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Song of Philosophy of Life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H4wgcXh1u4

This sounds like Kant. Would it be because the mind cannot see itself? Reason cannot reason reason itself. :) :100: :up:

99.9% of my knowledge of the world is based on my indirect perceptions (internet media) and imagination. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-tlZC7IUMQ

So, who is going to invent time machine, if ever?

Math is a unique subject in that it can be applied to all other subjects (sciences, music, arts even literature, yes, literature = you can count the w...

You need to use intuition and imagination too. It is ample for any prediction.

Some people seem to think the numbers, data, and information are objects in the universe. I think mathematics objects and all information are in the h...

But would you agree that it is the product of your mind, rather than some object in the world?

Morning to you. :) Yup sure, I haven't even read it yet.

I would have thought, if we know more about the nature of mind, then it would help understanding the ideas of mathematics and forms of Plato. And your...

Thanks for your confirmation.

Physics is cool, but Metaphysics is even more cool. :grin: I have a couple more Popper - Self and Brain(??), Open Society and Its enemies. All theorie...

But wouldn't that view of mind is a mythology rather than philosophy or science?

Plato's dualistic world view must had been opposed by many, even one of his pupil Aristotle. Aristotle seemingly had his own worldview (monistic), and...

Facts are usually given to us as form of selective interpretations on the occurrences of the past in the world.

Excellent work on your posts, looks interesting and a lot to go over in them. :up: Sure, I appreciate your points on "transcendental". Will read and r...

Plato was also a dualist I gather. The material world we live now is a shadow of the true world of Idea. Maybe in the world of Idea, is where the Form...

How about "We never agree on anything." We will have some disagreements for sure, but that's just natural. :D I think your elaboration is excellent. I...

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I feel that the only way minds can be universal is sharing knowledge and truths discovered by reason and logic, and keep passing them onto other minds...

The universals and particulars ring a bell. Yes, it was in the Introduction to Metaphysics book. I can remember vaguely. I will read up it again, and ...

Hmmm I am not sure if I could agree with that point. Who can only write the book of nature in mathematics? Humans. (I don't believe God or the aliens ...

How did you come to that thought? Do you have any explanation for that belief or thought or conviction? Just a feeling? Guess? Personal experience? In...

There had been a huge RG for the book already. But it looks like it had been closed. Wonder if it would be good idea to open a new one.

Problem with facts are the fact that, all accounts and descriptions of occurrences is just interpretations, which call for verifications before qualif...

What could be "this cosmic nous"?

It sounds nous is being suggested as equating part with pure reason in Wiki. "As in Xenophon, Plato's Socrates frequently describes the soul in a poli...

Wiki on Nous is excellent actually.

Would it be same as pure reason?

Maybe one needs to do transcendental leap to be able to see them?

I think I do. I am seeing clouds in the sky, and a hill below it. I am also seeing this text as I am typing. I hear the sound of the cars passing outs...

Intuition? or the pure reason?

If religious beliefs were the same kind as sentimental or epistemic beliefs, then there would be no place for Philosophy of Religion. But there is the...

This book cries out for reading group.

If something is beyond space and time, then where could it be?

There is no trouble here. Things are crystal clear, but you seem to make it unclear. I am not religious myself. So I don't belong to any of the isms, ...

I feel that religious beliefs are totally different types of beliefs to other beliefs in that it doesn't need rationalising, evidence or explanation. ...

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All we can be sure about causality is that, it is a product of human mind, powered by imagination and intuition and reason.

Sure EE. A good post. I like your points backed up by the argument. I see your points. But my reply to that point would be, religious beliefs are not ...

Agnostics don't know. (They can and must doubt, because they are not sure.) Atheists don't believe. (They don't doubt. They have nothing to doubt abou...

Ay, there's the rub.

If there are exceptions and irregularities, then causal relations cannot be formed. It must be constant occurrences.

All you ever try to do is just breaking and distorting the formal concepts, then reasonable discourse is impossible with you.

Just screaming out self contradictory for everything you see is not philosophy or logic.

Do you think you are in some TV game show?

You said theist can doubt, so the definition theist believes in God is self-contradictory. I am saying you are just trying to break the formal concept...

This is not logic. I am not sure what you are after.

They can? They can do anything, but that doesn't make the formal concept of theist untenable.

You said theist doubts. Not me.