There are likely a wide range of answers: 1) positions that one does not like seem weaker if can undermine a specific argument in favor of them - it s...
This would mean your definition of knowledge is even more rigorous than, for example, that in science. Because science is always - at least theoretica...
Yes, to me the encyclopedia definition cannot fit that sentence because any belief in something already includes the further belief. It is implicit in...
I guess I'd first wish you'd respond to points I made. It's now as if they never happened and a new set of extremely complicated ideas are raised by w...
I agree. Here we are typing responses. We are not blurting something out when someone walks up to us on the stress telling us what they think. Here wh...
For example, your reaction to this. Pride in one's work can be excellent for the creation of anything from a vaccine to a great work of art. It is an ...
Absolutely no question: emotions. Who is better at logic, you or a gazelle/gorilla? Emotions are motivators and make fast decisions. In that case smel...
A devastating choice either way, but I would choose emotion. I'd rather be a rather poor primate than someone with no emotions. To no longer love my w...
Sure, but it seemed like your focus was on ad homs. They dismiss the argument through saying it is based on emotion or merely that the person is emoti...
I think the important point is it is a fallacy. It's ad hom as far as I can tell. We don't have to choose between emotions and reason (and a social pr...
Why not make it a general request to remove posters who do not engage in philosophical argument and discussion but preach. This may be more common amo...
It that 'sensing'? Do you think there is an experiencer in the computer? At what point does cause and effect become sensing on the effected substance/...
I wish the search engine here could produce a list. I can use 'theory' in the search in titles, but that gets to many other titles. But we can take yo...
You had knowledge there was going to be a meeting and then it was cancelled. You were correct that a meeting was scheduled. of course what we consider...
Though one would also believe it was true. Knowledge is a kind of belief. You can't say I know that the earth revolves around the sun but I don't beli...
First I want to point out these are descriptions of two very different scenarios. The belief that one can win, but knows it is likely they will not, i...
I am not sure what you mean by unsconsiousness (is this the unconscious?) being beyond reality. It is part of reality, or? The unconscious certainly i...
Though it raises the issue of what seem like contradictory statements, in a specific case, cannot be dismissed via logic. IOW prior to QM one might ha...
Yes, he certainly goes on to explain what he means. Nor are they mutually exclusive. IOW you just told me that the reason I gave it as an example of o...
Yes, experience can change beliefs. And other people can be part of that process, giving information, stressing that X happened, suggesting things to ...
I don't think one is willing. I think pain becomes and hopelessness becomes compulsion. I also don't think you choose to believe. He is hurting me so ...
Rejecting empiricism completely would do this (at least I think so) but if empiricism means, for example, one can only get knoweldge via experience, s...
1) If the Muslim terrorist (or any terrorist) is willing to be martyred for the sake of Allah/Islam, then they must have intense belief. 2. Intense be...
Well, I'm not - in the sense that it's not a binary thing. Sometimes I am, sometimes I am not. Further when I am not rational, this does not entail th...
What year do you think the police stopped being racist? (if you think they stopped being racist. If don't think they were ever racist how does that fi...
Why would refer to the experience aspect? I suppose I could understand we might say and remember pain itself, but why would be refer to an epiphenomen...
I think it is better to say 'for all we know it is possible.' Why do I say this? Well, saying something is possible can mean: I can't rule it out. But...
I would guess it was The End of Faith. That's my best guess. It's my guess because it was a while ago, so not one of his more recent and then when I g...
The problem with this is you are drawing an objective probability from a subjective not knowing. So, I don't know if X is true or false. And I have no...
You can have these thoughts with attendant feelings, but it does not make sense to say you have belief X and knowledge -X. You could say 'a part of me...
But we don't need to choose between those two hypotheses. For example, one could choose to argue that physics incomplete, we don't know everything via...
I think it is useful when arguments in response to why is there something rather than nothing explain seemingly that the nothing had potentials. It wa...
In one of his works he argued in favor of torture and separately in favor of treating beliefs like actions. IOW if Muslims have certainly beliefs that...
Presumably statements like this are the kind of thing that leads to banning, if there are enough of them.Or like this one. I don't see his idea being ...
It seems to me the title of the thread is misleading. You aren't comparing the power of thought to the power of God. You believe God is only a product...
it is very unlkely that thought is your central motivation. It is more likely that it is emotions. (I am not insulting or ad homing you, this is true ...
To reach a theory, what is considered a theory, there needs to be a lot of evidence and no better explanation. If we reached a place where the scienti...
Well, that's another topic. I think that's an oversimplification. I think the reasons Christianity and Islam keep going has a lot of factors in there,...
This may well be what the a function of what is happening, or the non-experienced facets of what is happening, but it doesn't take away at all from us...
A video? I don't know exactly how to even search for one. Every human I have ever met accepts the testimony of individuals for all sorts of assertions...
HOnestly, it seems like you didn't read what I wrote. I directly challenged the ideas that an individual's testimony has zero credibility and that the...
Blind people cannot see. People's perceptions are fallible. Blind people reporting things that must be seen to be noted are right only coincidentally....
Earthly laws are intended to try to prevent breaches and to punish (generally) breaches. Those goals overlap and different countries have different vi...
that's a pretty common - meaning asserted by people from a wide range of epistemologies and intentions - assertion, that what seems true to you actual...
We don't know. No one does. Perhaps later, if this person has more such experiences and they tend to correctly foreshadow things, then someone would k...
That would mean that before we understood why water had a high surface tension, we considered bugs walking on it supernatural. Or that dark matter is ...
A nice point (which I've made myself elsewhere so this is a narcisstic compliment). 'Do you believe in the supernatural?' bears a kind of resemblence ...
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