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Facile, again. Ok, I'll ignore you and your laziness from here on out.

I could take out mull. And I did hesitate to include it. I think reasoning/rationality includes an attempt to put assertions in a logical arrangement ...

Actually it's the results of research into the phenomenology of verbal thinking as part of a master's course in philosophy. Summed up in lay person te...

I don't think so. When we reason we are repeatedly checking our arguement. This means checking the words we use, their semantics, the scope of the pre...

Oh poop. :joke:

I was working with introspection rather than reflection. And no, it doesn't necessarily, but it is necessary for reasoning. There is overlap between t...

I would guess you are older, but I grew up in a big city and one with good public transport, so the first car came later. I think the words introspect...

You keep being consistent. It's rare. Whatever the irony in the current context.

Ah, I think we are using experience in two different ways - and perhaps I am also. By experience, or experiencing, I mean 'the living through it'. The...

You can't really reason without examining experience and memories of experience and your own reactions to the parts of your reasoning. How do you know...

I can't see how they can be categorically distinct. That's my take.

Or not existent over time. So in each instant there is a fixed self. There is no self that is dynamic.

Good. I mean, I understand your position. Who is this 'I', then? that that sentence applies to? All 'you' see is what you see now. Someone else would ...

I always gotta triangulate.... would it be fair to say you see the hoop of leather as equivalent to the Heraclitian river?

I'm not sure about the 'objects' part. At the very least, I am not there yet.Well, it is true that reasoning underlies what we experience. Or at least...

I sense this is part of something more complicated, you're response. What does the 'just' mean?

Ratiocination without introspection: I'd love to see an example of that. You'd not be able to notice your own internal evaluations of the semantics of...

I get what you're saying here but I think the example is problematic. Circles don't really exist. They are abstract ideas. But if you have a hoop made...

Just gonna start by being fussy and say that introspection is not a type of knowledge and change the question to: does introspection gather informatio...

If you say it, and believe it is true. It is a belief. I think the word wisdom would be better to use here. But still the contradiction will hold. It ...

or degrees of justification, I would say, or at least, degrees of justification that can be shared and tested by many. I've always though JTB should b...

and given that we are fallible creatures what we think we know may turn out not to be the case. Which is why in philosophy, generally, knowledge is se...

Generally, in philosophy, it is idea that may have any degree of justification. On the street 'belief' tends to be contrasted with knowledge. In philo...

Well, if you are undermining someone's belief using a process that includes logic (or does not for that matter) you are trying to reach a conclusion a...

If you are using belief as it is generally used in philosophy - that is anything one believes to be true, regardless of the justification (iow scienti...

Is there a core text for this one basic (true, it would seem) Gnosticism? You mention we - are there meetings? a webpage? IOW he was basing his ideas,...

I was working from this... which leads, it seems, later in the post to the conclusion that it is better not to believe. It seemed, not to believe in g...

And religious people dispute each other around the nature of God, for example.It sounds like you are comparing current historians in Western countries...

Wouldn't the rationalists be playing into Satan's hands if they try to get us to believe that belief is bad and that their process for reaching this c...

LOL. I think, but I am not sure, you may have moved further away from me. I am not referring to the concreteness of brain activity - iow those things ...

Just to be clear. I talked about the situation where someone is sexually harrassed by a boss. TS talked about how in his system, if I am remembering r...

I can imagine that model being useful, but that's in terms of contents. The most concrete thing is experiencing, since that is what we base all other ...

Which is why, for example, it was considered irrational in science to think animals had consciousness and were not, more or less, compicated machines....

first reaction: I am not sure it is abstract objects science impeded in approaching. In fact, I would say there is nothing more concrete than experien...

One issue I've been thinking of when discussing this kind of issue - one that affects and is affect by complicated phenomena (humans, for example - is...

I don't rule it out, but I think that is where we are today, what you say. A phenomenologist looking at a rock would never have figured out what geolo...

I am not sure what you mean here. I assume you don't mean that philosophy invented the awareness and presumably animals experience. But I am not sure ...

Which is not the case in any other research of any other object of research. And in no other research can the culture, upbringing, self-knowledge, lan...

And then we have to wonder how much is lost in the translation, but sure, we do that. Then we have a much harder time with animals. OK, what I notice ...

This can be tested. People look at other people and see if they can tell what they are experiencing. The experiencers think about different things, ge...

OK, sounds like I agree. There are so many gnosticisms, that perhaps such things do not apply to some of them, but otherwise, same page.

I specifically mentioned the third parties seeing things happening and contrasted this with the first person awareness. They can't see the taste of th...

I probably agree, but what do you mean?

'logos' means a lot of things. It can even mean Jesus.

No, but many history book makes a genocide disappear. A negative hallucination. And many a history book hallucinates the absence of the horrible aspec...

Yes, and oddly I think this is something they share with many people supposedly on the other side of the divide. Very mentally focused, detached intel...

It may be spooky, I don't know what people mean by that here. I just wasn't saying it was spooky. I would say that there's more that is experienced th...

I've come in the middle. I don't know what 'spooky' means or doesn't mean. There is something that third parties cannot see happening. They can see al...

That's the 'part'. Someone watching you eat the apple, say. They would be aware of other things, like some guy eating an apple. But not the taste of t...

You didn't respond to anything I wrote. You did not explain what rational intuitions are, which you also called rational appearances,and you also refe...