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Or Mother Nature has deemed it good to make us sensory gluttons with limited attention (spans).
September 13, 2019 at 13:07
Love what you say here. Peachy. May the physicalists meet us both in a dark alley. But then it seems you are not a physicalist, so that's not a good e...
September 13, 2019 at 10:14
I think you are right, in general. I think it has to do with physicality and intimacy. Touching another person, especially with any force, ups the ant...
September 13, 2019 at 06:09
But we barely notice a lot of our thoughts, at least if other minds are anything like mine, and after interrogating a lot of people - at least, I thin...
September 13, 2019 at 04:58
Certainly about themselves and other people. The motivations for bias are so strong.
September 13, 2019 at 04:50
If we go back to the original statement, the focus is on what YOU believe, not on what others believe. That's what piqued my interest. It presented it...
September 13, 2019 at 04:39
You would try to find counterevidence to your own theories, whatever they are. This could take many forms. But it sounded active in your description. ...
September 12, 2019 at 22:45
Yes, Randi has done a version of what Janus described. Though one has to be something of a celebrity to apply to the challenge. I'm interested in gene...
September 12, 2019 at 22:40
That's a little different from.... Attempting to find counterevidence sounds active to me, not simply reacting to a perceived lack of evidence. IOW do...
September 12, 2019 at 22:35
OK, I don't think I've asserted that - not that you said I did, as far as I've noticed. It leaves room for it to be a means of self-observation (and i...
September 12, 2019 at 20:39
The lie is first you present historians' works as based on fact, religious works as based on made up stuff in a binary presentation. I point out how i...
September 12, 2019 at 20:33
I'm still confused. What is the idea you reject? If you could put it in a full sentence. And what it is he says it does?
September 12, 2019 at 20:14
You'd be rejecting people's interpretation and reporting of their experiences, or?
September 12, 2019 at 20:04
No, there's not way to explain it without implicit or explicit metaphysics? Physicalism? well, it's right there. Natural laws? again right there
September 12, 2019 at 20:03
Though that's quite different from Deleuze or Derrida, say. You could give an example of a philosopher who you have not read but feel you can dismiss....
September 12, 2019 at 19:56
I think that leads to all sorts of confusions. Knowing what not to belief would still require a belief. Which is why in philosophy, knowledge is consi...
September 12, 2019 at 19:52
But the analogy would be someting like thinking he doesn't know he is a fan of that team. If one does not believe in introspection, the odds would be ...
September 12, 2019 at 19:44
Which many people carry out. People can be fallible with reasoning also. Some people are terrible at reading other poker players, some are good. We wo...
September 12, 2019 at 19:43
Oh. If you've explained this somewhere above, could you say where. Otherwise, why do you reject it? And then also: how do you know you do?
September 12, 2019 at 13:57
'it'? The very idea of introspection? That one should believe in introspection as a source of knowledge? I love the idea that you are rejecting my bel...
September 12, 2019 at 12:41
Thanks, that made things a lot clearer to me. Perhaps they thought it was complicated. Of course this could be me projecting. Money as source is simpl...
September 12, 2019 at 11:37
lol, I haven't the slightest idea, despite rigorous ongoing introspection and other cognitive processes, where you post lies on the spectrum of partly...
September 12, 2019 at 11:33
If this was a response, in part, to me, let me clarify. I don't think from introspection alone one can get knowledge of others. I think it can be used...
September 12, 2019 at 10:55
Couldn't we say that they were realists (not saying they were right) who thought, this stuff makes people do things, so.... we'd better organize thing...
September 12, 2019 at 10:49
I'm afraid I am not coming to neoliberalism's defence and ask for forgivement for naughtiness. Generally in neoliberalism there is the idea of economi...
September 12, 2019 at 10:47
Perhaps anyway. I am not the least a Kant expert. I would think that the causes of immoral behavior and what is moral are quite different studies, off...
September 12, 2019 at 10:09
So how would or should this play out for a physicalist or someone who thinks that the paranormal or the supernatural - as used as categories, not that...
September 12, 2019 at 10:02
September 12, 2019 at 07:47
I think you can get information about others via introspection. It can show you the effects others have on you - obviously suceptible to bias. This in...
September 12, 2019 at 05:45
Well, if we look at this for example.... that sure sounds like monotheism, likely Abrahamist. God in the singular, not god as one of many. The list of...
September 12, 2019 at 05:37
If one, on the way to procreating, person reads this argument and does not have a child, that will change the lives of future generations in millions ...
September 11, 2019 at 20:43
Ah, a conspiracy theorist, who would have known.:razz: I think different forums attract types. I see that in another forum I'm a part of. It's a quite...
September 11, 2019 at 20:07
You presented it as simple and binary. It's not. One day you'll learn to concede points, or you won't. It doesn't come off as strong, it comes off as ...
September 11, 2019 at 20:01
I blame unborn children for burdening us with the anti-natalist guilt trip. In revenge I am going to have more children.
September 11, 2019 at 13:50
Agreed. I think knowledge makes more sense as a thing than introspection.
September 11, 2019 at 13:32
I am. I am sad you didn't notice.
September 11, 2019 at 12:50
Earlier in this thread you defended against the idea that qm effects might interfere with pure determinism by quoting wikipedia that at speeds much sl...
September 11, 2019 at 11:25
The countries who follow different historians send the experts to do the killing, for example. And the experts are not the historians, but the soldier...
September 11, 2019 at 11:13
But you can have qm level effects moving large organisms. But you don't have to worry about this. qm either consider random or statistical - I'd lean ...
September 11, 2019 at 10:59
I can imagine that being a factor. That would mean in part that it's the topic that is part of what bothers you and not just the quality of the discou...
September 11, 2019 at 10:48
Hard to disagree with, but then...I will bet that the analytic side of philosophers thinks the continental side is often word salad and on some level ...
September 11, 2019 at 08:58
I don't know how to interpret the citation marks in this post, and really I was mainly playing, but if you start a thread, I'd be happy to join with m...
September 11, 2019 at 08:12
Oh, but then the determinists always come in and demonstrate that humans can't create either, stuff just happens. That the epiphenomenon has a folk be...
September 11, 2019 at 08:01
That's obfuscatory discourse, goddammit! (just trying to merge threads)
September 11, 2019 at 08:00
I think Terrapin would be happy with your description and agree, and that's why he is aghast.
September 11, 2019 at 06:34
Maybe you were just joking, but here's what continental philosophy refers to... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy
September 11, 2019 at 05:43
That doesn't surprise me. What surprises me is how many people think their parents were immoral for birthing them. New thread here..... https://thephi...
September 11, 2019 at 04:59
Yes that would be the implication,which I had a moment of concern over. Since I am reifying knowledge. What if it is, in fact, knowledging, rather tha...
September 11, 2019 at 04:37
If Baden is correct and they are posting in the right category, and presumably in threads where they are on topic, I am not what the problem is. There...
September 10, 2019 at 21:52
I did say earlier I don't think saying introspection in the category knowledge makes sense. Can introspection as a process lead to knowledge? that mak...
September 10, 2019 at 21:30