It looks like the answer to your question is a big yes! What/who are ascendants? I like to view the matter through a Darwinian lens. There were those ...
What does that mean? Take a deep breath and calm down. Regarding what you said about nonphysical pain, there are differences when compared to physical...
Here's a paradox: If pain is a problem (religious & secular ethics thinks this is so) then leprosy & other conditions that diminish or completely dest...
The OP doesn't mention anything about nonphysical pain. Even if it did, nonphysical pain (psychological pain?) has the same format i.e. it's not somet...
Pain 1. Experience (what it feels like): Unpleasant. 2. Function (what it's for): Danger/threat perception. Is it possible to separate/delink 1 from 2...
Yes, it will. The crucial point is danger/threat has to be detected. Pain is just one of many other, less unpleasant, ways of achieving that end. Logi...
I have this vague intuition that the Greeks had a certain Greek way of looking at things (cultural biases) and their philosophy is so colored/tainted....
Eternal torment: There's another thread in the forum on nonmathematical infinity. This fire survivor, let's call him X, experienced eternity but knew ...
Food for thought. Why don't we compile an anthology consisting of how various philosophies/philosophers are/can be misunderstood. It's my contention t...
Pain (physical) is just a warning system like a tsunami alert station. The problem is our nervous system is so-structured to make pain (the warning) a...
:up: There are more rules/laws/regulations now than in the past is the premise I'm working with. Given so, doesn't it look like democracy is a sham? A...
I don't quite understand what you're saying. Aren't predictions phenomena? Being so, predictions need explanations and the hypotheses that entails the...
@"Cuthbert" I'll try another approach. If a hypothesis T makes a prediction P and P is observed via experiment is it alright to say that T is one of m...
Sorry but something's not quite right with your take on the issue. There are 3 possibilities when it comes to predictions: 1. No prediction 2. Yes pre...
I get this part. Here's how I understand falsifiability: 1. Formulate a hypothesis, call it T 2. T entails prediction P 3. Conduct an experiment to ob...
Good point although I'm not sure about "many accurate predictions". If that were true, why would anyone have bothered to proffer a new (heliocentric) ...
Best introductory book on philosophy. HTTP 404 File not found. Nobody knows what love (Philo) & wisdom (Sophia) are, but there are books on love of wi...
It's not that simple; (bodily/worldly) pleasure is addictive (morphine-endorphin). I recall someone (I think it was myself) telling someone (else) not...
I thought these - confirm & falsify - were two sides of the same coin! Plus, if the experimental findings match theory-based predictions, that does/sh...
Ascetics, I'm told, live on minimum wages in a manner of speaking - barely enough food & clothes to stay alive and these are body-related desiderata (...
We don't see eye to eye on the issue then. Granted it's probably my circumstances that's doing the talking here, but I still feel logic can bridge the...
It's hard for me to comment but this I'll say: some people, the clever ones to be precise, when engaged in planning for the future, simulate the times...
I was posting on another thread on asceticism and this just popped into my head: A master rationalist would know, via plain deduction alone (pure thou...
:up: Perhaps the difference between 1 and 2 is how big one's brain is. A smart enough bloke could deduce (by pure thought alone) from making a few ass...
There are two ways of renouncing the world: 1. Interestingly: Direct asceticism. Outright denial of worldy pleasures. Renounce the world. 2. Boringly:...
The devil, as they say, is in the details. It's not going to be easy working out the specifics but if we put our hearts and souls into it, I'm sure we...
Solipsisim is entirely an epistemological issue: how we can acquire knowledge and the limitations of any such methodologies. I can't know if other min...
Is the mind confined to the brain? Socrates was of the opinion that the body is a, get this, prison for the soul. It follows then that only bad people...
Asceticism's rationale is rather simple: As you reject the physical (body), you (are supposed to) grow mentally/spiritually (mind). It's kinda like hu...
The way I see it, is not means not the same as. The OP's argument, to make sense, would require that the is in is not to mean the same as. Semantic co...
Good point. I don't know if we can take an animal (dog) breeder's approach to tackle the issue of crime. How about if we allow only good folks to have...
:up: A simple but telling truth: There are more laws today then there were in the past. As I suspected, it's our freedom that needs to be checked rath...
In order of preference (my guesstimate) A. (Cypher - The Matrix, Blue pill). If pleasure takes precedence over truth (real): 1. Real + Pleasure 2. Unr...
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