Yea, as ascetic as I might have unwillingly become at certain points in my life, this is antithetical to me and my outlook. Experience is for experien...
While I'm here, also in reference to what I previously quoted, namely, the duality between being and non-being: My strong hunch is that there is equiv...
Just happened upon this. In its English format, is this supposed to in fact be "absolute nothingness" or "absolute no thingness". The two are by no me...
If you say so. Still, to make my former point a bit clearer, in the absence of an “is” which grounds our “oughts”, all systems of ethics can be decrie...
Since your invoking Hume’s guillotine—short of the “is” of The Good, as per platonic or neoplatonic notions—what then might be rationally used to esta...
Since I don’t know if you’re knowledgeable of this, it might be of interest to check out an overview of the Gaia Hypothesis, maybe especially when it ...
Hopefully I'm taking this well out of context, but it did hit a nerve. So I'm addressing this not to you in particular but as a general reply in respe...
None of which provides a justifiably true belief of what demarcates mind from non-mind. This so as to address the question asked. For example, that mi...
I don't so far find justification for this claim. But groovy all the same. Then, please enlighten me as to what we all know "mind" to be in the ordina...
Unlike this very statement, what I said was neither gibberish nor poetry – instead being a rational proposition. Rather, delineating “mind-independenc...
So as to not overly focus on Chistian beliefs, I should maybe add that the non-physicalist understanding of numbers as I’ve just outlined it pervades ...
Thanks for that, and I by this am not in any way disagreeing with your reply. In the part I've just quoted: I find consistency and correspondence/conf...
I understand. Although don't we here then embark into areas of faith, rather then those of belief which can be justified. Yes, I can agree, hence why ...
Aye, I don’t want to turn this thread into one of epistemology. But to answer … And yet we live in a world where some people, some more fervently than...
What I find to be an important issue in all this is how "mind" is defined or else understood. For one example, in C.S. Peirce's philosophy of objectiv...
To answer your questions: Yes, I consider 2 + 2 = 4 a categorical belief (for the degree of reality I endow it with is extreme). Yes, it is a fallible...
I'm running out of steam and getting short on time. I still don't get why you defend physicalism against the possibility of non-physicalism when you s...
Maybe if you didn't promote the worship of a nihilistic death as ultimate salvation, and this ad nauseam, I'd then find some reason to take you seriou...
You're telling us to withdraw while not withdrawing. I again call this out as hypocrisy. Is there some coherent reasoning for why this is not the case...
Maybe I jumped the gun a bit. Do you take a categorical belief to be absolute? Granting no such thing as infallible beliefs, what would an absolute be...
On what grounds if both percepts are physical in the same way via the functioning of the brain. (To better drive the point home, I'll specify that the...
Epistemology is not directly related to the real world? I disagree. I really dislike the idea of "absolute/infallible certainty" being something that ...
How is a distinction between the perceived physical cat and the perceived non-physical cat to be made when both are equally "neural process and hence ...
No. I mean that phisicalism has internal inconsistencies of logical reasoning - mostly having to do with awareness. The last unaddressed example I mad...
There a rather long enough post in which I explained, to which you did not directly reply. What does philosophical analysis address? The real world or...
Given your shpiel, I can only assume this is an honest question. To answer honestly: because friendship reduces suffering. I'm pretty sure this is sup...
Is this to say that Agape, Philia, and the like are wrongs to be avoided and shunned? After all, if there for example is no "emotional entanglements" ...
Out of curiosity, how do you deem any of these generalities you mention to touch upon the philosophical analysis of what beliefs are and are not - thi...
This is starting to overly deviate from the thread’s theme, but since you here invoke what philosophical analysis ought to consist of with a broad str...
Using the same reasoning, then you'd claim that "it is not strictly true that I believe the sun will rise again tomorrow", this because I believe it m...
I'm not big on that distinction. For starters, as a falliblist, upon analysis all my beliefs are graded (probabilistic or else comparable) - this even...
Are you then in search for infallible proof. I've none to give ... regarding anything whatsoever. Yes, I know what it means. This is not always the ca...
That's a bit confrontational to me. And, as I previously expressed, I'm not interested in so doing. As to your other replies, they sidestep the questi...
Hmm, because of its implications. There a bunch of other reasons, but as one significant gripe I have with it (here placing its inconsistencies aside)...
Hmm. Physicalism can be defined as entailing that everything which does or can occur can only be physical in its nature. (In keeping with part of @"Wa...
Reasons such as these?: Yes, I can provide them, but I don't think reasons will here much help. We are all typically attached to the notions we are ha...
OK, thanks for your reply. We disagree in multiple ways. But, since I don't much feel like argument at the moment, I prefer to leave it at that. Yes "...
And, at minimum, part of the medium you address has to be physicality, aka physical reality - that same physicality of which our brains are made up of...
Not to dispel the question you've posed, but only to observe that the way in which it is posed the issues are lot more complex than not. Our perceptio...
Fair enough. I'll try. First, we all know in our heart of hearts that solipsism is false. Therefore, ours is not the only mind that currently occurs i...
If you re-read what was my initial reply to MU, you'll see that I also believe there exists a world independent of individual minds, and so I too agre...
If what is addressed by the term “reality” (I presume physical reality which, in a nutshell, is that actuality (or set of actualities) which affects a...
The (scientific) explanation allows for no exceptions. How could the force of gravity have been known prior to the force of gravity being discovered -...
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