What one hallucinates, and what one imagines at will, are very different concepts, and ought not be classed together in this context. This is because ...
Try demonstrating, or showing with logic, that what you believe is actually true. It's called justifying your belief. If you strongly belief that "a r...
What we can conclude from the assumption that solipsism is false, is that there must be something which separates one mind from another, some sort of ...
Read the op, and what I said in my last post. Only minds provide a spatial-temporal perspective, and without assuming such a perspective, all these su...
I think the idea of a mind-independent reality is really incoherent. Reality is something which minds create, as pointed out by the op. If you try to ...
I would argue that these are faulty political theories. The problem being that anyone can produce a political theory designed for one's own special pu...
You seem to be confusing "the state" with "a person". So your example ("If I am more powerful than you, that doesn't mean I'm entitled to trample on y...
Understanding, is of meaning, and meaning does not consist of things. This is how we can avoid the infinite regress. If a thing, in this case an objec...
I think the difficulty here is with your assumption that understanding must be of something. Consider understanding to be the relationships which crea...
It's not how thought actually works, because it's far to simplistic. A computer is far faster than a human mind, in doing the things that it does, but...
I don't think it makes sense to say that we know single facts. Knowing requires understanding. So there is always some type of understanding which und...
Then Trump implies that there is no need to be bashful about these secret admirations. Bring them out into the open, as he does with his admiration of...
How ironic, when Trump names the richest man in the world, Leon Musk, as a special secretary to audit government expenses. Hidden within the proposed ...
I don't think it's a matter of taking a step from one to the other, rather accepting that both are different ways of looking at the same thing. The pa...
Well, do not place too high of a standard on "higher level of understanding" then. If you learn something new everyday, then aren't you reaching a hig...
The internet is a double edged sword. It lets a tiny handful of kindred spirits who are seeking to better their understanding (misunderstanding) of re...
The obvious, I think, is that we proceed in our activities without certitude. We can apply the traditional principle of Aristotle's doctrine of the me...
Isn't that just a matter of law enforcement going after the law breakers? Getting "the state to go after him", seems like nothing other than pointing ...
Wrong understanding is usually called misunderstanding. It's a tricky concept to grasp, because to the person who has the misunderstanding, it is not ...
Yes it is what understanding a choice is about! If a person goes out to the second hand store with the desire to only buy a shirt if it's 100% cotton,...
The question is why did the person buy a shirt which they know is of unknown fabric, when the person's desire was to only buy a shirt if it is 100% co...
You are really not helping me Dan. I really do not understand what you mean by understand. You provided a sort of definition, but when I gave an inter...
Socrates may have been "catching forty winks" before that dinner party. If I remember correctly, he ended up staying up all night drinking. Alternativ...
I really think I need to figure out how you are using the word "understand", because it's not making any sense to me. I think I see what you're saying...
Changing your mind does not constitute misunderstanding one's choice, that's what I said. However, exchanging one choice for a contrary choice, withou...
Matter is conceptual, it is an idea. You confirm this when you say " the experience in your mind of a material reality is the material reality", and "...
But the point Berkeley makes, is that doing away with the split only makes sense if it's all mind. So matter really is eliminated, if we reject the sp...
Look, the original decision was to buy a shirt only if it is 100% cotton. Then the person has a change of mind, and chooses to take a risk on a shirt ...
Oh, there's that infamous phrase from the Jan 6 speech, "fight like hell". @"NOS4A2" likes to interpret that phrase as being in the context of campaig...
I would say, if you can afford it, go to school. The professionals can provide very good direction. Start with an introductory course, and follow wher...
This is actually a very good example of a misunderstood choice. The initial choice is to buy a secondhand shirt, but only if it is 100% cotton. The se...
You can always find ridiculous talk, but it's always irrelevant. If you ever gave that a serious try, you'd find out that the exact opposite is the ca...
Do you recognize the difference between misunderstanding, and understanding? Any time that not having adequate information results in misunderstanding...
I don't pray myself, but I think that's how praying works. If your prayers are answered you assume it was God who did the answering. I don't understan...
Hmm, the shoutbox seems to have gone off the rails. I'm going to head on down to the local sellery and buy myself a loaf of bread so I can become a ma...
@"Dan" So here's the situation as I see it. I have been telling you since the beginning, that freedom of choice as the measure of moral value, is inco...
We obviously disagree on this point. I am not saying that by your claim, "understanding" is the only measure of moral value, I am saying that the abil...
I don't understand your question. It does not seem to be comparable. If you ask God for something, or your favourite idol in the case of idolatry, and...
Actually there is a very good reason to split the universe in two. It's called time. The past and future are irreconcilably different, and the present...
As I've shown, "the ability of persons to understand and make their own choices", as explained by you, is not a reasonable principle. This is because ...
That's very clearly not the case. Er's soul did not depart his body, otherwise the body would have started the decomposition process. These experience...
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