superstition broadly we could say it is when we think, consciously or unconsciously, that certain behaviors/rituals/thoughts prevent bad things...
We could call this a proposal. Those people who have not experienced ghosts, or something that for a moment or for a time, they thought either 'that w...
If we are assuming that mental states are the same things as brain states, we are nevertheless talking about different aspects of the same thing. So, ...
I'd say I'd certainly understand their not just accepting my belief. It depends a bit what one means by 'reject'. If this means, they don't accept tha...
In all such discussions, I think it is important to consider that it can be rational to believe in things that cannot be demonstrated to be true to ot...
I agree. Materialism/physicalism fall under metaphysics. Unity of nature, causality are a couple of others, I would say. All systems of belief have so...
It's not the judgments are compatible, its that the experience is compatible with both conclusions. If it was not compatible with both conclusions, th...
Which is precisely what the others are expecting if they believe this. We would allow this kind of thinking for many decisions. They will be disappoin...
I don't know. I mean, I think most of us can, at least in down or cranky moments, feel blame for others around us. We may question this and shift out ...
It depends on what is in the notes. For example, if there is blame https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32343168/ And from another study, with my emphasis:...
Well what we hear from the outside is heard by us in the auditory centers of the brain. So the actual experience of the sound is not sound bouncing ar...
I mean, my background is nearly entirely progressive education. As in, the students bear all the responsibility. But here I am dealing with immigrants...
A bit. I have distance students and I knew that a certain kind of reality was missing for them. Generally they get feedback from me on their homework ...
Yes, and it's easy. You have one main reaction and you aim it at anything, those who agree, those who don't, those who see it as more complex. No nagg...
Interaction. And yes, one is writing to be read, at least in part, and not just by oneself. I think it is a kind of social communication. I do think o...
I think if you read that sentence in context, you'll see that I meant precisely the opposite. That I encounter that kind of oversimplification, from t...
In the main I agree. Though I would add that I think one can, actually, win or 'win' this battle and not longer have the parts of oneself one had. One...
For me I think there are two different kinds of facts mushed together here, at least potentially. It think writing is a lonlier and more solitary form...
Religious conservatives have their reasons for supporting Israel. The US has used Israel for all sorts of things in the region - both liberal and cons...
Yes, I can hear or 'hear' my verbal thoughts sometimes. I do hear voices that seem not to be the main part of me. Sometimes it can, for example, be a ...
Oh, humans. That seems like a different issue to me.This seems not really to the point. It seemed like you were painting concerns as merely irrational...
Yeah, it's just morons who worry about this. People without the intelligence to think of your solution to the problem.... https://www.theguardian.com/...
What you're calling butting in seems to me part of normal posting here, so butt-in away. That said, I focused on scepticism about powerful entities be...
Treat power with skepticism. So, both the Republicans and Democrats have managed to convince people that there are two sources of approaches and one o...
There are philosophers who are pragmatists and pragmatism(s) is(are) philosophical positions inside philosophy, so I don't accept the dichotomy implic...
It decieved him in a context that is almost completely useless to most of us most of the time. So, yes, if one wants to understand the motions of the ...
It seems to me when I am thinking about an abstraction, or abstracting, this is an event. There would be the physiological side of this also. If I hav...
Maps are also territories, just not the territory they portray. I agree that remembrances don't appear to the senses, but isn't anything that occurs a...
So, where does the process of sensing take place. (this is not skeptical question - for example, how could it be other than in the brain? - but rather...
When one has a memory of an event, it seems to me that memory is a phenomenon. One could put it in verb form: I just remembered what it smelled like i...
A few reactions to this: 1) it seems to treat belief as binary. If you believe, you have no doubt. If you believe you will spend time arguing with peo...
Yes, so far we haven't gone to a full exchange of nukes or any tactical use of nukes. But these wouldn't be mistakes. They would be conscious choices....
The problem with AI (and also with genetically modified organisms and nanotech) is its potential to not be local at all when we mess up. With all our ...
or it's a facet of matter in general. We don't know that consciousness is limited to brains. We don't know what causes it. Often when this is mentione...
My point was that your op seemed to make it sound like our only motivations, without some later cultural belief, are move towards pleasure, move away ...
I can live without the word aim, but there sure are motivations. I suppose I was thinking quasi literally that the child will aim his or her face towa...
I think this is an oversimplification of our motivations. We are social mammals. We want contact and intimacy with other creatures, especially our own...
You could have woken up from a dream or a coma years later. Note: I am not arguing you should go around doubting such things.I can certainly live with...
Yes, we can. My main point is that I think it's most useful to consider knowledge things that have been rigorously determined (and at least seem to be...
Which I think is a nice example of knowledge not necessarily true. IOW I don't think our hindsight about Newton's work means that people were wrong to...
Ok, that's good, common ground.A couple of things with these two related acts: 1) they are more than expression of emotion. There would likely be verb...
I can see if the expression is violent or some kind of act in the world - like making up stuff about someone on the internet. But do you include expre...
Me too. I was likely not clear.Or if you simply have a different reaction even though you are close. Right, and I think the transition from less genui...
An unstated premise is that if your feelings are cause and effect response, the feelings aren't genuine. Is there anything else we would say is not ge...
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