javra

While still upholding the primacy of episteme over techne in their importance, I do agree with this. :up: And in keeping with this, I often enough thi...

Though I'm familiar with the argument, I haven't read Dennett's works first hand myself, so I'm not sure how he would argue this illusion might work w...

Wanted to add that focus on “a hypothesis’ ability to predict” is, to my mind unfortunately, too often prioritized over “a hypothesis’ explanatory pow...

If most of the human species’ 200,000-year or so existence has been of a largely egalitarian nature at least within ingroups, this might illustrate th...

OK, but - as per all that I have written in this thread - I reject both these "superordiante concepts" (in sum: that of biology and of culture) as bei...

I'm here presuming you mean to say "men are weaker than women" in this parallel world physically and politically, rather than psychologically. It's be...

BTW, if you're talking about awareness per se, though it can become a concept we as aware-beings become aware of and thereby think about, awareness of...

As the song goes, it's good to be young at heart.

I don't understand what "the superordiante concept" might be. This in relation to the yin-yang. Here addressed as though it in fact occurs.

In the quote you gave, quite logically, everything that is is magic bar none. So then there is no such thing as a non-magical event or thing. As to th...

What part of what I said would be "non-magic"? On a related topic, one can call a rose a "buffalo" but it's still going to be a rose.

I’ll do my best to stoke this fire. There’s your definition of magic – that which is unexplainable – and then there's the more formal definition of ma...

While yet upholding my previous views as pertain to the very distant prehistory of our human species, I can’t find anything to disagree with in what y...

Since this is easy to reply to, I will: As you’ve expressed it, I myself don’t find anything to disagree with in what you’ve written. (I was previousl...

I might add that rational problems emerge when eastern, and far more commonly western, interpretations of the yin and yang portray one as “good” and t...

I haven’t pondered every nook and cranny of the concept, but in general: I take the yin and yang to of themselves be a strict dyad, this just as much ...

By one agent interpreting the ink and sounds' forms in addition to discerning whence they originated and thereby understanding the intentions of the a...

For my part, I don't think its as easy as "leaving the intention behind" - this since it's the intention which is transmitted to another via the sound...

OK. Got it. But it leaves me curious: how then is the following proposition in the OP to be interpreted in the context of "meaning and purpose are not...

One: Its not a physical attribute of the ink. The intentions are what caused the ink to have the shapes that it does. And so it is inferred from the i...

Just in case I might be correct in my presuppositions, here is a more concise example to the contrary: Instances such as slips of the tongue do occur....

Let me clarify: the question in my previous post was strictly addressing the context of language.

I was working on the presumption that you do not interpret meaning and use to be different in any respect. Is this correct?

That's what I mean, if we analyze this proposition: "Intending to make use" of something is not the same as "making use of something". Here, "making u...

Wouldn't this "ghost in the ink" then be the intentioning of the agent which produced the ink forms on the paper? In which case the purpose is not abs...

Can you give any example of use that is devoid of any purpose and hence of any usefulness or benefit? ---------- Here’s a language use: When one is as...

I get that. Maybe I should clarify my previous post as well: the presumed good as being evil part came into play with bullshit like God - the omni-cre...

:grin: In my youth, I'd sometimes debate with them so as to convince them their ideas are evil. On one occasion or two, I'm fairly confident given the...

And hey, while I’m not certain where you find yourself residing on the “spirituality” spectrum, irrespective of this, having some bloke walk up to you...

No worries.

OK. And btw, thanks for this post. It's more thoughtful than that of name calling, as per "mystical" and "stereotype". To begin, and correct me if I"m...

This is getting tiresome for me. My definition of masculinity you declare a mysticism (hence to consist of "obscure thoughts and speculations") and in...

Awkward for you to ask, this since I've explained my own position in plenty of posts. The issue addressed is "what constitutes masculinity". As to a r...

Where, ever, have I addressed a/the masculine "archetype(s)". You might be projecting your or someone else's views on my own. And rather improperly at...

BTW, the very title is a toxic stereotype. So I've gots not damn interest in reading ti. "Toxic masculinity" does not equate to "masculinity is toxic"...

Not so obvious to many. And this in no way answers the question in regard to toxic masculinity.

Who the fuddle is doing this? You're gonna search for quotes from extremists to define a populace in whole? That would be a bit of a fallacy. Dude, ar...

Hey, I'm in no way antagonistic toward things such as synchronicities and the collective unconscious, rather liking the concepts. As to conspiracies o...

The biological science’s definition of sex, what a bunch mystical fluff that all is! Of course. In contrast to non-liberal-left versions of mysticism?...

No shit. Culture plays a role in who we are? Go figure. Last I heard though, a species of lifeform is defined as such by its genotype, not its culture...

Virtue ethics = cruelty is virtuous. Need one say more?

You are uncontradictable. Got it. Enjoy.

Ok bruh, chimpanzees will not kill their own babies without compulsion but "premoral" Greeks did this all the time without and scruples, 'cuz they had...

Don't make me wrong either. Especially in light of the fact that your theory contradicts blatant evidence, such as that previously offered. What can t...

Because Buddhist, Hindus and all others, the Inuit included, don't experience any of these ... not being themselves of a Judeo-Christian morality. Yea...

Alright. Cool. As pertains to this one quote, then, you might (?) want to re-term what you here call "bad conscience": A feeling of guiltiness, as if ...

Your post as it stands can be read as follows: “The weak” are those who have a conscious and who via its quiet affirmations experience shame and guilt...

It's good to so elaborate. :grin: :up:

I'm myself in full agreement what what you say. You'll notice that my approach is not from the concrete sex to the abstract quality of gender, as you ...

BTW, criticisms of it notwithstanding, how could the view you've provided - in sum, that of gender being fully culturally relative - in any cogent way...