Sounds illogical? The essence of language is the yoking together of sign and idea. The onomatopoeiac function highlights this connection where the wor...
But I didn't say it was the idea, I said it accurately reflected it, in the same way that (saying) the word "ouch" accurately reflects the idea of "ou...
Yes, I thought that too. But maybe the point is that people much prefer to keep their memories than to abandon them? So even though you said "could" f...
Stop accepting new input from the universe in favour of my own fantasies? That's a pretty unimaginative and unchallenging way to spend the rest of my ...
Exactly, because, as pointed out we are We don't need to prove that ideas exist. Everything we do and think is testament not only to their existence b...
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson Collingwood and the reform of metaphysics;: A study in the philosophy of mind by Li...
I think that there is accuracy in mechanistic realms, and there is honesty in the realm of the conscious. Perhaps the word truth carries more weight t...
Like your making a false statement is deterministically produced? But do you mean this in the sense that you are mistaken, so your statement is a refl...
Dictionaries are one kind of effort at providing a framework of and standard for understanding. Surely that is necessary? Even if the definitions are ...
There are different ontological theories; there is one ontological subject and object of study, which is existence. Having different ontological hypot...
It seems like it is directly entailed by the fact the OP attempts to bridge multiple domains. By the parameters of the OP, the nature of the metaphysi...
It is a metaphysical fact that intelligent life does exist. What you are calling a "metaphysical possibility" is in fact just a "possibility," and the...
I don't understand what this rebuttal says? If nothing exists, then nothing exists. This would include logic. A fortiori.... From the perspective of w...
It is possible to make the hypothetical claim that nothing exists. But you are doing this from the standpoint of existence. i.e. your hypothetical-log...
Are you parodying yourself now? It is the definition of scientific experimentation to control variables. Good one. :up: Good experimental design requi...
Sure, there is "observational science." But that is essentially just observation. Experimental science is far more typical, far more paradigmatic of w...
The fact that some of the greatest minds in history can have been completely mistaken about basic scientific concepts doesn't in any way detract from ...
The fact that we are involved in a "discussion" proves that consciousness exists. If you dispute that, well then, your "disputation" doesn't exist sin...
I just encountered this idea in Deacon's Incomplete Nature. Fascinating. And a propos the OP. In order to maximize the entropy gradient, organized str...
Yes, like when I suggest that science operates by selective limitations and abstraction, and he asks me for an example? It's what science is, and it's...
It's the entire basis of the scientific method. You toss out what isn't relevant to an hypothesis in order to be able to accurately reproduce results....
I reread some James a few weeks back. The thing about focusing on "big" ideas and philosophical themes versus complete texts is that you can miss a lo...
:up: It's always best to be candid about one's own limits. Science is a process of selective limitation. It has a lot to say, but it also leaves a lot...
Or as I have often suggested, there may be phenomena associated with life-processes whose feedback is long term and complex (read, "karma"), which, as...
I think that the underlying theme is that of going beyond conventional parameters, which can appear bizarre and even horrifying, but is not necessaril...
I'm 90% through the complete works of H.P. Lovecraft. He has a singular perspective on the emptiness of the scientifically real. This excerpt is from ...
I think that, given the ethical poverty of the physical sciences combined with the urgent need for social and ethical wisdom in their application, phi...
:up: edit: For example, you could argue that knowledge represents a form of energy. Then the process of coming into being of knowledge-being in an org...
As others have asked, how are you defining "mindset" ? For example, you are (we assume) being honest in your questioning. But your terminology is uncl...
Are you asking whether this is a fundamental property, that one either is or is not honest? From my perspective, honesty is the prerequisite for accur...
No, that is just my best effort at a pragmatic ethics consistent with a healthy humanized spirituality. I don't think I need to be able to understand ...
I assume that there is something like a collective consciousness happening at some material level to be sure. I think that is the key is that it is de...
That is definitely a descriptive version of my perspective. My feeling is that there are fundamental aspects of humanity that it is difficult for peop...
Yes, I'm kind of leaning that way. My sense is that embracing the larger (than self) reality is tantamount to the recognition of (self) transcendent v...
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