You seem to value something more than reason. Why? Because if you rely on reason, mysticism goes into the trash can. What is this something? Intuition...
I can, presumably others too, imagine a greatest possible being - omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent - one greater than which can't be imagined. S...
Your golf example isn't actually a relocation of an imaginary thing into the real world. It's a case of marrying thought with matter. It isn't imagini...
I guess I was speaking in a restricted sense. Philosophy, truth, aren't the only things worth pursuing. Yet, the truth is, beauty, power, wealth seem ...
I see some sort of progression here... Non-life -> Life -> Survival -> Happiness -> Truth Life evolved from non-life. It was simply a survival game - ...
You're right. There's something wrong in relocating an imaginary x, no matter how great or perfect, into the real world. I think this is a good refuta...
I think anything to do with the self is relevant to your post. I tried to show you that, without eliminating the self from the equation, we can still ...
You mean to say ''god is the greatest being imaginable'' contains the claim ''god exists''? That makes sense in predicate logic. After all: 1. God is ...
You mean something like a higher power? If yes, then certain issues crop up. First thing is, given a higher power, can we ever understand its intentio...
Well, NOTHING forms the backdrop to everything. A physical object occupies the space that was NOTHING. An idea forms to occupy what was once a void/NO...
One thing that's important here is that the self can never be completely eliminated from human transactions. The best way to understand this is to kno...
You have a point. Somebody has to know and have the power to resist you. If not, there's no reason to hold back your ego. This has happened in history...
This question is motivated by selfishness. It is, so to speak, the ego at its extreme. The problem is, we're social animals by necessity. We don't hav...
Makes biological sense. Our survival depends on knowing the truth. So, truth has no value in itself. An advantage for survival. It amounts to the same...
It is ''easier'' to define existence for physical objects. If x can be perceived through the senses and their extensions (instruments), then x exists ...
Another thing... Subjective-objective divide assumes there's an objective reality. Two problems with this are: 1. How do we know? There's no contradic...
Should our lives be guided by truth or should our lives guide the truth? It appears that most believe it's the former but, as you imply, tge former is...
I think you've hit upon something there. I believe happiness is the contrary of pain & suffering. Is there an overlap area between happiness and pain ...
This isn't about truth. This is about consequences that follow from certain actions. To be specific, it's a dilemma. Either you help impose anti-dumpi...
Why? What is this other value in truth? What, apart from the survival advantage that truth brings, makes truth valuable? We've seen, perhaps needs no ...
"It is what it is" is a tautology - redundancy with an information content of zero. Perhaps, 2000 years of fruitless thinking can be summed up in this...
I think the objective-subjective distinction doesn't translate into a good-bad distinction. Of some things we can be objective e.g. the length of a st...
This is a proposition because it has a truth value. Being a normative claim ("should"), it can be either true or false. As such, it meets the criteria...
What's the difference? Socrates? What does he have to do with nothing? I know that he's famous for the words ''I know that I know nothing.'' However, ...
My position is simple. 1. There are more ways of being evil than good. The surest proof of the above statement, in agreement to your theory that somet...
Really? What then of the distinction quality vs quantity? Also... Another thing is science is in the business of quantifying everything. I reckon it's...
What is the difficulty in randomness? You didn't mention. To me, randomness is a feature of probability. A specific situation in which ALL events are ...
Yes, it's difficult to talk about NOTHING. Being, by definition, nonexistence, it lacks properties we're familiar with and, so, is beyond our grasp. W...
I don't know if I'm making sense but my 2 cents... In the case of a sleeping person the brain structure of consciousness exists in full bloom. In othe...
Moral relativism doesn't save the situation. In fact, it supports my case. If morality is relative, then it implies there will be confusion - a partic...
I had to break up reality into two worlds because there are things that are exclusive to each. Thoughts are immaterial. They don't have mass and nor d...
How can we differentiate lies/truths? 1. Obama is the current president 2. Bush is the current president 1 and 2 are both lies but they're about diffe...
The above contradicts with the following: From what I've read, zero is the solution to x - x where x is a number. Before zero, the answer to x - x wou...
When we talk of properties of physical objects, we consider their quantitative aspect too. We say ''5 bananas'', ''2 cars'', etc. These numbers, as re...
My view is that at the macro-scale there are specific physical laws. Force, mass, velocity, the factors relevant at that scale, are all governed by fi...
The most important fact about death is no one really knows what happens during and after death. So, all talk of an after-life, or not, is mere specula...
Yes, that's a real problem. If AI ever comes to be conscious, it'd be a slave-master relationship and it won't be long before AI presses for rights. T...
In my opinion truth can be either qualitative (color, shape, emotion, beauty, etc.) or quantitative. Under both types there are categories (red, round...
As I said, unpredictability is (they say) a feature of the quantum world. I'm willing to accept this for humans and living organisms because the brain...
It's not that humans can assume a higher moral ground here. Look at how we're treating animals and the environment - with total disregard for their we...
I also think the internet is alive:D If you look at how the biological mind evolved (hardware-->software) then it seems more sensible to follow the sa...
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