Indeed it has/is, but you commented that we are afeared of independence, when there is no longer independence to be had. Unless you suggest we should ...
No, with about 8000,000,000 of us on the planet today, and we have done nothing to slow the rate at which that becomes 9000,000,000, and 10,000,000,00...
Do they? Specifically, what I'm wondering is if our emotions are associated only with our subconscious minds? You state this as though it's a fact, bu...
Never mind your strange 'analogy'. Please state clearly and logically exactly how my own logic is faulty. That would be most helpful. Thanks. :smile: ...
True, but the lies have been recognised by our courts as such, and where they contravened our law, cases are already in progress, or already over. Peo...
But if those "innocent People" were swayed by lies, and might otherwise have voted differently, or chosen not to vote at all? A free and fair vote doe...
Like Dubya, Boris is not the buffoon he pretends to be. Nor is he as clever as he thinks he is, by a mile. He's out for everything he can get, and wil...
Lakoff and Johnson aren't known as philosophers, but it doesn't matter. My point, and it is only a minor one, is that I have gained more from mere thi...
I should've been clearer, sorry. I believe that God exists, in some sense, but I stop short of the more-concrete claim that God exists in the 'real' w...
For me: no. I believe that God exists, because I choose to. I find the concept beneficial in many different ways, which is why I make this choice. But...
I'm sorry, I dispute that. I think you mean "...you're not doing scientific or logical philosophy." Philosophy is about thinking, and there is more to...
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the latest incarnation of Norman Tebbit, via John Redwood, frightens the hell out of me. I cannot express my concerns more exactly th...
OK, let's not get side-tracked. I accept what you say. :up: For myself, I use "believe" to describe something I think is true, but accept that others ...
Don't read so-called philosophers is my advice. :smile: Philosophy is about thinking, and there's much more out there about thinking than is generally...
Nitpicking, I know, as I agree with nearly all you say. :smile: But I think it's OK to say "I believe that God exists", as long as I don't go to the n...
Happiness. That's an interesting take on education. :smile: I think there's an obvious answer here: education should prepare us to take part in the gr...
Yes, we are predominantly a social species, so communication assumes huge importance. I find this especially difficult, being an autist. Setting aside...
And, as well as philosophy, ... everything else. Emotion is an intrinsic part of any human personality. We cannot function without emotions. I despair...
Yes, we do, but this isn't my point. I would be as unhappy - alright, almost as unhappy - if Remain had 'won' with such a small majority. The losing m...
Of course none of us can predict: we can't and don't know the future. But it doesn't take much consideration to realise that the country, and all of i...
Exactly. :up: Science (and the logic that underlies it) demands that we not reach a conclusion if the evidence is less than conclusive. We must suspen...
I think it is. Refusing to reach a conclusion, perhaps because of insufficient evidence, is not a truth claim. Reaching a conclusion is a truth claim....
I'd hoped for an answer to the question, not tired propaganda. :confused: The problem now, today, is that there is no solution that will satisfy enoug...
I rather think we here in the United Kingdom have a long-established tradition of our governments betraying us, whereby our political system long ago ...
Oh no, I don't think so. I'm not much of a diplomat. If I was in charge, anyone who owned more than £5m would have the balance removed; income tax wou...
Do you honestly think there's any sort of Brexit that would command a majority of the British people? I don't, and I think that's why we're in such a ...
Yes, but equally straightforward is the observation that the majority you refer to is quite a small one, so the people who voted against are not many ...
Yes, every time I'm tempted to show my contempt for the US, and the President it chose, I remember we chose to teach the world a lesson :worry: by wal...
You're right: authority is neither required nor relevant. Justification is a different matter. To discard a theory or idea requires exactly as much ju...
You misunderstand. I'm not assuming anything. I am using terms only because they describe the thing I'm trying to refer to. You didn't like "mental", ...
I don't think any claims have been made. The topic here is enlightenment in the sense that Eastern philosophy uses it. You have chosen to derail it by...
Now I'm confused. Do you mean that I'm assuming that a design is created in steps, and not appear whole, in one spontaneous burst? :chin: have done su...
Then what created my firmware designs, which often emerged, fully-formed a la Coleridge, into my conscious mind after a shower? I would've remembered ...
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