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So this is why I said there was an ambiguity with the term phenomena. In one sense all phenomena are mental -the way something appears or shows itself...

No, I do not think that there are 670nm Electromagnetic Waves banging around any more than I think there is a little house and a little dog banging ar...

If you take solipsism seriously then why would you ask others who you cannot be certain exist about it? It is this idea of of a necessary truth that c...

If that has been your point right along then I am agreeing, although I have been known to disagree with myself.

Really? I think it is quite clear. Not knowing whether God exists or not does not mean we should conclude that it is as likely that he does as it is t...

Neither Jesus nor Paul would have referred to the Hebrew Bible as the old testament. If we look at Jesus' Sermon on the Mount it is clear that he wish...

We do not know if there is life on Mars but this does not mean that it is as likely to be true that there is as it is that there is not. We do not kno...

What one takes to be likely is based on evidence and temperament. I find no evidence that leads me to think it is likely that there is a God. I have n...

Except the electromagnetic phenomena detectable in the brain. I think that is a questionable assumption. How is it that we can agree that a particular...

I do not think it is so simple. Many things that had previously been attributed to the work of God now have physical explanations in which the superna...

One is free to refuse treatment. If the only doctors available are black then the hospital is under no obligation to provide a doctor for this patient...

The limits of reason has been a central topic of philosophy at least since Socrates. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason provides a rational defense of the...

I do not know what these pastors have in mind, but it might be something along the lines that a religion is a set of beliefs and practices. Christiani...

With regard to a surveyable representation, consider the following from Culture and Value:

He says at 125: If one is entangled in the rules and the rules prevent one from saying what he means, then the meaning is not the rules. The survey, t...

A surveyable representation, an übersichtlichen Darstellung, a representative overview is said to be of fundamental importance. For it is from this va...

If you include other forums the number of threads is much more.

Please do not insult me. I do not generally discuss my background, but let it suffice to say my credentials say otherwise. I went against my better ju...

Given the title of the thread, questions regarding "Skeptics," Science, Spirituality and Religion.

There is a general sense in which I think this may be true but it is not clear how this relates to the stories we tell ourselves about man and God and...

Is there good reason to suppose that there is a Creator? I can't think of one, other than comfort. I do not find questionable interpretations of thing...

One problem I have is with the move from the absence of a reasonable explanation to some story of powers, or forces, or realms, or reality, or Being, ...

What is at the foundation of language is, as he makes clear in On Certainty, quoting Goethe, is our acting in the world. No. The ideal of absolute pre...

There is no one God of the Bible. There is not even one Bible. Christians have relegated the Hebrew Bible to an old testament. Not only did they attem...

Yes, but the issue of SJW goes beyond what you have specified. We might agree that such actions are wrong but still not understand what is at issue. N...

The social/political order is always about control, whether it is those who are in control or those who want to be in control or those who simply want...

The only gaping hole is the one in your understanding. If he concludes that this is not the way language works that does not mean language does not wo...

You really have made a mess of all of this. There are no elements of crystalline purity. Crystalline purity refers to the Tractarian assumption that t...

How they use it changes what they mean when they use it.

The point is that what it means varies depending on who is using it and to what end. For some it is a term of derision, but as such it fails to distin...

He is not faced with a dilemma, he has solved a dilemma. His solution is an age old one. I took the quote from the online appendix to Arthur M. Melzer...

This is simply not true. The history of the term shows that it has been used in different ways that range from neutral to positive to pejorative. Wiki...

This is analogous to what has occurred with 'political correctness'. For some it is a reaction to the excesses that occur in the name of justice, but ...

There are many ways in which the DMN can be disrupted. Are all of them spiritual? If not then you still have not explained what it means for it to be ...

This reminds me of something Wittgenstein says in Culture and Value: As long as you keep pushing you will remain trapped by your own efforts. And this...

Compare: with: The same distinction in use can be found with Bedeutung. In English we also use the term 'meaning' in different ways. If Wittgenstein w...

Is that a neurochemical state?

We need to make a distinction between meaning as Sinn or sense and meaning as significant or of value. Happiness is said to be a reward for the good e...

We have to look at Kant's concept of freedom. For Kant, to be free is to act in accordance with reason. For the Libertarian, we should be free to do a...

That is a very peculiar notion of a subjective state.

Cognitive science studies sensory experience. There is some ambiguity in your terminology. There can be no sensory experience that is not a conscious ...

Yes, I have read such things and even had conversations with such people. Perhaps first and foremost of those who claim that consciousness is an illus...

Not necessarily. If the argument can be made that rational thing to do is not put harmful substances into your body, and that is the argument Kant wou...

This is not my understanding of it. Not all physicalists deny conscious experience, they simply go by the assumption that there is a physical explanat...

I do not know what this means. Some describe sex as a spiritual experience or music or any number of other things as a spiritual experience. The probl...

First philosophy as understood by Aristotle is the science of science, that is, knowledge of knowledge. Science, as the term is most often used today,...

I would like to focus on a question asked in the passage: The problem is that we think we know what thinking is because we think. A few related passag...

You seem to be unfamiliar with the idea that meaning is use. It is not whatever someone wants it to be but rather whatever has become common use. I kn...

The way it comes across to you is not the way it is. Anyone who has been doing this long enough knows that there will always be someone who will not u...

They are fair, but not accurate. Nietzsche leads the casual reader to such conclusions, but dig down and Nietzsche is rational but, in his own words, ...