Metaphysician Undercover

Yes, that's a good way to put it, the learning process is a shaping. If one's mind is completely closed, as hypericin is afraid of in the op, then no ...

Fascinating stuff Enrique. That's a lot of research. Here are a few things to think about, if you're interested. To speculate about such a conclusion ...

But the thread is very uninteresting. As usual for a thread on "truth", pages and pages with nothing conclusive, not even any agreement as to which di...

It's not that one is right, and the other is wrong, the thesis and antithesis sublate each other, and the resulting synthesis creates something new. H...

Again, you really do not seem to have any understanding of the concept of "order". If you have no desire to consider such a concept, then go right ahe...

I don't see how that's relevant. it has nothing to do with how we count. That it takes a quantity of eleven things to establish an order consisting of...

That's called materialism. Material Girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p-lDYPR2P8

No, the numerals on a number line do not represent the number of numerals, because there is zero, and negatives.

What I said in the first post on this subject, is that what is said to be counted, is the number itself. That's why our methods of learning lend thems...

You haven't learned about "order" yet? Do you read left to right? Take a look at a number line. There's no quantities on that line.

I've experienced this a number of times - fractured tooth. It will hurt on and off, when chewing, for a couple months, then break off. It has always h...

Two is after one, plain and simple, it's the number after one, that's the meaning we were taught. That's how we learned it, as an order, one, then two...

"Suffering" is a very broad term which is used to refer to anything which life's difficulties brings about. So "suffering" is not really the hardest a...

In my experience, the numbers were shown to correspond with quantities, only after the numbers were learns. That's the point, we learn the numbers (wo...

I would say rather, it comes down to whether or not one understands the principles involved. Denial, and refusal to take the time and effort required ...

If you read the right philosophy you will see that the concept of "God" actually has great explanatory power. Understanding the nature of reality reve...

Two or three paragraphs is not needed for me. To express your honest belief, to the best of your ability, is to tell the truth. If you want to discuss...

It is a great source of anxiety. But... we can learn to embrace our anxiety, because anxiety is the source of motivation.

I don't agree with this supposed "fact". I was taught how to count by learning an order. We start with the word one, then two, then three, up to ten. ...

Atta boy| That's what I like to hear, quantity for the sake of quality. You could compromise with "take out". I believe the proper terminology here is...

I think we argue a position to bring out all the fine details of that position, and also bring out the details of the counter position which someone e...

The problem here of course is that this doesn't really give you the meaning of S. You might say that "S" is true iff p, and replicate "S" with p, but ...

You haven't gotten very far yet. The difference between "it is a Cork Oak" and "it is an English Oak", is that the former is justified. Yet you say th...

The "force" is said to be the same, that's how the concept of "force" was created. But the effect of that force, on the stone vs. on the human being, ...

This is not so true, because at the time of falling there are many possibilities open to the human being which the stone does not have. We can flail a...

This is very problematic. Do you mean, 'where p is what is believed to be the meaning of "p"'? That would just make truth belief. Or what exactly do y...

One must be wary of "etymology-based" definitions. The definition employed by the logician will significantly restrict the word's usage in comparison ...

It could rain without anyone noticing it, but there would be no proposition without someone to produce it. And truth is of the proposition. Therefore ...

I still think that the important and significant thing to recognize is the difference between what is possible and what is impossible. A person would ...

Just so that I can understand how this "view" works, can you explain how you would distinguish between a proposition which is a fact, and a propositio...

If you make any changes to what p refers to (a bachelor), or to what q refers to (an unmarried man), such that they no longer both refer to the very s...

You're only going to get calls to fire the God damn deleter here, because you have no one to give the other side of the story. You need someone to pla...

So "a bachelor" is p, and "an unmarried man" is q. You can see that p and q refer to the very same thing.

I am doubtful as to whether the seeking of authenticity could actually be going on at a subconscious or unconscious level. "Authenticity", or "true se...

Look Banno, the judgement that "p" is true requires the fulfillment of a very special and unique set of circumstances, a particular set of circumstanc...

So you imported that post for no reason? You have no desire to discuss it?

Here's an off topic question for you Banno. If you don't like it, complain to the mods. Why did you start a new thread on "truth", distinct from the o...

Now we're getting somewhere. Perhaps you might explain why you see it as wrong.

Again, it would be beneficial to the conversation if you would actually read what a person writes.

So, where's this use of = and ? you are talking about? I only see "Iff" here, which I clearly did not confuse with "=", nor did I confuse it with "?"....

It's much better conversation if you actually read a person's posts.

Sorry, you must be talking about someone else.

When you accept, adopt, and preach that approach, then it is yours. All of us here are rational human beings with the capacity to think for ourselves,...

I suppose this is why many will say that the truly authentic self is an impossibility.

Obviously you don't understand. It appears you didn't read the post, yet claimed to understand me. That's a mistake. You ought to read the post, or no...

The problem with your approach is that logic is the means for justification. So when you define truth in terms of satisfaction you simply reduce "true...

As implied here , this is a fine example of equivocation. The final phrase, "are all true", uses "true" in a different way from the other three. So, w...

For an uneducated opinion, based in intuition, I offer you this. The first step toward understanding a 'true self' would be to move beyond assigning i...

Your logic here is unacceptable induction. If we know that our observational capacity can and does regularly fail us, from time to time, with regard t...

There are very many reasons for this. Simply put, human beings do not have infallible observational skills. Here's a few of the reasons. We do not pay...