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take your time.] that is, should you wish to reply] Thank you. You did. But I am as yet far from having mastered it. And anyway, I wanted to see how i...

Back to more conventional philosophy. Parmenides settled on all is one because of his construction that nothing can proceed from nothing meant there c...

This--my remark to follow this preamble--is not conventionally philosophical, and as for logic, it is necessarily not that. But in my estimation it is...

nor does anyone since their number's growing as we speak. I can't tell if you were kidding. Either way, sorry for the confusion.

Yes. In fact we regret having to "punish" it. So what makes us, the conceited ape, so different? I believe it is only that we use "language," and that...

Yes, and that too, the "learn from" and "better decisions" are mechanism which evolved in the so called decision making process, so that when we "lear...

I think you are right. It seems to contradict "itself" but the "reason" there is ultimately no freedom (in the more or less conventional way we use th...

:ok: Nice!!

While I'm not prepared to complete such an exercise, it would be interesting if philosophies are "reactive" formations (in the psychoanalytic traditio...

I am surprised at how common this view is, albeit expressed in degrees of subtlety. That is, that those who have settled against free-will are doing s...

:up: How many "philosophical" hypotheses (including, admittedly, any that I may entertain) rest on just such a thing as you have illustrated; that is,...

While I am not a logician in any sense, and ought not comment on the paradox, qua "paradox." I think both your paradox, and the responses, illustrate ...

Good enough...and this is for what it is worth and in no way a "correction" but I believe I am fixating on the intricate details. That the statement, ...

Might I suggest, respectfully, the illusion that you might not have any illusions? Perhaps you are correct and my read is deficient. But I think for (...

Well said from where I'm standing. Especially the bit about knowledge displacing being. Not to be "cute": that path doesn't "look" like anything. The ...

The present age is adamant that there need not be a central being at the helm of things as complex as electrons, molecukes and planets, that these are...

Needed. Please. What if choice wasn't predetermined, but still not free? What if the root of confusion is not in whether or not there is "freedom;" bu...

I can't doubt it has structured the Foundations of my constructions, though I have not picked up anything Taoist for some time. You mention Lao Tze. Y...

just my humble opinion, Grant me the freedom to just answer directly...] The simple "one line" (likely it'll end up being multi-line) response is, bec...

Yes, I agree it seems irrelevant. A clumsy illustration. My point--if it makes a difference now--isn't to say, "see? We can't choose whether or not to...

You do go through a "process" yes. But (while I'm not saying you did so deliberately) note how your wording even implies ultimate passivity. This is o...

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I'm suggesting (and in no way forcefully, presenting for commentary) that "unconscious of our reasons" is only obvious to us at the (may I call it?) P...

Now, it unfolds, and I fear, we are not yet equipped to settle there. Alas, at risk to (not of) being taken seriously, What is the nature of the True ...

I've had an afterthought (assuming I've even made my (previous) thought clear enough to follow). I had left it vague, though a hunch had been brewing,...

Hah! Read my seemingly simultaneous reply to you in Captain Homicide confirming just as you said above. Nice. True Hah, again. The answer might offend...

right on. And let me clarify, I wasn't suggesting you were ever adversarial. Far from it. Like I said, I value your ideas, questions and how you word ...

Fair enough. I'll do my best to comply because I respect the value in that. Please assure me you don't mean to exclude the imagination. Also, please k...

I realize we don't seem to see eye to eye, and that my thinking may go beyond what seems reasonable. But if you're so incl8ned, I value your input (if...

May I offer some questions which I'm currently convinced are at the root of this. In order to avoid longwindedness, I must be simplistic. Note that th...

Ok, you may have reasonably inferred; I neither think 1 and 2, nor did I intend to imply I did.

Ok. Yes. Sorry. That point, I understand and agree.

Maybe we already work it out in the best way possible, and today, I grumble about the seeming confusion in the world over the difference, tomorrow I m...

If I may, I think he was referencing your position that we may be permitted stupidity if. . ., not you personally. But you might know that and we're j...

Understood. In fairness to you, I likely jumped on my own interpretation of the word because the latter "fit." Fair clarification. Ok, and I can't rem...

Well put.

The part I grapple with is, as I am almost forced by "honesty" to answer no, why is there a nagging sensation "telling" me that is wrong? And if that ...

And (I'll stop after this) while what follows is self serving and convenient, it is impossible to argue for or against. 1. Contra-pro: The hypothesis ...

An afterthought, and I can predict this might make no difference to you. The e.g. of the rescue might fit with respect to praise or blame post facto, ...

I'm sorry (possibly, "once again"). Of course you're "not correctly understanding." Because I'm not providing all the details. 1. I do not necessarily...

I will add, regarding my view, since you bring up for me the terms orthodoxy and heresy, you do acknowledge Jesus was crucified for stepping outside t...

Not factually correct, far from it, but that's not your fault. You don't know me from Adam. You are allowing your prejudices to cloud your naturally o...

I just noted that. Ok. I'm relieved. Now I understand your approach to this. Ibrespect it. But I respectfully disagree. Even for Rowling, a fan might ...

Fair enough. Then, the argument that the Church "gave" us the canonical Bible, etc. If I lived in Plato's time, born after the death of Socrates, and ...

Very true. Big confession that, while I pretend to myself not to, I am selective in my constructed Jesus. That simple statement expresses something wa...

Sure. Why? Because Oxford is more remote from the source than the Church is from its? Perhaps, and I should be more thoughtfully precise, but I don't ...

Sorry if I am belabouring. Note, we "know" the word acts autonomously. It is latent in your sentence above. "Earnestness" the word is not (as though) ...

Ok, sure. I used "interpret" carelessly. Ok, I follow that. I say that "rational determjnation" though seemingly not, is an autonomous dialectic. And ...

That statement, I won't touch. I sense it was hollow and not really intended for discourse.

I'm unsure what you mean. Obviously not. And personally transcending convention and complacency on the level of "love your enemies" and "hate your fam...