I haven’t heard it formally addressed by name so far in this thread, though it’s been more or less directly alluded to: sexual selection is an importa...
I’m currently interpreting the following to be in line with your outlook, and since it fits into the thread’s subject: I’ve come to understand belief ...
Yes, its a promising idea; still, replacing words with definitions can make communication cumbersome. The longer a definition the more cumbersome the ...
I strongly disagree with this notion. But I’ll just address it in this way: The Mike Tyson’s of the world can pulverize the world’s Einsteins; therefo...
In the words of the British, buggers. I was hoping to get on with other things, but since this is intellectually stimulating … What I was hinting at l...
Hey, thanks for the thoughtful reply. Yea, human language is built to connote human language dependent concepts when it comes to many a mind-associate...
In my previous post I addressed what I intended by the term "to justify" as process and "justification" as an instance of this process. The concept I ...
Not sure who you’re addressing this to, but so it doesn’t go un-replied: Once you get to the roundabout point you address, the ensuing issue is: >>> H...
Then illustrate how none of the three examples I provided for justification via causal reasoning is in fact a form of valid justification. Otherwise, ...
In all fairness, the precise definition of reasoning is a fuzzy issue in philosophy, granted. But I’m hoping that some linguistic ambiguity might be t...
I’ve intentionally avoided this thread because it addresses a darn good, and very complex, question. Compliments to the chef. Theories without evidenc...
Cheers. We haven’t chatted before and it’s sometimes fuzzy what the other’s character is like. But, yea, if you can find a viable alternative account ...
Right. I hear that Descartes once tried it. Turns out he didn’t succeed. But his methodology also produced such philosophical questions as BIV scenari...
No, not a straw man: Why do you appraise it as nonsense—this if it is a believed truth that is justified to the satisfaction of its bearers? Yes, beca...
I'll try to better clarify my position: The issue of terms is the very semantic facet that I’m yet trying to better specify. One could just as readily...
Just perused the other thread. Since I’ve already replied on this one, I'll add to what Wayfarer said here: There’s a different in ordinary cognition ...
Well, again, I'm no psychiatrist. I also don't hold onto the ontological notion of (full) biological determinism, believing there's always some "nurtu...
What has helped me is this metacognitive attitude: Depression is nature’s way of telling you there’s something wrong. Figure out what that is, and the...
A reason, by definition, is a cause, motive, or explanation. It then naturally renders reasoning as the process of providing causes, motives, or expla...
The question is framed through our modern-day Cartesian spectacles. Is it mind, matter, or is it both distinct and incommensurable substances acting i...
Maybe this will help. The way I view things: There are two types of knowledge, the ideal, purely conceptual standard by which all practicable knowledg...
I picked this lyric up from my stay in boot camp (was in the army reserves for a while a whiles back, to be precise): “If it don’t make money, it don’...
Hume, who was a global skeptic, believed in causation just as we all do (it’s why he was a stringent causal compatibilist, for example; he only illust...
Darn. That’s quite an accurate paraphrase. Giving credit where it’s due. Btw, been working on better addressing the subject of skepticism, this since ...
The person who said “It’s a good day to die” right before charging into a very perilous battle didn’t commit suicide on the spot due to his conviction...
I’m surprised beyond belief that this needs to be stated. The conjunction used was “or”, as in “between X or Y ”; not “and”, as in “between X and Y ”....
Don’t follow you so far. Drop the part about a particular relation between sentience and reality and what alternative meaning remains for the word “tr...
That would make sense in an intuitive way. I’m interpreting it as “the map is not road”. Still, don’t all philosophical narratives intend to expound o...
The confusion might be worse than it first seems: Awareness of what is ontic (i.e., of what factually is in manners indifferent to subjective appraisa...
In terms of basic principles that are universal to all life—this rather than the mechanisms via which these principles apply—everything contemporary w...
Wikipedia: In philosophy, ontic (from the Greek ??, genitive ?????: "of that which is") is physical, real, or factual existence. Example: Unicorns are...
Yet this does not address my question of which causal mechanisms are at work. But be this as it may. So now we’re at the apparent impasse of what life...
Internal entails a threshold between that which is within some given and outside of this same given. Where this very given whose internal aspects are ...
An interesting tidbit I just haphazardly came across - this due to the wonders of directed advertising. Among all the other things that trees do, turn...
You’re wanting to further engage on the issue. There’s a lot in your last post that I disagree with. I’ll take one issue at a time. We so far seem to ...
In the list you’ve provided, the need for justification would apply to (4). You state as fact that telos is “simply abstract fiction” when applied to ...
What I read in your post is a statement of your beliefs sans justification for them. It bares notice that the same argument for “chemical interactions...
If its of help: In my younger days held the belief that we are causally predetermined to innately live as thought the illusion of freewill was not ill...
(Already wrote this darn thing. So I'll post it despite Apo having already answered.) Hey, for my part, the philosophical problem with homeostasis you...
Unfortunately, I’m not clear on what the “yes” answers when taken in context of the paragraph. “Yes” that trees cannot sense gravity and sunlight? Fro...
Yes, well, you haven’t addressed a single one of my three questions to you. What it is definitely saying is that trees have a metaphorical ‘point of v...
Due to time, I’ll be forthright in my views and not beat around the bush. My bad in advance if I’m currently too cranky. There can be anthropomorphism...
If I’ve understood you properly given the context of your previous posts, you argue that there is no goal-striving to anything in nature, including to...
Yes, true. Still, I’m sometimes at odds about either referring to Aristotelian theory or not so doing when describing what I endorse. Not only is my k...
Difficult questions. But I’ll try to support my views as best I can (turns out not in very few words). Firstly, telos, to me, roughly means a given ex...
To present a different interpretation: I’m thinking that only in self-awareness does one become aware of one’s own goals and, hence, or one’s own telo...
Hm. I’ve so far thought that we can arationally discern things (else: noninferentially discern). For example, whenever we know that we are perceiving ...
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