Metaphysician Undercover

OK, but I'm having difficulty grasping what you mean by "pure and divine", "perfect". I've been told before, that if I want to better myself, I need t...

I'm not hiding anything, I'm describing it how it presents itself to me. You are wanting to describe it in a simplistic way, which is plainly a false ...

I find that a very strange way to look at logic. Are you saying that all logic is reducible to mathematics, and that all free will choices are made by...

The point was, that the "simplest choice", is by it's very nature not simple at all, but very complex. The mind, through the force of habit, in an att...

I think that the orientation referred to here is a matter of finding one's temporal perspective. There is a "turning" which is required because common...

You mean other people?

I see a discrepancy here between these two statements, a sort of inconsistency. I've always thought of the mystical experience as an experience where ...

I think you need a sort of combination of 1&2, with 2 being the essential aspect. Clearly, from our experience, there is a multitude of possibilities ...

That's a whole lot of inferring going on, which you claim is required for, and as such, is necessarily prior to conscious experience. But only conscio...

The poor boy was coerced into pleading guilty...justice in the U.S.A.

I suggest reading St Augustine "On Free Choice of the Will".

Logic isn't what makes language possible for Wittgenstein. Perhaps he thought this when he first started to write the Tractatus, but I think he than c...

There is no need to abolish logic, only the need to see that it is not perfect or ideal. Notice the analogy with measuring. So long as we get consiste...

That's an odd use for "credible" you've got there.

Make me jealous. All we get is a rotten polar vortex.

Crank up the AC?

Yeah that's a bit of a problem, the 51% oppress the other 49, and take measures to ensure that they never surpass the threshold of 50%. It could becom...

If that were C, the virus would be dead. So would you.

These two are distinctly contradictory. If credibility is obtained through reaching desired results, then just as the thing desired is something perso...

This is not philosophy which percolates here, it's a lack of philosophy, a deprivation. But since a deprived philosophy is still apprehended and class...

It's not that he changed his views on what Logic is, it's that he changed his views on reality, recognizing that there is no such thing as the logical...

Commonly known as uncouth and generally frowned upon as meaning deprived in cultural values; not a positive characteristic. Sometimes the word barbari...

I think the difficult thing is intention and anticipation of the future, doing something for a purpose. How does "neuron-firing" account for the capac...

You can say that this type of action requires "belief", but is that really true? Perhaps it's better to say that there is something categorically simi...

OK, but when we pay the bosses to disappear they might want more money than the underlings we pay to disappear. Can we make the bosses take a cut in p...

"Earn" is one of those ambiguous words with many different meanings. Equivocation between those distinct meanings may make your statement true. But th...

According to Wittgenstein in Philosophical investigations, a word has a family of meanings. Think of your family, the relations are external to any fa...

Isn't data what they deal with, so ultimately you don't trust them, right? Your trust is misplaced. What you said is like saying I trust the thief to ...

This bring us around to the human influence. It's human beings who interpret the rules, know their extent, and plan strategies. The untrustworthy pers...

It's a family affair. There's coherence within the family. God only knows what kind of glue coheres the family. It's definitely not anything logical. ...

You don't have a constitutional right to things which are designated as dangerous, whether or not you believe in that designation. The stock market wa...

Then you're saying a company is an inanimate thing. Knowing it makes it trustworthy. The weather is predictable if you know "the bottom line". The pro...

OK, I'd agree that we really can't try to change someone against their will. Usually we'll determine how they've broken the law, and lock them up or s...

Each thing I employ to deal with the unreliability might require a further back up, so I think that going down the road of distrust points us toward t...

I'd say it's very doubtful that a useful definition of "information" could be formulated which would not require that information has meaning, necessa...

Sorry, I haven't a clue as to what the distinction is that you're trying to make between mistaken election, and mistake in an election. I guess your u...

It's the same word, but used in a different way, therefore having different meaning. I'm not saying that I trust things more than I trust people, I'm ...

That's quite the assertion. Was there, or was there not, foreign interference? If yes, then the election was incorrectly done, i.e. mistaken. Also, I ...

I see a big difference. I see inanimate things as fundamentally reliable, and living things as fundamentally unreliable. If the temperature goes down ...

A mistaken election gives us a "fake president".

Why must we dichotomize things in such a way that we look for the degree of trust or mistrust in every relation we have with the world? I would place ...

I might take a look, and make the judgement that it suits what I understand by "bag of rocks", and not what I understand as "strawberry pie". So I wou...

No, few people listen to any philosophers, and that's a tragedy in itself. So we have a double tragedy, philosophical guidance is needed, but it's not...

Lack of information!

The point is that you have assumed the capacity to judge between information and disinformation with your assertion that "information increases as ord...

This is completely subjective, because what constitutes "information" is dependent on the defining terms. If the arrangement is set up with the intent...

You ought to recognize this as contradictory. The foundations are what something is built upon, and therefore cannot be something recent when the thin...

It would be questionable whether money is constructed around trust or distrust, if you take that approach, but more likely that is completely the wron...

If I remember correctly, there is a relationship between anxiety and authenticity. Doesn't anxiety divide into two distinct forms, one authentic, the ...