Belief is generally considered an element of knowledge, and it therefore is significant. I agree that words are contextual and can be subject to endle...
If behavior were belief you could, but it's not. Belief references a conscious state, and since we can't observe the conscious state of feeling cold i...
Behaviorism doesn't hold that beliefs are behavior, but only that behavior is the only empirical evidence we have of beliefs. The belief is in the bla...
Entering this very late, but here's what a belief is: It is trust or confidence in the truth of something. Beliefs might be rational, irrational, just...
I don't follow your distinction. I'm saying that the thing in itself is unknowable because all we have are appearances that cannot be said to reflect ...
This question, like all things Kant, is complicated. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-mind/#4.6 If you want to go through all this, I could try...
Work this through then. Bob's been arrested for statutory rape, so he puts the girl on the stand and proves she's mature, or not, and if the jury side...
You're asking how moral atheists ground their morality without God? They pretend like they're not relying on God even though they are. Maybe that answ...
I know nothing of Thai law, but are you suggesting the child was sold from a needy family as opposed to the child being without capable parents? If so...
The church and state are divided, and that's a good thing. What's left is a legislature that can impose laws, but it doesn't operate with any moral au...
Sure, there are thousands of ways people can be in bad relationships, but how is that more prevalent in industrialized, complex, modern societies than...
Subjective experience is defined as phenomenal. Are you positing the subjective as an objective entity that experiences? Maybe I'm not following you. ...
Subjective experience is phenomenal. The object of the phenomenon is noumenal. If you say the noumenal is knowable, reading generously, I read that as...
I don't follow why one couldn't believe that our perceptions have been skewed by societal expectations and then further hold that we can somehow trans...
Can I summarize this then as it's better to give than receive and we should take time to smell the roses because there's meaning even in the smallest ...
Point me in the direction of an authentic Marx practitioner. At any rate, without making general attacks, I do believe my objection is valid, which is...
Of course, but why speak of roses, when truly it is the giving to another person that provides the greatest rewards? Are we just not restating the Gol...
But none of this is true. It's just some guy saying it. People do in fact feel a sense of meaning by relying upon a higher power, even if that defies ...
And so respond to your question. What is it that is of real value if not the acquisition of things and fitting perfectly in to societal expectations. ...
Bootstrapping describes a method of raising capital without exchanging equity, but it doesn't describe a way of business creation without capital. Wel...
I wasn't providing a commentary on the extent to which one can make things happen purely by their own efforts, and I do allow that access to capital c...
With regard to slavery, the following passage condemning slavery was contained in the original Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, but it...
It's purpose is survival, which is the purpose of all living things, and is the basis for evolution theories. As with plants, it's clear they grow up ...
There needn't be intentionality (which seems to be how "agency" is being used here) where there is teleological behavior. A plant grows upward toward ...
Read the cited material. That's precisely what they've done. That no one has experienced another's experience is a given. Having a first person experi...
I specifically stated that time and events were distinct, so I'm not sure who you're arguing with. They feel like events are occuring slowly. Humans c...
That time slows down as speed increases has been empirically shown to be true. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation#/issues. It is not necessary that...
Excellent questions. The belt is brown, but the sock thing has always been an issue with me. I purchase all the same blue socks, so that when one goes...
The Justin Carter trial is set for 2/20/18. He's the guy we were talking about earlier who made sarcastic comments about shooting up a school and he's...
Another animal story, gather round, remove your clothes, and listen closely: My son had two birds: Chickenhawk and no name. No name was descriptive, i...
Telling the girl's parents your brother is a perv is the responsible thing to do if you really believe it's likely he's going to try to have sex with ...
This doesn't address the question. Why does the a posteriori determine the a priori? It's as if you're saying non-euclidian a posteriori discoveries a...
Why would an empirical discovery (an a posteriori truth) impact an a priori one? If a priori truths are determined by a posteriori truths, then they'r...
My dog Fifi slammed into Nibbles' cage, got him loose, got him by the neck, and pranced proudly down the stairs while the kids yelled, "Fifi got Nibbl...
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