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It's hard and rude to think for others. My point was to simply give you a real life example of someone who was happy because they were a little mad, "...

Well, you make complete sense to me: curiosity killed the cat (9 times in a row and now it's dead dead, deader than dead). However, if I'm correct, ev...

It's not for everybody! :smile:

You're on target, as usual, but the logical features of the tetralemma may be the key to nirvana; as it is, it's the basis of the madhyamaka (the midd...

The Buddha, the legend goes, is fully aware of the temporal triad (past, present, future); I guess this is the Buddhist version of omniscience. Normal...

:ok: I'll get back to you later.

The bitter truth is described as such because it's debilitating (depression), even lethal (suicide). Psychiatrists make a big deal of what they refer ...

Perhaps, but I presented an argument. Is it sound? Does it not lead to a contradiction? Your "solution" to the paradox is standard technique (like how...

There's a ton of literature on the Grelling-Nelson paradox. Please read up on 'em. All I can say for the moment is that it's a true paradox. Ok, The w...

An intriguing question by all acounts. The JTB theory of knowledge mentions justification as a separate condition i.e., in other words, false that bel...

Beauty per se is an attractive force on its own, delinked as it were from the usual qualities that are associated with it (good & truth). We couldn't ...

I don't see the problem. The supernatural is, to my reckoning, defined as that which is not natural and that which is natural is what we experience on...

:fire: Sometimes, it ain't what's said, but how one says it that's important! Mass delusions (Lasègue–Falret syndrome)/Mass hysteria.

Please go through the literature on the paradox. I'm unable to fathom how you know I'm wrong when you don't know what the Grelling-Nelson paradox is i...

WTF? 1. Grelling-Nelson paradox is a true paradox in the sense both a proposition and its negation is true. If so, 2. The LNC must be done away with (...

You can say that again. Someone resurrected it a coupla days ago. I believe the culprit wished to point out flaws in my reasoning. The takeaway: I nee...

1. All beautiful things are art (say the heart). 2. Not all art are beautiful things (says the mind). Xin (heart-mind). The conflation between art and...

Trump just needs some training and he'll do well! :snicker:

Values have to be prosocial. If not they're antisocial that mimic prosocial values. How good the mimicry is, time will tell! To give the devil his due...

Questions regarding the now famous Noble Silence or the middle path. 1. The Buddha didn't know i.e. denying what are considered extremes is an admissi...

Yeah, right? The mind, it seems, has a death wish; it wants to play against itself and win & lose :chin: (re The Stone Paradox, Leibniz - minds are, g...

You've accused me of many foul deeds, mon ami! :snicker:

Danke! Much obliged.

The Tetralemma with The Buddhist Denial (Nyet) = The Logical negation (No) 1. p No! Ergo ~p 2. ~p No! Ergo p As you can see, with 1 and 2 we're runnin...

Fair enough. I posted the thread in the logic category for a reason. My focus is on the logic of the tetralemma, to be precise how what I referred to ...

The simplicity mon chéri, the simplicity! :up: Hear! Hear! Good points!

Update The Grelling-Nelson paradox is a true paradox: G & ~G 1. G & ~G 2. G (1 Simp) 3. G v P (2 Add, P is any god damned statement) 4. ~G (1 Simp) 5....

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I haven't a clue as to what you're saying here. There's no paradox in the equations of QM. There's a paradox when these equations are translates into ...

:blush: Yep, you're on the mark. It's just it doesn't feel right to attribute anything to a particular group of people or to a country as a whole. Whe...

Good points OP. I've myself pondered upon the vexing issue of how even altruism in the end is selfish. The way I (attempt to) save the phenomena as it...

@Athena In my humble opinion, the ills of the political system that are around are not unique to either the US or Germany.

@ucarr Good that you broached the quantum mechanics (QM) topic. QM is frequently used as a source of examples of weirdness (logical hanky panky) in th...

Aye! As for my comment that this situation (current science) which the hard problem of consciousness calls home is probably temporary, vide infra:

Verum: Philosophy Bonum: Religion Pulchrum: Epicureanism/Hedonism A coupla points: 1. I've heard this often, mathematical truths are beautiful. This o...

@ZzzoneiroCosm I think I have a death wish and I have no idea that I have it! :fear:

Keeps us sane, these helpful, though less-than-perfect, generalizations.

Truths, the way it seems to me, are basically maps (language + logic) and the objective is to get our hands on the best possible one, given the limita...

Communism OR Anarchism Choose! :snicker: Nice!

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Cows are sacred in Hindustan, but India's the largest or one of the largest exporters of beef! Go figure. Then there's Hanuman, the monkey god, a cent...

Figures, you no troll!

Scotty's not the problem, in a "democracy" individuals are never the problem unless you wanna admit that it's not...a democracy. :snicker:

I have a feeling Watts' charisma is largely due to his voice (deep baritone, made more impressive by chain-smoking). :snicker:

Helpful! :up:

:snicker: Philosophers, going by the standard set by none other than Socrates (Athenian gadfly troll), are supposed to be trolls of the highest calibe...

Thanks. There's too much to learn and I don't have the time. :sad: