I think, maybe, we might now be in agreement? To use your own terminology: If others think of the thinker A as ignorant, and if the thinker A thinks o...
Ditto, although I favor something more akin to the "awareness-er". Maybe delving into these metaphysical waters would get us too close for comfort to ...
Yet the same can be said of anything physical: e.g. knowledge of a rock consists of the rock to the self or the rock to others. But this does not then...
Hm … do you then hold that human selfhood is Berkeleyan (“to be is to be perceived”) while reality is not? This where reality includes things such as ...
Don’t have an answer for the OP, and while I agree that the human self is in many a way interpersonal and multidimensional, the implications of this m...
OK then, maybe I've read too much into what you're saying. I'll give it another go. From the OP: So, "philosophy means 'love of wisdom'" and "wisdom r...
An argument: the proposition that axiology (i.e. the philosophical study of value)—which can thereby include the study of ethical and aesthetic values...
Hmm, the definition provided can be an instance of feigned ignorance intended to confound or provoke. Its intended meaning could be that the search fo...
I’m surprised that no one has so far stated this obvious definition: “Irony” means “having the quality of iron”. For example, “The Iron Age was very i...
Either way, wouldn’t the full list be never completed, hence never expressed, hence remain inexpressible? :razz: ... But there's always more to be exp...
You’ve misunderstood. I’m saying that first-person awareness - such as of word-sounds - can be said to supervene upon neural networks but that this do...
In short, unless one has his head up in faith land (I don't differentiate between theists and atheists in this), all one knows will be acknowledged fa...
I'd rephrase it: correct (what is right) is good; incorrect (what is wrong) is bad. Don't know, but am thinking this might make significant difference...
You wanted things simple, so I expressed a simple example. That adults take the example for granted does not imply that so do young enough children fi...
As do I, as I believe I previously expressed via "verification and falsification". The good, goodness, expands far beyond morality. "That was a good m...
Not necessarily. We perpetually verify and, where possible, falsify: one apple and one apple indeed equate to two apples and not one. All the same, do...
Ha. Is this fear before rationality? If converging psychology, ethics, and neuroscience is off-putting to you, then by all means proceed otherwise. Go...
It was about correctness, not truth. Though I grant the two can overlap. In simplistic terms, when one appraises if 1 + 1 = 2 is correct, one's judgme...
This to me gets into the issue of universals. One could also stipulate that since each and every apple is unique no such thing as the concept of apple...
I wasn't addressing lack of disagreement. I was addressing the possibility of an objectively true psychological reality that universally applies to al...
You've cut the first quoted sentence short. I find the sentence important in it's entirety, including the part about "the culturally-relative, abstrac...
To introduce some Buddhist-like thought, which of any can occur independently of a qualitative metric consisting of conscious being’s suffering? I’m s...
Aren't all variations of memory (e.g. short term memory and long term memory) the storage (however imperfect it may be) of what occurs in the present ...
My bad. Should of added a smiley face or something. My post was tongue-in-cheek. No, I'm in agreement with you. :up: ... still maintaining that experi...
I’m not getting it. How does the brain make use of words to bring into being mental events, such as those of word recognition and usage? I could get t...
For me “walk” is too ambiguous, since it’s something that can be learned via classical or operant conditioning. Haven’t checked but I presume pigeons ...
Cats also have a hippocampus, but tmk show no evidence of being able to associate words to concepts. So the presence of a hippocampus in a brain does ...
Eh, for my part, yours is a trite retort, especially seeing the lack of coherent rebuttals to the arguments I’ve provided. FYI, there’re other kinds o...
It would be pretty fly of him if he could so demonstrate. :wink: Freedom … it can be such a cockeyed concept. Some seek freedom from reality; others f...
With the understanding that a concept is an abstraction abstracted from particulars: In terms of languageless creatures and language, dogs, for one ex...
Was in a rush with my last post; sorry about that. I had something more fundamental in mind. Loaded words may indeed be more easily changed in a langu...
If you're speaking in general, it's contingent on a lot of factors. Choosing not to ever say "red" would hence likely not be in my pragmatic interests...
Without turning crimson, as I previously said, you can nay it any time. Languages after all evolve via such yey and nay of peoples all the time. Wheth...
I could be on board with your metaphor of "clumsy building blocks". As to the question itself, please go for it if you find any faults; I'll rephrase ...
For many, “mommy” and daddy” are the first words we willfully consent to using - though, granted, we might not have memories of it. Color words come l...
The first time one makes use of the word as it’s expressed to oneself by others, one agrees, or willfully consents, to its use. One can also disagree ...
No, it's not morally different. No more than would be pulling the trigger of a gun - flipping its switch, so to speak - so as to accomplish the same r...
Banno sort of beat me to the punch a little, but I’m going to join in for a second anyway. It’s to be acknowledged that words for colors have meaning ...
… until they aren’t. Hence: Nietzsche’s principle of will to power, Freud’s principle of will to pleasure (in fairness, together with his reality prin...
That's a very nice way of expressing my current view on the matter. Well ... thanks. :up: Especially in relation to your insightful analysis of truth ...
:grin: Am reminded of "tears of joy" ... could happen ... but your point is well taken. I’m unclear as to how to best interpret this. But in addressin...
It need not be unknowable in principle, just unknown in practice - and we would need to know that it is so. Some givens, via reasoning or experience, ...
It always struck me as odd that a bunch of numbskulls oblivious to the fact that a train is about to hit them should be rescued so as to live and repr...
I’m curious: How do you differentiate the philosophical issue of “how one should live” from that of “morality”? (I view the former as a subset of ethi...
You say, “unreal to everyone else,” am I’m about as flabbergasted as one can get. Like, the wants, the desires, of your loved ones are unreal to you u...
In trying to address the basics: Because psychological wants have no reality? If wants are real, then there will necessarily be truth-apt propositions...
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