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Philosophy can take ones to some land of weirdness at times away from the real world. I call it philosophical dreams :D
August 03, 2021 at 08:43
Wish I could write novels :D
August 03, 2021 at 08:39
Nice to know my sentence reminded you the Hesse's work. I am honoured thank you :) Yeah, must admit my OP is a bit of semantic of jungle. Sorry :D
August 03, 2021 at 08:37
Thanks for your info on the book. I like Hesse. I read "The Glass Bead Game" and some others.
August 03, 2021 at 08:29
Usually that is what I think too, but in my dreams, I appear as some 3rd party person, whom I have no knowledge or control of. He I wonders around in ...
August 03, 2021 at 08:27
Great post !! :pray: :up: Yeah, I thought about it again, and it sounded somewhat Kantian (existential and logical "I"s) and also somewhat Heideggeria...
August 03, 2021 at 08:19
It sounds like very much Cartesian self to me, and quite rightly so. Because before Descartes, philosophical topics had been usually on about the univ...
August 03, 2021 at 08:07
Sure. The I in the garden in the afternoon is now an object of my thinking, and I in the chair at night is the subject of thinking, because the thinki...
August 02, 2021 at 18:37
:up: "6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through." - T.
August 02, 2021 at 07:02
Do have the actual source info? I looked into my copy of "A Wittgenstein Dictionary" trying to find what he actually said about death. Nothing. Non-ex...
August 02, 2021 at 06:52
Did he ever say anything about death?
August 02, 2021 at 06:42
Great post :fire: :fire: :up:
August 01, 2021 at 12:48
Would mind independent objects be what Kant called "Thing-in-Itself"? Kant seems think they exist, but outside of the reason's boundary. They cannot b...
August 01, 2021 at 11:44
Fair enough. I don't see any contradiction with that at all.
July 31, 2021 at 23:00
Just pointing out the facts, that's all :)
July 31, 2021 at 22:24
My definition of "to conceive" is not my own semantics, but it is the standard definition from the English Dictionary and Etymology. You are trying to...
July 31, 2021 at 22:18
I thought we have been discussing about conceiving one's own non-existence. What donut hole are you meaning? Why do you want to conceive a donut hole?
July 31, 2021 at 21:47
Sure. I am not saying you cannot have your own intuition or inklings on your own non-existence. Of course you can, supported by your own imagination t...
July 31, 2021 at 20:56
Think about it. Memory is a mental activity which retrieves what had been stored in the past in the depth of mind. But without ever having experienced...
July 31, 2021 at 16:07
It sounds like you are trying force down something analogous to your religious beliefs (faith) or intuition to others throat. It is not going to work.
July 31, 2021 at 11:07
The reason why I went and searched for articles or information on the topic was, that it didn't make sense to me no matter how I tried to think or ima...
July 31, 2021 at 10:46
He is an interesting philosopher of language. But outside of the linguistic topics, he has his limitations. The universe and its content are far more ...
July 31, 2021 at 10:18
Cannot find any philosophical articles or information on "conception under gap in memories or forgetfulness". There are some articles from psychologic...
July 31, 2021 at 10:13
You should read some Heidegger :D It sounds like you are talking about death from emotional and sentimental point of view. Here we are discussing deat...
July 31, 2021 at 08:42
This is interesting. I will try to find some relevant reading material for the point, and will get back to you when / if I can find some idea of signi...
July 31, 2021 at 08:37
Hume's comment on the idea of self was while he was living and conscious. He clearly denies its existence. But even without the knowledge, what he see...
July 31, 2021 at 08:29
Memory is always memory about objects or situations or others which are different from the owner of the memories. Forgetting and having gaps in betwee...
July 31, 2021 at 00:31
In that case, did you mean that you conceive non existence via unconsciousness and forgetting? I am not sure if non existence is ever conceivable. Mor...
July 30, 2021 at 23:55
Sure. I feel that it is impossible to conceive realistically one's own death before one's death. Because even one can imagine one's own death, the ima...
July 30, 2021 at 16:38
Imagining own death seem just imagining only which has no real significance again in one's real life apart from having some nightmares? :) Suppose one...
July 30, 2021 at 16:22
I feel that death is only significant to the one who is facing one, or had lived and died. It is a personal historical event only meaningful the dead ...
July 30, 2021 at 16:11
Is it not self contradiction to say one can be conscious on one's unconsciousness?
July 30, 2021 at 16:05
One can also try conceive the times and world before one's birth. That would be one's non existence conception too, if it were possible. Would it be t...
July 30, 2021 at 16:04
I think it is the consciousness and thought which is able to tell the subject and object, the internal and external, known, unknown, the objects and l...
July 30, 2021 at 13:20
I wonder if Nietzsche didn't approve of the herd instinct in the traditional morality, which is linked to the established authorities such as churches...
July 30, 2021 at 10:28
In Kant, Thing-in-itself is to denote all the objects out of the boundaries of reason .i.e. the objects of intuition and faith.
July 30, 2021 at 10:13
I think mathematical and logical processes, theories and computations only exist inside the human mind. They are at conceptual level. There is no dire...
July 29, 2021 at 06:47
Thought about it yet again. I think faith is the religious belief that does not require empirical evidence, knowledge or justification. When one says ...
July 28, 2021 at 15:27
Rebirth is for being born again as the exact same person. Even in buddhism, I don't think they will believe that - which means, Socrates has died, but...
July 28, 2021 at 11:58
Yeah, after mulling it over, I think you are right. I am not sure actually. My problem is that I do not know much about any of these religions in deta...
July 28, 2021 at 11:52
I used to know some Buddhist people, and some of them go to the universities and study the theories and principles of buddhism. They are a very few mi...
July 28, 2021 at 08:21
What are the truths that exist? Do you have the real world examples of truths that exist? I feel that knowledge is justified true belief. But justifyi...
July 28, 2021 at 07:58
I am not familiar with either Buddhism or Hinduism, but I am sure that they also believe in their religious concepts, systems, scriptures and codes su...
July 27, 2021 at 19:54
It seemed you were disagreeing with me at first, but you seem agreeing with me now. :) My points are that (1) There are different types of causes for ...
July 27, 2021 at 13:04
Even in the case of Gravity, it is not something that exists as a concrete object in space and time. It is a postulated concept. Because every materia...
July 27, 2021 at 10:26
I am concerned with the difference between knowledge and belief. I read in some epistemology books that knowledge is justified true belief. In that ca...
July 27, 2021 at 10:08
I thought this over, and couldn't square up what the criteria of being True as an objective fact means. Is there such a thing which stands as absolute...
July 27, 2021 at 08:09
Did you carry out the proof by yourself? How could be sure the radiological signal was from God? What type of frequency did you use for the proof? Fro...
July 27, 2021 at 07:30
Should it regain its old power? Is it good thing to happen to the world we live in? Is it possible to achieve? How should the conception of God change...
July 27, 2021 at 07:24
yes, I think so. I stand to be corrected.
July 26, 2021 at 08:00