Pantagruel

So if I ignore the evidence of virtuous behaviours of a social group I dislike, that is confirmation bias. But if I ignore the evidence that a certain...

Here I was thinking the same about you. The concept that we must put a man on the moon was a bias that flew in the face of current technology (so to s...

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All I did was provide some evidential bases for my perspective. You yourself are drawing the inferences to the point where they fail, because you are ...

I understand your approach. However, as I said, you are generalizing both with respect to belief and bias and, in the human world, knowledge is not ex...

Isn't quantum teleportation essentially just the transfer of information though?

Well, you can start with human consciousness, which clearly evolves both phylogenetically and ontogenetically. Which therefore also links unproblemati...

What I actually said that is that the natural world provides evidence of a vast spectrum of consciousnesses, of which there is no reason to suppose th...

Who says it is a god's role to intercede or interfere with the unfolding of events? That's a presupposition. A hurricane is just a weather feature tha...

Yes, I agree that a decent grounding in eastern culture is definitely key to breaking the shackles of certain western prejudices. My last observation ...

I'm not so keen on your characterization of bias either. Perspective is essentially a form of bias. There can be healthy biases as well as unhealthy b...

I didn't realize we had a choice in that? Oh wait, we do? Of course. That is the essence of belief. Of course, if you are saying that we haven't any c...

I came across an interesting observation recently, that asked, if everything is behaviourism, then what exactly is it the behaviourists are doing?

It isn't a past discussion though. His comment that I quoted constitutes as much. And the fact that there is such a need argues emphatically for the v...

I'm saying he has supplied a normative belief system himself, which is exactly comparable to the type of normative beliefs systems he says we can do w...

Isn't this in fact also a belief, purporting guidance?

Interesting. I had to click a long way into the kindle preview before getting to see some of the text....

For me, "god" is an heuristic that I see no reason to forgo. The natural world provides ample, ample evidence of a huge spectrum of consciousnesses co...

Democritus did not know what an atom was, he just identified a general concept he was able to intuit using a word. The word god is fundamentally a per...

I think this is the key question. Whether or not there is a singular being that is god or multiple beings that are gods is relevant insofar as we furt...

Perhaps you simply have not broadened your studies enough? This statement of yours can essentially be interpreted as a form of pragmatism. The Metaphy...

Yes. Because "the external world" is at a bare minimum what is not us but matters to us. If the external world does not affect us then it does not mat...

This is the direction that I was actually hoping to explore before that unfortunate digression. I've since moved from Collingwood to Dilthey's hermene...

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Exactly.

:up: Hermeneutics and the Study of History Wilhelm Dilthey I cannot highly enough recommend Collingwood's Speculum Mentis to anyone interested in the ...

As it happens I just finished a book that explicitly addresses these questions. The picture it paints conforms in great detail to the one I've been fo...

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Stating it thus for me identifies the organism-environment system as the basic unit of comprehension and explication.

I'm concerned that you frequently fall back on very simplistic definitions. Any experiment takes place in a "phase space" whose "dimensions" correspon...

Do you though? "Prove me wrong" is a declaration of fixity of belief. It is entirely up to you to challenge your own beliefs. Ironically you yourself ...

I characterized a perspective on the nature of scientific knowledge and its relation to philosophical knowledge, which was the explicit theme of the O...

So it isn't that you didn't understand what was being said (as was implied by your requests for clarification) but that you disagree with it. That's a...

Could be. I'm no Nietzsche scholar. His writing always strikes a bombastic chord that distracts me.

I'm sorry that polysemy is proving such a challenge. Interestingly, Collingwood has something to say about this also: To suppose that one word, in wha...

More to the point, science investigates that with respect to the chosen dimensions of the change, which was what I was emphasizing. Science is always ...

Well, yes, they dropped the ball. Experimentation is fundamentally interactive. Even at the limits of pure observation you have the observer effect.

Dialectic of Enlightenment is on my list for this year. I would do it next, but volume 4 of Dilthey's collected works has been calling me for some tim...

The entirety of Collingwood's book Speculum Mentis deals with the sense in which scientific knowledge is a process of selective abstraction from the r...

Sounds very likely. I didn't find Pym to be at all satirical. Goes to show how much meaning depends on what you bring to what you read. I've been on t...

The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

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The Master Mind of Mars (Barsoom #6) Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Yes. And everything that you might think about will relate to the human existence of being part of a collective. We relate to the universe through the...

Exactly, which is why I estimate the greatest challenges to knowledge to be those of our own presuppositions. Because at the end of the day, if you ca...

Since the immanent experience of mind is both what is being explicated and what is doing the explicating this is a mischaracterization. Perhaps it is ...

I would also like to point out that the kind of consciousness being discussed up until now is individual-centric. Whereas in nature we see considerabl...

Yep. There are rules of discourse. The law of non-contradiction doesn't apply to dialectical logic in any non-trivial sense, since dialectics assumes ...

What logic? Symbolic logic? Propositional logic? Dialectical logic? You are speaking of logic as if it were an objective reality, instead of a constru...