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I found them weird long before I got interested in philosophy.I'm not arguing it's not real, even, but I often think it isn't what it seems like or, p...

I agree in a sense, it is literally quotidian. It happens with regularity and the anomolies are rare by comparison. But the everyday is really weird. ...

In the context, I am correct. Gallileo found evidence that the solar system is heliocentric not geocentric. That's a different kind of situation from ...

That is certainly ruled out if you take a monist stand. But to me at least science is a methodology, not a stand on ontology.He showed that the solar ...

That's an expanding set of 'things' and openended as far as qualities. But within science you don't rule out things. You find a negative result about ...

What's stuff? What are we ruling out? If it's not matter, then this isn't materialism, or?

So, massless particles don't count, then?

It's not an ontological claim, it's a methodological suggestion. If we have two explanations and both work, we might as well use the simpler one...tha...

What is matter?

OK, I agree. When I look at posts like this, I am not quite sure what people are saying.... I am nodding for a while then ending up not at all sure wh...

Do people mean it as a preference, say? Or do they mean it as a truth claim?

Are you saying this is what people man when they moral claims? Because I don't think most think they are opinions, or, better put, I think they think ...

That Planck units are less fictitious.

Yards and inches are based on human decided lengths, perhaps coming from some original object with no exact size, but used to create the measure. IOW ...

It's prior to thinking. We have parts of ourselves that when watching someone suffering feel pain ourselves. It's not like we need a philosophy, thoug...

Often the idea is to fight the natural identification with the other. The natural tendency to not like seeing others suffering. To fight this, indoctr...

I have more trouble with having selfless as a positive term than selfish as a negative one. One you have the pair of terms, I think it causes problems...

It often does frame things this way, but I think it is a faulty model. It presumes, I think, that if left to my interests, I would not take care of ot...

I didn't take it that way. What I meant is that it can be beneficial to be blunt and certain in many situations, rather than more cautious formulation...

For a long time we were told by the experts that depression was caused by a chemical imbalance. This is not longered considered the case. There's iron...

Ah, yes, thanks for mentioning propositions. That was another point mentioned that I thought was odd/interesting. I don't think that a proposition eve...

I'm finding some of the discussion odd. That's not a cover for saying people are wrong. For example, when intuition was being discussed at one point i...

Agreed. Rational does not necessarily include ethical. But since when each adjective (or noun) is used, we tend to mean an ideal trait: Good, Beautifu...

Though I want to add that those rational processes of further testing need to use intution right through. They are not just intuition, but the process...

I tend to react to the words this way also. Rationality seems focused, even if it is on the fly or just in the head, on (intended to be) logical verba...

I am not sure what part of the context made it something that would have to be resisted, but I do believe all philosophy humor impulses should be give...

I would need intuition to get the meaning of this quasi Zeno image and draw a conclusion. Though my point was more that to reason requires all sorts o...

and reason without intuition is nearly useless.

So, presumably more formal types of thinking, like in a well written philosophical essay, would be rigorous reasoning. If I look, however, at I would ...

Well, first I should say that I often use rationality and reason interchangeably. (I am not arguing they should be used that way, just confessing). Fu...

Yes. Another thought is that when reasoning, there are moments of 'microintuitions'. They can be all sorts of things - moments of feeling into semanti...

It certainly could be, I would say. IOW it is not in and of itself ethical, but for some it is heretical to say it could be. It is as if any technolog...

Can you give some examples.

I wasn't thinking about reforming psychiatry. I was thinking about the individual who has real challenges but does not want the psychiatric/pharmacolo...

I am often stunned that this needs to be said and how nice to read it. So, I followed this back... Exactly. It is as if we can manage without intuitio...

We could look at this as a failure to pay attention or a lack of mindfulness and focus everything on improving mindfullness, awarness. And/or one coul...

So, then an alternate strategy, perhaps. Good to write here, but what other social contacts can make a pharmaceuticalless life more livable? Do you kn...

OK, you're moving into a different area of philosophy (or perhaps I took you away from it. I can't remember) But then this argument you make here woul...

I am pretty sure some atheists, if defined as those lacking a belief in God or disbelieving there is a God, fear no longer existing. Not all of them, ...

So an atheist doesn't just lack a belief, a real atheist also lacks certain emotional responses to death and has a specific attitude? And the people w...

They believe that it is a desire of a qualitative difference and it extinguishes itself (when accompanied by the practices). But more importantly, I t...

It's open about it's subjectivity, sure. But it is about objectivity. Yes, we humans make decisions about what we consider objective. We do that wheth...

ok. I don't quite see a definition of physical/material in the link. I do see two, nicely present, different ways of looking at some ontology.

I am not sure how this relates to what I wrote. Or perhaps better put - I haven't made an argument based on atoms swirling and swerving in the void or...

I wouldn't use those words, because their meaning has changed over time and now encompasses things with qualities (or without the qualities) of physic...

Since the nature of things that are considered physical/material has changed (radically) over time, what is the definition of physical/material and sh...

Chemistry is an extremely empirical science. Also medicine is not a science it's a set of applications of science. What's QA? Did you mean QM? which i...

The issues I am about to raise may seem like a tangent, and perhaps they are, but I cannot but raise them. 1) it does depend on the job. If it's a cig...

Apart from your stating this all with fairly strong certainty, I disagree. 1) I think it is very hard to separate perceiving - subjective experience -...

Well, self-congratulatory posts always add to a discussion. Here, I'll give it a go: So, there is no refutation of my critique of your orginal argumen...