I can't grasp this statement. To paraphrase, if suffering is warranted then there are human activities which are unwarranted. How so? If all human act...
Imagine that I am out of milk, and I need milk for my tea, so I decide to walk to the corner store. Off I go. I never develop the goal of moving my fe...
What about people like Donald Trump who claim they have the support of the people (remember, he had way more people at his inaugural ceremony than Oba...
Divine right is something completely different. Monarchs may have claimed divine right, as the king might say that it is the direct will of God that I...
This is not a question which is easily answered. The reason I suggested differentiating between the goals and the motivation, near the beginning of th...
It's just a matter of studying, and learning different things. Some people like to take numbers and logical principles and apply them to the physical ...
The only thing that this demonstrates, is that if you assume that something is true "suppose X is true", you automatically plunge yourself into infini...
No, I think Jesus would hug them. That's all they really need, just a little love. They're behaving badly because they're feeling cast out, living in ...
When I clearly stated that the laws of physics are descriptions, this statement is totally irrelevant. OK, call them "suggestions about how the world ...
What I'm saying is that the discontent motivates the brain to produce goals and consequently goal-directed action. So I place motivation between disco...
You don't seem to have understood my criticism. The "laws of physics" are descriptions of how things behave. As such they were produced by human being...
This is the motivation of discontent. If one is inclined to move due to dissatisfaction, we can't really say that it is a goal or intention which moti...
I don't understand what you mean when you say mind is only a verbal construct. Isn't the opposite of this what is really the case, minds create words?...
No, actually I don't think he knows what his intention is, or more precisely, does not have any particular intention. So he makes various somewhat ran...
OK, I admit that it is possible, that all goals are produced from prior experience like this. But how do we account for innovation and creativity then...
I figured this was probably what you meant, but I like to distinguish between the act of imagining (imagination), and the image, or other imaginary th...
What you have offered here is a specific interpretation which I have never seen. It is not the interpretation of "logic", but perhaps of a specific lo...
I wonder if a goal is necessarily an image, or "imagined". I suppose it depends on what is meant by "imagined", but it seems to me that often a goal i...
I cannot comprehend this statement. First, the "laws of physics are produced by human beings, created by human minds. So secondly, when you say the "o...
No, this is denied by the LNC. What is denied by LEM is that there is a third option, that the apple is neither red nor not red. I don't see why you s...
According to Wikipedia a trivalent logic has three truth values, true, false, and an indeterminate third value. The third value appears to be best des...
OK, so all you have done here is distinguished between two types of objects, objects which are entities and objects which are goals. You claim that on...
I like the video, it's a paradox. But Plato and Aristotle proved Pythagorean Idealism wrong, a long time ago, by appealing to substance dualism, and t...
This is what I disagree with. How can you need food without having a longing for it? What validates your claim that you need it, other than your longi...
You're still not addressing the question. The fact that you can name many longings for something absent which are not needs, still does not necessitat...
The question "Why?" asks for the cause. When the answer is an efficient cause, as is commonly the case in science, we can continue to ask "Why?" of th...
As a memory aid we make markings, writing. Vocal language is used to communicate with others. The two are guided by completely different intentions an...
Sure there's a difference but I didn't imply that all cases of longing for something absent are cases of need. I asked how do you conceive of need as ...
What about his position on NAFTA? In the election, it was called the worst trade deal in the history of the world. Then, after being elected, to the C...
Yes, there are some very interesting facts concerning the earth. The equator is not stable, to begin with. The magnetic poles do not line up with the ...
I think it is necessary to distinguish between intentions, or goals, and motivation which is the ambition that aids in successfully achieving ones goa...
Hey, I was John Travolta on the floor, back in the day. And despite being drunk, I never knocked people down (bounced off a few and fell down myself t...
What I'm trying to get at, is that there is an important ontological issue here with respect to how we look at the relationship between parts and whol...
This is a deductive conclusion which requires the further premise that if the upholstery of a thing is ugly, then so is the thing. Otherwise you have ...
If you're talking about the seat, you are talking about "the seat", and not "the chair". If you are talking about "the back" you are talking about "th...
Hey,I'm just following the conversation. I haven't a clue who Kevin or the other Kevins are, or the petty squabbles and mudslingings (which have no pl...
But waking up is not a wiping the slate clean or starting a new game, because we carry on where we left off the day before, so how does the comparison...
I can't say that I agree with this. I determine things I need to do in the morning, before going to bed, and when I wake up those things are fresh in ...
Is that any excuse for murdering? "I don't mean to murder, it just sort of happens every time I pick up a gun". If Kevin can't go to the keyboard with...
There are no flesh and blood members here. We are all emotionless inhuman, fictional characters, which we have created ourselves, no feelings, no sens...
It doesn't mean "raining" is decomposed into parts, but that the world is broken into parts, so that it is raining here, and it is not raining there. ...
Absorbed by the lattice? Doesn't "lattice' just refer to the discrete model, as an alternative to the space-time continuum model? It is my understandi...
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