Well, if other minds could be nothing more than my imagination, the concepts public, sharing, etc. are null and void, oui? Ok. I defer to your better ...
Solipsism basically boils down to cogito ergo sum (re René Descrates). The only truth that we're absolutely sure of is our own existence as minds. The...
You've then missed the point of solipsism, oui? The private language argument sweeps under the rug the fact that philosophy, in fact and all human dis...
I don't buy into Wittgensteinism which, as far as I can tell, you're trying to peddle here. How can we discuss other minds when the existence of other...
Why would you disagree? Isn't it quite clear that, in line with solipsism, the only thing we can be certain about is our own self, that too as somewha...
There really is no choice; if we want absolute 100% certainty, we'll all havta be solipsists. Only if we lower the bar of certitude can we engage with...
I don't see how I'm guilty of hyperbole? I merely mentioned but left out the details, making it quite impossible for me to blow things out of proporti...
Well, idealism is a chess game where your opponent is you, yourself. Both players are fully aware of each's strategy/game plan (relative, mutual omnis...
When we do something, ensure the highest quality in your work, but that means one's gotta be an all-rounder, a polymath! Objective: Arête Qualifiactio...
And the question of the year award goes to Dr. Bartricks. Most excellent, monsieur, most excellent. Allow me to attempt at an answer. The mind isn't a...
I guess it all boils down to each one of us being utterly impotent in the face of so-called facts; you may kill every black swan to make the statement...
Conscription is pointless, oui? A nation that has to force its people to fight for it is, in a sense, already vanquished. I recall reading about a Rus...
That, in a nutshell, is the problem! Well said! It's quite odd that this is so. In the simplest sense, neither the seller nor the buyer need to be mor...
Faith isn't just believing without reason. That should suffice. Richard Dawkins, yeah, he does bring out the difference between scientist & philosophe...
Well, truth is, logic does set down impassable boundaries, clearly demarcates no-go areas in re thought/thinking. It can be likened to a cage of sorts...
Richard Dawkins, staunch atheist, also labeled not-so-lovingly as a militant atheist claims to be 7 on 1 to 10 scale of how certain he is that God doe...
If you get the impression that I'm being facetious, apologies, it's unintended. Quite sad that I give off that rather annoying vibe. Anyway, my advice...
Well, I'd say that nobody's really sat down and thought these matters through seriously. What I'd like is a treatise on not points of view (on issues)...
Oh! Idealism & Solipsism were then, inter alia, reactions to Newtonian determinism which Kant had endorsed. The mind could still be deterministic thou...
Last I checked, Newton was a very religious person. Kant was too; after all we're talking about the 17th & 18th centuries, the hey days of faith. Perh...
Hallelujah! The possibility remains that I'm mistaking ignorance for complexity. There are many occasions when what one thought was complicated turns ...
Indeed. The poltico-economic environment (conservatism + capitalism) is conducive to exploitation. It looks like a work in progress - the systems we'r...
I suppose if easy money, a quick buck can be made via exploitation then (wealthy) folks will, quite naturally, take this shortcut to riches. However, ...
Well, I did agree that giving birth to children is imposing on 'em (your aggressive paternalism). Nonetheless, antinatalism is also an imposition. Thi...
Different strains of logic (argumentation) 1. Deductive (certainty) 2. Inductive (probability) 3. Abductive (falsifiable only) Each has its very own s...
We can't! That's the nub of the issue. At best we could say that we all have a lot of behavioral elements, those associated with minds (intentionality...
It looks like our standards have gone up since (real) slavery - the kind where we used to work people to death - was practiced all over the so-called ...
That's it! :up: Awesome! Prognostication subsumed under pattern-recognition I suppose. A complex web of a multitude of patterns interacting with/infor...
On target! It isn't that we have the luxury of maximizing gains, it's that we're tasked with minimizing losses. Like some might want to share - there ...
Can it be said that logic frees rather than constrains? To be perfectly logical then is a divine attribute, oui? If so, the stone paradox is both a po...
We need 'em like a chimney sweep needs a shower. I wanted to pick schopenhauer1's brain on how, given the givens, a minimum amount of suffering is nec...
Nice! It seems that we are in full control of only movement vis-à-vis our bodies - walking/grasping/etc (we can move + modulate the speed of our movem...
Humans are both strongly individualistic and also highly collectivistic. The point to this is rather simple - amplify the pros and dilute the cons of ...
The OP makes a good point! The infinite regress that inheres to the issue of explaining (things) proves his/her point in a succinct and powerful manne...
Perhaps the choices are clowns or a-holes! In other words, the people's decision in the elections was sagacious and not foolish! C'est la vie! Zelenes...
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