RegularGuy

That’s why I said “whoever”. I don’t know where the quote came from.

But one must confer with the community in order to determine that one isn’t completely crazy, delusional, or hallucinating. This is learned as a toddl...

Premise 1: values are given to wholes, such as persons, pets, sentimental objects, etc. Premise 2: Some of these wholes have intrinsic value. Conclusi...

But maybe this is confusing the epistemic issue (risk or not knowing the unintended consequences of an action) with the metaphysical issue (whether ac...

This is quite a profound ontological claim. I’m sure you’re right, too. I agree with you even though I’ve never encountered such a claim as this. It’s...

Didn’t Einstein say something like objective reality is probably stranger than can be theorized by science? Patternchaser is making a philosophical, m...

As long as what to you is my face I call a horseshoe, then my concept about what a horseshoe is is correct?

So people need not agree on what a horseshoe is? There is no collective knowledge? I’m sure I misunderstand you, and that’s not what you’re saying.

Maybe. Or maybe he was trying to work things out as he was going. Anyway, I think his model is really inter-subjective in that people seem to agree on...

I’m sorry. Will you forgive my transgression? I will either read from the beginning or I won’t. I probably won’t intrude again, but I really don’t car...

Forgive me, but I think you’re being pedantic. One cannot “know” things in themselves (OR) but still have a model of OR from AR. You might call that a...

Okay. So are you saying that maybe some people could know OR if their model is complete?

Did y’all get to the thesis-antithesis-synthesis part of Hegel yet? Because the way I see it, according to Hegel, historical reality is progressing to...

I think you’re each using the term “perception” differently. Patternchaser is strictly using the term to mean “sense perception” in that we all see, h...

Ah! I see what you’re saying now. But isn’t it safe to say that OR is shared through a collective AR? It must be consistent, no? One can say that OR i...

The con man says there’s nothing to worry about (regarding Kim) and that he’s got it under control. In all fairness to the con man, I’m not sure what ...

The Subject in the subject-object relation is necessarily private. Is that what you’re saying? I don’t think he would disagree with this, but you are ...

I think you’re each saying different things, both of which are true.

Perception doesn’t involve direct apprehension of objective reality. Do you directly apprehend radio waves, microwaves, and atoms through perception? ...

I think @"Pattern-chaser" is positing a view of knowledge a la Kant.

IOW, we need not be ultimately responsible for our actions in order to be morally culpable? If this is what you’re saying, then I agree. One may not b...

I tend to agree concerning this poster. Not only is he engaged in an exercise that produces no fruit, but also he is annoying and insufferable.

It’s meaningful in that the words and ideas have meaning whether shared or individual to the user(s). Oftentimes the meaning of terms used are not sha...

Not to mention that Trump may single-handedly be bringing on a world recession with his trade war with China. Not to mention the appeasement by Trump ...

Because I believe people usually want to change from outside pressures, the Other looking down on the Self for some perceived shortcoming. Or, the Sel...

Which raises the point that all of us are guilty of blowing down houses of cards at times when we mischaracterize or misunderstand others’ arguments a...

I never felt more alive than when I got a fistful of rings in the eye or the time someone smashed a beer glass in my face. I went off both times. I re...

Some thinkers need a house of cards to blow down so they can continue to fool themselves that they really are indeed thinking.

I want to want to not be so lazy. I’m not sure I dopamine-induced want to be lazy. It’s just what I am. So, if I really knew what was good for me, the...

One person’s porn or heroin addiction is another person’s hobby.

Kind of like picking out which porn video to watch. There seems like endless variety and options, but for some reason it was determined at the Big Ban...

That’s what she said.

How do I know I’m not an AI in a simulation? :lol: :fear:

Exactly. The monastic life certainly led to philosophical thought because their time was devoted to meditation and prayer. Thinking about Aquinas here...

The OP was saying (as far as I can tell) that the world IS a certain way. “Ought” statements are a wishing of how people want it to be. At least some ...

It is a delusion in the sense that it need not be the case that there are “ought” statements. Other animals don’t seem to have them, and if the univer...

You’re smarter than me and most others. :wink:

Sounds like someone’s defensive. Privileged much?

There are correlations even if they are unfalsifiable in the strict scientific controlled experiment sense.

Are you making more of a normative argument for how civilization is better? Because I’m not “glamorizing” ancient tribes. That was not my intention, a...

But male white privileged conservatives hate handouts, even to other white people, and they are the ones who run this country for the most part. I agr...

And I’d be a billionaire if I were Jeff Bezos and not someone who is sensitive and has schizoaffective disorder.

It depends I guess. If one is powerless to change in a way that they think they “ought”, then one “ought” not get down on oneself even if others do.

This may be true. If my purpose is to provide for my family, and I fail at this, then I still know my purpose even though it is not accomplished. I’m ...

I agree with your analysis except for the use of the term “delusion”, mainly because in psychiatry, delusion is something to be rid of. I’m not sure w...

Thank you for your gracious generosity, but I would argue that Marx was onto something about alienation due to division of labor. That’s why so many p...

Depends on their boss and how they treat their own workers, of course.

Yes. Guidance counselors in schools across the country tell students to “shoot for the stars” implying that if they land the job of their dreams every...

Okay

Yeah, maybe, but I think the plains Native Americans believed there was purpose in what they did. It seems like existential meaninglessness in that cu...