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I don't know -- things can certainly be re-learned. The second premise only follows from the first -- because if something is stored somewhere, the re...

All good, really. In Heidegger, it's evident in the "ready-to-hand" (Zuhandenheit) activity of dealing with equipment. The use of "rules" really. Neur...

Sure. I think it's an unjustified move, but I'm aware it exists -- in fact it's probably the predominant view. Yes, this is exactly the above: reason ...

That's not what we're discussing - it's what you keep interjecting. "You don't have a sense of a door" but "perceive the door" -- I won't try figuring...

It's not that they're the same - as I've said before, there's also plenty of examples where they're quite different- given the common notions about wh...

I've never once claimed they were the same. The policies are different, and even if by a small degree, in an otherwise powerful country this makes a l...

Sure, there's been a rightward shift for years. Democrats are now "moderate republicans," and what's called republican is now pure neoliberal with, at...

Message me.

I'll be holding my nose too, buddy. Believe me. Same in 2016, same in 2012 and 2008 and 2004, etc. I wanted Bernie and I loathe the DNC and most democ...

That had me chuckling a little.

An important quesiton. I think the latter is the case. If reason is abstract thought, then all this means is that what we call "thinking" is not alway...

No, he doesn't. Aristotle talks about ?????. You have to remember that "metaphysics" is a later designation, and has connotations that simply can't be...

I already mentioned Bacon, Galileo, Descartes, and others of the early scientific revolution. Remember the renaissance itself, including these men, wa...

What a silly argument. It's your funeral, too. So you're willing to shoot yourself in the foot because some people online are mean and judgmental? Who...

This has become the essence of the Republican party and supporters of Trump. Hate the liberals so much (thanks mainstream media -- i.e., conservative ...

I can't speak for psychology generally, but my own view is that it plays a role when things break down, when we are consciously solving problems and m...

"Meaning," I repeat, is an interesting topic in linguistics and worth looking into. You can define it any way you like -- so that they're in the head ...

Metaphysics isn't the heart of Aristotle's philosophy. The term "metaphysics" itself means "after the physics lectures." Take a look at Aristotle's ph...

And when did the change occur between then and now? When was this special method "discovered"? By our current standards, what was Aristarchus and Newt...

Also, I'm glad to have given you an outlet for your series Forrest. Very interesting indeed.

Well your system is fine -- as long as we don't take it too seriously.

The lived world isn't "concrete"? Experience isn't concrete? On the contrary, it's the most "concrete" thing we have. I disagree that I put a lot "int...

OK. So then philosophy is the use of reason, in the sense of the a priori, and science likewise uses reason but also observation, experimentation, etc...

But you're not demonstrating that there is one, you're just taking it as a given that there is. I don't see it -- I don't see a special method that ac...

So philosophy, in your view, is restricted to the a priori. Since anything a priori does not rely on empirical observation or experimentation, it's qu...

It's not what we gaze upon or look for per se, because it's often in the background -- but it can be understood, hence why we have a concept of "light...

In the context of the meaning of being (which I argue is what philosophy thinks). But in that case the nature of ???????? is not being used in the sen...

Philosophy doesn't appeal to empirical observation? What would be considered "evidence" in that case? I just don't think it's this straightforward. If...

I think I agree with this, although I have no way of completely understanding your terminology here until it's further explained. Yes, "being" and "re...

On the contrary, it is consciousness that we have, if we mean by this our lived world -- our experiences, our being -- and reason in the sense of conc...

I don't see why "opposite." They're just different. Not all differences are opposites.

We have to be careful, though, not to equate philosophy with some kind of therapy. In some cases, philosophical thought aims simply at understanding t...

I like all of that very much. So by "kind of medicine" you mean in the sense of what's indicated in those passages. In that case, that's surely true.

Good point -- it does indeed. Why? Because before we even "do" philosophy or science, we're in a world, we exist in a world, and with a pre-theoretica...

This, again, assumes a scientific method, and no one so far has demonstrated there is one -- as far as I can tell. I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Ar...

There is no way around it -- you have to start somewhere. Any proposition in philosophy presupposes something, and in the end it does in fact come dow...

Very good point. Consciousness, awareness, attention, concentration -- all very similar in many ways. The latter two have perhaps more specific connot...

Although it can be useful, the fact-value dichotomy was never very compelling to me. But this is beside the point: even morality as a concept is a bei...

A very good interpretation, in my view. Philosophy as asking fundamental questions, which traverse all other fields. This is partly why I also like ph...

I'll try: philosophy is, essentially, ontology -- the science of being. It's the activity of interpreting being through theories and concepts. So in A...

Is not morality a part of reality?

What do we think of this: “Philosophy is the theoretical conceptual interpretation of being, of being’s structure and its possibilities.” or "Philosop...

Judging from some recent polls in battleground states, looks like we're in for another four years of Trump -- largely owing to the DNC's putting up te...

Inquiry certainly plays a role, as does reasoning. Whether it's the pursuit of "creditable" beliefs (do you mean credible?), this too has a long histo...

Appreciate the responses.

Sure, but here we get into the issue of a scientific "method" that differentiates it from the others -- especially religion and philosophy, which are ...

Excellent question. I wish I had a definitive answer. I see that as one mode of thought, yes. Again, it depends on what we mean. Is thought equated to...

An interesting list indeed. I very much agree with this especially -- and it's striking how often it's forgotten. I think this is largely because scie...

Let me throw in another question: how does philosophy differ from "thinking" generally? Or does it?

All interesting so far.