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Just keep denying blindly whatever has been countered, forwarded or pointed out, is not philosophical argument. So whatever the majority believes is t...
March 31, 2025 at 09:40
That's what I read from the philosophical text books. Not making it up from the thin air. Clarification on the concepts is part of the philosophical i...
March 29, 2025 at 15:21
I wasn't asking for help. You seem to be distorting the facts. I was just pointing out on the wrong use of the concepts. Because of the misconception ...
March 29, 2025 at 15:13
Not sure if your account on coherence is correct or not. My understanding of coherence is that when P is true, Q cannot be untrue, and vice versa. In ...
March 29, 2025 at 15:00
What do you mean by "coherent"? Can you explain "coherence" and "being coherent"?
March 29, 2025 at 13:39
Psychological state or personal experience cannot be ground for objective knowledge.
March 28, 2025 at 19:51
That is an idea of absolute idealist and solipsism. Problem with these ideas is that they cannot appeal to or share objective knowledge. Illusions are...
March 28, 2025 at 17:38
The point is not about living in a reality, but the fact that private experience is not objective ground for coherence. Again, not the whole experienc...
March 28, 2025 at 17:22
Ideas and thoughts could be coherent. Rains, snows, sky, horses, birds, phones, computers and keyboards are not coherent.
March 28, 2025 at 17:04
Seeing a cup in a location is your private perception. It lacks objective ground for anything being coherent. It makes more crucial and important part...
March 28, 2025 at 16:52
It exists in the physical world with no relation to the mind. However, when you perceive it, it appears in your mind. It doesn't exist in your mind. Y...
March 28, 2025 at 11:57
From reasoning and inference. Mind doesn't have outside or inside. Whatever appears in mind must exist, if they could be observed and verified as exis...
March 28, 2025 at 11:44
When something is coherent, it is meaningful. demonstrable, provable and verifiable. Can you prove your seeing a cup is coherent? Beliefs and thoughts...
March 28, 2025 at 11:11
It follows that the universe has the external somewhere.
March 28, 2025 at 10:11
But how can the internal exist without the external? Does your skin exist? Your skin is external to you.
March 28, 2025 at 09:12
Yes, it does. If nothing exists, then you cannot exist.
March 27, 2025 at 19:35
If you think that nothing exists in the external world, how your having a thought proves you must exist? Surely you are a part of the world. No?
March 27, 2025 at 19:34
It does not make sense to say, your seeing a cup with a set of properties in a location is the ground for the experience being coherent. You are bound...
March 27, 2025 at 19:27
I agree. There are no such things as gravity, but only the phenomenon that things fall down to the ground from the air when released. From the observa...
March 27, 2025 at 12:33
Reason is not just for right or wrong. It is the general faculty for all knowledge. How do you know they are coherent? What is the ground for your exp...
March 27, 2025 at 11:40
"I think therefore I am" is not an affirmation, but inference. He was still doubting his own existence, and the possibility that he thinks. But his do...
March 27, 2025 at 10:24
You can doubt anything, but the fact that you are doubting cannot be doubted, hence the only certainty in the universe. Wasn't it the idea of Cartesia...
March 27, 2025 at 10:05
In that case, it is nothing to do with coherence. You cannot claim coherence from experience when you are not interested in right or wrong. Something ...
March 26, 2025 at 20:42
The coherence must be from our reasoning. What is the substance in your experience? We don't see or know anything about a substance in our experience....
March 26, 2025 at 20:09
You should have said "Which premises are problematic?" rather than "P1 or P2, do you have a problem with?" Your sentence was then not communicating yo...
March 26, 2025 at 20:02
You did. What are the relevance between P1) and C1)? How does C1) derive from P1)? This conclusion doesn't have logical consequence from P1), and soun...
March 26, 2025 at 19:46
Both. I don't have problem. Just pointing out the problem in the statements.
March 26, 2025 at 18:54
You seem to be misunderstanding what Modus Pones is, and how it works. MP is in the form of, P -> C P C You must demonstrate and prove why P is the ca...
March 26, 2025 at 18:50
Doing so without clear evidence or information of the type or nature of the distance in the track would be commiting a fallacy of illicit presumption....
March 26, 2025 at 13:12
Depending on the type of two points in the distance (which is not clear in the OP), the conclusion can be true, which makes the argument invalid. Thin...
March 26, 2025 at 12:48
Unsound argument means the premise was false, and also invalid reasoning was applied for the conclusion. Here reasoning seems valid, but the premise w...
March 26, 2025 at 09:59
Correct. Wrong assumptions lead to invalid conclusions. End of the story. I think I wrote this point a while back in the thread.
March 25, 2025 at 12:07
An obvious wrong assumption?
March 25, 2025 at 11:41
From my experience of reading the posts written by so called the analytic folks, some of them seem to suffer from total lack of, or narrow and shallow...
March 25, 2025 at 08:57
I would say my philosophical method is not analytical as such, because I have never read analytical philosophy much. I would rather think my method co...
March 25, 2025 at 08:34
Having said that, in fact analogy doesn't make much sense, if it is not supported by the arguments and evidence on why something works as it does, why...
March 24, 2025 at 21:44
There are some common grounds between Hegel's philosophy and Analytic philosophy. They are not totally opposite ends with no common grounds. There are...
March 24, 2025 at 21:27
Yes, you misunderstood me there. Everyone knows Hegel is a monist. I meant, from what Hegel was saying, Kant's dualism doesn't make sense, unless of c...
March 24, 2025 at 21:03
Your explanation on dreams and awakening comparing with continuity and discontinuity was an analogy not identity you claimed. That is fair enough. But...
March 24, 2025 at 19:29
This sounds ambiguous too. The expression "the movement of thought" doesn't make sense at all. Thought is always about something, and it always happen...
March 24, 2025 at 18:55
Saying God is personified spirit, that sounds like a religious claim. In philosophy, God is to be proved either via reasoning or presenting the eviden...
March 24, 2025 at 18:31
It doesn't seem to explain or help us understand why we dream or what is the nature of our awakening from sleep. You need to try to explain why and ho...
March 24, 2025 at 14:22
Dreaming is a psychological event, and awakening is a biological function of a body. Dreams are devoid of any rational explanations on their origin an...
March 24, 2025 at 11:11
So Hegel criticised Kant setting up his own system of philosophy. But almost all the philosophers after Hegel criticised Hegel's philosophy, it looks....
March 24, 2025 at 09:16
In Kant, our knowledge is limited to what we can experience. Beyond that is the world of unknown. Some say that it is Kant giving room for faith along...
March 23, 2025 at 11:23
I was thinking about what reasoning could be. There is no such things as reason, but reasonable acts, rational decisions and thoughts about the world,...
March 23, 2025 at 09:30
My idea on Will is in line with both Schopenhauer and Nietzsche's. I am still trying to find out on Hegel's idea on will. https://www.youtube.com/watc...
March 22, 2025 at 13:34
Indeed. :grin: Even Kant was branded as an idiot by Nietzsche. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E_RLvcZ8jI
March 22, 2025 at 10:45
Kant was already dead, when both were active in the univ. lecturing. Hegel's class was full with the students, while Schopenhauer class had 3 - 4. Sch...
March 21, 2025 at 14:15
Your description seems to be based on the classical logic. Have you read about Relevance Logic and also the Entailment Logic, which use axiomatic proo...
March 21, 2025 at 13:44