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Do you think peace is possible for Israel? If so, how?

We could say that someone who doesn't realize that is either evil or dull, but maybe they're just unlucky.

Yes. This myth focuses on fate, though. Think of the Christian mythology where volition is actually a bad thing because it comes at the price of separ...

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I agree. "How do you do?" is a good example. It's not even taken as the question it appears to be. As a result, in some places it became slurred to "H...

OK.

I agree. Worrying over the ontology of ideas is wasted time.

Could be. Where would you place the temporal genesis of this foundation of indifference? Homo Erectus? Neanderthals? Us? If us, when exactly? It's not...

Yes I am. I know how to use the word properly, but I have zero confidence that I know what I'm talking about. What's an idea? I mean, we know it's som...

Floating in a sea of doubt, are you? I think belief is the filling in of blank created by the Cosmic First Question: Que Pasa? :D

What's an idea exactly?

Sounds kind of Platonic. Is it?

OK. Imagine that Tom is also an atheist. Like John, he keeps it secret. We'd say Tom and John believe the same thing. Should we think of this as merel...

By Netanyahu's reckoning, yes. As Hanover said, a group comes into possession of a stretch of land by various means, some violent. Israel should repud...

A person can believe without believing anything in particular? ? So answer this: John was an atheist, but there never was any behavior that followed f...

Two words: Noam Chomsky.

The region was governed by the Egyptians and Hittites before there was any such thing as a Hebrew. Per Netanyahu's own expressed logic, the area shoul...

There's a test (used by Locke, Hume, and Kant): can you imagine X without Y? Can I imagine belief without consequences? Try this: John is an atheist w...

But aren't those more the consequences of belief? How do you arrive at saying the consequences of the thing are the thing? Could you tell me why you'r...

Have a wonderful day. Take a long look at my avatar before you take a walk in the sprung spring. :)

If John had belief, he believed something.

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The word "slap" is a verb that has to have an object. If I say, "John slapped.", it's just assumed that he slapped something or somebody. Belief is ju...

OK.

Belief is a yes. Works for me.

Of course not.

It's never occurred to me that philosophers who stated that propositions are the objects of belief were making metaphysical claims. It's really more a...

That's correct. No one uses the way we speak as an argument for the way things are. I wasn't doing that. :) I asked earlier what the alternative to th...

Exactly. I'm not sure. The previous discussion seemed to center around paint. What I would say, is that belief has to have an object just like knowled...

Is it? Then yes, grammar. :nerd:

Not grammar. It's whether the word is being used properly.

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I think what happens is that I see someone like Hanover and think: "He knows all the things I know and he's just waving it away like it's irrelevant."...

I think Zionism was about keeping Jews from being assimilated. That was the homeland part.

American support for the state of Israel was mostly Cold War strategy. Now we're stuck with the fallout.

Makes sense. You've inspired me to go back and dwell with the stuff Gandhi said. Be the change you want to see, and other stuff...

Just on behalf of all the Palestinian victims of the Israeli state: The way the Palestinians have been treated by Israel for the last 50 years is one ...

Talking of selfishness, I take from what you said that you and I both know what it's like to live without electricity. We both know how easily the nee...

Ok. :)

Are you talking about Nous or Logos?

My view is in line with what Pseudonym said earlier in the thread. Humans appear to be in charge now. It's temporary. Balance has a way of being resto...

They should export him to Minnesota. I think there's a militia that wants him.

The object of belief can't be a physical object anyway. I believe that brick. That makes no sense. I believe that the brick is red. That makes sense.

I know plenty of people who are appalled by the actions of Israel. I don't know any anti-Semitic people. I don't think that's as much of a thing as it...

I get what you're saying. But is there even a working theory for how you and I settle on what "tall" means or commune on a referent? It's commonly ass...

It is. It's two elements of the context.

Sometimes "statement" and "proposition" are used interchangeably. Sometimes a statement is said to express a proposition. Some people don't like "prop...

You're saying the proposition lacks reference?