Yes. From today's point of view I am. I wanted to present the perspective I've mentioned since its uncommon today though very much accordant to positi...
A reason can be a cause, a motive (which is basically a teleological cause), or an explanation. What are you addressing by “a reason”? If you are addr...
It’s only a simplified example. The moment we choose our intentions is also when then become to us competing alternatives—themselves governed by other...
The reason here is a motive, a motive that governs why one would choose one alternative over the others. But the motive itself is not any of the alter...
I’m taking a step back from your last post to me. This isn’t so much to convince as it is an attempt to help you understand why physicalism can be inc...
OK, a fair reply. You are right in that I don’t view identity to be in and of itself an explanation. We could go about saying “X is so because it is X...
I had causal explanations in mind. You have a brain; its alive; there's this very complex thing called awareness. How? --------- I should clarify. How...
OK, in your view, does physicalism explain the presence of awareness? Or, as it’s more commonly addressed, of consciousness. I ask because tmk, accord...
Hm, if you don’t know what the quote is saying, how would you know that the chapter doesn’t address it? You kind’s lost me with that one. As it turns ...
On second thought ... Just in case you’re somewhat sincere, the “first principles” of the work can be found here: https://michaelwmoiceanu.com/2018/09...
Yea. It's in the works. But I grant, it doesn't work well in soundbites. But I am tempted. It'll have to do with degrees of certainty, though (none of...
I believe that was in reference to my statement. Its saying "matter as sub-stance (that upon which everything is founded)" " No, my intuition has litt...
Ok, taken in context of this thread, it was addressing what the "good reason" to question materialism is. I feel certain that other reasons can also b...
I'm not going to get into an argument about what the "usual folk metaphysics" is ... other than to say that most folks take matter to be substantial. ...
One good argument runs along the lines of: Because awareness matters … to all of us … except maybe when we've got our head in the clouds philosophizin...
You’ve never heard of kids burning up ants with magnifying glasses? Without pride in so saying, I’ve done so as a kid, also pulled wings off of flies....
Finding agreement with what you say, I’ll add to it: I’ve read it that there are two types of power: power-over and power-with. Power-over is about au...
Yes, it was written in haste. I here intended “ego” in what I understand to be its Latin sense. But, even so, I acknowledge this could still become am...
No, I didn’t intend that it is harmful. I intended that such approach is beneficial to establishing the presence of what is often termed the external ...
Attempts to base the reality of the physical world on appearances has traditionally led into problems. One example being that of Berkley’s need for an...
You seem to not have read my post. No, I've never seen it. I'm venturing that nether have you. So: A: awareness exists because we are aware. or B: awa...
:lol: Shucks, I guess that no awareness can then be. As in, you can see your eyes in a mirror but not the you as an ever changing awareness that is se...
Replying more to the title than to the OP: That’s how insults work; you produce thoughts of another’s pain that you don’t feel yourself, then act by h...
I can at least in part concede, and agree. From my vantage: When we do devise symbols, we don’t do so from and in relation to nothing but, instead, in...
Sure. One could argue that the truth is a) always uncreated (we don’t, for example, create the truths we perceive—such as in, “look, a tree is over th...
Regardless of whether one believes in spiritual realms or not: If a miracle is defined as an event that is contradictory to natural laws, and if the p...
Ea, maybe I’m picking at straws. But then, if a Pegasus is just a horse with wings, wouldn’t the conclusion preserve truth? As in, because horses can ...
Isn’t a winged horse by definition not a horse? (Its proper term being a Pegasus.) In parallel, I’m thinking that a unicorn is not a horse. Or, a sphi...
Much of this will be contestable, so I’m up to hearing of alternative slants. Eternity is limitless time. Infinity (i.e., “without end”) is tmk nowada...
Conclusions can be deemed erroneous due their being contradictory—either relative to themselves, as in some obtained conclusion that affirms A and not...
To you, yes. But hey, that’s the wacky nature of mind: it’s personal to the awareness involved. If you are aware of your thoughts and your thoughts th...
I don’t have the discipline to not do this. I’m kicking myself in the buttocks already. First off I never read anything by this guy, but I’ve heard of...
Just because we can conceive of alternative(s) for X does not make the alternative(s) true. E.g. That the Earth is pyramidal in shape, though this is ...
:grin: I like that. Objectivity as the quality of being impartially shared between/among all--rather then the property of physicality as it applies to...
Aren’t ideas and concepts by their very nature not empirical? This in the modern sense of the word, where empiricism is understood as all experience s...
Yea, dreams are a very interesting field of study I for the most part consider so far unexplored. Freud I think ruined it for a great portion of peopl...
The thought of a hovercraft came to mind. At some last point in history the idea/concept of a hovercraft was not present—though cars, airplanes, and h...
:grin: If this "God" has an ego, an "I", then is it the biggest ego that has ever existed or can exist? Such an, um, egoistic individual would likely ...
I haven’t read the guy’s works for a long time now, so I admit to being somewhat fuzzy on the details. As to the problem of induction which he’s renow...
I grant this as minimally being an accurate generality, but believe that when two or more distinct concepts become synthesized this will in and of its...
From my remembrance of his writings, he only denies that it is decuctively rational to believe laws of nature. Yet he fully upholds that it is inducti...
I greatly doubt that we’ll find common ground. I’ve also lost the desire to further debate this issue. I’m giving a partial reply so as to not be utte...
According to the Kama Sutra, this is not true. Elephants are better for elephants and rabbits are better for rabbits, usually. I suppose ducks should ...
Firstly, thanks for this reply. I would also like to learn of your views regarding dogs' deception and the nature by which well-grounded-ness comes ab...
Yea, these are among the more fine tuned issues concerning the matter: but of course fallibilism leaves the proverbial door open. To affirm an infalli...
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