“...The vice** entirely escapes you as long as you consider the object. You never can find it till you turn your reflection into your own breast, and ...
Not sure how holistic and emergent can coexist simultaneously, and not sure how either is possible for humans if not for neural physics. I think I’ll ...
Understood. But really...I’m not sure there should even be one. Do you think “the mind is what the brain does” to be just a somewhat lame effort to el...
Ok, how about we say mental states are conditioned by brain states. That way, we can talk all day about the one, without having to know anything at al...
Cool. If mental states merely represent brains states, it isn’t contradictory for mental states to have a logic vocabulary while still allowing brain ...
Universally correct, better read as “consistent”, for me to make, as a autonomous moral agent, because of my particular moral evaluation, does not, in...
Information perceived is not the same as knowledge obtained; the former only makes the latter possible. Recognition of someone’s knowledge represented...
Like that guy on the news the other day, knowingly posing as famous people, saying send me money, I’ll send you back double. The hypocrisy is not the ...
If hypocrisy reduces to the intentional construction of false practices, and if human moral agency absolutely prohibits such intentions, otherwise the...
Notice the difference? I don’t reject gut feelings in their relation to thinking. I reject gut thinking in its relation to anything. As for the rest.....
I don’t want to be on record as claiming that. Biology may take care of escaping, you know, ....run like hell....but that’s not the same as understand...
The tangential is the foolish devolution into silly language games. I mean......any fool can intentionally put words together in a proposition that re...
Thing in question is just the subject of discourse. There is a subject of discourse referred to by the word “game”, something like.....that formal act...
I don’t have any feelings about it; my feelings weren’t affected. My thinking was affected, and from that, I can say I agree with a lot of what you sa...
Similar objects of the same kind are just examples of the thing in question. And several dissimilar objects are examples of different questions. What ...
Then perhaps it isn’t a word or a concept with which we should be concerned. Any possibility implies either an object that accords with it, or not. If...
I think so as well. It is the distinction between what it means for something to be good, and what it means for good to be something. Have to admit, t...
What part did your body play, with respect to the judgements regarding what to cognize before exemplifying it in the writing of your comment? Your bra...
Correct, but only by me. Well......sorta correct. I appreciate the brain for its fascinating complexity, and I only care about information on how it w...
What it is that makes problems of different kinds? ————- Agreed. I am not presented with....yet. Emotions, the general term for a compendium of relate...
Ok. I’ll be long past needing a brain, by the time anybody figures out how it works. —————- Ok. I rather think the difference between reading and stud...
No doubt. All that is the empirical mode of perception. That altruism, empathy, and good...justice, beauty, liberty, etc., are not detected by the sen...
Read, but not studied. Always been a fast reader with rather good retention. Nowadays, only one of those is still evident. (Shrug) So don’t be all tha...
Kinda depends on what scale you’re talking about, doesn’t it? Even so, the lack of epistemological certainty on any scale, doesn't necessarily imply r...
Yep, which draws us ever closer to the crux of the matter: the use of reason, which everybody knows, is nothing if not rationality writ large. So........
For what...morality and/or moral responses? In what regard? An act is technically validated immediately upon becoming one. Even if it is an immoral ac...
In the words of my ol’ buddy Wolfgang, when we used to hang out back in The Day....this isn’t even wrong. What you’ve given is a hypothetical imperati...
Ok. But having a non-rational altruistic reaction, says nothing about the possibility, or indeed even the validity, of determining a moral action beca...
Possible, yes. Good catch. Thank you. Which contains a maxim, which is itself a principle. ————— That’s not what you said. If you had, I wouldn’t have...
A principle of necessity has already been posited as such, its necessity directly related to that for which the principle is the ground. To then judge...
I would guess he took doubt to be just a negative thought, or, a thought of negative quality. Doubt is no less an awareness than any affirmation. Besi...
Opposition meaning for this epistemological theory as to how things seem, there is that epistemological theory for how things are. It is by the latter...
Ok, I get it. I look at it somewhat differently, although the end result was the same.....I was wrong. I did insist I worked it out rationally, re: no...
Kant’s groundwork, with respect to moral philosophy, starts with the notion of a good will, a will good in and of itself. If moral dialectics are to b...
I don’t think so; one cannot judge a principle of necessity. Moral judgement is central to Kantian moral philosophy, but it isn’t duty being judged. I...
Fascinating, isn’t it? That there is a distinction, opposed to whether there should even be one at all, both equally contained in multiple iterations ...
Perhaps you do. From where “I” sit, think is all, and only what, “I” do. That being granted, it is clear there can be no “I” without the “think” neces...
Deontology does not judge rightness or wrongness, insofar as duty is not a judgement, but rather, is the necessity of the will to determine its voliti...
Your “I am” is sufficient as an affirmation of being, but it is reducible, at least according to Descartes, so it is not self-sufficient and it is not...
Interesting. Where are you still seeing my comment? I deleted everything, by this, as you say here.... ....admitting to being wrong, and by this..... ...
Metaphorically speaking, I understand; Nature doesn’t derive and Nature doesn’t have a brain. It is true Nature gifted us, but just like getting a gif...
I read the book; it’s at academia dot com from a bing title search. I dumped my write-up commenting on it, being wrong on one count and superfluous on...
Nahhh....any metaphysician worth a decent pointy hat knows better, but still stands his ground when, for instance, the existential dogmatist offers un...
Yeah, looks like. I don’t know anything about neuroscience or ultracooperative social groups, so to me, ultrasocial is just somewhat more social than ...
Square One: 1.) 2.) 1a.) Ultrasocial can be attributed to over-population and/or economic dictates, which implies adaptability and/or small-scale tact...
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