Why is it "because" in both cases? I'm asking because you've spoken as if they're different in the sense that biological motivation is somehow not rat...
What are these? I would refrain from saying faith is "...not a rational...motivation". It might be totally reasonable to assume, on faith, certain tru...
To those interested I've arrived at, what to me is, an interesting and also profound conclusion. First things first, "religion", is the wrong word and...
:up: An altogether different ballgame. By the way I have no idea why we're discussing dreams all of a sudden. I'll play along; maybe we might strike g...
While I'm a big fan of intuition - it seems to be both the first and last "detective" to arrive at the "crime scene", winning an advantage on both occ...
The crux of your argument rests on improbability of certain events but the fact that you have to consider is that improbable doesn't mean impossible. ...
I was/am under the impression that the Oedipus complex is perfectly mirrored in father-daughter relationship. Did Freud slip up or did he think it too...
If I must say something on Freud and the Oedipus complex it's that the whole idea makes sense, at whatever level it does, even if not to everybody. Th...
I maybe talking out of my hat here but I sense a deep flaw in this, may I call it, attitude, towards life. I don't know if biologists are doing this k...
I'm trying to avoid having to write he/she, him/her, using gender-neutral words that I picked up from a website. Fae = he/she Faer = him/her Faers = h...
An amazing, wonderful, possibly more accurate than you yourself suppose, theory! :up: Congratulations! Ah...peace...the most wanted, rarest among rare...
To my knowledge, this matter was settled a long time ago with the aid of the ubiquitous game of chance - lotteries. The chance of winning the jackpot ...
From the little that I know of Freud, it makes me want to give him my vote for creativity. Did he or did he not develop his psychological theories lik...
` It shows in my posts and probably in those of other members. This is why. This seems inevitable given what you said but, on analysis, seems like a Z...
That's what I was going for. If you ask me, people rationalize about personal matters. I suppose philosophers are deeply attached to their ideas, theo...
Permit me to do a quick recap of Aristotelian causes (the better word as per wiki is "explanation"): The answer to why? in re a wooden table 1. Materi...
Not to contradict you but truth is only one facet of knowledge, right? Are you forgetting or purposely avoiding justified, true, belief? Either way, i...
:up: Your explanation was to the point and helpful. I find it more interesting to know how the philosophy of given philosophers affected their lives. ...
Thanks for the advice. Very kind of you. Gave me a fright when I found out Pyrrhonism was first to mention in enough detail the trio underlined above....
Is about truth I believe, not knowledge. Do you have any comments specific to my post? What's wrong with it and let's not lower the bar as of yet. Tha...
I have no idea what you're talking about. Stop thinking rationally for a day and let your passions rule; it won't be long before you find yourself in ...
I don't know if "accurate" is the right word. I would've chosen "certainty". Anyway, to cut to the chase, deduction guarantees (100% certainty) the tr...
Well, I'll ask you a simple question. Why do farmers save seeds from one harvest for the coming year? I'm probably barking up the wrong tree but I'd l...
:ok: But then why did you refer to Pyrrho as a "joke"? To my knowledge, Pyrrho is all about uncertainty, expressible mathematically as confidence leve...
Personally, I wouldn't go that far. In my humble opinion, a person can be said to exist only after sperm meets egg. The information that eventually go...
First off, I don't get the analogy of a mirror unless you're trying to understand yourself, by which I mean both consciousness itself and its uniquene...
Something just crossed my mind when I read the above; perhaps you might want to know... You say the past defines us and, prima facie, almost everyone ...
In my humble opinion, our passions are well-known causes of much misery - the emotional stress of aborting a baby being just one. They need a chaperon...
I've always thought of the abortion issue as abjectly moronic. We have, as we speak, a wide variety of highly effective contraceptives, from rubbers t...
I see. A plausible theory you have there. It makes me wonder though whether there are any categories of people who are exceptions to this pattern of b...
Really? Which other animal has a language as sophisticated like ours, language that has been pressed into service to achieve what to our closest cousi...
Really? Then it wouldn't matter to your future as a successful member of society if you undergo a lobotomy now? I've considered that particularly vexi...
I do but, sure, I'm a no one. Are you absolutely certain? Between 0% and 100%, what is the level of your certainty in the statement you just made? Agr...
What on earth is an "emotional argument"? :chin: Does this have something to do with Hume or someone else, I forget? Reason is slave to the passions k...
No problem. It's nothing substantive. Just a thought I had. I was hoping for some feedback, that's all. Thanks for the discussion and the links. Good ...
Yes, I realized that but then what's the alternative? The word "dominance" comes with its own connotational baggage so to speak. Why is it crazy? Ther...
I' sure you must've already figured out where I want to take this but if I must be explicit then... Once we're in agreement that humans are at the top...
The underlined bit resonates with the gist of my post. Don't you agree that technology, a product of intelligence, has made it possible for humans to ...
You're kidding, right? The evidence for my claim that intelligence is an evolutionary advantage can be found in the humble bathroom mirror, if you kno...
I suppose if one factors in Pyrrhonism, every belief is faith-based in way or another. The only difference then between faith-based beliefs and justif...
Are you saying that if there were two organisms, one intelligent and the other not, they would both fare about the same in the game of survival? :chin...
The facts: 1. Extinction is failure, no two ways about it. Extinction means a population of zero. Ergo, greater the population the more successful. Po...
Point made, point taken. Thanks. It seems that statements D and N imply each other. If everything is in the category of things I don't want then nothi...
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