What I'm trying to tell you is there may not be such a thing as a wrong intuition and therefore there's no "progression" such as that from 0% correct ...
How did you come to the conclusion that "Intuitions can become more and more correct" when you know that "intuitions are not objective reliable"? The ...
You have to be kidding me. If meaning is use, we should be able to use "2" in some way different to what it was intended for (counting) or, if we shou...
It does seem quite within the bounds of reason to "forget about meaning and look to use"; after all, humans and some animals like bonobos, ravens, etc...
It all boils down to, is a matter of, life and death. Pessism keeps you from an untimely death, optimism keeps you from a full life. Imagine two peopl...
My understanding of Wittgenstein's idea that meaning is use is that a word's meaning is not given by a definition which purportedly captures the word'...
I have no issues with what you say and if I'd like to add anything it would be that: 1. Intuition deserves more of our attention because some of the g...
:lol: It seems you've reached the end of your rope with me. My humble apologies if you found our conversation not as stimulating as you might've wishe...
You didn't reply to my second post about how reality is open to, squares with, multiple mutually inconsistent interprerations. Democritus, the laughin...
:rofl: :chin: You don't seen an inconsistency in light being a particle AND a wave? That it is both doesn't strike you as in the slightest bit odd? Yo...
2 + 2 = 4 I I + I I = I I I I :joke: I thought we're at liberty to define mathematical operations to suit our needs. There's nothing true/false about ...
@"180 Proof" The long and short of it is that reality sends us mixed signals i.e. it's consistent with mutually inconsistent descriptions which, to my...
Your contention is that reality isn't inconsistent and inconsistency, if observed, is only "apparent" in that it occurs at the level of and is because...
My experience informs me that I should defer to your better judgment but my gut instinct tells me I should, at the very least, raise an objection to y...
Come to think of it, wu wei as "inaction" or "effortless action" is a natural consequent of the Taoist idea of Yin-Yang. All phenomena being an interp...
That's the downside. See any benefits? Material that are a pleasure to view, read, listen to? Yes, in the wrong hands, "marketing" can be dangerous, l...
But that's begging the question isn't it? You haven't proven that all inconsistencies are due to "inadequate descriptions". All you've done is asserte...
@"T Clark"@"Possibility" @"Wayfarer"What the heck is wu wei really? Last I checked it means something along the lines of "doing without doing" but nec...
From my own experience and from the little that I've gleaned from the experiences of others, we definitely want "a world where everyone's desires are ...
So that means the universe can be inconsistent in ways that don't have anything to do with our descriptions even though our descriptions, due to inher...
You ask the impossible for any example I cite could be "explained away" - an accusation made against Daniel Dennett in re his claim that consciousness...
I don't see it that way. Marketing is the business analog of what we recognize as rhetoric in philosophy. I recall coming across an article or video, ...
How right you are! There definitely is a link between if not religion per se at the very least spirituality and music. Both subjects (spirituality and...
How do you respond to Plato given that your idea of Relative vs Absolute truth shares similarities with his theory of forms (absolute & eternal) vs th...
There's no Taoist equivalent to Buddhist Maya (illusion) unless one interprets the innate drive of humans to view reality in terms of fixed generaliti...
Something Lao Tzu would probably have given his nod of apporval to. I wonder if Buddhism, the whole of it, is kinda like Wittgenstein's ladder: You st...
What's a non-binary? Neither male nor female I suppose. My hunch is that there's a lot that's involved in gender determination and as we all know that...
Are you saying Buddhism is a tradition in mysticism? I must disagree with you on that for, if I'm not mistaken, both Buddhist beliefs and practices ha...
Perhaps my eagerness to confirm my own understanding/suspicions on the matter makes me jump to conclusions. Anyway, I'd like to pick your brain regard...
What are the similariities/differences between Buddhism and Taoism? I ask because both are recognized to be "eastern" in spirit but there's a major di...
By the way, what's a virtuous circle. I'm not familiar with that concept. I've always thought of ALL instances of circular logic to be vicious in char...
You might want to have a look at Reflective Equilibrium I must warn you though, the Western spirit of wanting to make sense of the world in terms of g...
Reflective equilibrium is about adjustments made to general principles and particular judgments to achieve coherence in a set of beliefs. Begging the ...
I still feel that Taoism is both a resignation to and a celebration of the inherent complexity of reality. The verses of Taoism, not that I've read it...
There's a certain unresolved tension in a paradox; to quote Daniel Dennett, "...we're tugged in two different directions..."' with the net effect like...
What bothers me the fact that all philosophical and, if you really look at it, all human affairs seem to be stuck in the debate stage and resolution o...
Are you saying inconsistences are mere artefacts of our descriptive paradigms, that they're apparent inconsistencies and not real ones? The inconsiste...
Sorry to butt in but my personal view, supposing it's worth anything, is that consistency is probably a feature of the world at the human scale. Go up...
I don't get you. To my reckoning, the point of contention between us is the meaning/definition of a person. My definition is the standard one as far a...
The natural question is, if Taoism not an intellectual exercise why does it feel like one? After all, it's being discussed in a philosophy forum, no l...
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