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Questions 27-29. I don't want to be too much of a curmudgeon, so here goes a short summary of each: Q. 27 - what does it mean to say that there is pro...

I don't have patience for this back and forth nowadays, sorry. You should have tried it 15 years ago. Perhaps if you can specify what is the main prob...

Said the guy who posted a video link. Well, I watched the video. It was not worth the time. You'll have to take a chance, apparently, just like I did.

There is a terminological issue underlying the problem. The word "will" is not univocal. It is used to address different movements (or, powers) of the...

Check the chapters of the Summa I mentioned and linked to. Then get back and let's discuss it.

If one is interested in the history behind the dogma, a good source is "Retrieving Nicaea", by Khaled Anatolios. He shows very well how the "scriptura...

What is a "higher" epistemic standard? How can one compare standards? This is not a rhetorical question, by the way -- it goes to the core of the prob...

To answer your opening question, no, I am not. As for your other comments, they are not related to anything I said.

"Science" (which is pretty much amorphous these days) is not an epistemic standard. Science is a method (i.e., a way). Epistemic standards are presupp...

Empiricism is indeed a maior fallacy (exposed by Plato, not surprisingly).

By not reading Plato. There's your answer in one sentence.

Oh Popper, where are thou?

Indeed. But you waste your time in replying to a thread about Plato, even though you didn't waste your time with his works. Fascinating, as Spock woul...

Plato has no system of philosophy, and wrote quite a bit against such constructs. Have you ever read a competent introduction on Plato? Try Paul Fried...

The Republic is not excusively -- or even mainly! -- about government theory. But any good intro about it will tell you that.

There's no better place to start than the Apology of Socrates. Then try the short dialogues about the death of Socrates (especially Euthyphro and Crit...

If (or perhaps when, to prevent a new riff on if) you read the rest of my post, you'll see that your point has no point.

Perhaps I should bite. But how can I be sure that you are a fellow human being rather than a bot that will only waste my time? Perhaps if you defined ...

If you want to behold a mystical experience, leave the room where your (say, 10-months old) baby is playing, and look at her face when you return. Wha...

I think you are overthinking this. The issue is not meaningfulness or veridicality. The issue is whatever it is that we use to distinguish between hal...

No disagreement there. Meaningfulness does not run across these lines. And notice that drug-induced experiences were singled out in my first comment a...

If this is true, then this is not:

Perhaps he would, but not on the strength of what followed in your post, which basically reinforced my point. (Incidentally, Husserl is part of what i...

We have a non-sensorial property that allows us to distinguish between dream and non-dream, between hallucination and non-hallucination. (Even if ther...

You speak of non-duality, I put "being" in quotation marks to indicate that I was not talking about being (or, dual being). Your following comments ar...

The language we use is indeed based in duality, but it can be used to point at non-dual "being". (In fact, we both just did precisely that). This is w...

While calling one of them "Being" and the other "Opinion". Or, "Truth" and "Lie". In any way, one of them is (quoted from http://philoctetes.free.fr/p...

Not through experience. There are reasonings that take us from the experience of a God (or, to be more precise, the experience of Being -- or, to be e...

Well, at least you can't complain that I am not using a single meaning for the word "Being". Can you imagine how frustrating would that be? Meanwhile,...

https://www.google.com.br/search?client=opera&q=difference+between+being+and+existence&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 This is the first significant ...

A very short explanation: apophatic theology means "theology of denial". It talks about God by pointing out what God is not. "God is not a creature". ...

It "appears" because it is symbolic language. (Same goes for God's gender). We are trying to talk about something of which we don't have any experienc...

What about it? (I think it is nonsense). It depends, as usual, on what you mean by separation. Ontologically, sure, it is an illusion, since our being...

I don't decide upon the meaning of words by looking at how others react to them.

Being and existence don't have the same meaning. In the old forum there was a long thread in which (mainly) I and Banno discussed the meaning of "fact...

I don't think that God can be called "a being" among other beings. God is Being. But that does not equate to saying that God is everything. If I look ...

Perhaps. But monotheism may have played a causal role behind prosperity :D. It certainly did have a major influence in the development of science.

Is this "a being" another object in the world? Or perhaps an object in a meta-world (inside which he/she/it created "the world")? If you say "yes" to ...

Great, then I misread you originally. We're now in agreement, thanks for clarifying.

It would be a start.

Not for me. A reason behind the reasons makes the world more meaningful for me. (This is a point regarding "mere monotheism", not Christianity per se)...

I would be wary of the "mythology is a disease of language" theme. I think Owen Barfield's arguments against it (in "Poetic Diction" and especially in...

Progress and degeneration are too value-laden in my opinion. To me, there are many ways to symbolize our predicament as finite beings in an ocean of c...

I was not asking for a definition, by the way, but for the meaning of a word. These are not synonyms, and the two kinds of questions are often address...

I see it in all of that.

Well, this process was no longer linear by then. There were cross-influences from "more developed" (in this sense) cultures, there were lingering poly...

Yep. The reason behind the reasons. There are hints of such a development outside the Abrahamic tradition, incidentally. Cf. Akhenaton in the Egyptian...

I wouldn't use "awakened". It has some overtones of "enlightenment" in a Buddhist sense. (Not that there's anything wrong with that :D. But I wouldn't...

I fully agree (about the recent development of an explanatory worldview). We are trying to dissect a worldview that was very different from what we ar...

This is a weird question, since the sun explains almost everything that happens in an ordinary life. The cycles of day and night, the seasonal cycles,...