This is encouraging! :up: Who are these engineers?What companies do they work for?What sort of projects are they working on?What degree of success hav...
Interesting. Mathematical truth is defined to be true, so it's true by definition. A lesser form of truth, I believe. :chin: But that doesn't invalida...
The wording isn't terrible. It refers to simple questions about what wisdom is, or might be. In asking you what you think wisdom is, I was just trying...
You think people can be taught to feel? To think, yes, there are definitely ways in which we can improve our thinking, and many of them can be taught....
Easy for you to say, and maybe you're right. :chin: But many of us simply don't have such accomplished powers of expression. As an autist, I feel this...
I think the point is that the presence of the guns makes politeness both impossible and irrelevant. In the presence of the gun, you are constrained by...
I'm so sorry, Master. I am humiliated. I have addressed you as an equal, and I am but a lowly student in your eyes. I abase myself before you and salu...
Simple. God pays attention to detail. She is able to do all you describe, and maybe more too. :wink: I don't know if that's the right answer, but it's...
I was with you until this point. You have not even begun to justify this conclusion. Why do you think this is so? What evidence do you have to offer? ...
I think wisdom is something along these lines (quote taken from a Reddit discussion): Wisdom, I think, is what oriental philosophies tend to refer to ...
Fair enough. That a tool is available doesn't mean you have to use it. Maybe you don't have the sort of questions that religion might answer? It doesn...
Now that is starting to sound like a description of what wisdom is. I'm sure it's incomplete, but it does actually address the issue (what wisdom is)....
So wisdom is "that quality which can produce wise information...", which looks a lot like a circular definition to me. :chin: What do you think wisdom...
I didn't intend to ask about linguistic meaning. Nor do I especially want to know what Wittgenstein thought wisdom was. My interest is more focused th...
And that comes from science? I think perhaps science alone is insufficient for this task. :chin: Where does the ethical aspect of wisdom come from? Or...
Religion, like philosophy, is a multi-function tool. Science, in contrast, is a highly-focused and highly-developed single-use tool. If Religion and p...
- Wikipedia article I would normally agree that we all know what wisdom is, but your words confuse me. You seem to claim wisdom is easy, something we ...
In today's world, existence is a communal, global, thing. Our country, in isolation, is less than half the story. Perhaps the politicians know this? :...
When I was younger - and, it seems to me, more naive and less wise - I yearned for anarchy, seeking to avoid controls as though they were prison bars....
I was born and raised Roman Catholic. As soon as I was old enough to decide such things for myself, I left. After many years of apathetic spirituality...
As I said before, psychologists have invented a checklist - a more or less objective (lower-case "o") checklist - and named it with a confusing label ...
I think this might be the core of the issue. Quality of life is an objective measure, defined by psychologists, and their like. We only have to DuckDu...
I think I'm assuming that if we must reach agreement, for whatever purposes, it's a matter of accepting that we must agree, and then doing so. It's no...
Roll a dice? Seriously, what can you do if there is no justified logical conclusion, but you need (for whatever reasons) one? Or maybe you/we can chan...
I have a friend in fintech, in a pretty senior position, and she disagrees with you. Many major players have already purchased new offices in Europe, ...
If we moved just a little bit away from formally-verifiable statements and deniability, we all know the difference between hate speech and a robust ar...
Are you (plural) really using logic to determine the existence of God? Are you really debating the objective existence of God in the scientific space-...
Yes, yes, yes, your literal interpretations are accurate, and indisputable. But it is surely obvious that I refer to the world of human society and cu...
:up: There is also a sense in which they are more real than simply being the written thoughts of Rowling and Conan-Doyle, though. Harry's and Sherlock...
Yes, the different sorts/styles of writing are different, and they comprise different combinations of things, as you say. But I spent 30 years writing...
If there was an Objective meaning of life, It doesn't matter, because we wouldn't know what it was. At the least, we would/could not know it was Objec...
I have long argued that Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes are as real as Donald Trump and Barack Obama, but not in the same sense/way, of course. I thi...
Yes, so would I, but I would observe that both are creative. Too many people think creativity comes only with art, so Harry Potter requires creativity...
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