You have a point! We know for certain (?) that pleasure is better than pain. What could be more desirable than pleasure in your opinion? My mind draws...
It appears that you've left the conclusion of your argument unstated. That's ok by me. I'd say, belief formation occurs via two ways: 1. Rationally: I...
You get points for creativity. All I can say is you manged to effectively highlight the point I wanted views on. What is a foolproof criterion to dete...
As far as I can tell, philosophy is chockablock with "contradictions" (thesis-antithesis, the one the general populace is most familiar with being the...
Self-refuting? You want to make an objective claim, but you can't for the simple reason you'd have to eat your own words (I've done it my whole life, ...
Good queries. I second a 2.5 k year old tehcnique for teaching/discussing philosophy - ask questions, ask more questions, then more and more questions...
Perhaps the attitude we adopt towards life can make a big difference. Life as a game! Sounds like fun, oui? Does this remind you of what's the in thin...
The issue is, it seems, rather simple: We don't question the existence of mud, but we're unsure of the existence of Golems. Why? What's the reason for...
:clap: Children are encouraged to play. I've seen dogs, cats, engage in mock battles with their pups an kittens. I suspect it's part of honing their h...
@"Jack Cummins" From my college days, if memory serves, errors are of two kinds: 1. Haphazard/random errors: +/- (too much or too less) with no clear ...
Good point 1. Ontological: Either true that the world is real or the world is unreal. 2. Epistemological: We don't know. Remember our discussion in th...
Vacuum is (scientifically) a region where the pressure is 0 Pa. The next question what is pressure? Pressure is the net force exerted by particles ove...
Awesome! Indeed, I'm looking for a red pill. In most films on the simulation theory the real is depicted as less glamorous, more drab than the simulat...
True that! :clap: What I'd like to know is how a theist can retain belief in a nonphysical being (God) and still have a coherent definition of nonexis...
Jack hits the bullseye! I work in a small office and over the years I've learned a valuable lesson: perfection is impossible BUT we must, at all times...
@"Bitter Crank" This just popped into my mind: Consciousness plays a major role in quantum mechanics! We're living at the wrong scale of reality (we'd...
Well, God's the spanner in the works being a nonphysical entity that exists. I thought it better to leave him for last; for starters we could sort out...
Yep, on target sir/ma'am! The OP was right on the money. However, as you pointed out, there's going to be inconsistency issues. Axioms will clash. I'm...
Methinks the OP is onto something really important. It happened to Christianity. Church Councils were convened in which Christian doctrines were adopt...
When I try to type faster, I make more errors. Moral of the story: Don't hurry people. They'll make (more) mistakes. Hence, patience is a virtue. :chi...
Gracias for the Krishnamurti link. I read it and it rings true. Fear is an overarching theme in life; for instance, no one and I mean no one acts unti...
I now see the need for (a) god(s). Given the OP's main idea (distortion in judgment of humans), it's quite obvious we need someone nonhuman to preside...
I was only exploring the available options. When a hedge reaches a certain threshold, the next thing that happens is it begins to grow to an unmanagea...
Excelente! 2 year old Socrates: Didn't know nothing! 70ish year old Socrates: Found out he was only 2 years old! It takes that long to temet nosce! Hi...
Si, señor! I applaud the almost divine simplicty of your approach/method! Of course Descartes beat you to it but we can set that minor point aside for...
Gracias for the kind words, señor/señorita. I'm in unfamiliar territory; please forgive my gaffes if any. Indeed, there are more questions than we can...
How would we define beauty? I wuz hoping for a mathematical answer - the cables that route the signals between computers & servers are, to my reckonin...
If you don't let us resurrect old threads then you shouldn't be killing new ones, si? If you merge new threads, you don't want (needless) repetition. ...
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