Meaningful work, good social connections, time in nature, enough sleep, the lack of stress created by social media are all things that can eliminate t...
I have no idea what this means. To me rational is an adjective referring to the process via which one decides or concludes something. One can even rat...
The art is often bad and I think part of the problem is that people think the verbal thinking aspects of the art are enough. It is a symptom, but also...
This sounds a lot like speech affecting things. IOW if libel cannot cause harm, how can abstract disccusions and writing about objectification be prob...
I suppose I think it is better to call it 'killed'. The group would decide its own morals. And it seemed they decided he was a bad chimp. Harsh democr...
You're treating this like legislation. ('can talk about art') I see the discussion as raising the issue of whether it is a good thing or not. And also...
He's making a statement about art and how it is presented. The OP is not a work of art with an explanation attached. Those explanations, the artists' ...
I think this is a part of a trend towards an aesthetic of ideas. We are suppossed to primarily and often only think when we look at art, rather than a...
I would use it in a certain way - I don't want to make the claim that everyone does. I would use it to describe the following: 1) It presumes that cur...
Here's the thing... you first did give a summation of what is expected with a sense that it was complete. When Isaac pointed out that the Koran includ...
But the issue is actually whether we trust it more or less than other solutions, including solutions like not trying to change anything. Often we cann...
I am suprised they can have you committed. Of course I am from the US where it is much harder to get someone committed unless they are violent towards...
I'm not so familiar with the UK system. Was there a crime involved, is that how the compulsion came in? What criteria have to be met for a court to fo...
Modern psychology includes hundreds of approaches, different opinions about treatment, diagnosis, causes and more. I would also say it seems like your...
Yes, it's an irony I tend to use a legal analogy for 'fruit of the poison tree'. If res cogitans is unreal or 'less real', then conclusions based on i...
Though since adhd medications are generally uppers, I am not sure we have solved a problem, but perhaps shifted it down the line.Diet, contact with na...
yes, which is fine, but then given the words apparant position-taking on substance, it would probably be good to change the term.Most belief systems s...
That quote was part of an argument against ruling out via deduction. So, you took a sentence out of that argument and put and treated it, precisely as...
I think people realize now that PTSD as it is sometimes framed can cause long lasting or even permanent damage. But the trick it seems to me, is not t...
Yes, that's what I meant. That is what I meant I was not doing. It was not a positive argument in favor of their existence, it was an argument critica...
You're taking my argument as an argument (and not a good one) supporting the existence of those things. My post is in response to Wayfarers, and in a ...
Yes, this is a point I tend to make in these discussions. Matter or the physical is the label for not only an expanding set of 'things' but the set it...
Compliment? Are you saying that my body is not a collection of processes?It sure looks like one at the atomic level. And then if we go deeper to the q...
A body is a set of processes, but it is also a blob. Or at least, calling it a blob, certainly for certain middle-aged overweight men, is not misleadi...
Are you sure you have anxiety? Are you sure it's about that? My long earlier post is suggesting an answer to the second question. That you shouldn't b...
I'll throw out a third options. Other minds are both other minds and also part of the same mind. A bit like a subpersonality in one of us.I am sure he...
Yes. If you click on your name in red with the arrow in my post (and this is a general rule) it will jump you to the post I (or anyone) is referring t...
I'd say that is a misleading statement and a confusing one. I would not call it simply true, nor would I say it is simply false. Truth and falsehood a...
Right but we don't know if it is true or false. When we say something could be falsified. We mean, if if it were false. What it refers to has qualitie...
My interpretation of what you are saying is that since true hypotheses cannot be falsified, since the evidence will end up supporting them, then they ...
First off, what a luxury you have. Many people simply do not have the time to doubt everything they think. They have to make decisions and act on them...
But it can't be. It can only confirm, it if can, that one mind. I think therefore I am relates to 'I'.That other mind can be uncertain about me, if it...
But those experts were basing their opinion on other proofs than the one in question. Either their proofs were faulty or these should have convinced o...
Perhaps a better approach for concision is via the negative. If a non-falsifiable hypothesis is false, no one will ever know. It is 11 words, but I th...
Not for me. I don't have some kind of working relationship with experts in metaphysics to get a sense of how accurate they are as a whole, how much di...
Not to pull the thread to far off track, the 'h' isn't silent, like it is in 'honor', but unstressed. I definitely use an before words with silent a s...
That's complicated... H’ represents a consonant sound, so we would expect ‘a hypothesis’, and that is what many say and write. However, where the stre...
It's not saying that a single observation would prove it false, it is saying that it has the quality of being able to be countered by observations. On...
Well, you likely have yourself, consciously or unconsciously or both, set up a bunch of heuristics. And your solution might or might not work fairly w...
I am not saying one should accept ad homs. And my point wasn't that it was personal and about opinions. I wasn't justifying the ad hom, but arguing ag...
pBut if it's on the issue of there being a God, I still have to choose which expert. I could follow your expert opinion that today's experts are not t...
Exactly. A lot of people seem to think it means a specific set of positions on ontology that they think are fluffy and dismiss. Not saying those posit...
It's a transitive process. You have to demonstrate it to someone and in this case, at least most experts. They nod their heads when you're done. I don...
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