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If you have never had sensory perceptions in your life, then your sense of reality would be totally based upon on your imagination only, which obvious...

If you had sensory perception before, but now for some reason, you lost it. In that case, your present sense of reality would be totally dependant upo...

Problem is that, they might be illusion or dream. How do you know they are the real or your dreams? You are already doubting about them. And the other...

I feel that without your sensory mechanism, all you have is past memories of reality. Therefore your knowledge on reality would be limited to that. Pe...

They were the words making up the part of the replies in the conversation. You have the other sentences clearly indicating what they mean, and the sco...

But when a member is engaging off topic conversation due to the way he communicated, I would have thought it would be sensible to stay away, or just c...

No you don't speak in minor sentence or a word in philosophical discussion. You are not having a pub talk with your long lost friends as if just reuni...

I was talking about validation of reality. But I don't understand why now the topic has turned to lecturing and native English speakers. I was just re...

I have not tried lecture him. I just did let him know that "And" is not a sentence. A sentence requires at least a subject and verb to be qualified as...

To be able to validate these concepts, you must first define what reality is. Does reality means the World? Or just external matters outside of your p...

That was a word. Not a sentence. A proper sentence has a subject and verb for minimum. My point was trying to point out the difference between the rea...

And? That's not a sentence?

From the OP

It would be memories of reality, not reality itself.

Freud was a psychologist?

It seems difficult to get hold of the WT Jones 5 volume set. It is also very expensive. How about Anthony Kenny's 4 volume History of Western Philosop...

To me, beauty is just my feeling about something. The feeling, like all other emotions, vacillates through time and circumstances changes.

Meaning doesn't exist in the world anyway. Meaning or meaningless is just one's private mental state about something.

The Red Books by C. G. Jung.

Under that supposition, even ceasing the pursuit of earthly achievements would be meaningless.

Some irrationality is rational. For example, fear of death. One is not dead yet, so it would be irrational to be fearful of death. But one will eventu...

I feel that NDE is not enough evidence to support claims of life after death. I have not read much about NDE as such, but it sound to me some sort of ...

Yes, I was able to download and view the PDF link. It seems a wonderful book. Thank you. I can see your point, and fully agree with you about the Newt...

So what is the actual Newtonian Method that Hume have adopted to study human nature? How could principles of natural science be applied for study of m...

Wow great debate on Hume. I read someone in the previous posts said that Hume opposed to Newtonian Science? Is that justified comment? Because I also ...

I think suffering is negative experience for life. It could destroy the soul of the sufferer, and it is not pleasant to have any type of suffering. Go...

That's great resource links for David Hume studies. Thank you.

Yes, that's great information too. Thanks.

Yes, Kaufman seems good readability. The other copy with Tillie's translation was in archaic English like that of antique Bible. Maybe I will need com...

Can word Existence apply to God? Existence only applies to things with spatial property. Isn't God supposed to be a transcendental being outside the r...

How should we live = Doesn't this also trigger problem of Free will? Are we supposed to have freewill? Does Christian God allow us freewill? Or which ...

Before talking about whether God exists, one must define what God is?

Another thing is that you don't know if death and aftermath might be worse than living.

Does he think that it should be worshiped?

How one should live? and if God exists? What's the relation?

a variation of the Ontological Argument in The Ethics Ethics deals with Right and Wrong usually. Why are the ontological arguments related to Ethics?

Who would you recommend? I am interested in both and all sides of arguments.

In fact, I was even wondering if I had to learn Greek too, because recently I was reading Iamblicus, and in that book, the author was using a lot of G...

Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion vol.1

To me, pessimism is a type of realism.

The point in this question is not the Moon, but the word ËXIST". If no one is looking at the Moon, the word ËXIST' has no meaning. Hence the Moon has ...

Thank you. Kind regards :)

Because you have not managed to forgot some of your past. If you did, you can't.

The word ëxist"only exists, if we did exist. So with none of us, no one could have asked that question.

Consciousness could access all parts of mental activity and state, not just memory but also imagination, various emotions and inference for the future...

Usually WHY, HOW and WHAT is such and such?? = would be philosophical questions.