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Wayfarer. Re-read my comment. There are no 'events' and there is no 'physicality' except with respect to the evolving perceptual needs of humans who c...

The point I am making is that 'identity' lies in the eye of the beholder (or beholders by agreement). Classical logic ignores that point and any shift...

This is all just a semantic game regarding the word 'identity'. The fact that 'two' or more bananas can be considered functionally or materially 'iden...

Yes ! Philosophy is the only way to attempt to go beyond the limits of classical logic despite the 'anti-philosopher' stance taken by some celebrated ...

When citing Chomsky we need to distiguish between what he called 'surface structure' which is parochial and contextual, and 'deep structure' which he ...

Oh dear ! ....as Wittgenstein might have put it, 'the fly is doomed to stay in the bottle !' :smile:

It means that 'information theory' as per attempted computer modelling of 'cognition' is not applicable. The organism structurally adapts to perturbat...

Thanks...read it...not too impressed.

What appears to be missing in much of the above is an overview of communication called 'discourse analysis', which transcends individual units we migh...

You don't seem to understand that your position is one of 'naive realism'. Try this. http://www.oikos.org/vonobserv.htm

Sorry, but I have no idea what you mean by the phrase 'true nature of reality' ! IMO, all we can attempt to explain is what 'communication' is functio...

I suggest you think about your somewhat vacuous phrase 'naming things for the purpose of communicating the named things'. Compare it with ''things are...

The word 'reason' is more nebulous than 'knowledge'. I am reminded of the celebrated anthropological study of the Azande (Evans-Pritchard) a culture i...

I suggest you read my statement again. You have analysed it in the style I call 'seminaritis' which invents ridiculous contexts. Nobody but idiots act...

'Knowledge' is a word applied to a state of confidence, shared or individual, that an event, or sequence of events.. was/is/will be.. the case. Words ...

"Kin selection" appears to endorse the biological fact that existence of individuals are subvervient to group gene transmission mechanisms. What we ca...

With my 'pragmatists hat' on, I don't do 'reality' ...only 'utility'. So for me the concept of 'morality' stands or falls on the basis of its utility,...

Look at my 'language comment' inserted above. For an 'exiential relativity' debate, see my topic history.

Of course 'consensus fluctuates' because it has both universal and parochial status and is subject to history as stated above. It is transmitted via l...

'Conscience ' is the term we use for sometimes uncomfortable internal dialogue indulged in between different facets of 'self' with different agenda's ...

Polarities like 'subjective-objective' and 'reality-appearance' are rejected by pragmatists. What we call 'morality' is a statistical bundle of empath...

What seems to be missing in Husserl's account is the 'language factor'...i.e. the social dimension in which shared concepts of 'things' are acquired.T...

...only on a 'naive realistic' view of 'existence'. If 'existence' is relative to observers, 'belief' is irrelevant.

Its really quite simple ! On a pragmatic basis that 'existence of anything' is a concept which stands or falls of the basis of its utility to humans, ...

I've not detected a major pre-occupation with 'prime mover' arguments here. Rather on language games which often focus on 'holy writ', which would hav...

Language is about social co-ordination with respect to mutual projects. The act of 'attempted definition' is itself a pragmatic attempt to agree about...

Your concept of passive receptors is fundamentally flawed. Even a single neurone adapts to persistent signals by raising activation threaholds, and in...

Of course ! :smile: The questioner could start by reading up on 'eliminative materialism'.

You are correct in requesting definition. In real life, nobody uses the phrase 'free will' in the context of mundane choices lke tea and coffee! (Witt...

I'm not sure what you mean by 'the workings of natural law'. IMO There are no 'natural laws' except a limited number asserted by humans such as 'the s...

The short answer to your question is 'no' for three reasons. (1) 'Things' are thinged by humans relatively to a continuously evolving 'body of knowled...

What is 'not true' ?

Yes, the 'problem' (if any) might be equivalent to asking 'could a piece on a chess board have a conception of the game of chess' ? IMO, only Heidegge...

Perhaps a more formal approach to this question is to define 'science' as being concerned with human 'prediction and control'. The branch of philosoph...

As far as my philosophical understanding is concerned, it is the rejection of the dichotomy of theism/atheism on contextual grounds which adds weight ...

'The self' does not 'exist' for much of the time! It is evoked by social and physical interactions like the convening of a committee as required. Like...

Hmm...I note that 'language' has emerged as issue on this thread. I suggest that those who want to dabble with that with respect to atheism might bear...

Well said ! Alas some members rely on pedantry as an excuse for ignorance of the literature.

What is it with the US and ridiculous preachers ? I'm asking you because you are one of them whether or not you're earning from it.

I take 'pernicious' to be defined in a historical context (crusades, religious intolerance, missionary zeal etc). If you are claiming the US has large...

From a philosophical pragmatist's pov, atheism is merely an assertion that 'theistic concepts' are at best useless, and at worst socially pernicious. ...

Not another repeat of the Roosevelt quote ! ...and do you seriously think regurgitating adolescent religious criticisms constitutes 'an idea'?

Here's how your trolling /preaching twaddle operates. 1. You set yourself up as a missionary for militant 'anti established religionism'. 2. You super...

Since I lean towards abiogenesis, and the view that 'ethics' amounts to 'folk psychology', I reject the 'need' issue.

I'm referring to academic believers (like Polkinghorne...nuclear physicist turned Anglican priest), who have argued that no 'prime mover' is needed to...

Absolutely spot on ! However, as an atheist who places most theological discussion in the 'word salad' category, I am surprised that nobody has come u...

K not a philosopher ? In 1985 the UN Secretariat disagreed with you. https://www.google.com/search?q=Krishnamurti+United+Nations&oq=Krishnamurti+Unite...

'Two sides of the same coin' is correct. However it has implications for the naive realism we all use in everyday transactions in which we think of as...

:cool: !

Systems theory is one paradigm suggested by 'neurophilosophers' to account for aspects of 'cognition' in terms of emergent nested structures within di...