Thanks for the kind reply. I was thinking this sums up the core aspect of your argument: And given your latest reply, I’m now taking it that you hold ...
I’ve reread your posts, and now find myself having a hard time following. For instance, I in no way understand your last post: What would a system of ...
I’m short on time now, but: Unless one wants to uphold materialism and its cherished assumption that death of the flesh is identical to an eternal dea...
This is a good point. So, from where I stand, I currently think of life as necessarily consisting—on an individual plane—of a first-person point-of-vi...
Without any modesty intended or implied, why is there a logical contradiction between neuroscience and reincarnations. Would one hold a naïve physical...
Fair enough. Can we agree on this, though: You hold a trust/faith/belief that things such as the true nature of experienced/enactive aesthetics will b...
Well, personally, I’m here only speaking on behalf of some of the more traditional forms of philosophical skepticism, such as that upheld by Cicero (i...
Wouldn’t all conceivable stances yet be addressing that which is true (of the ontic)? In which case, there would then be a ubiquitously present meta-p...
You’re concluding rhetorical question relies on a circular argument, as far as I can currently see. Just as can be the case with any other stance rega...
While you’re focusing on the power-over tendency in human males, I hold a different—what is to me, sad—reality to be true: it is the majority of women...
It seems obvious to me that the power-over-other structure of sexuality goes deep in our, and a few too many other, cultures. The penis as a gun that ...
Personally, I liken it to making both emotive and cognitive peace with the epistemic truth that “we have not yet demonstrated any proposition to be pe...
To anyone who is in any way interested with the topics of this thread: Having read through a good portion of this thread, I’m starting to lose my aest...
If anyone could find references to quasi-werewolvian Christians, and then have them debating their views with the quasi-vampiric ones … well, I’d be q...
Yea, I see your point. And then it would be hatched into the wetness. Still, wouldn’t it as embryo still be wet given the fluid it’s surrounded by? (S...
I wasn’t expecting a serious reply. Maybe I should have been more serious myself, and likely should have first replied directly to Baden. To go back t...
Now, by my argument, a fish immersed in rubbing alcohol (or beer) would then be soaking wet in whatever you’ve immersed it in. Cuz, then it would be s...
OK, with this part, unless we’re talking about sexuality in code and are refereeing to the female sex, I don’t yet know what you here mean. (maybe not...
Well, with a tad more seriousness, “wet” can only hold meaning via “not-wet/dry”. So I agree with what Wayfarer said. Since fish live and die in water...
Yes, but only on the inside. ------- Now that I’ve read Wayfarer’s post, come to think of it, you could have a dry fish in water … I’m thinking along ...
Hesitantly—and kind’a encouraged by the last quoted statement—I’ll be a bit creative in this post’s expressions so as to condense an otherwise hard to...
I’m assuming that this will not be a novel idea. The referent to the term “God” is not singular among those who use the term—irrespective to these bei...
Yea, you’re of course correct that there is no such thing as emotion-devoid logic. Logic is, I very strongly believe, strictly a tool via which our ch...
As to philosophic justifications, while I hold deep empathy for pathos given outlooks that provide wisdom, I’ve come to believe that only logos can co...
Hello, and thanks for a reply. I’ve got nothing against direct experience. Most who’ve begrudgingly come to know a little of my philosophical stances ...
Right. Still, any advice on how I/anyone who’s interested in philosophical issues (even at the expense of current cultural norms) should then specify ...
yes Hmm, as I previously tried to specify it from the perspective of metaphysical realism: “objective” in the sense of “impartial to, or independent o...
To get back to the question of objective (bias-impartial) reality (be it physical or not, or both and co-related): This statement to me is one that at...
It looks like we’re at an impasse. As you reaffirm grounds for doubting that we can ever be aware of each other’s intentions/will, I again reaffirm th...
In relation to the mystic this and mysticism that discussion, and in the vein of Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy: Is anyone attracted to the aesthetic tru...
Dude! The local zoos! But then the bribery required for it would likely be astronomical. Hell, and I’m actually a tree-hugger empathizing environmenta...
So, then, griffins exist too? QED? Do they taste good too or are they less filling? Ya know, as far as exotic foods go. (my offbeat sense of humor … n...
And you maintain that this interest is devoid of your intention/will? I find it hard to believe that you do. The discussion is so far pleasant to me a...
Can anyone interested—be they Humean, Kantian, or some other—explain how the stance of “innate instinct for causal relations” differs from an “a prior...
You may not like this evaluation: But I'll say it anyway: That there is no mathematically precise denotation of when particles of sand become heaps of...
It’s been a while since my reading of Hume, and I’m not about to reread his works to present this. And yes, given my heavy alignment with Darwinian ev...
This often (but not always) occurring competition of vying intentions in one single mind is very well explained by David Hume in his Bundle Theory of ...
OK, thanks for the clarification. As to logically inferred innate mechanisms that account for, and thereby justify, belief in realism, one can take a ...
My first thought is that a (living) trout-turkey wouldn’t make a functional, i.e. purposeful, whole and, thus, could not exist. The head would be equi...
Thank you for your answers. We’re in accord about not everything thought of being necessarily true. This, then, includes the thoughts of an evil daemo...
Objectivity—the state of being objective—holds multiple definitions (confer with Wiktionary, for instance). One of which is that of being just/imparti...
Hold on a bit there. Change the referent from one of perceivable world/reality to one of logical inference. As regards logical possibilities, either a...
Hello. I’m having a hard time understanding your position, at least as things currently stand. Taking things one step at a time, as regards intention:...
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