A chilling wind blew across Manhattan that afternoon as they wheeled Malcolm out of the Audubon strapped atop a stretcher. A delay held up the departu...
I'm indebted to you for letting me query you in-depth. I've benefitted much from the experience. It's been an education for me. I hope we'll dialogue ...
Do you believe: vulnerability = vulnerable, soul = souls? com·mon sense | ?käm?n ?sens | noun good sense and sound judgment in practical matters: : a ...
pan·psy·chism | pan?s??kiz?m | noun the doctrine or belief that everything material, however small, has an element of individual consciousness. -- The...
Yeah. Likewise for me. However, when friends pressure me into going, I must admit I get entertained (thrilled) and educated. I think the director need...
Yes. Soul as defined in the context of my four statements connects to two essential attributes of an innate identity of a self: a) unavoidable; b) inv...
Okay. Abstract concepts expressed in language can never take the place of the physical reality language describes. Okay. Realism directed at physical ...
No problem. Thanks for taking time out from your busy schedule. I'm seeking your thoughts on my four statements. This you have now done to some extent...
As I see it, our conversation, an interview in which you answer questions, has to date distilled five big questions: 01) What is the ground of conscio...
Thanks for this. It's a clarification useful to my understanding. I'm not an essentialist. I just learned of its existence through my dialog with you,...
If you have some sympathy for non-essentialism, can you assess nihilism and the range of possible identities it affords humans? Being ridiculous for a...
No intention to convey anything fancy. I simply meant wanting to correct something believed to be immoral. If you'll accept a take on ideology in the ...
I'm seeking your thoughts on self-sacrifice for sake of ideology. Do you accept conventional wisdom that says ideology typically contains a moral comp...
Is this type of thinking non-binary WRT the physical/mental binary? Is this a way of saying an analysis of the world, as it becomes viable, merges int...
Okay. Essence is not one of your favorite words. Other people talk about it, but such conversations have never drawn you in. What about essential? Do ...
Your Knowledge/knowledge couplet is metaphorically illuminating. They're like tectonic plates rubbing against each other in a perennial state of (crea...
Are you telling me mind is a discrete unit within a system we call world? This is a good and important clarification. Is this a way of saying, in part...
Yes. We need each other. However, counterbalance, equilibrium and detente are difficult. They require skill of negotiation and compromise. Philosophy ...
I think part of the irony of success is how it breeds discontent. After success, the terrifying question looms: "Now what?" The terror in living is ho...
You've been giving me some clear and meaningful answers. I appreciate your candor. Your thinking on these issues is helping me with my thinking about ...
Are you rejecting soul in favor of other words you regard as more appropriate labels for perishable human identity such as: mortal, frail, fragile, de...
Newtonian physics in the wake of Relativity. I acknowledge the truth of your above distinction. I think one useful measurement of the difference betwe...
Is it your belief that human mind and physical world enact and maintain an ecological handshake? Do human mind and physical world create together a Ve...
In my earlier response to you I was referring to a person's moral or emotional nature or sense of identity Let's look at numbers, morals, the human br...
Heart -- Remember how you told your best pal Marty in high school that Ruthie was your dream girl in this momentary lapse to insanity you even divulge...
Soul is the part of you that truly believes Soul-belief comes to children naturally After childhood it threatens to slip our grasp Soul is the heart o...
Only the contents of your mind hold the status of knowledge? Everything external to your mind holds the status of belief? Is your belief Justified Tru...
Does the context in which the {observation ? analysis ? conclusion} unfolds play a critical role in the scope of the truth content of the JTB? Can we ...
Let's revisit a couple of my communications. When a philosopher is working in topics in epistemology, s/he is doing philosophy. That you believe this ...
Appears to me skepticism has a mathematical structure akin to the cancellation of opposite charges resulting in zero. Since zero in isolation is impra...
The above quote is how I boil down your statement to its essentials. The above quote I understand to be synonymous with: Philosophy = reflective think...
As I understand it, your above statement claims the question therein seeks a way, a manner or a means of knowing our acceptances-without-proof are rea...
I take you to mean (because of the double-negative) it is correct to understand: as a question that sparks the epistemological project of philosophy. ...
Is it incorrect to characterize the above question as a spark igniting epistemological inquiry? Its predomination as an itch that grows as we scratch ...
Long stretch of time with dozens of mock-ups getting vaporized until, one fateful day, the atomic hurricane knocks the latest Hooterville sideways and...
Oh, yeah! Aspirant philosopher-in-training knuckles down with his grandfather-to-thumb-acer (all black, of course). Thinks he's gonna win! And yea! Pu...
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