In laconic review of what you have yet to reply to: Operational knowledge cannot be demonstrated to be devoid of all possible error; ideal knowledge i...
OK, chap. To first get this out of the way: I've provided definitions for all belief types I've utilized and support. As to defining belief in general...
I’m writing this because you so far strike me as a warm soul and because your comments are of some interest to me. And I’ve wanted to enquire into thi...
If I haven’t mentioned it in a super-explicit form before, I will now: my stated affirmation is itself fallible; i.e., not perfectly secure form all p...
Glad to hear. Still, I have no interest in rereading the entire thread on a daily basis to see which newly lengthened posts require my re-reading due ...
Bears repeating, huh? To alleviate some potential ambiguity: In my experience beliefs can decay just as easily as they can be gained. My former belief...
It strikes me as putting the cart before the horse. Else as tautological and hence as much ado about nothing: "everything this is an unreflective beli...
Are we of a sudden skipping back to the issue of pre-linguistic justification? With some ambiguity. The post you quoted from was addressing learned be...
Yes, or OK, but in all honestly I dislike the term “objective” in this context. Knowledge and truths are held by subjective beings and, therefore, are...
To some degree this is already so. But, yea, it would be nice. Yes. Since you left it at that I guess I’d need to clarify some of my underlying positi...
I found your statement somewhat ambiguous and was doing my best to cover all the bases, just in case. The more important part of my reply was this: In...
Cheers, amigo. Good news is I managed to do the more important parts of what I should’ve done. But back to debating. Well, not by my count. The analog...
As in, a) “Reason / the Just / the Good made me do it—so it’s not my fault,” or b) “I did it—and it is therefore my blame/praise—due to my convictions...
:blush: ... well. Yea, but I make an big effort to prioritize the stuff that ought to be prioritizing right now. So ... not that my word is in any way...
OK P3 is to me not true/right/correct. By analogy: I can be aware of time (as can most any lesser mammal, for example) without needing to have an awar...
Having both engaged in independent psychological (cognitive science) experiments (particularly, in the importance of eyes v. mouth in human non-lingui...
Hey, I’m trusting the info based on what I take to be the fact that the information on both sciencedaily and Wikipedia would not be up there were it t...
Very true. Yet, to me at least, the only meaningful distinction is between a Humean Compatibilism and that of Determinism. If determinism, than all ag...
To answer all relevant points in all your posts would require a very long essay. I’ll try to focus attention of issues of belief and thought in non-li...
Of course. Very good points. I thing think both me and creativesoul were limiting ourselves to how it might pertain to lesser animals. Feel free to co...
I find that you’re thinking of right/wrong in too abstract a manner—as only relatively mature humans can do. Yet very young children sense when they d...
I don’t follow. Here, written hastily enough, a more formal argument: -- Premise 1: If there is uncertainty of any form, there will be uncertainty abo...
Even if so, we maybe agree that one does not need to doubt in order to trust? So we may hold beliefs that are justifiable and true without needing to ...
Well, again, for me to believe is to trust that; and a belief is the contents of that which is trusted. If to doubt is to presume some preestablished ...
My answer is an unequivocal "yes". To doubt one must first hold a trust for that which is accurate, for one example. Since we were talking about non-l...
Good to know. ---------- Edit: Maybe I was too laconic with my answer. As to Nirvana being the end of samsara, I’ve read of this, naturally. I’ve also...
I’d go with the latter. In this situation, there something of the Buddhist thought that I rely on (to the extent my interpretations even come close to...
Then I’ve misunderstood some crucial aspect of transcendental apperception. I was previously thinking it was, in part, a way of addressing that proces...
True, but there are certain experiences which do not consist of a first person point of view perceiving, sensing, or understanding something other—oth...
Wikipedia defines thought as encompassing a “goal oriented flow of ideas and associations that leads to a reality-oriented conclusion.” Granting this ...
no :razz: :up: Then again, no one can be perfectly educated, and the ambition to become better educated is always a good thing for, well, typically, a...
Two things to assist in your reply. (I probably won't be around for a day or two) The proposition that there is nothing ontic directly entails the fol...
But of course. Yes and no. But here, to approach the matter from a different angle, we'd start addressing the issue of universals. Justness, or the pr...
Can rational justification be infallible, i.e. perfectly secure form all possible error? I don’t believe it can. This does lead into a major quandary ...
My more justified answers to your posts are contingent on a number of metaphysical conclusions. I’ll try to do my best to reply without embarking upon...
Well, to me that sounds more like the role of a counselor. Good teachers however can wear many hats. Thing is, shoot … I think the best way I can expr...
Don’t know. Children, I believe, just feel the vanity to it without knowing how to articulate it. Adults, sometimes, learn to believe that getting eve...
It’s been going on for a while where I'm at. Because it’s contradictory to our innate sense of merit, to feeling rewarded for successfully overcoming ...
Yea. I was a high-school teacher in Compton once. Spoke from some personal experience. Kids that are intelligent—with a big emphasis on this—but don’t...
Just saw some similar comments, but since I’m feeling a bit cranky myself: Uhum. To hell with happiness. You want to be happy go to Disney town until ...
My reason for presenting it in the way that I did was, largely, to illustrate the difference between justified / well-grounded beliefs (in the latter ...
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