I'm puzzled by your skepticism toward a statement you originally quoted as a general description of question. I think it's a good definition. It makes...
I'm trying to get sharp focus on whether question plays a principal role in information transfer -- rather like Messenger RNA. If so, might this be an...
What you say is true. On the other hand, can you cite legions of family, friends and acquaintances who frequent this website, ready to spout alternati...
The grammar that syntaxes question denotes form & function that operates independent of the sub-textual intentions of the speaker/writer. Placing a fi...
Since I don't know if this refers to the volition choosing a single focus, or the differential in vertical stacking of prioritized activities i.e. mul...
I believe, as you suggest, the differentiation of What is a question? and Define question is false. When I define something, I answer the question, Wh...
Firstly, the statement normally appears to be nonsense, a point Agent Smith emphasizes. So, of course, in my translation of his paradox into my own pa...
Can we generalize the above thus, What is an X? Must we parse it likewise? To ask it, one must know what an X is, but it also indicates the questioner...
The question of question, as it expresses in your language above, appears as paradox. With this claim I'm asserting that question of question, a two-t...
Powerful, shaping influences upon our lives are not always blatant. The short answer to your question is propaganda. My reasoning proceeds from the pr...
Well! I must say, you're whacking me arse pretty good with your answers. Is it my fault the public schools give short shrift to critical thinking? The...
I'm trying to use homological in a parallel with onomatopoeia as it's used pertaining to verbal language. Onomatopoeia - a word that sounds like the n...
What say you to math language holding a homological relationship to the empirical-material world it's modeling? Looking through the lens of a homologi...
A feedback loop is a physical-material memory structure of the brain. At the first order level of feedback looping, you get the behaviorism that Chalm...
I've already stated my response to your questions above. Here they are again. We're on the same page here, as I've also said something similar, Our fe...
Regarding Quote 01 above, do I correctly characterize it as a description of the behaviorism resultant of high-level, automatic, chemical-mechanical p...
If I present a proof that a certain claim is false, would you say my proof is invalid because it's not also false? Is not the above statement telling ...
Is not the superposition of an elementary particle within quantum mechanics an existential paradox? Is not quantum computing already underway? Is not ...
Do you believe class division & the established social order, like human inequality, occur naturally, and thus no need for any type of social engineer...
What you describe sounds to me like partial deconstruction of enlightenment scientific method back to modulated animism & also reinvigorated belief in...
Your elaboration of gnarly issues pertaining to the subject/object question shows clear & thoroughgoing scholarship on your part. I find what you've w...
If a philosopher is not a Berkeley type idealist, s/he acknowledges the source of ideas being external, objective nature (holistically unified, or not...
Leonard Susskind won a debate with Hawking to the effect that 2nd law of thermodynamics is preserved through the singularity, and thus no info is perm...
Thanks for the correction. So, as to the following quote, I amend it to, Like Gödel showed us, every basic system of logic will generate moot statemen...
No, it doesn't. However, idea & practical phenomenon are not always the same thing, which is the point of seeking experimental verification by literal...
I've quoted Joshs above as part of my reply to jgill's question at the top. More than a few philosophers want to comprehend "the cosmos as a perfect u...
When a state underwrites private risk with taxpayer money, do we speak truthfully when we say that taxpayer money is queer venture capital via which t...
Is there a kernel of truth in my thinking the state taking on private risk is least talked about (albeit most consequential) because it is a critical ...
By saying "none," you're saying you condone the double-standard that, for the same crime, has the judge handing down a draconian sentence to a commone...
The above read like fast lanes to a nightmare of social instability, with frequent visits to thresholds of disintegration & collapse. Perhaps Nietzsch...
In your OP, your responses to the above seem to position you as a supporter of this, as you say, "unpussified" reading of Nietzche. Then, however, you...
On point, god must be atheist! I could try to say "stange" is some of my bad French; would anybody buy that? Naw! Di-stinguer has an extra syllable, a...
This question digs into some of my currently evolving thinking about ontic boundaries of material objects in the context of an origin story, one of th...
I'm thinking about this seriously, with intent to incorporate it into my methodology, when I have a better understanding. Thanks for sharing. It feels...
Herein, my word choice of "attack" is unfortunate. In this context, "attack" means "line of attack," or "approach to the solving of a problem," not "a...
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