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Interesting. I find this in some ways directly speaks to what “love of wisdom” – i.e., philosophy – was initially intended to be about. I can also rel...

In trying my best to understand this question, I'll say yes: Fallible knowledge can be wrong in principle. But this question strikes me as addressing ...

Yes, but they do not answer the question I asked. Because the knowledge of reality the worldview is based on (this being different than being equivale...

Lots of questions that don't address the question I asked. That worldview is Buddhism. Just as physicalism is an umbrella concept to many a variety, s...

Addressing this via the more general issue of insight into deeper levels of reality and with the following in mind: If a Buddhist monk’s worldview is ...

Duely noted.

Aye. In many a way its right up there with p-zombies and brains in a vat. But these are only a problem in practice if one is in search of infallible k...

A different topic altogether, but I wanted to comment: If perception necessarily addresses the apprehension of phenomena, then no, one as consciousnes...

Nice. Both passages you quote strike me as coming from folk that have tried to “express heretofore inexpressible insights” via prose and, as such, I c...

BTW, I should add to the just posted that, as per Neo-Platonism wherein the One is equivalent to the Good, one can interpret that only the Good is a p...

Although I'm not sure, something along the lines of Wayfarer's suggestion currently seem quite plausible: I find that passage you quote itself open to...

I'm aware of that. While I do not speak Ancient Greek, from my studies the word in Ancient Greek can convey different meanings or else sub-meaning. He...

Here's a translation I found online: What is here translated as "essence" is in some cases translated as "being", and it was interpretations of this t...

What any text says can only be understood via interpretation of the said text; namely, of what was intended by the text's author. Plato's writing is n...

BTW, if you tack on questions to me after you've made a post, I might not see them. But maybe you already knew this? And how are any of the examples y...

That's fine by me. But then when you stipulate "external" what are you saying "external" in reference to?

Given an example of such "necessary ignorance" which should remain off limits to investigation? Ha. Scientific hypothesis are "made up shit in the fac...

You haven't been following the discussion too closely, then. Yes, Socrates/Plato stated that the Good as Form is beyond being.

Socrates's being aware that he does not hold infallible knowledge of anything whatsoever does not equate to a state of him ignoring that which is the ...

Were Socrates/Plato to have understood "being" within the linguistic and cultural contexts of their time as consisting of that which comes into being ...

I wasn't gonna comment, but: We seem to either be suffering from an absence of mirrors in which to see our own selves and conducts on this forum or el...

The issue was how does one define, else understand, being - this, specifically, in terms of Plato's affirmations. I happen to agree. Hence my contenti...

As I previously mentioned via analogy of gravitational singularities, this conclusion is erroneous. Here's another example, Kant knew that he did not ...

:100: And I'm in agreement with your post in general.

Not an easy issue, but it does revolve around “external to what?” Here’s an outline of my current take on this: Suppose idealism. Fine, but even here ...

That A cannot know what X is does not imply that A cannot know of X's occurrence and of certain properties by which X is delineated. By analogy, we kn...

I’ll give it one last go: We all appraise ourselves as being better than some others in some respect, including that of comprehending something which ...

I’ll exaggerate this to make the intended point clearer: Who among us does not presume themselves better than all lesser animals in knowing something ...

Thanks. Metaphors we all commonly know, like being "lighthearted" or like having "feelings", will in one sense not be esoteric to us. In other ways, b...

I'll venture to say that those who so dismiss metaphorical thinking can only be hypocrites, for - as per my initial post - they live and breathe in me...

I get what you're saying, and in many ways I agree. As one example, in the absence of transparency and clarity, many who are unscrupulous will use the...

Metaphor runs deep in our thinking: from being light-hearted to being on top of, and hence superior to, to having feelings, these not being tactile bu...

Again, our semantics are too different for me to engage in meaningful discussions with you on this particular topic. But I will point out that there i...

Well, to affirm that, "nothingness once was" is a contradiction in terms when nothingness is equated to nonbeing. The term "was" is the past tense of ...

Thank you for the relatively in-depth reply. The semantics the two of us use for being and non-being are significantly different. Because of this, I t...

This "we" which you here reference, they'd be "interested in looking into the ideas were arguments with possibly some evidence" to be provided by me f...

I take it that by "absolute nothingness" one means absolute non-being rather than being which is devoid of things and hence thingness. Nirvana, as one...

Eh, humor is in the heart of the beholder, as are best interpretations of what makes something funny to begin with. Which is to say, we hold different...

I'm guessing you don't then like dark humor? As with most everything, satire can either be good or bad. The good forms of satire make one, often painf...

There is a logical equivocation in what consciousness is when implicitly stipulating that one’s (consciousness’s) being conscious of the cat is equiva...

:grin: Just saw this. A sincere thanks! Btw, if you're still interested, can you offer any references in philosophical literature to the notion of cha...

The occurrence of consciousness doesn't follow out of the science either. Unless one here wants to deny the reality of consciousness on these very sam...

:up: As I tangentially alluded to in another post, were reductionism to be a valid means of explaining - and thereby gaining knowledge of - all that i...

For my part, I applaud this sentiment. :grin:

Emergence of individual minds from, and their supervenience on, the physical can be in principle explained just five via certain versions of idealism,...

Isn't etymology evidence of a word's previous meanings via which its current meaning has in large part come to be? Which I find directly speaks to @"L...

You've misinterpreted what I meant by "physicality in total". In the context used, I intended that physicality of which we are a) directly acquainted ...

With it lacking any verifiable etymology, I often interpret “copacetic” phonetically to mean that when one is ascetically coping with things, one is k...

I will answer yes: rationally. If laws of thought develop from physicality, then, prior to their development, physicality would not be in any conceiva...

I view things to go deeper than that. Question: In what way can the basic laws of thought either rationally or empirically be evidenced to not in and ...