How self-assured does that claim need to be for you to abandon communication? If someone came up to you and said "Hi, I'm a Buddhist Osh?" would that ...
I know what you meant. It's just that you're empirically wrong. There are evidently other ways of resolving differences. Nope. They're acting like the...
Well, that begs the question. All you've said is that there existed people referred to as sages. The question being asked is whether they were right t...
I mention it because it's such a common feature of discussion around these esoteric sages. Have you noticed how time passing is also a distinction bet...
The question in the OP was... The question at hand just now is about values. You're not explaining how you see your historical accounts answering eith...
I think its quite within reason to think it might be all three, even in any one given case. Maybe I'm just being gullible, but it seems unlikely to me...
Yes, I thinks that's true. A common argument in some aspect of philosophical discussion is to claim that one's opponent doesn't (or can't) 'understand...
Yep. When in doubt just resort to an historical account of how we got here... as if that in any way justified either position on whether we ought to b...
If the 'higher truth' is not empirical (ie, it has no universalizable and predictable effects), and it's esoteric value can only be grasped by the sag...
As I said, I don't hold with individual subjectivism so this is not something I'm going to get into. You've not made your case beyond just asserting i...
Not until you've got some reason to believe it has plans for you, that it has good graces, that you can do anything about either of those things, that...
Only if you've already begged the question of whether the X in question is objective. If the X in question is true relative to the person expressing i...
I would too. Not in my experience (the 'probably' bit). Most delusions cause some contingent problems for the people who suffer from them. The 'harmle...
How do you come to know this? Do your thoughts carry identifiers - 'Justification', 'Concept', 'Will'? Say I really wanted my species to survive (or t...
I can sort of see that. Just not sure why you're doing it in reply to my posts. Are they really the only options you see? Either a gut feeling guess o...
That doesn't support your assertion. All such illusions have the same properties I described above. What I'm trying to get across is that there are nu...
That's a good example. I think intuitively we'd all want to say that the woman in question was suffering from some mental health issues and would poss...
I've literally just cited the standard definition of relativism which says almost exactly that. 'What is 'correct' is relative to the particular peopl...
How are you supporting that assertion? - To clarify. All you've got by way of self report is that they appeared red in retrospect. By third party all ...
What it means is only that I've conceded that 'Red' is the correct word to use for the strawberries. Why I conceded that might be different in differe...
I agree with this. True. I think it does to an extent. Several neuroscientists think they'll be able to understand consciousness as a result of their ...
Absolutely, I recognise that, but my point is that it's no less true then for science. A neuroscientist possessed of the expansive and detailed knowle...
No it isn't. One can think something correct only to find out later that it was not correct, all without consulting any outside reference at all. But ...
Right. We're still no closer to the way in which my description of a route from retinal ganglia to speech production was "wrong", which is, obviously,...
I don't believe that's the case, so what justification do you have for saying it's 'trivially true'. I don't think it's even true, let alone trivially...
How does it do that? I mean, I can see how it shows that ”red” doesn't always line up with some portion of the em spectrum, but that's a different cla...
That's some insightful stuff, but Karen Armstrong promised religious 'truth'. How are we to understand a meaning of 'truth' which doesn't have a truth...
See I think it does. It's too simplistic to say that trying to do what's best is the only sensible option. If 'what's best' is too hard, then trying c...
Exactly the point I raised earlier about triviality. If we extend hedonism to all and any future pleasures/sufferings, and then we add to it the pleas...
Yeah. This is the point, I think. If the Mythos idea were as presented then reading The Lord of the Rings would be no less spiritual than reading The ...
@"Joshs" (Still not being notified of certain posts - I only found this one by chance) It's not just a presumption though is it? It works. I presume t...
I get what you're saying (I think) but would that not be surmountable by personal report? If a hundred people attend Catholic liturgy and one of them ...
Yet another example of the deception I brought up on the other thread. Look at what's been written here. The opening sentence talks very explicitly ab...
The sorts of culturally embedded beliefs we're talking about here run deeper than the aspects of culture which change. It's more like Anscombe's deriv...
This (massively oversimplified) model... A certain wavelength of light excites the retinal ganglia, which fires a part of the v4 region, which fires p...
Why 'experience'? I can see why you'd need something to happen in the brain to attach the word 'red' to for next time, but why need this be an 'experi...
No. I was referring to any non-scientific investigation. I think that's true to an extent. My comments here were aimed at non-scientists (in the main)...
You've literally just repeated, for the third time now, the exact deception I originally posted about. That entire post demonstrates (quite admirably)...
Presumably you're talking about one who believes false beliefs which turn out to be true? Otherwise I'd have thought the difference was obvious - the ...
Yeah, I think that's true. But the data you have to hand is always only your recollection of the experience, not the experience itself, and that recol...
Perfect example. Engineering is not applicable to the problems of philosophy. No-one's going to disagree there. Nothing in that means that alternative...
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