As I just responded to others...belief is the umbrella term. Under it we will find Knowledge and faith. We believe things either on faith or knowledge...
Not really belief means to "accept a claim". Whether it is knowledge or blind faith that only makes a belief founded or not. So knowledge is one of th...
Belief is the act of accepting a claim as a personal position(thesis). Belief is the general umbrella term. Under it we can find two types of claims K...
Sure ! This scientist argues about a specific aspect of the concept. Claims that convey data about facts of the physical world are valued as informati...
I never said its complex. Far from it. Andronicus of Rhodes made it really simple for us. While classifying Aristotle's work, Andronicus realized that...
-"Again, emotions arent the only thing humans have." -I agree and this is why I never said that! -"Using logic also works. And i dont know about you, ...
-"Duh. Do you think there is a way to make humans stop showing emotions, peacefully? As long as emotions exist, logic can be cast away. As long as log...
-"I guess you didnt read the entire discussion word by word properly, cuz we are assuming that a world without emotions exists. And the discussion is ...
-"Information can be appied to a physical sysstem. It is a number (the entropy) that we can calculate". -This is what we usually do with "information"...
Information is an abstract concept , a value we project on available claims with specific instrumental value. Those claims describe facts of our world...
Metaphysics IS a tool of Natural Philosophy a.k.a Science. Just because Science split from the rest of the Academia and acquired a wide set of empiric...
-"So don't look! Really, this is a bit silly, isn't it? " -No it only sounds to you silly because you are missing the scientific observation by which ...
-"No, the opening statement should be are 'emotions' necessary. You just explained what feelings are. Feelings are results or answer or conclusion. Em...
Methodological Naturalism is the only honest philosophical position we have. ITs principles and assumptions are easily observable and verifiable and t...
It appears chaotic to the observer. If we had the technology to track every single interaction we would observe that none of the interactions defy the...
if by "vested interest" you mean surviving and flourishing by having access to the most accurate mental model of reality...then sure I will agree! MN ...
Well, anything that demands the calculation of statistical possibilities is related to each other in a degree. This "background of chaos" you are refe...
Yes. Emotions are how our organism inform us for its urges and needs and "feelings" are the interpreted result helping us to identify our goals. I am ...
No I haven't followed Barrett's work on Affective science, but it sounds interesting and in agreement with how Neuropsychoanalysis approach. -"What I ...
-"I am disputing the idea that an emotion prior to an interpretive construal is a coherent notion. " -So you agree with me that an emotion needs to be...
btw how many times you happen deal with some problems, you manage to solve them but there is still there something bugging you. When you remember what...
-"Predictive processing approaches are quite popular these days. What I think is most valuable in them is their understanding of feeling in terms of p...
Sure! I never thought that it was not clear. The problem I see resides with the definition it self ."chaos=not conforming to the laws of nature". We k...
From what I understand, most people in here use an idealistic version of the idea of Chaos and that doesn't really help their philosophical conclusion...
-"And "the laws of nature" – they came to be without "conforming to laws of nature", they continue to be "without conforming to laws of nature" and wh...
I am not sure you use " Chaos" under the scientific usage of the term. Chaos is not a "container". Its a property we observe in dynamic systems " whos...
-"What is meant by 'Chaos' ?" -Chaos is a observable phenomenon in nature. Is a property displayed by physical systems that appear highly disordered a...
-"I believe at root, consciously or unconsciously, the naturalists believe order comes from chaos." - I am a Methodological Naturalist and I don't bel...
-"'meaningful coincidences.'" -Well that is observer depended term. We as observers "connect" connect different events in a narrative and as thinking ...
Chaos theory is also a scientific framework , descriptive of an observable fact. The smaller the scale of nature we try to quantify, the bigger the "n...
What does it mean to have a "spiritual notion" in the first place? Does it mean that we are allowed to use unnecessary entities in our interpretations...
I think we need to distinguish affections and emotions from feelings. Affections and emotions, according to Neuroscience and the latest Theory on Cons...
I arrived late at this party but let me share some info important for this set of questions. 1. Is philosophy as a science having some basic principle...
No they are not. In order for a statement to be wise, it needs to be founded on knowledge. A wise claim can produce further knowledge but that is only...
First of all I think this thread should be the most important for everyone who is interested in Philosophy. Unfortunately the last input is 4 years ag...
I will stop bothering you by saying this last thing. I just finished reading the guidelines and I find them more than reasonable! I understand that th...
Sure and I can see the value of that since we are human beings with all our flaws, temper and biases. I find useful any set of rules designed to limit...
Sorry but I didn't find an other link to contact you, so I chose this opening statement of yours. I have to comment you for the free nature of this pl...
This is an interesting statement since a couple of months ago, Neuroscience as a field has officially rejected this worldview, to quote the title of t...
I guess the correct way to describe reality is that, Reality is an abstract concept descriptive of the result produced by many emergent properties of ...
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