Sirius

I don't think this is true. Let's take someone who holds my view expressed above & also happens to believe in biological essentialism. He can still be...

1. 2 entities or states can only be identical if they share all properties, including that of location in space and time. This isn't true for mental a...

This isn't even a question of insufficient data. Its not that consciousness is a physical stuff and we don't have enough data about it. That would be ...

Just meditate These are the 3 stages you will go through during and after death Wakeful state Dream state Dreamless state Then comes the unconditoned ...

Yeah, I'm talking about Advaita. I would not use the word monism cause it implies Brahman is a substance of some sort, when he isn't even a mental sub...

There is no before and after, past and future, from the perspective beyond space and time. Not only that, the temporal realm is immaterial and illusor...

Whilst l like John Hick's kantian distinction between appearance and ultimate reality. The problem is he relegates the truth claims of all world relig...

The big problem here is you begin with the assumption that, not only do mind-independent moral facts exist, but that we can arrive at all true moral f...

I will repeat what l said earlier on and add clarification to it "Do not harm others" or in general "X is bad" does not supervene on any natural fact ...

I believe there is a fundamental disagreement between us regarding the ontological and logical status of possible states and actual states of affairs....

Yeah, l am treating them as an ordered pair. f(x,y) is different from f:= (x,y) The first is basically z = f(x,y) whereas the second is y=f(x) Yeah, I...

1. Naturalism is true 2. The linguistic and non-linguistic practices which do not refer to or supervene on any natural fact outside the linguistic and...

My mental health does influence my judgments. But the ideas in my OP have occurred to me repeatedly. Actually, the problem isn't with nirvana itself. ...

I'm always happy to see someone who admires Schopenhauer. He has played a pivotal in shaping my worldview. I take Schopenhauer's viewpoint to be ident...

I take it you are willing to accept there can be infinitely many mathematical facts. You take facts to be possible states of affairs, which must eithe...

If you want me to be completely honest. I have felt and do feel the diminishing returns thanks to my depression. Sometimes l wish for death to overtak...

The tradition does appeal to me, it is challenging, l am always seeking an alternative, this post is criticism. I don't know about my disposition, sin...

Nope. But it's still worth exploring. I'm sure l will find people who agree with me, and in good numbers hopefully.

I agree with everything else you said, except this point. l doubt this maxim is valid. As you see, human nature is too complicated for such generaliza...

Ideas clearly exist. Ideas are not composed of parts. You can't divide an idea. It comes as a whole. Yes, you may have an incomplete idea or it may tr...

You didn't get my point Ofc,we can For the graph f := (x,y) Let G ((x,y),(x',y')) := (x'',y'') be the function which pastes the graph p = (x',y') on f...

Because it involves a contradiction. To say there exists ineffable truths about X world is to contradict yourself. Hence, there is no world which has ...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rule-following/#NormCond "According to a prominent line of thought, the notion of correctness involved in the seemi...

Excellent reply. People confuse data with information. The latter is meaningful. I was tempted to bring up information realism and pancomputationalism...

I addressed this in the beginning. Given any theory of truth, whether it assumes the truth criterion is a metaphysical representation or otherwise, it...

I believe this rests on a mistaken notion of how language works. Why do we interpret sentences the way we do ? What forces us to derive conclusions ? ...

You need to re-read my first point. My conclusion is compatible with a mind-independent reality, given a mind exists to comprehend it as a reality apa...

It doesn't have be like that. We can have conditions that the person issuing declarative statements must satisfy some objective moral criteria. Criter...

I never claimed all contingent truths must exist, only logically neccesary truths. I have already given reasons why mathematical truths can not depend...

Not just propositions, but true propositions. Here is 2 reasons we should prefer true propositions to be cognitive content over platonic forms 1. Plat...

The usage of "ought" for general normative statements is correct, since Hume wasn't only concerned with moral statements. I don't see a problem with u...

Whether the "ought" we derive is correct or not is a seperate question. I am only addressing the claim that we cannot derive an "ought" from an "is" H...

Can you point out the specific flaw. Saying the conclusion doesn't follow isn't helpful. I actually want to improve this argument. So you can even cri...

I would like you to imagine a world in which there are no minds. You will imagine our world as it exists minus the minds, and you will use the knowled...

To show : All (neccesarily) true statements exist as cognitive content Reason : Whatever theory of truth you pick (Correspondence theory, pragmatic th...