critical rationalism leads to an infinite regress also. if then you have to criticize each belief, then the belief that you should criticize every bel...
He's pointing out that you seem very certain about how we should view beliefs, that is things we think are true. We shouldn't even use the word belief...
Yes, a lot of people are very certain at a meta-level and then also in assumptions about the nature of reality/minds that mean that one 'should' - we ...
You know, I just realized how I even fell into his frame. Note that it is all about insights. Yes, the artists has insights. Is the goal to pass on in...
Yes, I don't know how you've lasted so long. And the problem is things like this... ...do not contradict what we are saying. Yes, an artist has insigh...
I am not sure that such a shift in vocabulary actual influences how much you trust the ideas. I assume a wide range of meanings to my own use of 'beli...
The artist would through the entire process be an observer, and one contruction with some but not total freedom the experienced artwork and affected b...
But the question isn't really if once could potentially shakes someone's belief, the question is really if gravity is shakeable for you. And note that...
It's an oligarchy. This does not mean it is tightly organized or that all the oligarches like each other. They have rivalries and disagreements, but i...
You're turning what something means into something it does in this question. If we know it, that means it is true, in most definitions of 'know'. Thou...
He did say this to me, don't know if he did to you. I thought it was odd that he now was explaining a position that was more radical than ours, after ...
'Reasons' they obviously have. They need it to be true, they heard from their best friend, it makes sense to them, they read it in a scientific journa...
A fact would be a description of what exists in the world (or actually what has ever existed, since we can have facts about the past.) IOW a chair isn...
I am pretty sure we all know people who are certain on almost no grounds at all. But the main point is that certainty is a term referring to a feeling...
I'm with the neurologist suggestion. It could be all sorts of neurological problem: a migraine - these can take a wide variety of forms - a very mild ...
Certainty is a measure of your conviction that you are right. You might be an idiot. Knowledge is presumably a rigorously arrived at belief. There wer...
Seems like a terribly confused system, if actually created by a deity. A set of texts is given like a set of axioms so that good people (muslims) can ...
And then, often as political. Further, in films, when you have two people being wankers or at least one while another character suffers,the 'talking a...
I really don't think this is the case. I live with a painter. I go to galleries reguarly in the two countries I nearly straddle. And I can look at new...
INdividual cases may vary. But the tendency to want to control rather than stimulate/inspire thoughts shown in a trend towards greater use of artist s...
If you are that particular kind of theist and you think all philosophical issues have been clarified by that kind of deity in a particular text. And, ...
I made a much more complicated argument than that and the whole point is that the person is doing it in verbal manner when, most cases, the art form i...
Obviously, but it's a part of the work of art as experienced. I don't think I used the pharse the work of theartist. And in the context of artists sta...
That's not a good analogy at all. The analogy would be you telling me, as the creator of the landscape, so a kind of deity, that the bird is the most ...
Which we don't experience, the physical piece. We experience what is inspired and triggered in our minds. Taking some sense stimuli, not others, with ...
Well, actually I don't. But this point is tangential to what I was saying. I was pointing out that this 'meaninglessness' is not present. As far as th...
When someone says the viewer is half the work, they don't mean the thing on the wall. They mean the phenomenological work. Which is going to be differ...
Well, I was responding the framing the issue in terms of time. Note the references to 'when you're dead' 'temporary' and so on in the post I was respo...
Then, regardless, you'll never experience meaninglessness. Because in all moments of experiences things will have meaning to you. Pain, loss of love, ...
Yes, and sorry to hear about that. Yes, these things can change in us. And there are other people and organizations out there where it is best not to ...
It is very hard to test, because the fact that we are brought up under threats, both social and legal, means that if we are suddenly without these out...
I agree that there was some lack of clarity. When I read the OP, I thought he was saying 'it's all good'. So, I disagreed...and he agreed with me. I w...
I think you are actually agreeing with each other. I could be wrong but he seems to be saying that the omnibenevolent diety - the one posited by theis...
I don't think it proves it, but for me the issue boils down to respecting my own values enough to consider it a problem in need of explanation if not ...
My response is that there is a problem. It doesn't disprove God's existence. But there is a problem. I would be opposed to any deity that could not so...
There are instances where I would not like the use of that phrase, and instances where I would. There are artists who spend too much time beating them...
That's a long phrase to solve a problem I don't think I experience. In what contexts are you thinking we should substitute something like that? And if...
They mean X is true and they have no doubt X is true. That's what they mean and it is clear. What does IT mean if they say it? It means they have no d...
You can make mistakes AND acknowledge that, without assuming you could have been perfect AND not accept it as it is. If you expect perfection now, in ...
Could you give an example of a kind of qualification that might make you think an assertion was less vague? It seems to me that 'I know' is a clear st...
It may, sometimes, be used in this way, but I hear it used in contexts that do not fit this criticism. I see it used in reaction to petty judgment tha...
I found this a bit hard to understand but you can let me know where I misunderstood. If the goal is good and accomplished then the goal justifies the ...
That's a terrible use of that phrase, and, of course, many people use this idea idiotically. But in the context where something more easily forgivable...
I wouldn't say the term is necessarily dualistic. I would say it is more saying that while something is not really a thing, it works well, in many sit...
and there can be testing by doctors involved, see article. https://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/us-immigration/mental-illness-barrier.html Canada will...
It was rare, but then perhaps the leader ape's behavior had been rare. Justifiable homicide is fairly rare also, but it still falls inside moral norms...
Most societies have justifiable homicide. We'd have to interview that apes. The issue is whether the killing was within their moral norms,(and not our...
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