While I find nothing to disagree with in your post, negative consequentialism seems iike a breeding ground for anti-natalists which is a negative cons...
Aristotle did not come up with this expression - though he respected elephants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_in_the_room and that isn't the ...
exactly so other appearnaces show you that there is a lag. and this is repeatable. So, there's a lag, even in an idealistic universe. Substance doesn'...
I really doubt fish would be making bicycles in different regions of the ocean, even if separated from each other's influence. So I don't think the an...
Perhaps it is futile, but there sure is something that is not explained. Quite unlike what we can explain in relation to moving bodies. That we can ex...
Was I doing that? Could you show where? Just in general it would help if you integrated my response into your response to that. You seem to have resta...
I don't think the ego is just or even primarly about self-preservation. I think the ego is more about self-focus. Self-focus can be good or bad or any...
I am not sure how you got to materialism is false. I get that there is an illusion of presentness. But that doesn't make materialism false. It would m...
I think you managed to communicate about what consciousness means, in a very broad way. And then there are all sorts of discussions, yes, at an abstra...
But you can distrust something that exists and that's what Moses was talking about in relation to Massah. Stop distrusting your God who has already do...
faith as in trust in. I am not denying epistemological issues, just that the massah quote is about having trust in God, not belief in God's existence....
Wellllll. I think the idea of that test was more about faith in the relationship with God, not in God's existence. They had seen miracles but were now...
Let's go back to the original dichotomy. I took this as reasoning, as in reaching conclusions via logic and probably verbal thought. The second seemed...
Can you give me a couple of other examples. If someone is motivated to torture John, it seems to me he has a reason. It may not be what most people ca...
It was a very complicated post and an interesting one. I hope I don't go to far off on tangents. Some thoughts: The first scenario: gun out or not is ...
When you say reasons, do you mean motivations? (here that is). OK, right. I don't think I conflate them. From there in your post to me I am not sure w...
If you think that reasoning cannot do everything that is claimed or needs another cognitive process to be complete, of course you can use reason (with...
I am not sure why mentioning intuition means one can never use reasoning. I believe the OP is arguing that at a foundational level one is dependent on...
If we go back to the OP, he is arguing that it is not reasons, it is intuition that leads us to conclude things. The underming of that argument is ok,...
There's a jump to 'there are no unknown truths'. You've gone from a specific situation where a certain unknowln proposition is (somehow) known to be t...
I think this presumes too much that we don't automatically make meaning. Like we are outside looking in, finding not meaning, rather than creatures wi...
Or it just seems consistant. There's a built in, this is correctly connected to the past quale. That shouldn't require something more powerful than ou...
I do think that's possible, though it might not be evolution but cultural development. IOW once the culture catches on that they have a serious proble...
I think the insights can often be expressed rationally. On weed you can realize that someone makes you uncomfortable because they seem judgmental. As ...
Well, yes, I took B ). especially the part i bolded above has mainly referring to science. And to me methods if they are effective, then they are bein...
I couldn't follow this, my limitations probably. Neither proposal: is this enformationism and materialism or materialism and physicalism. (I probably ...
They are obviously different, they are different senses. So, they experience this thing called shape differently. And one sense has never been used. S...
Because red is only a quale. The object is not red. But come at an object with sensors, cast it in brass,shoot particles at it, feel it, and the shape...
Which is why it is better to use things like shape and volume for example. Here it's harder to dismiss the experienced as mere qualia. And, then, me a...
Of course one can suggest a specific usage for a term that people can then agree to use. That's fine, but your posts read as if the people who disagre...
To me the following does not fit with my description of what certain means... I am taking these questions as expecting the answer should be 'no'. I do...
I disagree, though this is semantics and use does vary. Certain has to do with a mental attitude, not the truth value of one's belief. When someone as...
Some people can, others can't. How does one learn how to weed out pathological boy/girlfriends? Some people can't so no one should bother? You can ref...
Right, this is a fairly useless use of the concept. Hurling or implying superiority is unlikly to improve the conversation. On the other hand, I do th...
Nah, it's not. I think we evolved with side effects. We have desires, we are curious. I enjoy these things. If you don't, consider that we might be di...
I don't think this is true, though I would guess it would be hard for either of us to demonstrate our position. I find professional and private intere...
Sure, I have some doubt. It's a low amount of doubt. I have other beliefs with higher amounts of doubt. For example, I believe that individual scienti...
You picked that one part to respond to? Of course you can pick without doubting or believing. I have never asserted that you can't. I might do that on...
If you believe it is most likely, you have a belief. If you believe it is or stands a good chance of being most fruitful, you have a belief. You are d...
Actually they do have to believe things. Or they would have little basis to focus their studies. Those not believing would be picking approaches, subj...
Especially since belief is contrasted with knowledge already, whether one consider's knowledge to be beliefs arrived at rigorously (something along th...
I believe, Isaac, I am on your side of this one. I don't see that believing something to be true entails 100% certainty. Further i don't see how one c...
OK, I think I have a better idea where you are coming from. Yes, these ideas get used in terrible and politicized and/or financially motivated ways. I...
And fail to read, take seriously, notice counterevidence, anomalies, portions of texts, portions of what is said in the same way. This is cognitive bi...
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