TheMadFool

What I think... It's easier to say that philosophy is morality than that morality is philosophy.

If one is a pessimist then the future is easy to predict. If an optimist then it's really hard. Whether this is due to the human nature (self included...

Very interesting. Thanks for the post. Truths can't be falsified but lies can/must be falsified. Consider a belief x. In the beginning we don't know i...

I've been struggling with these labels for quite some time now. I had a difficult time making sense of these positions, especially the way atheists de...

It appears simple to me and I'm afraid it isn't. Take your position on God as a page from a book. If you're agnostic (undecided) then the page is blan...

I guess we'd have to look at our instruments. A measuring scale with an error margin of +/-1% would mean we're 99% sure. Right?

I'm not depressed. I never knew or felt depression. I've had strong emotions though. I've cried for a lot of things. Haven't laughed as much but, on t...

Uncertainty is simply a gap in our knowledge. There are many reasons for that situation. It could be that our mind's aren't capable of processing the ...

Causation is very interesting. It requires rules or laws so that we may abstract a causal inference. Thirst is quenched by water. If this relation que...

Very interesting post. I like how you exposed a flaw in the issue of free will. It seems wrong to say that free will is absent given your thought expe...

I don't know. I guess it's just a habit from childhood. To tell you frankly I haven't given the whole issue serious thought. Now that you ask I think ...

:grin: yes :sad:

We can't adhere to the ''trifecta'' and continue to eat meat as empathy and compassion are based on not causing pain. Am I right?

This is a valid point. I overlooked the important point that animals feel pain and plants don't. Now that you ask, I don't know why we eat meat. It's ...

Let's take this vegetarian point of view to its logical conclusion. Plants are living things too. Right? Of course a vegetarian would respond that pla...

Don't worry. Irrationality and hypocrisy, strangely, are not crimes...yet!

While some like to think of the perfect clockwork universe where every cog in the great machine fits perfectly, I see a lot of imperfections (from a h...

I believe reason and emotion are two different things and not in an obvious definitional way. Emotions need to be subdivided into two categories: 1. C...

Karma is only a type of causation, based on the moral hue of conscious free action. 1. Causation isn't simple. People talk of chain of causation. I pr...

:up: That makes me wonder... Do we really have choices? Aren't we all slaves to our nature? A good book I read encourages us to take charge of our liv...

I guess you're human. As one poster remarked I think wisdom has a religious slant to it. I see philosophy as a quest for wisdom. Wisdom is bipartite -...

:up: I wonder if what you say has anything to do with Wittgensteinian language games? It seems much of how we think has to do with purposeful actions/...

What other human enterprise has purpose? Aren't they all, everything we humans do, driven by a sense of wonder? There is no real or better purpose in ...

You don't find laughing and crying ''logically unacceptable'' when it happens to two people, here Heraclitus and Democritus, both rational and growing...

Ok. What's your definition of a paradox? Perhaps you're right. I'm making some assumptions here - the sameness of logic and the sameness of the stuff ...

Good point. Science could be wrong about it all. However, one redeeming quality of science is that it never claims infallibility. Theories are continu...

The stoics would probably think both Hercalitus and Democritus were fools. I like that being myself one.:smile:

:rofl: yes thanks

You have a point Apokrisis said there's unity in duality. My point is joy and sorrow are contraries, meaning it's impossible for both states to obtain...

To Cry and to laugh are contraries I believe

I hope he's alright.

Thanks

2 in 1. Perfect.

This should serve as a warning to scientists of today. What if we have it wrong? We could also be in a similar situation like those 5 billion years fr...

I wish I could explain it. Let me show you a different side of logic. Paradoxes are places where logic breaks down. I've seen two types of logical par...

Thanks.

Isn't that like saying two cars of the same make aren't identical just because they're going in different directions? Some differences are relevant, o...

Your child could be the next Buddha or Messiah if you prefer but Hitler had parents too. There's no way of knowing what your child will become. Potent...

Nice ''proof'' but they are thinking, just of different things.

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Just a hunch. Nothing experimentally suggested or proven. Sorry if that puts you off. I'm tinkering around with the establishment (science and philoso...

I don't remember typing that. How are you so sure? I know ''current'' scientific knowledge has no room for my theory but science is a work in progress...

sld We can question. Healthy skepticism is part of wisdom and wisdom tells us to question our most cherished beliefs.

I mentioned the liar paradox a modified version of which is used by mathematician Kurt Godel for his incompleteness theorems in math. Plus there a dif...

Slippery slope?

Love is about giving, not receiving. Love before loved.

Interesting question. I think it's pretty simple although I'm not an expert. The rules of language are linear. We have a beginning (the subject) and w...

If only I knew.

I have no goals. I read somewhere that a goal=prey and so, naturally, the prey and goal flee in the opposite direction. I think there's a grain of tru...