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Interesting point. But if the images in dreams are from the memories, why some folks see images that they have never come across in their lives, or me...

But aren't there different stages in mind? From very simple perceptual mental state of the simple living animals to more complex mental states of the ...

Scientific principles and theories require justification and proofs backed by demonstrative argument. I am not sure what you mean by the standards of ...

You got it wrong again. Hume was not concerned on the fact that inductive reasoning can be wrong. What he was saying was that, "there can be no demons...

I have two questions on this post. 1. Are mental and soul different? How are they different? 2. What do you mean by "we think of as real"? What is rea...

If Newton had been observing the apples falling from the trees to the ground without the scientific discovery, then it would have been just described ...

Yes, it is an inductive reasoning. You have your knowledge based on your past observations on the events. Hume said that inductive reasoning can be ir...

It sounds like you are just checking and confirming with yourself what you see on the web site. You may think that your blind faith of the accuracy of...

I have an impression that you are in confusion between skills, capabilities in problem solving with rational thinking. Ground for rational thinking is...

Sorry I don't see a logical link between the ground for your rational thinking or beliefs and the training and education in your youth. Could you elab...

Do you trust everything you see on the web site? Trusting whatever you see on the websites has nothing to do with being rational?

You have been able to access the internet and able to check the train time. Somehow it doesn't give impression you were thinking rationally for that a...

Why is "ground" vague? Why does it have to be "justification"?

I don't have problem. You seem to have. I am just pointing out your example is not reflecting what rational thinking is. When you are asked, "Why can'...

So how does that point relate to your stance that animals are able to do rational thinking?

I am not sure if deciding what physical explanation is applying rationality. Reasoning is either deductive or inductive reasoning. Deduction infers fr...

Sure. But it lacks any meaningful point in the discussion for the topic rational beings and rational thinking. What is there to dispute or be surprise...

In case of mysterious or abnormal visual perception case, you would try to resort to the biological or psychological probes and explanation in clarify...

No matter how different each and everyone's thinking processes and contents are, we must allow the freedom of thinking, must'n we? That is also a rati...

But can you be conscious without your body? Isn't body the precondition for being conscious?

I have never heard of anyone trying to justify what they saw. One can confirm what one saw. But usually one doesn't justify what one saw. One justifie...

Please think about Hegel's saying "The owl of Minerva takes its flight only when the shades of night are gathering. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Phil...

That has nothing to do with rationalising. That is just a perception. Perception and recalling what they saw when asked, is not reasoning. Reasoning t...

Once ground for being rational for the topic or issue has been put forward, you either accept it as rational or discard it as irrational. Why do you w...

I was trying to give you a simple example of even a simplest most basic daily life knowledge has a ground to be rational when examined. I am still not...

Could you elaborate further on what you mean by that? My point was that being rational must be able to be verified, justified and approved to be so. Y...

Not always. I know it is autumn by looking at the falling leaves from the trees outside. My knowledge of autumn arrived to me purely from the visual p...

I was trying to clarify the correct use of the concept "rational" from the muddled way. :)

Knowing something is not also being rational. One can know many things in the world, but still can be irrational, or be common as muck, have nothing t...

Well, if you told me, you like sushi, or you ate 10 boxes of sushi, then I wouldn't take that comment as rational. But if you said, you like sushi, be...

Do not confuse language and words with the rational explications and justifications expressed in language.

:up: They were physically rational, but not philosophically rational. There is no record or evidence of their rational explanations on how and why the...

No, they are not rational at all. They are more in the arena of emotional states.

:up: I am not familiar with bonobos and their languages at all, but I guess it is nowhere near in the complexity and diversity of human languages. Not...

Driving and fueling cars and opening the doors which most people do without having second thought about doing so based on habits and routines, and rat...

When someone has rational thinking, he / she must be able to reflect, analyse, criticise, and ask questions on the thinking. Just because a hawk has h...

What is the difference between the colour "red", and the concept of "red"?

I don't agree with you. Their truth is not philosophical or empirical truth. It doesn't matter what Buddha taught. We notice how the historical buddhi...

You are talking about totally different kind of truth which is in the Bible, i.e. the religious truth. It is not the factual or rational or even empir...

In that case, truth or falsity don't belong to religious domain. Rejecting religions solely on the basis of lack of truth is not reasonable. Most reli...

The dreams coming true happens only in the movies and fictions. Waking up from the dreams into the cold reality is what happens in real world.

Contradiction doesn't mean it has to be rejected out right. Contradiction means it could be further investigated and analysed. Recall Hegel? Without c...

I don't know anything about Islam, Hindu, Buddhism or Christianity, but I used to think there might be something that is more than what non-believers ...

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Purpose is like the concept of cause and effect. It doesn't exist in the empirical world. It comes from the human mind i.e. imagination, desire, motiv...

Truth has nothing to do with subjectivity or objectivity. Truth exists no matter whether you know it or not. Knowing or believing has nothing to do wi...

If all the religions are fiction as you claim, then why do they keep believing in them for thousands of years? Philosophy of Religion doesn't deal wit...

Two questions come up to mind. 1. If it is a fiction, then why people have been deceived by it for so long time? 5000 years? Surely it takes 5 minutes...

Under what ground and evidence Hindus believe the universe is illusion and things have immortal souls which reincarnate according to karma? Do you agr...

Sure, I am not ruling out possibility of illusions in life and the world.