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Skinner certainly "underplayed the role of inner experience." He denied that it caused any outcomes. But it is not a 'determinism' because it is possi...

It is interesting how there are no Europeans in your summary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGpnJdFAyKQ

Pardon me. I was contrasting the minimum of what was acknowledged as you described it with the grand scope of possibilities discussed afterwards by De...

So, more of a closet one is stuck within than a theater with a show.

When considering Behaviorism, I think it is helpful to decouple what Descartes claims from how he proceeds. The mind/body distinction he develops happ...

Me too. I was responding to your summary of the article.

You said: You assert this as a self evident fact. It is not self evident to me. Chalmers went to some effort to argue otherwise. Thus my quote from hi...

You are dodging the challenge to your challenge in relation to reduction in regard to you saying, "whether a theory of consciousness is possible."

Why does it have no bearing when the question of what can be reduced to a function is the center of both enquiries?

Yes. How do you see that against the background of the essay presented by DF Polis?

Both, I guess. He has not presented a theory to explain consciousness, but he is saying there could be one. Isn't that what is being sought after or a...

I understand that and have participated in that practice too. Better an ostensive gesture than complete silence. But maybe only a little better.

The survey is amusing. It is like trying on different shoes at a Target store. The criteria presume all the different possible opinions can be mapped ...

An excellent essay. The contrasts made between Aristotelian and Cartesian points of view are particularly appreciated. I will try responding after mul...

Thank you. Maybe I will bring it up in another context someday. I withdrew it because I realized that I was not participating in the OP because I did ...

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That is the method. In Plato, It is interesting to see how the results vary according to who is being interrogated.

Shrouded in the exhalations from his Gauloise, he is difficult to see. He was not arrogant, however. Ever elusive but not mean spirited. He will be un...

I was asking you that since you seemed to suggest the discussion was missing the mark.

So, more of a silence? Talking about logos won't help?

I guess this explains why you are disengaged from the various attempts made in this discussion to distinguish between different possible meanings. But...

I hope Heraclitus does not find this out. That would make the Oedipus story look like an ice cream headache.

The alpha of the beginning is tied to the omega of the risen Christ. John says the only way to salvation is through the Son. The First Word becomes th...

The connection to what? To Heraclitus? To your reluctant theism?

More cryptic than asking: "Like what?" Are you asking me to present possible candidates for an argument I am not making? I was not asking a rhetorical...

I am not the one who expressed dissatisfaction with the dialogue. Do you have an opinion on the matter?

I think Plato frequently used myths to paint pictures of our capacities and environment rather than completely explain matters. This is why I challeng...

I have many conflicting thoughts and feelings regarding these matters. Perhaps I should stay within an area of agreement we have reached when you said...

Perhaps that element played a part in those early churches; We will never know. But it does not reflect the expectation that the world was going to ch...

It is a case of arguing on the basis of authority and then changing what the authority said afterwards.

Please pardon my sulk of yesterday. What I was trying to say about the use of a beginning in John is that it is different from how arche is used in th...

Xenophanes used the language of wholes and preceded Parmenides in speaking of the One: I think the use of Kosmos in relation to ornament and decorum p...

Yes. That is what I am trying to say.

Agreed. Deserves its own lane.

Maybe it is time for a Gerson showdown. I understand Sachs as challenging the "Ur-Platonism" idea put forward by Gerson.

You don't wrestle with anything I have said but comment upon it like observing cows while riding a train.

I do not see my comment in your reply.

Nagel's argument reminds me of Joe Sachs, who sees the prevalence of mathematics in modeling phenomena as a less than an unqualified success. From his...

Augustine was navigating between two distinctly different cosmologies, the one developed by the Greeks and the one brought forward in Genesis. Much in...

Are you asking that in the context of your OP saying it is pointless to look for an origin? Are you asking for a way to hear the Logos without the the...

The one-eyed king surveys his blind subjects.

For John, it was the Word. Augustine interpreted that to say:

The different examples of context you present are interesting. One element in that regard is how Plato reported objections to the 'Q and A" technique ...

I figure all the kinds of psychology are joined at the hip with philosophy because each system demarcates what will be recognized as phenomena and wha...

The discussion of false opinion was not an acceptance of some principle of individual judgement but a component of Socrates' demonstration of its inad...

A myth that gives a vivid narrative for events is different from developing explanations that are pitted against other explanations in the expectation...

That is what Lacan is talking about but he does not depict it as an either/or regarding ego seen as a capacity but a stage where it shapes all future ...

Anaxagoras did express himself within the structure of Parmenides' injunction against saying 'coming into being' or that 'beings moved'. But the texts...