The topic is mental illness diagnosis, if you care to look, and I am fairly confident that that is part of clinical psychology. So kindly do not berat...
By focusing on a term that you yourself introduced, you avoid any serious response. By focusing on clinical psychology, everything else is being ignor...
They have limits. The whole notion of 'mental phenomena' is rather confused; are your posts physical phenomena or mental phenomena? I'm not sure what ...
Science is very successful when directed outwards to the world of objects. But directed inwards at the subject that is (or isn't) scientific, it fails...
On a Thursday, some men come to the house and empty my bin. They generally take everything in the bin, and leave nothing. They don't, fortunately, hav...
It's not a very successful science. The scientific basis of medicine in other departments seems to result in cures, ameliorations, a reduction in suff...
You can't vote for limited government, it never stands for election. It's only ever a question against whom the strength of government is to be direct...
It was about bananas and cucumbers. We vote for strong government because we feel powerless, and stable government because we are desperate for change...
Your Rand quote is a piece of propaganda. That it is not even half true is not something that is worth arguing about. Rather, ask why someone would wa...
Reason is, what? A step by step one thought after another sort of thing? We cannot reason our way to a cup of tea, one has to get up and put the kettl...
One might say, "there is nothing game-like about Russian roulette, someone could get killed," but that would be to misunderstand how the term 'game' i...
Truth is one of the rules of some of the games. It's the main rule of "Confession", and an important rule of "Philosophy", "History", and even "Biogra...
Given that nuclear war is madness, and we are not mad, then it is common sense that the least stable personality will dominate. "Don't make me mad, yo...
That was my thought, a car ferry - vehicles within vehicles. It just seemed a good example of meaning requiring context, the context 'philosophy' bein...
I was just passing Mrs un's computer and the film was paused with the subtitle: "Will driving passengers please go to their vehicles." Any philosopher...
I don't know, I'd have to try it, and let you kn... no that wouldn't work, would it? Unless we met in the waiting room for incarnation. Well my best g...
I don't have an argument with you. You put your attitude to life into the form of a question, but I don't have that attitude, so the question has no m...
Not at all. It's not a serious proposal, really, more of a radical alternative to WW3, that couldn't possibly be worse. It would have been a good idea...
Well not really, it's just a convenient way of putting it - rephrase it all in terms of nature if you like. The point is, if crime didn't pay, crimina...
1. Is the happiness worth the suffering? It does not compute. It does not add or subtract or multiply. 2. Why should we endevor to give anything to so...
I reject the calculus of happiness and suffering entirely as a spurious attempt to rationalise the value of life. I love life, you hate it; there is n...
In relation to the 'defence' budget? I think not. People are dying every day from dirty water and starvation. Perhaps in N. Korea it is difficult, but...
I think there might be some small space between the two, a middle ground. Perhaps preemptive food parcels, or a task force of electricians and plumber...
I agree. It cannot be a reason, because it is unreasonable; it is the passion that reason is and ought to be slave to. There are women that like being...
Mariner on the old forum explained this rather well in religious terms. If goodness was always rewarded and evil always punished, then it would be mer...
I side with Kant on this, that to 'have' children for some reason is immoral, because it is treating them as a means. One is left with having children...
It is not a law of the universe that good will prevail. On the contrary, the greedy, the violent, the selfish, generally run rings round the kind, the...
A knot of thought is quite a good description of the cogito and indeed the self, but If there is certainty that is not ontological, how can it be anyt...
Wow! So you do't have any problem with 'I am a tautology'? The performance can be described as I think, 'I think' and 'therefore I am'. But the implic...
I keep reading the title as:- "I think, therefore I am a tautology." Which I will now defend as the only correct understanding. That I think is a fact...
We so need a thread on 'dare'. Do you ever dare to do things you daren't do? If I dare say something is nonsense, have I said it? The redundancy theor...
Agreed. But you can share it with me, because we aren't different in that regard. Or perhaps when we discuss the experience further, we will find we a...
No it doesn't. One knows the difference by making a comparison. Making a Comparison denies privacy. We compare our private parts and find out that boy...
Indeed. Another example of the aphantasia guy who doesn't have the same experience. And we know that we don't have the same experiences to just that e...
But earlier, you were rejecting this 'somewhat' in favour of a radical separation between subjective and objective. This latter is what W is arguing a...
It's a problem isn't it? One has to say that they are sharing associations, responses (behaviours) but not the quale. Because that is what the quale i...
There is a connection. I intend consequences. So one can judge both the intended consequences and the actual consequences on the same moral basis. But...
When you call it an aspect, that seems less troubling; but when it is isolated linguistically as 'the quale of red', it has become a veritable beetle ...
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