That may depend on the person, the ailment, the doctor, the advice being sought, the guru and the reason for your question. Do you think faith only ha...
Color is such a flat aspect of qualia. It does the trick, but really, when decorating a living room with someone and talking about why they like orang...
Really. How about as a parent. Are you a parent? Do you think a parent can be responsible for the actions of their children? As in “kids, go spray pai...
I can’t tell if you are basically agreeing with me or what you are trying to modify about what I said. You seem to be disagreeing with me. But you are...
Ok. So, I am arguing my words can cause a physical impact in the world, such that I can be held responsible, through speech, for causing others to tra...
Good stuff. Only after all evidence is gathered can we, by our choice and faith, consent to putting our lives in the hands of the doctor. And so none ...
Then what is the point of a constitution or a law? About anything? Such as “free speech?” On another (but now related) topic, why are you bothering to...
Words, meaning and action need to be three separate things in order to protect the right to free speech from its being abridged by the government, but...
There are words, and separately, there are what the words signify or mean. The context in which a word is used is helpful to know what the word signif...
Context helps define meaning, but it defines meaning of a particular word. The fact that you may not be able to tell my meaning by the way I use words...
That’s funny. I suggest adding that he is so handsome he is the only reason any sane guy might want to identify as a woman. And Cc. Putin in the lette...
Politics assumes: - Individual people have bodies with senses enabling them to interact with each other and the world. - Individual people use languag...
Most everyone got it completely wrong about women. But yes, he should have known better, or talked to a woman. Today we are getting it wrong about wom...
So I don’t think we are saying much differently here about reality. I agree that the world as presented in my mind is constructed by my mind using the...
It really is a shame. I think it is all because religion aligns with him and today academics refuse to align with religion, Aristotle is simply not un...
I agree with that. Except maybe the reality associated with our own existence. But that’s a small, lonely piece of being. This itself is knowledge. I ...
I don’t know if I agree with that. I am making the grossly imprecise observation that if materialism was correct, if someone followed this intuition, ...
I don’t mean to interrupt, but it seems like you both may basically agree on what a judgment is, but are finding fault with the application of the def...
But if “everything is collocations of atoms, ensembles of balls of stuff,' or that 'things are what they are made of,’” what does my brother really ad...
Great question. I want to say, because people don’t appreciate Aristotle. Descartes may have theoretically doubted everything but his own understandin...
How about if we all get one last vote - whether to move away from elections or not? Do you think you could convince people to vote to end elections an...
What makes you think such an institution will generate organized proposed legislation and identify priorities? Trans rights, or border security. Green...
I would say that is true in the east as well, so it is hard to understand humanity absent God. The way I see it, my contradictory individual existence...
I agree. The standard is the rule of law. Those rules are consented to by all of the citizens, and must equally apply to all of them. And legitimate e...
Hi panwei, My starting point is as a third generation American, steeped in notion of self-government. Basically, in my mind, there is no class or type...
I just remembered everyone knows unicorns can fly, so she wouldn’t need the orange peel, but she might need some sort of oxygen supply, if we are seek...
I would not argue with anything you are saying. I don’t think there is a poetic way of saying what I said, and I was trying to be poetic. Basically, I...
No. That’s what an ejection is for. It would be overly complicated and redundant and just as divisive to organize an evaluation of “government perform...
I’m just glad you saw the point, because that question means you saw infinity where I did. What’s a better word for a duration? It was more like a poe...
This may be something like I am getting at above in my comparison of remembering, to sensing, and to imagining. (It’s not at all exactly what I’m sayi...
I find that with every question, such as this thread is one question, we immediately stir up ten questions that must be first answered, before we can ...
Time has been infinite from the start. And now, it always will be. Infinite time. Since the moment we first clocked the first moment, We touched infin...
Why did you ask that, and from what did you think there might be any type of effect produced, if speech and words cannot cause actions in others? You ...
That is what I was trying to get at. Good stuff. Recall, as a present act, may be the real discussion. We say we recall a memory, as if the memory sit...
Agree. Some basic agreement on some basic moral/ethical norms for the sake of everyone having a society, and everyone having a safe place for the next...
Can’t we choose that which we would never choose? Select, what we don’t want? What could determine that? Besides freedom? Can’t we choose, anyway, des...
Interesting and thoughtfully expounded. This big picture view is where I like to live. And you seem to be sitting near me, here in the clouds, where w...
Me as well. But I’ve known worse times. I’m sort of a cup by is half full rather than half empty kind of person, even if it seems like it’s a quarter ...
Hey Athena - yes, education goes hand in hand with political freedom. You can't truly have one of them without truly having the other. If the things y...
The OP asked “what is real? how do we know it?” I’d say “what is real” asks about “the thing talked about” and “how do we know it” asks, at least in p...
“if water is H2O, then water is necessarily H2O.” This says something about necessity. It says nothing about water. Or H2O. It says every time though,...
Sounds like the opposite of getting high, or drunk. The warm Wittgensteinian chastisement, correcting the question before it is asked, until I admit, ...
Ok, that is a mouthful of speech activity. Let me try to break it down. “mind (or brain) to relate the organism to the world” You have at least two ph...
I would say that J’s question does not reject or question that memory is what it is, it is just looking at what something like “connections between pa...
It’s simple? So how does one control one’s own motor cortex? That’s called the problem of free will versus determinism. Not simple. You seem to be say...
So I appreciate this. I just thought that, given how Banno’s post was so clear and succinct, I’d ask about the one point that I didn’t follow, namely ...
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