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Not really. The US has always been right-wing, but there is plenty of leftism in Europe.

order of pain 2, 1 then 3 most probably. I guess it could be argued that trying to to cause pain may actually cause more pain that scenario 1 thoough.

I was merely assuming that such a truth could exist and that some peole would be able to figure it out eventually.

World 3 would would pretty quickly stop being a world. With no morality there is more of a chance people would kill babies but maybe not to the extent...

Often on philosophy forums ;)

You seriously think there are no instances where someone has said something is nonsense only to later be proven wrong? Strange. Anyway, this is just d...

You think there are no grey areas?

I was taking an extreme example to highlight that there are grey areas. 100% subjectivity is pretty much where we all begin. We are not given a manual...

But what if it is not? Of course if I said to you I saw a flying elephant you would question my mental faculties … but maybe I actually did and there ...

You see how you see. It is a matter of subjectivity. What you see and claim to know is necessarily limited.

what it real can be criticises and speculated upon. Honestly, there is nothing here to talk about bye :)

I never said anything about anything being ‘true’. I try to be precise. Corvus replaced ‘perceived’ with ‘imagined’ and now you have replaced ‘real’ w...

So you must really mean that the term ‘delusion’ is meaningless because we can never verify about their experience. This is a little like saying Canad...

? What are you talking about? If you are deluded you are deluded. You do not choose to be deluded. If you are pretending to be deluded you are lying.

In COPR this was the initial question. Of course he wrote other books … False. You asked me the question using that term regarding my seeing an elepha...

Different uses of terms. Nothing more. No contradiction. It is a real thought not an unreal thought … what would an ‘unreal’ thought be? Equating ‘tru...

I am pretty sure I caught that. Hence me not assuming ignorance. I interpreted it as Action versus Innate Qualities or some such thing.

I know that it is there. I also know that my experience is limited. I generally have little reason to disbelieve what I experience. What I believe is ...

I already answered. It is ‘real’ to me. We experience what we experience. There is no ‘knowing’ for me in any absolute sense. Now, how do you know wha...

Do you have a point or are you just going to throw out facile questions? You are effectively asking me what I know about how I perceive anything. Righ...

And which particular version did you have in mind when you asked the question? Again, cut to the chase please.

If you have a thought spell it out. It gets kind of boring talking in riddles.

I will assume you are not ignorant. I would side with saying it is something you are rather than something you do … but clearly one without the other ...

I try to always keep Richard Feynman’s quote in mind: “People are easily fooled, and the easiest person to fool is yourself.”

No. This is under the assumption that we generally label ‘deception’ as a negative aspect of humans. That said, we often lie to avoid what we deem as ...

To be combative and free. To be honest requires acting and speaking in a genuine manner. Doing such will lead to necessary conflict. An honest person ...

Tell me what you mean by ‘real’. Everything I perceive before me is ‘real’ in one sense - including illusions and delusions. In another sense if I see...

How do you want me too? What kind of argument do you want me to present? Note: I find no need to ‘prove’ it to myself.

Thank you :)

We do actually say that for everyone. I will just assume you are wrong then. Bye

If you are talking about phenomenology this is incorrect. Phenomenology is not directly concerned with what is or is not real as it is a proposed meth...

Context.

Quote with no reference to where you got it? Come on now!

If I come to you with a piece of paper that does not exist in a spatiotemporal sense I am empty handed because there is no ‘piece of paper’. I think s...

If you could explicate in more detail it would be nice :) If you do not wish to that is fine. Note: do not ask which part because none of it said anyt...

No idea what you mean?

I was not using Kantian terminology for ‘imagination’. Nothing I can recall?

That would be impossible. You seem to be talking about the possible existence of something due to sensible evidence. If I come to you with a piece of ...

If you agree that we cannot know what we cannot know then that is pretty much all there is to what I have been trying to articulate. If you disagree t...

Intuitions (Kantian). Note: I suppose we may have some other faculty yet to be unearthed.

It is a question of semantics. It is useful to talk about existence in some circumstances and not in others. I do not see any importance in speculatin...

They exist in time and space. I was not suggesting that the universe ceases to exist when humans are gone.

And there is the key word! If it does not exist for us then in what capacity are you actually using that term. Think about it.

This is an assumption. I am unaware of our ability to think in an atemporal way and with complete disregard to space.

No no no. You misunderstand, I promise! We know the world via space and time (a roughshod paraphrasing of Kantian Intuitions). We can only speculate o...

Which is necessarily nothing to us. Hence it is non-existent. We talking about something existing based on human experience because, frankly, that is ...

I would say The Intuitions. Although ‘know’ is not exactly the correct way to put it. Otherwise, no. We know of of nothing prior to experience. I thin...

As for Noumenon. It is pretty bloody obvious you know how this relates to ideas of existence so why are you asking me to explain? We can talk of what ...

I can now outline an answer to this. I experience. ‘Objects’ of experience vary. When I am not experiencing any ‘object’ (ie. Unconscious and not drea...

Empty intentions and such might be worth going into here maybe. Could help progress the discussion?