Religion, in general, has the feature of there being some ancient doctrine according to which adherents are expected to think and behave. This doctrin...
What does "world-transcending" mean in this context? Does it imply some form of supernatural power over the forces of nature, or is it metaphorical in...
That's an interesting question. I'd say a railroad spike is merely an object occupying some portion of space at some point in time having the property...
Surely self-esteem is not as important a drive as hunger? Would you say then that self-esteem or some form of narcissism must always exist in every hu...
I think the problem of transformation could be avoided if we simply say that an object which has undergone some form of transformation is no longer th...
Doesn't this simply affirm that the object in question must exist before any sentient being could identify its essence? How does this refute the state...
I agree entirely with your first paragraph. Why "other"? If you agree that cognition makes one's perception of the world entirely subjective, then who...
All of the things you name are perceived by your senses and then interpreted by your brain which inherently makes them subjective, hence failing as an...
The distinction is already formed from the very definition of the self. The self is defined in the first place as the entity within us which receives ...
In the dog example, the belief that all dogs are black is absolutely correct until you meet, hear about, or in some other way subjectively experience ...
The explanation is that our subjective interpretation of the world changes according to the data the world provides to our senses. So while our earlie...
But would you say that in the carpenter example, original work in the art of building chairs could be done by the form of practice the carpenter is en...
It was subjectively true only until the time at which you first met a brown dog. It was falsified afterwards because then, a brown dog entered your su...
The belief that dogs are black is mistaken because you have now encountered a dog in your subjective experience of the world, which is brown and hence...
Mistaken beliefs could be explained without referring to an objective reality. There is an extent to which we can subjectively experience the world ar...
Yeah that was my point in the first place, that you can't make any statements about anything which are objectively true i.e. objective truth isn't pos...
Truth that is there despite what you say or think about it, would be objective truth. In light of the fact that all humans experience the world throug...
Are you saying that all forms of practice lead to art? In my own experience, certain forms of practice would not spurn any original thoughts but would...
From what I know of it, nirvana has little to do with believing anything. It's about understanding that the cause of all of life's unhappiness lies in...
I never said " existence'' couldn't be used as a noun. My contention all along is that, contrary to what you originally said, (Here I requote) "big'' ...
By considering all possible arguments one can think of, for and against the idea of an objective world, and inspecting whether the greater weight of a...
Wouldn't you say that the "power" of logic resides, at least to some extent, in all of us, and that this could be the undeniable authority we could re...
I agree with the paragraph that comes before this, but the fact that we talk about the concept "big" does not imply that we are talking about "big" as...
Yeah but since we all seem to be referring to the same world in our conversations,etc, is it unreasonable to assume that there exists an "objective" w...
Supposing that in a community of 100 people, 50 endorse one side of a moral issue and the other 50 endorse the contrary, how would you decide what is ...
You say that computers are not an analogue at all to human brains. Thus, a single similarity would suffice, to show that at least in this sense, they ...
What I mean, is a more general question: Do you think that anything (may it be actions,wardrobes,whatever you name) could be categorized as moral or i...
I'll just skip to the chase; the mystery common goal behind all of these things you name is, happiness. Look hard enough at the motivations that make ...
I never said that computers bear a fantastic, twin-like resemblance to the human brain. My contention all along, was that computers are better analogu...
By this do you mean you endorse some form of objective morality, where actions,beliefs,etc can be "correctly categorised" in a manner independent of t...
I'm not sure what Wittgenstein would have said, but I think "logical truths'' ,in the binary true/false sense of the term, was disposed of anyway in e...
I believe you have failed to comprehend the argument. So here's how it goes, explained in a simpler fashion. We first observe human brains and their f...
It just happens to be a component of human psychology to look at things more in terms of danger and harm instead of pleasure and benefits. It's develo...
Computers are, currently at least, the best metaphor we have for the workings of the human brain. So it isn't unreasonable to extrapolate from compute...
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