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Ah, I thought you were the OP writer and took your previous post as coming from him. I meant that he (or she) was asking for help with solipsism, a wa...

I think the key word is 'teach'. What does this mean? Inevitably children are taught philosophy. Ideas both implicit about the world, what it is made ...

But you were born with a brain that also had the inclination towards non-rational processes. Or you'd be a complete mess.

I don't think the answer is in finding arguments. If this is plaguing you move towards people, animals, nature...the other. Engage with people. The is...

just like to introduce a third category - the non-rational. This would encompass the irrational, but since that is generally a pejorative term, I want...

Form not content should be the focus of banning. Racism was once the consensus opinion. Snowdon revealed what would have been considered a conspiracy ...

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I think this is true. At a very general level, I think it is increasing lonliness. Social media have enhance the ability to be falsely social. At leas...

Though any criticism using anthropomorphism should lead us to wonder if there is any situation where positing such traits, even when describing 'us', ...

And the interesting thing is that various species use quite different approaches, some could be labelled altruistic (individual to individual), some c...

unless the rape is part of a deterioration of the group (causal, correlated, whatever). IOW if the behavior leads to a group that does not work well t...

Alltruisitic behavior can benefit the speciies, the clan, the tribe - which means that genes in the group continue, and since other people in your gro...

I guess I consider most forms of optimism as tempermental. Not that they don't have belief-support also. My beliefs are, at least, in the main optimis...

So then perhaps irrelevant to you, but not to physicists and basketball coaches. Or those deeply interested in those subjects.Sure, but you likely tak...

Great, it had seemed part of a line going back to you saying ontology is irrelevant. Perhaps we could go back to the beginning of my responses to you....

I am not sure where 'apodeitic certain' is coming from. I know some people believe in that kind of knowledge and some regarding ontological issues. Wh...

I don't see how there is any room for determining if something is in what your version of ontology is, since 'is' would have no meaning, nor would thi...

Do you mean every philosopher is an idealist, in the philosophical sene? You really think you can have a language including categories of things (like...

Not according to most definitions I find, including the one I quoted.

I am not sure if we are talking past each or not. Let me go back a step. Could you be specific here with an example? It seems to me that scientists, f...

You could be an idealist, for example, instead.The mere assumption/conclusion that there are subjects and objects is an onlological assumption/conclus...

You're not a physicalist? Now perhaps you're not, but physicalism is an ontological monism. One that has been part of science for quite a while. One w...

Well, one ontological conclusion held by many scientists gets packaged under materialism (physicalism). Another set of ontological conclusions have to...

Doesn't your position depend on ontological conclusions about the way things fundamentally are? Doesnt' any epistemological position?

Ontology is the study of various ideas about the nature of reality. So materialism (or more commonly these days physicalism) is an ontology. So, scien...

Probably some things I believe in, from the criteria I see above, you would class as mere conspiracy theories. But in general I agree. People with pow...

Perhaps everyone could experience (or not experience anything) what they believe will happen or what they yearn for. I can't see how we can rule that ...

Maybe unconsciously, but complexity also works I think. I mean a simple trial and error program - which I don't think is so simple since it depends on...

RNA and DNA is a truth? Wouldn't a truth be in words? Just as a falsehood is.

According to some theists it is the pièce de résistance of god's creation, mainly the Abrahamists, others not so much. But why does the magnificance o...

So, if I understand your argument, the idea is that if God created the universe, then he is simple because the method he chose for the unfolding of li...

I agree.

Sorry to hear about the depression, I do know how serious and unpleasant that can be. But you must have desired to accomplish certain things, been con...

Motivations are emotions. You may have reasoned ideas about why X is a good goal, but you are still motivated by the emotions and desires. These are n...

Sounds at the very least a combinatin of emotions and thoughts. Ibid. Ibid Would as the others likely have non-emoitonal cognitive factors that set th...

The ultimIate technique in persuasion and rethoric is... listening. That's kind of a combined and answer, taking ultimate as meaning most effective bu...

Sure, it just seemed like the difference between apetite and desire in your schema was being in the now without imagining the future. (and I know a go...

So what is appetite vs. desire in relation to intimacy, love, friendship, creativity..... It seems to me, then, one is trying to go back to an animal ...

Suffering would also be caused by a lack of desire. I am not hungry, I don't eat, I feel bad. I feel no desire to connect with other people. I do not ...

you are a group of social mammals. The jealousy can help reorder the group so all members thrive. There is motivation for you to all get along and so ...

Perhaps a tangent, but it depends on the order and also the degree. Chaos is a generally a pejorative term and order generally is considered a positiv...

Is this you summarizing the Buddhist argument? To me it doesn't sound like Buddhism. Buddhism may or may not be correct. I haven't argued that it is w...

I am not sure the cessation of suffering and enlightenment are facts, for example. That elimination of suffering and the hard to define state of 'enli...

I'd say Buddhism is batch of practices where even language is considered a practice that leads to certain effects and states (processes). Language as ...

That would hold for thoughts also. Those would be just chemical changes in your brain. It should be noted also that these are changes that are parts o...

I don't think sad and mad are bad emotions, though they can certainly arise where they are not helpful. It would be odd not to get angry in many situa...

Sure, as long as people know they are speculating. I said nothing about you shouldn't have had an opinion or expressed it here. If I go back to where ...

Unless I am mistaken we are in agreement on this one. I don't think one has the right to expect others to live for us. Potentially a child in relation...

I think it is a useless criticism, often meanspirited. I do think that suicide may be an act of rage, which isn't precisely selfish, but it is aimed a...

That conclusion seems unwarranted along with the psychologizing of, at the very least, people like the person you are quoting. The word 'agreed' by Hi...