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What you are referring to as scientific facts, I am calling observations that can be used to predict the behavior in non-living matter to a certain le...

Having a choice does not declare an outcome. I might choose to try to cross a street but another free willer may choose to strike me with an auto befo...

Now we have an example of something which I know to be true, i.e. I don't go to doctors or hospitals (a fact?) vs. what you don't believe. Would you b...

There is actually a huge population that share my beliefs, you are simply not aware of this because they are a minority in the U.S. However, the U.S s...

My approach to question led me to formulate ideas that dovetails that of Bergson, Bohm, Robbins and even Da Vinci. That is, there is a Elan Vitale (vi...

Actually I don't. I generally take care of myself. But medicine is a great example of conflicting modalities, techniques, approaches, theories, etc. M...

And this is where your belief and my belief diverges. I have never found anything in science that is anything more than observation that are almost al...

Yes, what you are describing is shared beliefs based upon observations of some sort. You observe, the other person observes, you both share observatio...

I believe that for the most part, I am learning something all the time. Every experience, every event enters into me and I learn from it. It is this f...

I do not feel like a pawn. In actuality, I feel like someone who is learning and exploring. When I observe babies growing into children growing into a...

In my analysis of the way things are, I have found that what we have is not necessarily relativism but rather a constant interaction between the perso...

I don't know what the fact is? That the student used a device to weigh something? Presumably true, but I can tell you in my class students cheated and...

Since I was in a measurement class in high school, I can tell you that we had high precision devices, all of which had tolerance levels, and students ...

The cat is on the mat is most certainly not a fact. It is just an observation that has since passed and there is a very distinct possibility that that...

Yes, a "weight of an object" can be disputed in so many different ways that it is one of the easiest ways to refute it is an example of a fact.

Language, as an excitement of the human, personal spirit, is very revealing in many dimensions. It not only reveals new revelations that we wish to sh...

In the first instance there is ambiguity because of many factors that go into the general belief system called statistics and the formation of the bel...

There is not. The U.S. government itself has various unemployment figures all concocted in their own way and subject to scrutiny and disagreement. Is ...

Female philosophers tend to operate in a different domain, e.g. fiction writing where the philosophy of the mind is often penetrated and revealed. Dor...

Something is true if someone believes it to be true - subject to constant change. In school we are taught certain beliefs are true and so arises a gen...

Sure there are facts and false facts. These are words and phrases that are assigned to different beliefs in order to elevate the beliefs to something ...

Just the facts please. Unfortunately, there are no such things. It is literally a figment of ones imagination. The desire to place weight into a belie...

Not to the journalists. Contradiction to the reader. Everyone is just giving the facts. They just happen to contradict for reasons already explained.

Someone simply has a belief about something at the current time and states it or doesn't, as they wish. This belief changes as the memory of that beli...

One must always be vigalent for liars posing as fact givers. That is why we have journalists all providing the public with contradictory facts. I gues...

So you say based upon your own perceptions and understanding of what it means to be on a mat. Someone else from a different angle may say differently....

If it is not a belief then one must claim that they have the ability to state a fact without imbuing the statement without any personal subjectivity. ...

If facts are the case regardless of beliefs then they are inaccessible, and therefore becomes a general concept with no concrete examples.

I am not convinced that simply because someone is sure about something, e.g. where the cat is, is enough to make it a fact. Being positive about somet...

The arithmetic symbolic representation is something that is learned as a child and is merely a convention. The actual imprinting of this concept as so...

Then it is pretty much what I described originally. A belief which a certain population agrees upon as being a fact. The population can be one, two, o...

Just want to know who decides? Who is nominated to decide what is a fact based upon their observations? And how is this communicated? Very fundamental...

So it is your understanding that cats know about mats and can communicate their position on the mat telepathically with humans? At that point, I guess...

I hope the cat is a good observer and shares his position accurately without uttering.

Then who decides is the whereabouts of the cat? I cannot see how a fact can be divorced from the uttered fact.

If you can't utter it then it is some idea in someone's memory and therefore as yet had not become a fact but rather a potential fact - I guess. Of co...

Any fact that I utter. I made the decision or others made the decision and I just agree. July 4th is Independence Day. Someone decided it. I was taugh...

Then I'm really confused. Without divine intervention, how do facts come into being?

Then who decides what is a fact?

Agreed. So facts are just beliefs since there is no way to decide what is a fact without decisions.

Who decides? How do you get personal, subjective observation out of the mix? Impossible.

"Facts" or rather memory states are no different from any other object in that b they are all fundamentally energetic in nature. The difference is on ...

The correct formulation of the problem is that you have a choice to choose heads, tails, or on end or any other outcome you might think of). What actu...

I agree. It concentration of wealth coupled with unsustainable growth in debt that consistently leads to extreme social unrest. This has been the case...

It is impossible to separate an observation from the observation. It cannot be done. Without the observer there is no memory of the event from which t...

Facts are just statements that lots of people agree on - always subject to change. They may even believe that they are agreeing on the same facts but ...

There is not only room, it is inevitable. The bigger the "government industry" gets the seedier and more corrupt are the people it attracts, especiall...

Hopefully, what you would gain is some insight to creative thinking when contemplating the nature of people and the universe, which are some basic que...

Yes, everyone is different and thinks and senses differently. However, there are enough simalarities so that in many instances we can negotiate agreem...

One can analyze all one wishes but the difference between the two is a matter of taste. It is easier to root for a government of justice as opposed to...