As a further point @"Corvus" Firstly, it seems rather hard to believe that the mind can conceive of actual death (no mind). The mind hasn't/can't expe...
@"180 Proof" (only if interested) The quote is from another thread but is relevant to the discussion. The mind (imagination) is capable of only graspi...
Indeed, we can imagine ourselves unconscious, even as a rotting, stinkbomb of a corpse as recommended by certain Tibetan Buddhists. Bingo! One can't r...
The amateur needs the professional's experience and the professional needs the amateur's novel viewpoint. Many a times, professional philosophers are ...
Very interesting! So, we're, in our "ordinary" lives, stuck with rules that are neither justified to our satisfaction nor universal in scope. We then ...
I did consider that possibility - blood flow is the mass equivalent of increased energy consumption - but that still doesn't solve the problem. I'm lo...
No doubt this Zen tale was exaggerated for effect but the point it makes is crystal clear. time is tripartite (past, present, future). The past - don'...
You said Can you state the circumstances in which your statement (above) is true? I ask because my last post (to which you replied) is about how inces...
Well, if you're going to put your money where your mouth is, I suggest that you contemplate on, mentally engage with, contradictions which in my humbl...
Whenever ( :chin: ) I encounter these words and others of its ilk (so-called unknownables) my mind actually draws a blank. Thanks for the update (I se...
The "examined life", as Socrates put it, is about putting down facts next to one's weltanschauung and checking if they cohere. Essentially, does one's...
Clarification: Words don't enrich our lives as much as it's a marker of the breadth of one's experiences. Imagine a person who knows the names of each...
War & ethics: War causes ethical inversion, a few instances of which are: 1. Killing is permissible and even glorified. Death to the enemy! 2. Rape be...
You mean to say homosexuality = incest. That's why you "...I don't think it matters much either way..." So, if a man who has sex with his son (homosex...
What I meant to say was our world, i.e. our worldview, is determined by how many words (read concepts/ideas) we know/understand. In other words vocab ...
I see but I meant to stress on the mind's ability to transcend the physical by being able to conceive of stuff (like unicorns) that don't exist in the...
The idea that the biblica sacra is to be interpreted metaphorically was at the back of my mind but that point of view does more damage to the Abrahami...
This just popped into my head. It would be stating the obvious that homophobia is a distinctly religious phenomenon, that too almost-exclusively a fea...
Kavka's Toxin Puzzle An analysis as per Wikipedia. 1. A person should intend to drink the poison (there's a pay-off worth it). However, 2. Once a pers...
To anyone who has the answer. @"180 Proof"??? Care to weigh in? No doubt the nature of mind is uncertain. Is the mind physical or not? Why else the de...
That's something to think about. A desideratum of most people is life but it didn't take us long to find out that's just not enough (suicide); another...
There are some who explore with a compass (suppositions analysis). There are others who explore the compass. (presuppositions analysis). Intriguingly,...
Spoken like a true skeptic! Pyrrho would be proud! I did some reading up on presuppositions and suppositions and here's what I found out: 1. Suppositi...
Clarification: 1. We have a proposition P. 1a. Proposition P is justified (knowledge) 1b. Proposition P is not justified (not knowledge) 2. We don't h...
:up: 1. Known knowns 2. Known unknowns 3. Unknown unknowns In 1, Rumsfeld considers known to be both that there is a proposition & that proposition is...
I now realize Meno's equivocating. When he says "know" he means a justified, true belief (no inquiry necessary) but when he says "don't know" he's tal...
This counterargument to utilitarianism although old still packs a punch. How do utilitarians respond? 1. The usual utilitarian comeback: The pleasures...
All I'm saying is that when slavery was all the rage, if someone had invented reasonably functional robots, slaves would've had the same rights as rob...
What I want to bring to your attention is a rather simple fact. Slavemasters were treating human slaves back when slavery was the norm the same as we ...
We need lights during the day because there are places we have to be where the sun doesn't shine. We need lights during the night because we don't alw...
We don't need lights! It's either day or night If it's day, we don't need lights because there's sunlight. If it's night we don't need lights because ...
The Peter Poppof Problem! How poetic?! Featuring: 1. Gullible people as The Sentinel Tribe (Andamans). 2. Peter Poppof as the unscrupulous, technologi...
Yes, that was my point precisely. The most people defense as you put it is unacceptable as a justification for why something (thoughts/speech/deeds) i...
:chin: So, you're turning the tables on homophobes. Their argument is that homosexuality is bad because it's like incest and incest is bad. Your argum...
Yes, I understand! Let's get this discussion back on track shall we? You want prove that there's no difference between homosexuality and incest and th...
Order is a phase in chaos. Causation is an aspect of order. In chaos there is no order, no causation. Ergo, causation is an illusion, a temporary stat...
My post is germane to your question. There are an infinite number of beliefs as demonstrated in my previous post. Thus the set of beliefs is an infini...
Great question! Suppose there's a world W in which there's initially only one person X and only two beliefs, God and self (X). Later, X invents sets. ...
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