Beverley

How does that compare to the average person?

Either he was extremely stupid or extremely cruel. Either way, for some reason, it doesn't surprise me about Descartes.

Is anyone?

It seems to be correct that language is not required, but it is not by any means redundant. We have a little Kokoni. Chances are you have never even h...

No, I mean that I see it time and time again that someone will quote a positive negative to suggest that the result is positive, such as, it is set in...

You are only as certain as how much you can convince yourself of certainty.

I see this kind of attempt at twisting language and meaning so often, and it amazes me that people seem to fall for it. This does not magically mean t...

Not a problem at all. It would be a really boring world if we all agreed with everything ;)

I'm probably not explaining it very clearly. I'll find some links from other philosophers to help you understand the counter arguments. Of course, you...

No problem, you are entitled to your belief :)

Not necessarily, you could be JUST thought, but even if we take that to be true, as mentioned, the cogito only works from the first person perspective...

Your opinion/belief is valid, but you cannot (well, you can if you like, but it won't be true) say that something is 100 percent certain without 100 p...

Not if the thoughts are not yours. As other philosophers pointed out long ago, you cannot say, "I think" if the thoughts are not yours. This is just o...

I cannot even be 100 percent sure that there is such a thing as Japanese or English, or languages. 100 percent certainty is a strange concept because ...

Thanks, I will digest this and get back to you. Sorry, I admit, I didn't read all of the comments on here as there are a lot. Thanks for reposting you...

I'm am just intrigued to understand why and how you think this creates harm.

The 'I' is the weakness in this statement. It is not 100 percent certain that the person thinking is you. As far as I can see, there is NO 100 percent...

Does anybody produce 'original' ideas?

https://images.musement.com/cover/0158/80/agios-nikolaos-adobestock-163772781-jpeg_header-15779640.jpg ‘My’ Agios Nikolaos, as I call it. I am greedy....

Yes, I do think that makes a lot more sense, to me anyway. However... and I don't like this 'however' because I feel as if I want to agree. You have s...

This idea of universal perfection seems to get more bizarre the more I think about it. First of all, I still fail to see how we would proceed if every...

This makes so much sense to me. I haven't studied ethics, but this simply makes sense. Hooray!

I am questioning the idea of anything being perfect. I am saying that it could be impossible, or simply a made up concept, since there is no evidence ...

yes, I see that. Okay, that is fine if you accept that. But it still stands that, since there are no concrete examples of these, they are no more prov...

But there is nothing that is PERFECTLY efficient and harmonious, and this is what your definition stipulated. Yes, but not PERFECT peace. Again, you s...

I did see you giving an example of a calculator and a jungle, but i couldn't find an example where you explained how each part of it was in harmony. I...

But how can we progress towards something that MAY be possible, but that we can see no real example of in the world in which we live? In this case, it...

The problem is that there will always be holes in philosophical ideas, some more than others. But even the best philosophers have holes in their theor...

Haha, I was biding my time, but not getting an answer, so you were probably right to forge ahead.

That is precisely where I was going. You took the words right out of my mouth ;)

I understand that you think that good is always perfect, but what I was wondering was do you think that perfection can ONLY be good?

I'm just trying to figure out why you connect goodness with perfection. Do you think that perfection is always good?

Ah okay, I may have misread this, thinking that you meant there may be poison on here but it is well controlled. But anyway, I had the feeling before ...

In my view, everyone is equal in their worth. There are learning opportunities to be had from everyone, no matter if we agree or disagree with them. F...

Not knowing about something does not mean you know about it. It means you DO NOT know about it. You cannot get any knowledge out of anything that is u...

Oops, silly me, I missed off the most important thing... in my view: there are appropriate and inappropriate ways of expressing one's own opinion thou...

I think you might be right there.

Of course you should express your own opinion. I am a big believer in everyone having a right to their own opinions :) But, I was just pointing out th...

'Rubbish' in your opinion. You're getting confused between opinion and fact.

I care about people. I also realize that you are expressing your views, not facts. But I further know that you may see things differently to me, and I...

Yes, but what I am wondering is why do you feel the need? Ah, I know, it must be to help us poor people out, to let us know that we are not philosophe...

Sorry, I think I got confused about who was referring to who. My mistake. I'm not sure I see science as being in the cave for philosophy at all. I sup...

Because we cognize it now because now we exist. But we did not, or could not, cognize it then obviously. I'm not sure how one could say why someone ha...

You seem to be making philosophy so powerless, as if we cannot talk about certain things. To me, that is the whole point of philosophy. To me, it is t...

You are exactly right

The problem with this is that 'nothing' is NOT a thing, it is the LACK of a thing. However, lack of something can be true. For example, black is the l...

Thank you so much for your positivity and encouragement. I was having a bit of a bad day yesterday, as we all sometimes do, and just a little positivi...

It’s sad to think of it as an error on anyone’s part because the way I see it is that we all turn to this philosophy forum in our free time for the pl...

Objecting? I'm not objecting at all. We are not in a court of law! lol I don't see this as a competition or something. I am just expressing ideas, whi...

I don’t think I was trying to compare and necessarily say that atoms closer to the time of the big bang are more important than atoms now. I think I w...