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... magic trumps its logic.

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Amor fati! :smirk: :up:

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"P-zombie" incoherence.

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Non sequitur. :roll: Enjoy the essay. Perhaps. But that "something to believe in" is not the trust in (worship of) a supernatural mystery of theists. ...

@"Jack Cummins" Are you familiar with Peter Wessel Zapffe's "The Last Messiah"? In the essay Zapffe obliquely discusses this "metaphysical need" and s...

:up: I've thought all my adult life that the most effective inducement to unbelief is the preaching & proselytizing of 'true believers' and scriptural...

https://michaelschlegel.com/ :cool: "Winter is coming!"

Read the Philosophical Investigations if you do not understand what has been written throughout this threat. By this point, Fool, you should have gott...

Okay. Now you've done it! I have to reread PI. Thanks. :brow: Yeah, this is exactly what Witty objects to (e.g. essences). A 2nd-order metaphor (i.e. ...

:clap: :cool: Solipsistically yours!

Ah, Fool buddy, you've shot yourself in the dark again. :smirk: There is no "Wittgensteinian problem of language-games" that I can see. Besides, "a sc...

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion." ~Spinoza My understanding of philosophy is that it is no...

:up: (You posted that quote before I finished corrected it.)

I've nothing to add that wouldnt be redundant to what's be said already. I'll only acknowledge some pearls of insight cast so far ... :death: :flower:

That's a function of our brains' perceptual cognitive & psychological biases (contra Kant et al) and not just, or even principally, the function of ou...

What does this mean? It's like saying bringing a fish in the ocean closer to water or taking it farther way. :roll: :up:

:up: A difference in degree, not in kind, even though the ramifications differ in kind.

And this itself is valid iff it's done with the consensus of the current players. :up: :100: Using a tool for a task for which it is not made or canno...

Yeah, I've noticed that there are quite a few more discussions about philosophy lately than philosophical discussions. The latter is what I frequent t...

I don't think "what is popular or fashionable in philosophy" matters at all (e.g. appeal to popularity is a fallacy, y'know) if one is studying-follow...

Yes, I agree. Making invalid moves and yet believing, or assuming, you are still playing a particular game when you are not any longer is what I think...

edit: I hadn't read p. 3 (re: StreetlightX & Sam26) before posting this reply. It's been decades since I've read the PI but it seems to me that "incor...

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This is a distinction of aporetics (i.e. thinking unanswerable questions) and dogmatics (i.e. believing unquestionable answers), respectively, where t...

It must be my fate to "believe in" free will.

Yes, the world-class neurosurgeon-turned-trump-stooge is a perfect example of a (n apparently) high IQ with a (definitely) high SQ. :up:

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Apparently, your IQ is too high to read an entire paragraph and thereby contextualize the sentences you choose to quote. Proves my point.

I've told you already what that means. Use some of my that "160" and read what I wrote charitably like you want to understand as a few others have alr...

For such a self-described "high IQ" fella you sure do make a lot of hasty generalizations, Shawn.

IQ tests are not predictive of anything useful to either the test taker or society. MENSA is merely a club for high aptitude underachievers. Big whup.

IQ tests are irrelevant because they are not predictive. As Michio Kaku says "they are just bookkeeping".

Stupidity test. Stupidity. Test. How you get "competency" from that only you would know, Mr. "160". :roll:

I don't think so. That you've quoted me out of context amounts to a non sequitur.

Are you?

SQ (stupidity quotient) tests taken at the end of primary school, again at the end of secondary school and then lastly at the end of professional scho...

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There's way too many arbitrary word-uses in this statement for it to make sense. Existence before essence (i.e. forms-of-life enable-constrain languag...

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No. "Gnosis" denotes (ineffable? unintelligible? imaginary?) awareness of – exposure to – cultic secrets (i.e. mysteries). To be "in the know", or ini...

"Rationality ... would not work" for what exactly? :lol:

So rationality and science are "totalitarian"?

Self-serving bias: people "demonize" those they disagree with and "worship" those they agree with especially when the social or political stakes are h...

You said "stand back from beliefs critically" which seems like "avoid examining them" to me. CBT (though not philosophy itself) certainly engages "bel...

He is (you are) not ONLY "defined by" his (your) "beliefs" which is why he could have changed them (you can change yours).

Therein lies "meaning" (i.e. the stakes of living).