Sam26

I deleted the video because I didn't think it was good enough. I will add the video again when I redo it.

I'm not going to say much more about these experiences. I've already written quite a bit in my thread. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/1980/...

Your question isn't unreasonable. There are many reasons/causes that contribute to why only 10% (estimate) are reporting NDEs. Some people are afraid ...

I tried to answer more questions, but there appears to be something wrong with the site. It looks like the problem was my browser.

First, this comment is not true, and anyone with just a little understanding of hallucinations would know it. I've addressed this before, many times, ...

Wow, you must have studied NDEs for what, 5 minutes. This is just false, and blatantly so. If it's true that NDEs are veridical (as per my thread- htt...

Still no argument, only statements that reflect your feelings and attitudes. Poor substitution for logic. You're blinded by your metaphysical bias and...

Well, by definition you can't come back from irreversible brain death. So, you're asking the impossible. Mostly we use anecdote to refer to stories th...

The question is, how does it cast doubt on the legitimacy of those who had the experience (by the way, Cuthbert also commented on this reasoning)? You...

There aren't' any good arguments against NDEs. I've read almost all of the so-called counter-arguments. There are arguments against specific NDEs, bec...

Don't you think it's rather obvious that if we're talking about concepts, in this context, we're talking about how we use them, which is why I gave ex...

That's not what Wittgenstein is saying, viz., that "True nonsense is unassailable and definitive." These are the kinds of misunderstandings that happe...

Again, it's about context. What's veridical is not a fiction, or myth, or a hallucination, etc. Although, within a fictional story one could talk abou...

It depends on the context. If you're talking about a fictional character, the referent is the character in the story. If you're referring to what's ve...

Oh, no, I mean the way we use the concept is real, but not all concepts have referents in reality, i.e., they're not veridical. The only referent they...

What? What's the brain shiver?

There is an afterlife, i.e., that we as conscious beings do survive the death of the body. For me, it's beyond dispute, as I argued in the following t...

My understanding is the following: He clearly says in the preface, "he aim of the book is to draw a limit to thought, or rather-- not to thought, but ...

There are many concepts, especially in fiction and mythology, that have no actual or real existence or referent. The only thing that's real is the con...

. Are you saying that Wittgenstein's restrictive logic in the Tractatus is correct, viz., that the meaning of a word is the object that it denotes. It...

There are some important ideas in the Tractatus, but Wittgenstein rejects the a priori logic behind the Tractatus in favor of a more broad view of log...

If you're asking what kind of confusions, they're everywhere. Pick a subject, and linguistic confusions abound. pointed some out in his quote of Wittg...

This is a great quote, as it points to a fundamental problem with language, i.e., that it can twist our conceptual frame of reference into tight littl...

I understand that Gettier is saying that they don't know, but those who are having the experience of seeing X, claim they know. Gettier is saying, the...

What does Wittgenstein mean by grammar? Wittgenstein's basic definition of grammar is, the rules that govern the use or the meaning of words (PG 133)....

Are language-games synonymous with forms of life? This question is probably driven by statements like, "And to imagine a language-game is to imagine a...

Some thoughts on “forms of life.” What does Wittgenstein mean by “forms of life?” There seem to be at least four ideas behind Wittgenstein’s idea of f...

What people seem to forget is that Wittgenstein, in his later philosophy, is giving us a method of doing philosophy that is more of an art than a scie...

The Gettier problems conflate two things, viz., the difference between a claim to know, and the definition of knowledge. Because one believes that the...

I agree with you. Some people want to discard certain concepts because they don't fit precisely within their view of reality, then they want to impose...

I wouldn't disagree with that. Inductive reasoning doesn't entail that X follows necessarily.

I was trying to do something that very few have done (if any), viz., bring the argument into the arena of what can be known (in an inductive sense).

I haven't been posting much, but I'm always lurking. :smile:

I also remain unconvinced. You gave it a good effort compared to the other responses, but the argument's conclusion follows with a high degree of obje...

I guess it depends how you define human exceptionalism. It seems to me that all you have to do is look at what we accomplish, in areas of science, or ...

You sound more like a troll than someone who is interested in good arguments.

Ya, I could have worded that better. There are things that are incommensurate, but things that are also commensurate. So, both of these concepts apply...

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I could same about you, but where does that get us? We have different ideas about what's reasonable. I'm not even sure what you believe. I've been ana...

Yes, my preference for vanilla is a truth relative to me. Well, the concept fact is relative to our forms of life, but what the facts sometimes refer ...

I think we agree, but I'm not entirely sure.

There is a difference between truth being relative to you personally, as opposed to truth being relative to a language. Truth can be relative to a for...

You seemed to be making it private, that's why I responded the way I did a couple of posts back. Okay, now I think I see what you're getting at. With ...

When you say, "...one could only recognize another form of life from within one's own," are you using the phrase "from within one's own," as a private...

I don't see our "forms of life" as being incommensurate, but as having a family resemblance. Although, with the lion example, I do see it as being inc...

I agree. If forms of life could be private, then so could language. To say that language can't be private, is to say that forms of life can't be priva...

Oh, no wonder you didn't reply to my question, "What link?" Sorry, I was thinking of a link to a web site. :gasp: It's so easy to misunderstand. You w...

Well, we just disagree. I'll leave it at that.

Obviously if Jesus claimed that he was God, then he said it, or at least implied it. That's my point. We can't reasonably conclude that Jesus said X, ...

Ya, "IF" he said it, but I have no strong evidence/reasons to conclude that he did say it, other than very weak testimonial evidence. Why are you fram...