Neither true that it does, nor true that it doesn't. Now, I say this because, out there somewhere, among the 7 billion humans that walk the earth, the...
Thanks for all the valuable comments. On reading your posts I'm led to believe that, 1. We've understood or, at the very least, we've got a basic gras...
I suppose you're not bothered by the fact, what seems to me to be so, that in both cases (intersubjectivity and objectivity), one of the defining feat...
In some sense it does. In my humble opinion, a certain strain of information/knowledge, whatever you want to call it, must become important enough to ...
If I were to play the fool, perhaps temporarily don the mantle of so-called divine madmen, I would say, in accordance with @"Wayfarer"'s philosophy an...
Is the sentence ambiguous or not? If there are beings who are beyond time or if they don't make the temporal distinctions we do like past, present, an...
I wish I had the means to do a linguistic analysis on the matter because many times, or so I heard, concepts in one culture don't have a perfect count...
Can I pick your brain regarding the notion of intersubjectivity? The google definition simply says that it's just a consensus on thoughts, ideas, beli...
Compassion seems to be a much deeper moral concept than love in the Christian tradition because, to the extent that I can discern, compassion seems to...
You're claiming morality is only intersubjective i.e. it isn't objective. That means it has to be subjective; in other words, what you're really sayin...
How on earth did people back then when Jesus, other divinely associated folks, performed "miracles" come to the conclusion that god or some other tran...
I'll give you an empirical example to get my point across. If 1 person sees a boat on the horizon, you would be more doubtful than if 10 people had ma...
Thanks for the info but, as far as I'm concerned, that there's some kind of common ground to be found among various cultures on morality speaks for it...
Just thought of something. As Eep, in the animation flick the Croods, tells her father, "there's a difference between living and not dying", it appear...
You maybe right but then how does one distinguish intuitions from knowledge? Also, no smoke without fire; that the intuitions of disparate cultures co...
:ok: :up: I'll give you an example of a conditional statement that's temporally ambiguous: 1. If mom is home then the food is ready Does statement 1 i...
Did you read my post properly? There's nothing about memory that can give it a temporal locus. 1. We know something is in the past because we have mem...
I think those who argue for non-objective morality are committing the same mistake as I was when I decided to tell two identical twins apart by notici...
I wonder what Wittgenstein would've thought of how animals behave when they encounter something new to them. I recall watching a video of a pet dog sn...
I sympathize with that sentiment, another name for the devil being the deceiver, one par excellence in all probability and hence, the greatest lie bei...
The biggest lie would be one that we don't know is a lie. The better the deception, the less likely that it'll be discovered. Ergo, if there's a bigge...
An idea apt for the occasion is catch-22. To discover the truth that thinking is overrated one must think. So, do you believe the conclusion that thin...
This may come across as black humor and even downright evil but from a Buddhist perspective with its notion of so-called Bodhisattvas (beings who opt ...
Compassion, to my reckoning, is better translated as the kind of love one is asked to feel for one's fellow human beings and because that love is base...
We could copy the configuration onto another (synthetic) brain or other appropriate analog. It would be like an artist creating the exact painting (th...
A configuration isn't physical. Imagine 3 balls, one red, one green and the other blue. A configuration would be some kind of permutation/combination ...
I'm considering the ideal scenario but point noted. Nevertheless, even such outcomes could be included into the possibility space and we could think o...
Philosophers, according to a source I chanced upon, is about knowing more and more about less and less until there comes a point when a philosopher kn...
It appears that the widely held view is that time has no shape like space is thought to have (3D space can be spherical, maybe even a cube) or if one ...
I was just wondering at the way the notion of absolute certainty is part of a subject dedicated to uncertainty. To me, that's like describing theism a...
:up: :ok: Even if it Kant's position on the matter were misrepresented by me, it doesn't seem to invalidate the general idea that space is geometry an...
:up: Prediction's spot on but it really doesn't say much does it? What's the difference between thinking of doing something and actually doing that so...
To begin with, I like to look at it from an empathetic standpoint. I don't like getting punched in the face and I like to have a decent amount of fun ...
Smacks of eugenics at a level that's very dangerous - out of reach of the law to regulate - but which parent doesn't want a handsome/beautiful intelli...
Mathematics doesn't break down, the theory that results in particular formulae breaks down. That's why scientists are on the lookout for new theories ...
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