Generally speaking, isn’t this one of the logical entailments of physicalism? But since neither can physicalism as metaphysics be proven with infallib...
The part you quoted wanted to make a distinction between pleasure and eudemonia. Namely, that pleasure is of a transient nature whereas eudemonia is n...
I'm replying more to my overall impression of the OP in total than to any particular thing, and this will be a bit of a ramble as well: Can’t remember...
If I’m interpreting you correctly: I know this would be a vast debate on its own. Feel free to disagree, of course. But for me, “reality” is merely th...
You mean that Evolog guy? Maybe the bloke changed his avatar name to something less fancy, and changed his mind about terming things “objective ideali...
Noticed that you’ve so far only addressed intersubjective reality in the singular. Although all this might go without saying, I wanted to make it expl...
Given my (maybe peculiar) interpretations, this could be else worded as that which “just-is” (in the sense of being sans cause) … also, with “just” in...
Since I’ve recently had the issue of governance on my mind, wanted to embellish my previous reply to this with something that is of interest to me - t...
Glad to hear you acknowledge so. Meanwhile, you don't happen to hold a monopoly on the semantics to the term "democracy" do you? Little old me - we've...
Strictly speaking, it all depends on the semantics we have in mind. So, three tyrannical brothers that don't give a fuddle about what science says who...
This to me has funny implications. I take democracy to be inclusive - this as an ideal it strives for. The Orwellian propaganda of "bringing democracy...
Fully agreed. To add: Culturally, this can often get confusing due to the commonly understood semantics of "objects" - despite, for example, concepts ...
Trite, but I’ll play along. Vote for what? For what is real, right? Scientists do this every time they offer a conclusion to the data that is gathered...
If democracy is not mob rule wherein “might makes right (both morally and factually)” but, instead, incorporates the ideals of consent via compromise ...
As for myself, furthering this metaphor, many species of thought have become extinct. We might be able to discover their fossilized remains within our...
We are very likely interpreting the term “thing” in different ways. “I am a thing” to me doesn’t register. As for the main gist of the quote: A rock a...
Taking a different route, if I’m understanding you correctly: Since no singular first person point of view remains the same over time - e.g., the you ...
You seem to have misread what I wrote. To try to better explain via the law of identity: X = X. Hence, "a first person point of view = a first person ...
I’ll expand my views on this a little in reference to consciousness. As I was previously implying, consciousness as an abstract conceptual noun has no...
Yes, me as well. Though I yet maintain that there is some underlying reality that is signified. In a way it reminds me of a ruby metaphor: the same ge...
I'll check it out. Seems like a worthwhile read. Have to ask, have you ever experienced concepts that are not communicable via the language(s) you spe...
Definitely not boring, and certainty insightful. I agree that meaning is not static, fixed, but instead fluid and alive (allegorically speaking). It's...
Though not new to me, I find this to be an interesting take. I'd like to know if you'd affirm the same of the term awareness. More specifically, in yo...
I like some of his takes as well. That geometric points don’t really hold being other than in our abstract contemplations I too take as a given. To tr...
Got it. Thanks for the clarification. Existence is a very ambiguous term in philosophy: can either imply something along the lines of “that which stan...
My point to this being that, though the theory of relativity is in itself a model of reality, it accurately describes those aspects of nature it is re...
… or, in the words of the Cheshire Cat, “we’re all mad here”. It’s the ones that take themselves to be fully, absolutely, infallibly sane that you hav...
I am of the same opinion. With the paradox addressed in mind, this stance in turn implies that our conceptual quantification of space and time, as a m...
I like this. To me the temporal aspects of the paradox are nicely addressed and resolved in the OP. All the same, my problem with Zeno’s arrow paradox...
Imo, the ancient Greek understanding of nature – or of the physical – would be direly incomplete without an ancient Greek understanding of logos. I he...
If assuming idealism, by not assuming a solipsistic idealism. All other beings are just as much at their own center of the universe as you yourself ar...
An assertion of fact based on what evidence? In all honesty, my experience contradicts it. Given that the experience which “tip of the tongue” specifi...
Specify what you take to be the assumptions, please. I, btw, don't take the occurrence of experience - be it in general or in particular - to be an as...
Since a) we all hold the capacity to lie, b) we are all adults (more or less), and c) the adults that affirm they have never told a lie will most cert...
Joking, I presume. I'll offer that only the term's perceptual properties (both visual and auditory) are forgotten, and that terms are always percepts ...
Since the topic's been revived: What correlation, association, and/or connection would you ascribe to the meaning of a term that is at the tip of one’...
There’s a term for this. Empathy. It happens when one experiences the experiences of another. If one doesn’t experience the experiences of another as ...
Your statement is ambiguous, so I'll ask: How does this compare to the semantics of the term selfish as, for example, listed on Wiktionary?: My basic ...
When would suicide (self-murder) be anything other than a selfish act? One seeks to escape pain, conceives of death as a perfect liberation from all p...
Wrong analogy. Its more along the lines of what Nirvana signifies to some: being in the form of awareness sans any selfhood and, by entailment, any ot...
I in no way disagree with this. We often use absolutes in qualifying people, as in “that person is selfish” and “that person is selfless”. If a person...
There are emotions that in English are labeled “love” which are selflessness-yearning or aspiring and there are emotions also termed “love” in English...
Not very charitable of you, but I've no intention to bicker. The suggestion that FLN (narrow faculty of language) – namely, universal grammar (UG) – w...
I get the sarcasm and your dislike, but I don't yet get why. About the same account could be given for our bipedalism. We don't yet know the specifics...
To my recollection, Chomsky’s, Pinker’s, et al.’s hypothesis concerns neither language nor communication (where differentiated) but the grammatical sy...
To me, at least, you’re addressing things outside of their proper conceptual order. So I would address things in this way: Firstly, is truth - conform...
(Just saw that @"Janus" addressed something of the same. Notwithstanding, I’m still interested in your answers) From a theoretical view of what knowle...
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