That the present is extended, is the reason why it ought not be called a "moment". "Moment" usually refers to a much more precise point in time, not a...
I sure as hell felt it. Maybe it's the technique of the person injecting, which makes a difference, like the dentist with freezing. And afterwards, I ...
Neuroscience supports what I'm saying, but is not necessary. Even Plato argued that there was a medium, light, between seeing, and the object seen. Al...
My point was that we do not derive directly from experience, that things are happening at the present, when "the present" is supposed to be a temporal...
There is an object of experience, just like there is an object of sensation. The present is not an object of experience, nor is it an object of sensat...
I did not deny that we are sensing at the present, I deny that we experience the present, as Javra said. What I was trying to argue is "that we sense ...
Well, what does "experience" mean to you? Let's say, it's real observation, or something like that. Isn't all observation, and all experience, past? Y...
What you call "forward' causation is really, backward, and this is because determinations of forward and backward are perspective dependent, they are ...
Yes, this is the point, all such temporal distinctions are imaginary, even our designation that now is the present. Notice that even by the time you s...
Perhaps I didn't phrase that well. There is a difference between the goal, and the fulfillment of the goal. The former is what exists in one's mind, a...
I don't think you can truthfully say that the goal is in the future. The goal always exists in the mind, at the present, and it is the intended fulfil...
I think the evidence shows that you have this backward. Often people think illogically. So thinking is definitely not contained by logic. We can, and ...
You don't seem to have any idea what the concept of free will encompasses. Ever look it up? Or do you just dismiss it as "a cultural meme" every time ...
I see that you continue in your contradictory ways. Free will is a necessary requirement for the existence of any "human social construct". This denia...
That a theory can provide us with a particular convenience, does not demonstrate that the theory is not faulty, unless the judgement of faulty/non-fau...
I take this sort of explanation as a slight misunderstanding of "final cause", common to our modern, materialist society. The final cause of the match...
OK, by "retrocausally", I assume you mean an effect which is prior in time to its cause. That's what I mean I say such a concept is illogical, incoher...
The problem with this concept of "self-organised Becoming", is that within an organized being the parts all have a specific function in relation to th...
That two things correspond is a judgement. Correspondence is never anything more than a judgement. So there's really no such thing as "when P matches ...
Consider mathematics, like any form of language, to be a tool. As such, the part of reality which it must correspond with is the part which consists o...
You seem to be missing the point altogether. A person might see two completely different shades of red, hence different colours, yet call them both "r...
It's not that I'm confused, not at all. I just find it a very poor explanation, and therefore unacceptable. If you said "that thing is red, and this t...
Then you've changed the subject. We were discussing how one would distinguish red from orange, not simply how one would see that one thing's colour is...
We can't take that for granted, that's the point of skepticism. Things are not necessarily as you perceive them. So the conclusion "they are different...
But we don't see with our eyes, the difference between red and orange, that's the point. We see red things and we see orange things, and since we perc...
Right, but that's a logical inference, that there is a difference between them. It's not something sensed. If we simply sense that one colour is diffe...
There's no name for the perceptible difference. One thing is an orange colour, and another thing is a red colour. What would be the name of the differ...
How could I know that theory? It's your theory which is being applied, and you refuse to tell it to me. You even refuse to acknowledge its existence. ...
The issue is not whether there is a right or wrong to this judgement, but whether there is theory employed in this judgement. When you say "it feels o...
The point I was making is that I think it is impossible to make any sort of measurement at all, even the most basic sense judgement, what Aristotle re...
To be fair, modern day speculations on the nature of light do not deserve to be called "scientific" either. Even the conventional description, "wave/p...
On what basis would you say "it's red", rather than "it's orange", unless you are applying some sort of theory which enables your judgement? But I rea...
The incompatibility between "a certain colour", and a "range of colours" is the important point to recognize here, which makes your observation, when ...
We do not agree here. Every observation is theory laden, starting with the words we use to describe something. Call it "red", and there is theory behi...
The example of the sun and evaporation is just one example. I'm sure there are many examples of deluded minds, and mentally ill people making connecti...
What do you think of the role of intuition in Aristotle's "practical wisdom". I have great difficulty understanding what is meant by "intuition" in Ar...
The fundamental issue I see is the continuity of existence. This is the question of how do some things remain the same, as time passes, in a changing ...
In his Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle positioned contemplation as the most virtuous activity. The highest form of thinking is thinking about thinking....
I believe ideas similar to this are what lead Plato to "the good", as the goal, the purpose, or "the end" in Aristotle's words, that for the sake of w...
In modern usage we normally refer to others as being wise, like in this thread, Wayfarer refers to the wisdom of the ancient people. So in this contex...
Do you equate wisdom with sophistry? I would think that wisdom is more the opposite of sophistry, the capacity to detect, identify, and disprove sophi...
You've reversed the causal relation TheMadFool, portraying effect as cause. In natural language use most words are used prior to receiving definitions...
I'll take Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonism, but it's doubtful whether skepticism can be classed as a form of wisdom. Perhaps it is better classified as...
Actually I think carbon dioxide was first, and more natural to the planet. It took many years of plant forms producing O2 through photosynthesis befor...
Anyone mention Augustine of Hippo yet? He's probably one of the wisest human beings to have ever lived. Augustine's writings will never grow old, and ...
Like for example, when someone says "an empty set has no elements", and also says "the elements of the empty set A are the same elements as the elemen...
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