To reveal delusions. ALL definitions need to be - and are - incomplete. The useful ones are consistent. If you wish to define ‘reality’ as this or tha...
Ethics is just a way to say something is ‘just’ or ‘unjust’ with the facade of conviction. You can live and act and there will be consequences. You ca...
I do find that many are too quick to pigeonhole someone as like x or y, or too ready to argue about what some philosopher said or meant … that is a sc...
Bias is not always bad. A woman talking about women’s experiences is certainly biased … but that is what we need to move towards an actual understandi...
Kant refers to ‘time and space’ in way as to express our faculties as needing them to paint a picture of the world on. We cannot think of anything wit...
A rainbow is an illusion. Prior to our understanding of refracted light we would make up some other explanation. Regardless of what a rainbow is or ho...
Yeah. I get the ‘terminology’ just think it is dumb and historically such demarcations turn out to be mostly due to the need to fund research or push ...
That sounds ridiculous to the extreme. There are instances of people without language that are able to form thoughts, plan ahead and act out. Animals ...
I think Janus summed it up pretty well. The phenomenological perspective is NOT concerned with existence it is concerned with ‘experience’ only. If we...
fair enough … it might be worth looking at the phenomenological approach maybe? Especially when talking about our experience, knowledge and perception...
In terms of phenomenology they are NOT the same thing at all because phenomenology has no concern for what is real/existent in any material/physical s...
I was responding to someone else. I can say you are wrong and provide reasons if I wish to. We can then go back and forth for a while … eventually we ...
It is bootstrapping if this kind of lingo is used completely out of context. Intentionality (phenomenological) is not concerned with objectivity in an...
This is kind if a misuse of the original intention of this kind of terminology. To talk of ‘intersubjectivity’ in relation to ‘reality’ is kind of a c...
Context matters. The further we abstract ideas and thoughts from experience the less tangible they become. Specialisation is useless if such ‘speciali...
The only things we know with ‘absolute certainty’ are items contained in abstract realms (ie. 1+1=2). Outside of abstractions there is no ‘absolute ce...
In a more general sense the primary question of philosophy (posed millenia ago) is ‘How should I live my life?’ Such a question is BS to some because ...
You are correct. The epistemic and ontological distinctions are of convenience. Sadly people like Heidegger used this problem to talk meaningless twad...
Yes. That is like saying phenomenal phenomenon. In terms of Kantian lingo anyway. In science phenomenon is just something we experience and then try a...
Fair enough. It is solely an abstract inquiry then I am not that bothered by abstract justification. I would also say that belief is not at all releva...
I have never heard the term ‘scare quotes’. You used ‘exist’ so think of it in those terms. I was being cautious with your possible interpretation of ...
A lot of what people call philosophy is undoubtedly useless. On this forum it is mainly a practice in rhetoric. Arguing semantics can devolve a discus...
Validation is kind of important. If it was not validated then what. If something happens it happens and if it does not it does not. The logic and rati...
Logic is abstract. Reality is not. Any abstract argument should be applied to reality with care. Non-natural and non-material are nothing/other. If th...
No problem whatsoever. You would then need evidence though and come to the conclusion that the claim is nonsense because there is no possible non-phys...
The general problem in the argument is framing things as True or Not True in relation to phenomenon instead of understanding it as an abstract game th...
Because a theory only has meaning if it can be tested. It is not a theory that god exists it is a belief. They are quite different. If proof of gods e...
I think it is just a matter of not knowing. Any ‘theory’ that is given will necessarily be one that is ‘physical’/‘material’. ‘Love’ can be said to ha...
I am assuming English is not your first language? That or you are new to philosophical discussions in this area? Maybe try to write shorter sentences ...
If you are going to make bold claims like above and then snap at people you are on your own. What you have done looks pointless. I was trying to direc...
I did not say that. I asked a question and you went ultra defensive. I read the OP a second time to see if I missed anything - after you accused me of...
‘Civilisation’ has a specific definition historically. It involves divided labour and writing. That is why we know civilisation began in the middle-ea...
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