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Where I’m from, such a man is said to “lose his manliness” (which is a synonym for “masculinity”). So what you here say doesn’t seem to apply. The per...

There's more than a few things I disagree with in you previous reply. But I basically want to point out that your observations all the same regard sep...

First, I note that no such “non-mystical” answer to the question has been provided by anyone who looks down upon them “mystical” answers - one that th...

By "ontic" I intended: Pertaining to being, as opposed to pertaining to a theory of it (which would be ontological).. Otherwise I would have said, "on...

So you find in your post "good reasons" for why the two are in fact not one and the same ontic reality - differently interpreted, of course. Correct m...

BTW, putting my perennial philosophy hat on, can you think of any good reason why the Buddhist notion of Nirvana (at least it was addressed in my prev...

I can’t argue with that. It most certainly won’t be any form of emotion by which one is in any way affected – for then there would be a necessarily oc...

While I'm not certain in how you intend the term "aporia" in this context (example: resulting in insoluble contradiction?), I do fully agree in terms ...

As someone who was dunked in a bucket of Orthodox-Christian-blessed water shortly after birth - while I’m not a Christian (being more of a pantheist /...

While it might come as no surprise, ‘s account makes sense to me. Our agency, often enough symbolized via our tongue or speech, is in all cases an asp...

Nirvana can readily be described via discursive reason, and can well align in most such interpretations to "a completely nondualistic awareness* ". An...

And, as per my first post in this thread, perhaps so affirming that "real knowledge — as Plato describes it — must be based on eternal, immutable trut...

Never mind, then.

You both hold knowledge to be an epistemically infallible given. I'll just re-post this and call it a day: In other words, there can be no infallible ...

So I don't, and can't, fallibly know as JTB that the sun will rise once again tomorrow? This where (fallible) JTB: signifies: non-complete and hence f...

I don't yet follow: I don't think you are here saying that the use of epistemic truth of itself results in the ontic state of affairs which the given ...

Man, I'm a diehard fallibilist. To me the cogito is fallible as well. And I fallibly maintain that we can never be infallibly certain of anything, per...

Ok, thanks for you answer. I disagree. I guess I could ask for justification of what you affirm in fact conforming to the actual state of affairs rega...

Replace "true" with "conforming to that which is real". Is nothing ever conformant to what is real? As to the traditional JTB interpretation, I agree ...

You'll notice I did not write nor specify "Truth" with a capital "T" - which I think we both interpret to be some sort of absolute or complete truth. ...

While I get what you’re saying, here fully utilizing the definitions of “belief” and “justification” you’ve provided, I yet believe that the truth com...

All the same, why justify any belief whatsoever if not to best evidence that the belief is in fact true (i.e., that the belief in fact does conform to...

Though different in some ways to my previous post, I’m very curious to see if there’ll be any disagreements on this perspective (forewarning: it likel...

Musings: Brings to mind the etymology to "lord" and "lady". Their current connotations and denotations aside, etymologically: lord = "bread-guardian" ...

:smile: Very cool. And hey, since as of late I've been on a role with links from this one webpage, for what it's worth, here's a quick reference to th...

I could explain my views on why it’s not completely a product of Darwinian sexual selection. But sexual selection of course plays a very large role. I...

I then misread what you intended to say, presuming there was such as "one diagnosis" which had been previously offered. Spent enough time today online...

What one diagnosis would that be?

What do you here have in mind?

More specific to this one example: is a so-called "bitch" an independent women who doesn't accept being subjugated despite being of female sex (which ...

I agree with what you say in regard to femininity. There for example is this virgin or whore theme to femininity. A damned if you do and damned if you...

... man oh man, back to the "burning times" theme of witch hunts, devil's mark and all. Gotta hate that (mother) nature and those who deem it in any w...

The "I" here ceases to be entwined with thought, emotion, or perception - but instead is said to become, or else transcend into, pure awareness devoid...

The more mysticalish parts of me then associates this very issue with the well known dictum from the Oracle at Delphi: "know thyself". Or at least end...

Given the context of what I expressed, this is precisely what I intended: among both sexes.

Again, nicely expressed. As to the raised eyebrow, without the meditater's active awareness of this transient ego-death which can reputedly occur duri...

I love that! Yes indeed.

We each have our own experiences in life, not all of them good. As to men and women, as I previously said of my views, both (though obviously in diffe...

I'm not claiming that abuse of women was in those days non-existent. But then neither am I claiming that abuse of men also did not on occasion happen....

Sorry to hear you so say. I, for one example, am in no way insulted by the question,

I take it by this that you weren't there yourself. OK. Neither was I or any other living person. But then the same applies to all history a century ol...

Hunter-gatherer tribes are "societies". Otherwise you are by no means alone in this perspective, but where is the actual evidence for this perspective...

The egalitarianism-oriented social cohesion of the tribal societies, this in regard to hunter-gatherer tribes of the past - just as much as it pertain...

Long story short, most typically, the "I" decides upon which thoughts to uphold and then upholds these, with such options of possible thoughts to upho...

Man, I offered you two links which, I so far find, directly evidence my affirmation. Do you question the verity of the references linked to? On what g...

I'm no sure what you mean by "separate". The "I" for example is not separate from its perceptions in so far as these perceptions are only so because t...

Come to think of it, you might(?) be here referring not to the though/belief itself but the very experience of the thought/belief. If so: While we can...

I can only presume that what he intended by "immediate certainty" was something like "a certainty that is prior to any reasoning or empirical, else ex...

Doesn't this entail that with each change in thought thunk there will then necessarily be an ontological change in the "I" addressed? If so, how can t...

My own two cents: If the certainty you’re in search for is that of infallible certainty – a certainty that cannot be wrong in principle as well as in ...