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Hello. Good question! It looks like you've shifted from the trust put on the person claiming the existence of the 'horse in the field behind their hou...

Is it really down? I haven't visited it. But I should reopen my account there and be an active member again. Unfortunately, I'm very busy to even sust...

The only thing that's unreliable is luck.

In fact we do. I'm not worried about my own mind's reliability. There are plenty of markers around to remind us that we are just imagining things or w...

From anthropomorphic point of view? I thought quantum mechanics had not used balance as a premise. The uncertainty principle certainly does not rely o...

True, I think. He wasn't a fan of conformity -- he thought society should be one big lab for experimentation, if I remember correctly.

It is the intention of physics not to inject intentionality in its endeavor as such effort could not be examined or tested. This is called defining th...

This sounds like happy hour with lots of drinking happening! It's true, too. Crowd adopts a different personality from an individual. This was alluded...

Yes, you can say that.

Yes. Then, now what's missing here? These are all questions of facts. Could we ask about opinions?

A question that could be satisfied with a simple "yes" or "no" answer -- or the declaration of one's affirmation or negation of something. Of course, ...

Hume's claim that the external world cannot be demonstrated? Okay, let's indulge on this. May I ask what this means to you, if Hume said this? What do...

Tiff, good to see you here again!

No you're not. But your teachers must have told you so. What you see is movement of objects that may or may not have the property of kinetic energy. T...

Refute what? That induction is unjustified? They all joined him on this! The question is "So what?". So what if induction is not justified understandi...

If you're not convinced there's nothing of value in one's philosophy that claims our understanding based on our observation cannot be justified, then ...

By reason of coherence, you cannot ask this. What is the scale of anything without scalability? This is nonsense. It's like asking what is the absolut...

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Tiff, I didn't know...sorry to hear that. Well, I think you contribute positively here. Keep climbing!

Thank you, Baden. I'm glad you're still around.

:grin: :grin: Hello @"Jimmy", Don't mind Maw and Bitter. That's their way of showing love. Mentioning Matrix or such references is frowned upon cause ...

I don't think we ascribe responsibility to the process of "understanding". It happens, or not. But convincing is a task, the responsibility of which f...

I've forgotten about this. Was there one here?

So, here Hume is practically 'chastising' the "habit" of ordinary way of looking at things. Whom is Hume referring to? Who is it that draws an inferen...

I'm glad this site is still going strong. Tiff, I'm good, just ....errgh...too busy. I'm trying to find balance so I could come here more often.

:smile: I have been gone a long time. I've been so busy -- and tired at the end of the day to engage fully. I also stayed away previously from the oth...

This is incorrect. Hume is pointing out the error of human understanding. Please read this again. And again. Your opening post is really good. I don't...

Hello. How's everyone?

I'm not sure the meaning of humanistic to you. If you mean that because philosophy is practiced/followed/thought of by humans only, that it is, in eff...

Is it?

You've lost me there.

Solipsistic view does not need to be negative, although common sense is gonna get you. Maybe you're just cynical?

The future of humanity, of civilization, causes you great distress?

I'm afraid not. Nostalgia is akin to grieving about the past. One cannot grieve over something that hasn't happened yet. What is it, then, that you fe...

Dolphins beach themselves. What to make of this? It's called satisfying an instinct. People naturally move towards a source of food, like the refriger...

Sometimes I wonder why talking past each other is an acceptable method of argumentation to some people. I did not say that what we do needs to be mean...

I think you should only argue this way after you've explored the evolutionary theory of perception. For a start, how did you come to the conclusion th...

I can see the reasoning behind this -- although I have not read Weatherford.

You tell me. That's a broad question. Care to bracket it?

I laughed at this! :grin:

No one. It's not like your idea is different from their idea. You guys are looking at different angles of the same elephant.

No. The flint is seen as a whole object, the same way we see a "chair" -- you can't separate the idea of chair with "sitting", can you? Be courageous ...

On taxanomy of objects.

No. Valuewise, as they are. So, it's your perception that changed.

Okay. But I disagree with the above. I disagree with your contrasting "unconscious obscurity" and "thing of value", and caling things being in the sha...

This is a mish-mash assertion. ...The flint changed for you, your use for the flint has nothing to do with fire ..... Either your use for the flint ch...

I don't know, Schop. You are bracketing, that could not be avoided. Pin point what the experts in the past had focused on when talking about human act...

What are minutia mongerers? Sorry, I saw this in one of your posts, but still didn't quite absorb it. You got it backwards. In my opinion, you do not ...

First off, what causes the no-choice world? Second, according to the State Department of Thread Title, you should remove the word "Phenomonology" from...

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