None of this makes any sense. First of all, I was talking about the relationship between certainty, certitude, doubt, and mistake. I don't see how "co...
What you say doesn't make sense. You are claiming that the possibility of mistake is not grounds for questioning a belief. If we wait until a belief a...
I never said that, that's why I called you a liar. I said that if you define anxiety as a pathological condition, then count me out of that discussion...
If the possibility of mistake cannot be ruled out with respect to any particular belief, then this is a positive reason to question that particular be...
In response to you saying that I said that, I can only say, you're very strange and you're a liar. I didn't say, nor imply that I was talking about "b...
I am not arguing that your way of dealing with your anxiety is any worse than my way of dealing with my anxiety. I am arguing against your claims that...
I don't really see the relevance of all this. So you give me a long lecture above, about how any illness is nothing more than a doctor's opinion, and ...
Let's see if we agree on what is required to justify doubt. Doubt is an attitude toward belief, just like certitude, but the two are opposed to each o...
To be ill is to be sick, unhealthy. A physician may diagnose a person as having a particular form of illness, unhealthiness. So an "illness" is a part...
There is no such thing as interpretation without something which is doing the interpreting. This is where Peirce and Pattee have lead you into nonsens...
No, words cannot function as constraints, the interpreter is free to interpret words in any way one desires, at the risk of misunderstanding what was ...
I don't agree that anxiety necessarily diminishes a person's agency. This depends on one's approach to anxiety. As I described to Agustino, a healthy ...
LOL. Pedantry, (adhering to strictly defined terms), for the purpose of logical proceeding, is one of the fundamental principles of scientific underst...
I think I agree with this pretty much. I went through this earlier in the thread, and didn't get too much agreement because the other participants in ...
In "On Certainty" Wittgenstein sets out to determine what is meant by "certainty", in the sense of "it is certain that ...". He provides a preliminary...
This statement expresses the attitude called "certitude". And such an attitude doesn't justify any claim of certainty. "Certainty" requires justificat...
This is an odd analogy. The moth is actually attracted to the bulb, and would only flee the bulb if it touches it and gets burned. Do you think that H...
OC is muddled and incomplete, because the basic premise, that "doubt only makes sense against a background of certainty", is the opposite of reality, ...
The statement was just an example, of a dualist proposition. I brought it up because I told apokrisis that dualism provides the best way for dealing w...
I think that this is a matter of philosophical debate. It all depends on how you define experience. If you define experience such that it requires con...
Finally, after thirty some pages, I get some indication as to the criteria for a hinge-proposition. You know that Searle's distinction has been highly...
So back to my problem from the beginning of the thread then. How is it that it is unreasonable to doubt the hinge-proposition? That's what I don't und...
So, doesn't a dualist proposition like "the human being consists of body and soul" set up the game? The point being, that the propositions which set u...
There's a real problem here, and that is that as much as you scoff, the soul works as a much more logical principle than vagueness, or any of the othe...
If you agree with me, that anxiety is concerned with "looking forward", then you should also agree with my designation that anxiety is not always bad....
The dualist solution to this apparent regress is very simple. The interpreter, the subject, the mind, is designated as substantially different from th...
The set of measurements is part of the world, and that's why there is no "epistemic cut", as defined, between the measurements and the thing measured....
Yet you just said: What is very straight forward is Pattee's category mistakes. Take the map/territory example. These two are both objects, so there i...
It's just more of the same. What Manzotti is arguing is that we have no need for the word "thoughts". "Thoughts" is a fictional word, it really refers...
All I see is mention of thought being objects "active within our bodies", like this: "All the objects we encounter, the objects we call experience, co...
Are you claiming that the thesis of the series is that thinking is going on somewhere other than within the person thinking? Did you read any of the a...
I don't see how the referred articles describes thinking as going on anywhere other than within the person who is thinking. It just appears to be a un...
OK, I thought we were discussing anxiety as anxiety, not a defined medical disorder entitled "anxiety". Yes I've experienced anxiety which was troubli...
Sorry Agustino, but I will not engage in this childish bickering. Do you know what anxiety is? I mean, know it by having experienced it, not by having...
You describe anxiety in a person who is in an abnormal state, a condition of illness, PTSD. I think that you would agree with me that anxiety within a...
I don't know if such a notion is interesting, as I have no approach to it, never heard that before. I think, and it seems like my thinking is going on...
The issue is not whether belief is irrelevant to epistemology, it is a question of how an epistemologist ought to define "belief". One could define it...
What do you think would constitute the completion of a thought? We think with words, so we scramble them around, swap them out in trial and error, so ...
I think of interpretation as value based. So when I say my interpretation is not exactly the same as you, I am not claiming a meaning which is separat...
My professors taught me that to demonstrate how I understand another's writing, I should put it in my own words. That's what I got marked on. Can you ...
I agree that there is much brain activity associated with emotions. But emotions are feelings, and feelings involve many aspects of the nervous system...
I agree that it wouldn't be properly called language, but that makes it no less real. Banno doesn't like "mental furnishing", or any suggestion that t...
So you do agree that there is private mental furnishing though, private things which will remain private unless made public? Whether there are any pri...
You can assert this all you want, but it would take a lot more than that to convince me that unconscious drives are beliefs. I think that's a simple m...
Isn't there a reason why emotions are said to be "of the heart"? I wouldn't say that anxiety is an emotion, but it's likely more closely related to em...
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