I see. People those days had a limited vocabulary. So with the possibility space for words being small, it wasn't really that hard to guess the correc...
:ok: So, not perfect but good enough. How exactly? An illustration please. Thank you. The problem with that is one has to first have a context and for...
Give me a moment please. This happens once every millionth blue moon for me. You can imagine how thrilled I am. This must be what nirvana feels like. ...
I'm of the view that the abolishment of suffering is/should be our primary objective, first order of business, for the simple reason that it (sufferin...
Two ways one can come to the conclusion that an x exists: 1. x is real 2. x is an illusion So is 3. Consciousness real OR is 4. Consciousness an illus...
I vaguely recall reading that - the porcupine principle (balancing safety in numbers with protecting one's privacy). It looks the point to living well...
That is the hard truth we all (the living) have to come to grips with. The relationship between suffering and life is nuanced though - all suffer but ...
To me, that would be pissing in the wind. Monism, physical and mental, together, are incompatible, mutually inconsistent unless...the following makes ...
It makes sense though to claim that relativism/subjectivism (?) is self-refuting: Subjectivism/relativism itself must be relative/subjective, sawing o...
Will 1. I will take you home. 2. You will do as you're told. 3. The rock will fall. 4. It's God's will. Thus will is about ineluctability, like under ...
Animals know i.e. they possess knowledge (of edible food for example) but probably in ways different from humans. Now that you mention it, the definit...
Speech is being rendered into words but...a key component of speech - vowels - that seem to me absolutely necessary to distinguish words with identica...
Can't be because of Gettier cases. Isn't that putting the cart before the horse? The differences in ability amongst men explains/supports Protagoras' ...
There are various, regionally peculiar, ways of pronouncing words but the issue I've raised is specific to ancient languages in and around the middle ...
Still that "troublesome" self-preservation drive at work, I'm afraid. This is the paradox: we need to fear death to live but we have to die to...??? W...
In my office and other places too, I know, at least think I do, whether a male colleague has a woman in his life - potted plants are a dead giveaway. ...
I'm not so sure, at least not as certain as I'd have preferred, but Indian & Chinese philosophies are clubbed together as distinctly separate (eastern...
Quality Of Life & Torture. In Hell, the body count =Nought! Casilda Benegas-Gallego (b. 8 April 1907) is an Argentinian but Argentina's happiness inde...
How on earth would we prove/disprove realism/antirealism? A thing ceases to exist when no one is perceiving it. We need to resort to a method indistin...
Fitch's paradox of knowability: 1. Assumption: Everything is knowable 2. Conclusion: Everything is known Suppose Fitch's argument is sound. 3. Everyth...
Innate knowledge? The horseness of a neigh - a neigh is part of the (Platonic) form of horses. Someone who hears a neigh a for the first time might im...
An open-ended question. :ok: The key word here is "recognition" which implies that there's a grassiness to the odor of grass - that's how herbivores i...
Hedonism in re suffering has two components: Life + suffering. While I don't think negative utilitarianism would ever recommend killing every sentient...
I'm going to respond to your grass example. How do horses and cattle come to know that grass is food, something to eat? Smell or sight? Does the odor ...
Well, let's use the sour grapes technique on math - if we can't discover every truth in math because of Gödel's incompleteness theorems, maybe we can ...
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