That's the only reasonable defense you have, but do note here that I don't concede the reality/actuality of happiness while the very fact that you bri...
Animals and, for that matter, even plants play a crucial role in culture (and religion). The Occident. Animals: Wisdom (owl), Pride (peacock), Courage...
I'm sure everyone here knows the value of knowledge, a teacher, Wikipedia is both. However, ignoring the cost of an internet connection, the cost of W...
One or two axioms/premises to kick things off. Everything else follows, logically that is. It's quite odd actually: we write the axioms on top but the...
Hand sanitizer/Hand rub forms part of the safety protocol against Covid (and other pathogens). Hand sanitizers contain our favorite, legal-for-millenn...
I've noticed that there are two allegations made against Kant's CI by Kolakowski: 1. It is circular 2. It is consistent to hold that a person (x) can ...
I'll give you an idea of why happiness is unreal. Happiness can be an illusion, but suffering cannot! You can seem to be happy but you cannot seem to ...
As I said, there's no happiness! Too, guilty pleasure. There's no such thing as guilty sorrow. Don't try to win the argument; try to comprehend and......
:smile: Yes, you're right! Symmetry is an illusion. Your thesis and my antithesis (to your thesis) is not all like a reflection in a mirror: (laterall...
You haven't really made your position clear, bit if I were to guess, you're endorsing natalism. There are times when it's fun, entertaining, and "cert...
The lateral inversion in (vanity) mirrors accounts for the change in valence/sign: good reflected becomes bad, positive becomes negative, left becomes...
Perhaps we don't have the same ideas about what we mean by "mind", "contains", and "brain", emphasis on the second word. In other words, we disagree o...
Masochists, last I checked, are people who are, well, mixed up about pain & pleasure. To clarify, what is normally perceived as pain is pleasure to a ...
That's right! Going by what Anthony Kenny (philosopher) has to say, Aristotle was trying to, in a sense, make everyone happy - he wanted to endorse He...
We could, salva veritate, substitute thinking for philosophy and what we then have is the following: Religion \rightarrow Thinking (Philosophy) \right...
The female form is known for its (aesthetic) curves; curves are redundancies for a straight line suffices to traverse the distance between two points....
It appears that Kavka's Toxin Puzzle is, inter alia, about the existence of a checkpoint betweeen intention and action pertaining to intention. I can ...
The Paradox of The Hard Problem of Consciousness 1. If consciousness is purely subjective, the word "consciousness" becomes meaningless as a referent ...
Subjective aspects of consciousness, you say? Not to worry, logic (our 3rd eye) comes to the rescue - we can deduce what a person is going through (vi...
Doesn't the human body resemble a laptop, any other man-made device for that matter. We don't know how it works and yet we can use it fairly well. Kno...
It won't take you too long or too much to get your hands on an online resource that discusses the inconsistency of (an) exception(s) with respect to a...
Change is a property of space and objects; however, it isn't clear whether this is true of all objects and, furthermore, what's the scope of the word ...
Ego-death! From a cursory reading of the Wikipedia entry, is simply the loss of self-identity; happens all the time, doesn't it? In fact ego-life (gai...
I regret to inform you that I don't see you as an authority on sense and nonsense. Do pardon me. What's the difficulty in accepting mind as an activit...
I merely made explicit something that's true for everyone, including yourself unless there's someone who's omniscient. Are you omniscient? I hardly th...
I deeply regret ever having brought language into the discussion. Anyway... Look at the following nouns: 1. Horse 2. Brain (not mind) Look now at the ...
Kant's Categorical Imperative (CI), if adopted, implies that immoral deeds are contradictions (inconsistency): a certain value is affirmed and, at the...
That would be correct, except mind is brain activity. It (the mind) isn't an object like a mouth is; instead, like talking is to mouth, mind is to bra...
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