What makes a proposition true? That it matches a 'fact'? What makes the fact a fact, how do you know it's a fact, and then how do you know the proposi...
It could be said that there is more to the self that one's knowledge of the self at a particular time. As an analogy, if you consider that a lucid dre...
But you agreed that the great majority of people want decent housing, healthy food and health care, so people want these things but they don't want to...
Decent housing, healthy food, health care ... wouldn't it be nice if our education was actually focused on teaching us how to create decent housing fo...
A theory of physics is fundamentally a method that allows to make predictions from observations. We don't have to see mathematics as an underlying nec...
Allow me to offer again something on this subject. If we say that something is true, by what method have we arrived at this truth? And why is it true ...
I think ultimately it is our will that determines what theory we favor. And that because our will shapes what we know then our knowledge is impermanen...
I happen to believe that the perspective I presented can't be taken too far, that it goes all the way, that any theory is ultimately a story we tell o...
I will. I've come a long way, I deeply care about people and about the world, so when I'm told that I don't, when my intentions/feelings/thoughts get ...
You just keep going on with your misconceptions about my point of view. I don't see much point in continuing to clarify my view to you, because indeed...
They are wrong to you. Maybe they don't mean the same thing by "glass". Or maybe they mean to say that they have a bone disease such that their head i...
All of this is in your mind, not mine. You're the epitome of the problem I see with objective truth. You believe your idea of what I think and what I ...
Also I think it's worth pointing out that there is a lot of fudging in so-called scientific theories, in the sense that scientists decide what require...
That's the story scientists tell themselves, but that's not how it is. Popper didn't say a theory is proven wrong, but that it is falsified. And even ...
No, it's easier because you don't feel like your point of view is more important than everyone else's. According to me they shouldn't do that. I would...
I think it's harder to be a tyrant when you see that your point of view is a point of view, rather than when you believe it applies to everyone everyw...
Some humans already agree on some things. What about those who don't agree, what should we do in your opinion? Force them to change their mind? Lock t...
You frame your question in a way you're already implicitly assuming that there is such a thing as a pencil having independent existence and a glass ha...
If you assume it can be known, then how? Can you give any example of such objective truth? You can live consistently by your truths, that's what peopl...
The problem is it can always be said that there are influences we can't control even if we don't notice them. Even if we thought that there is no infl...
I wonder why there is such a need to know what reality independent of us is like. We're part of the reality, so it isn't independent of us, so why thi...
Do you believe that objective reality can be known in any way or not? If not, what point is there in talking about what conforms or doesn't conform to...
War lords can rise precisely when society is willing to be tamed. They are the ones who impose standards on you to tyrannize you, and they don't care ...
Excessive insistance on moral codes has problems too. If you force others to abide by moral rules, that's oppression, it could even be tyranny, and ma...
You misunderstand my point. People don't claim that anything interacts with nothing, they claim that there are things that do not interact with some o...
What is the real lasting basis for morality that the widespread materialism offers? In that philosophy you're gonna die, everyone is gonna die, there ...
But any finite set of observations can be explained in many totally different ways. Our current mainstream theories are not the only possible explanat...
That's what I implied, you don't understand me. Preposterous in your own view, indeed. The funny thing is you elevate deductive conclusions as more tr...
They do not have the same effects, have you tried the one I mentioned? Also the effects can be different on different people. That's not my point of v...
I didn't claim someone did. Relevant quote: It would be nice if you took the habit of clarifying the point you want to make, rather than letting your ...
That's how I choose to use the word "independent" in this context, several others have understood it, are we arguing over semantics again? Call it how...
I agree! Also the idea that we belong to a world independent from us seems self-defeating, because our thoughts belong to that world, so what we think...
Yes, I think this is a consequence of the materialist mindset that permeates the scientific community. And of the implicit belief that the important t...
Talking past each other. Calling these substances "hallucinatory" is a point of view. You can choose to believe they are hallucinations, or you can be...
I can try talking about some of them, but I can't guarantee they will have the same effect on you, considering they were fundamentally personal experi...
There can be a limited common ground that gives a basis for disagreements, our use of the same language is a common ground, even if we often don't mea...
Indeed, if they don't see how it could be integrated to their models then they find it more convenient to assume that the anomalous phenomena are hall...
Indeed. Or rather, usually there is some sort of evidence, but the scientific consensus chooses not to interpret it as evidence. It also used to be sc...
I agree that I can say that something exists, but I wouldn't call that existence necessarily objective. Because to me, objective existence means exist...
Well, guys, I have found people who agree with me, and people who disagree with me in a way that it feels like we're living in different realities and...
You seem to implicitly assume an objective reality that can be somehow accessed, referring to 'causes' as something objective that everyone would agre...
I think the third-person perspective gives rise to a lot of confusion though, because it gives the impression that what we say applies to everyone and...
The issue I see with calling these objective truth is, I am sure this is true to you, and I am sure you think this is true in general, but what if I d...
It's supposed to. I find that option no less plausible than believing the experiences we have in common stem from a world that exists independently of...
Our concept of a material world stems from experiences we have in common. If you are willing to believe that your subjective experiences depend on you...
It doesn't matter. What we call the material world can also be interpreted as a shared imagination, under this interpretation the existence of a rock ...
But we can even challenge or doubt that "Objective Reality exists", so "objective truth exists" is not an objective truth, it is a personal truth. If ...
Why wouldn't it? That we perceive something that we call a rock does not imply that this rock has an outside existence that doesn't depend on us. Whic...
Some people call psychedelic experiences more real than reality. Some other animals take psychedelics too, and seemingly not for the sake of eating. I...
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