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I believe you are putting too much negative weight on subjective or social myths. Even if we regard them (authority/doctrine) as art, they are no less...

Empirical data, not that which is collected and quantified into objective knowledge that we can all agree upon , like the acceleration of gravity, but...

let me add, belief in a particular system is not the same as faith. The difference: the former holds credibility in that it is subscribed to a priori-...

I didn't say it was possible. I don't see how it is, other than through tyranny and oppression. I said it can be rationalized, and yield the highest d...

What these have, which art and religion lack, are methodology, but digging deeper than methodology, the latter lack a purpose: that is to yield object...

First of all, no one uses repetition in philosophy these days, excellent work. :up: Secondly, I disagree. Direct knowing is easily supported by ration...

I'm just enjoying a nice conversation between the best two philosophers on T P F. There is much to be gained from this debate.

It was a good attempt at a bad joke

Nice! :fire:

I know you don't give up that easily. By "real", they would theoretically yield some kind of objective edification - is genocide not persuasion enough...

Awesome topic!

We can remove every superstition from our belief, but the only superstition that matters is the belief that there is a "way the world really is" ("for...

Don't forget that masked bandits are the biggest winners...they are completely unrecognizable.

That is a lot of work simply to discredit an already lame term that nobody ever uses, not even the lamest philosophers (I should know, I have an army ...

Idealism permeates every relevant scientific discovery. In fact, all scientific speculation (what is know in the scientific method as "hypothesis") wo...

As a proponent of the existence of unicorns, you would be tasked with finding and showing where they actually hide.

But dead brains are made up of matter and energy too. Shouldn't we be capable of a fairly easy brain transplant if such is the case?

Absolutely. But there is a disproportionate amount of physicalists to idealists out there. Especially on TPF. Given that, I have no problem sounding l...

Lol. To be fair, I am always talking about all forms of physicalism simultaneously. But to your point, you are correct, physicalism, like all ideologi...

On further consideration, I must point out the distinction between physics and the physical sciences as a category of knowledge, and physicalism as a ...

You are saying, that he said, in so many words: physicalism, in proving itself, ate itself alive. But I don't see materialists backing down, what give...

Lol. It is from the materialists I've dealt with. But it is a useful category, I give you that

Also, it didn't hit me at first, but think you should give yourself credit. That is an interesting and novel idea. Could you explain more what you mea...

First of all, I love dogmatism. Sadly, it is a dying art as the world becomes increasingly wishy-washy, yet it will always be practiced because there ...

Equilibrium as in physical, or mental balance? Do you correlate introspection/reflection and equilibrium with a particular organ (e.g. seeing with eye...

Interesting point. The dominant trend does not appear to consider itself as an ideology (despite that is exactly what it is), somehow it regards itsel...

Then, I suppose, you don't subscribe to the five senses tradition. How many senses have you identified? Yes. To our own sensing, to our own perceiving...

That's what I said, its obvious that if it started with him, it has been "since him". I thi k you are thinking too much. I'm glad Reagan's dead.

I know about my own mental phenomenon from introspection, reflection, abstraction, but never has it become directly accessible to my senses, or anyone...

exactly, knowing is not a perceptual faculty, but seeing is. We can point to red and argue over a thing's redness. But to argue whether you yourself a...

no, I'm goofing around. It's a strangelove quote. Incredible how relevant it is today, isn't it?

Mental events, like thought or emotion, nope. I can't even think of which perceptual faculty might be responsible for apprehending a mental event. Per...

I didn't want to do it, but you are forcing me to say: I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist ...

What do mental states, elephants and atoms have in common? ~They are objects of perception. How do they differ? ~Nobody has ever perceived a mental st...

Perhaps there is ellipsis in my reasoning, it doesn't change the fact that scientists would have to go beyond perception to study perception as such, ...

Absolute fact is still a relative truth

All attempts to explain the aesthetic sphere of life amount to mere vanity. It's complex but insubstantial. Science comes closest to giving us anythin...

It's all been steadily going downhill since Reagan. Nothing in our present field of view remotely indicates the slightest desire to alter direction. I...

The only absolute truth is immediacy, which ironically enough, is impossible to show objectively (thereby rendering it positively factual). I would ar...

black knights' lives matter

Living with no legs doesn't really sound like the better option. At least decapitation is a really cool death, and living headless (hypothetically spe...

God is not necessary for idealism. But the notion of God is quite coherent and rational from an idealist perspective.

I salute you :up: Nobody is going to win here...we are all losers in this one.

Absolutely. They are definitely hard perspectives to argue against.

The problem is that physical states are always reducible to just another mental state. There is nothing necessary about a physical state, it is merely...

I don't see any triangle, but I do see three pacmans

That does not follow. Terrible reasoning. What good is it to analyze or critique some notion or concept without comprehending it fundamentally? I agre...

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