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Fixed my post. Give one example of a truth arrived at by pure reason.

Philosophy is just love of wisdom in the most abstract sense. To disqualify a whole tradition - continental - because it doesn't fit your narrow persp...

Right and even the ability to do this kind of perennial move is a modern phenomenon, aided by the advance of tech/Internet and increasing globalisatio...

The criteria for these delineations are not as simple as 'where someone was born'. You would also object to the continental/analytic distinction I sup...

Elsewhere you have hinted that insights about reality come from the nondualist philosophies. It is my understanding that the nondualist paths, in gene...

Thanks I will read your blogposts :up:

Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers argues essentially this in his theory of self-deception. We have evolved to subconsciously pickup certain microc...

Science can make accurate predictions about the world, unlike a shaman.

Don't forget about those teleological evolutionists... OK ok, they are pretty rare actually (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Bergson come to mind).

Can you provide a name/book title associated with this?

Agreed. It's the cry of the entitled. Real oppression doesn't leave space for such pathetic concerns. You ever hear of a society suffering under a fam...

We might say the same about the various interpretations of quantum physics. Yet, the fact that there are various interpretations with no clear consens...

Just because certain problems (I'd rather not use the word 'mystery') in philosophy remain unsolved, does not mean that progress hasn't been made. The...

I will enjoy my dream, you enjoy your dogmatism.

Oh OK. So your truth is that we shouldn't learn from the truth of others. Yet here you are, sharing your truth anyway. By your own assertion then, we ...

So your 'knowledge' is that we shouldn't learn from the knowledge of others. Yet here you are, sharing your knowledge anyway. By your own assertion th...

I experience (or, there is experience).

He has received strong criticism from his peers and has not addressed any of them yet. I wouldn't get my hopes up about geometric unity. Timothy Nguye...

In programming this is akin to operating on 2 different types, which would either throw an error or do some kind of operator overloading (depending on...

But it can be experienced right? Are you a non dualist?

Absolute simplicity is nothing. A truth which cannot be known.

Only if you assert that truth is simple.

I don't see how philosophy can help you with that. Programming language theory and computer science is more relevant no? The thing in itself won't hel...

I've seen this claim before and I really doubt it is even possible (I know this is irrelevant to the rest or your post, sorry).

Ah yes the good old both/and overflowing superabundance of the Real, where everything and nothing resides. /slurps

I'm in France, drinking an expresso, replying to this stupid thread. What next?

That's a false analogy. The cpu merely decodes a constant binary stream according to the specific and hardwired instruction set. There is no deviating...

oh yeah, what programming language did you use to engineer your kids? Computers only understand 1s and 0s. Kids have a creativity that isn't reducible...

The type of storage only affects the rate at which data can be accessed (e.g SSD's are faster) and the total size capacity ( flash drives are smaller)...

A machine knows nothing. It just blindly executes algorithms in the way it was programmed to do so. It cannot deviate from, or add anything to that du...

Partially.

So, it's not a game but there are goalposts. I see. Are the goalposts for scoring points or merely decoration?

I am saying that what I said is partially true. :wink: Ah we are such good sophists. Going round and round and getting nowhere. I'm stepping off now. ...

I merely wished to highlight that your universalist claim*, that any assertion about reality must be objective, doesn't actually hold up universally. ...

I have multiple faculties of perception. I used the word 'all' to encompass them. As a quantifier. As an umbrella term. I think it is you who struggle...

Virgins trying to justify their failure with the opposite sex via over-rationalisation. I agree with @"unenlightened" about the ridiculousness of dema...

Nah. I used all to refer to my faculties of perception, and hence my unique experience. In other words, I wanted to encompass the various modes of per...

It is partially true that all perception and understanding of reality is subjective. Is my previous statement objective or subjective?

Psychoanalysis is gibberish with no grounding.

The word was used before husserl though.

I'll readily agree that philosophy should be knowledge based if we assume science doesn't have the monopoly on knowledge. And let's mix in a little sp...

Philosophy by that description is relegated to merely the janitor of the sciences. Not a view I share.

Its one of those grand open-ended questions that pervade the history of philosophical thought (what is truth? What is beauty? What is justice? Etc). I...

@"Jack Cummins" The question presupposes that philosophy has a 'real' essence. Tell us what the essence of philosophy is and I'll tell you what a 'rea...

Translator should've found an English word of matching length. :smile: But yes, good example.

You talking about aurore ? Great film.

A sick person.

You might like to read this piece on mathematical phenomenology

philosophy \equiv huh? (mod \infty)

Matter is clunky and awkward. Abstractions, not so.