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Yes, memory, though it need not be a specific face, it could be memory supported imagined people or things. A landscape that is not a rendering of any...

There's the surface of mundane reality and then there's all the undercurrents and secrets and desires and emotions and dynamics and attractions and re...

Representative might be better, though this usually includes works of art that look like things we encounter (or can't encounter like unicorns) but wh...

It's not a copy. Not even photorealist paintings are copies. They are two dimensional (pretty much) representations of one three dimensional things. Y...

To me the word concept refers to abstractions in language. I can imagine thinking in images (taken in a broad sense, not just visual images, iow some ...

It's claiming something about everything that is real, rather than a particular thing. If it if real, then it will be like X. But it need no not be li...

Real has no implicit substance claim. Of course for a physicalist they will be synonyms (not assuming you are) but i think at this point 'physical' lo...

Physical has been an expanding category for a long time. The things that are considered physical are really just the members of what is considered rea...

What do we lose if we use a term without the metphysical baggage of physical in the name. Call it verificationism. Or justificationism. The category o...

Where is and what is the image that the brain interprets? Does it make another image of the original image? is that the interpretation?

The mechanism is not competitive. This is fussy, but I think there are some slidings or context in the OP. One could argue that the different individu...

OK, that was quite clear, thank you. It's been a long time since I read Dennett on this. I just took a quick glance at an outline of his argument and ...

I'll admit to the same sophmoric reaction myself. The word itself seems to presume consciousness. I can imagine specific conclusions about consciousne...

It's been a long time since I read LW but this is certainly not all I got from him. I reread your OP and I think I get what you are saying there. That...

or it wasn't so binary. More like we'd have to be even more careful about our assumptions than anthropologists.

I am having a hard time figuring out if the OP does deal with the issue your cartoon humorously took up. But since the cartoon does, I'll drop in. Lio...

Yes, but also...we enter cultures. And we come without culture. And some cultures probably suit us better than others, each having strengths and weakn...

Click on the word Five in Banno's post two posts up. I'm not sure you don't realize that's a link, but it seems possible.

I appreciate the effort. Would this mean then that animals have beliefs? Does this mean that one cannot come to believe things that are counterintuiti...

At what age does it become a choice? How much of you makes the choice?

*Exactly. Often I find that it can seem like a person arrives at their beliefs only via science and deduction (from scientific models), when in fact t...

Great. I would go so far as to say that whatever people's official epsitemology is, I have never met anyone who did not, in practice, follow my paraph...

Seriously, is that the most charitable interpretation you can come up with. If you actually read my posts with humanitarian care you would see that 1)...

It wasn't a war to free them. The justification for the war was because they supposedly had WOMD's or Hussein did. But this was made up intelligence a...

I really don't know what elicited this question. I'll aks you: Are you one of those people who did not care about Iraquis?

Could you give a short presentation of what your criticism of Phfforest's position is. His position, not so much how he has presented it. I can't quit...

We didn't let, we encouraged and certain corporations made money off of it. Arming both sides is not justifiable morally. Given Sadaam, as part of tha...

OK, though you do seem to understand their objections. But then you clearly understand your position better than I do, so perhaps that makes the diffe...

In some way they are doing this, sure. I am saying this in response to what I thought was your assertion that people never do this. They do. People pr...

Truly doubtful. The US only allows Israel to have a nuclear arsenal. which was a war that the US gave weapons to both sides in. Hussein was a leader t...

I think we can be fairly certain that HIlary would have followed the neo-con agenda abroad and more aggressively than either Obama or Trump, the forme...

So how would you label the two main epistemological choices. I am sure you have done this somewhere above, but it you can spare a moment to repeat jus...

I am assuming then that you believe moving away from freedom is irrational. Let me know if that is wrong.1) I think it is a preference to choose to lo...

Sure. People often move away from freedom, let other people decide things for them. Cults work like this. But more mundanely how many people allow med...

I think the problem is not with 'justification' but with 'true' in jtb. First off it ends up implying knowledge is immaculate which it need not be, ho...

Ah, OK. i though you were trying to summarize a common ground. I am interested in the topic but finding it hard to get in there.

I don't know how one knows one is willing to revise a belief. Or, perhaps better put, I think people's self-evaluations on such an issue are radically...

Solipsism is a belief. A belief is neither logical nor illogical. ARguments are logical or illogical. Further, something not being refutable does not ...

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Well, a Stoic would tell you to control your emotions, focus on the positive, be rational, change what you can and not torture yourself about what you...

Oh, but it does. You are confusing 'a placebo' with a sugar pill. A placebo is an act including something like a sugar pill. The patient is told they ...

No, I think I was pretty clear that the body with my sister's brain I would never have sex with. Hm. I never meant or said that. 1) I made a distincti...

I think they are too different reactions. You don't want to have your sister experience having sex with you, so the body with the brain is out. You ar...

A placebo can help cure illnesses. This is the mere idea that you are getting an appropriate cure, when in fact you are not. To me it is obvious that ...

I think this is better than only believing things that have passed some supposedly or actually rigorous epistemological process. 1) it matches reality...

i agree and it goes beyond philosophy. Nearly everyone has beliefs about the opposite sex, how to deal with powerful people, how much each emotion sho...

I don't see any problem with someone saying that they believe in X because of faith or gut feelings or intuition. That just seems honest to me. The pr...

Yes, the right brain should be in charge, aided by the left brain not controlled and run by it. Here's a great read on that.... https://www.amazon.com...

The women you've known all, every single one, said that you thought you were more rational than you were. So, I knew you were ok, you still ran, at le...

I think if there is only my mind, it would make a difference to me. And I think it makes a difference to him.But I'll read your proof when you get to ...