Correlation with myth doesn't tell us anything about reality or viability. Myth can be based on reality and reality can be based on myth. Hence my sci...
Many inventions started out as science fiction. Eg, cordless phones, and video calls. If modern inventions sound like, look, and behave like science f...
I don't get why it has to be one or the other. By observing people's behavior and analysing it, and testing my analyses, I can arrive at insights, ind...
So psychology is a pseudo-science, soft science, non-science? Which is it? If psychology is not scientific at all, does that mean there are no psychol...
I think hierarchy of understanding vs truth. Truth is binary and can't be understood, while understanding can be more or less...understood, but isn't ...
Consider: Experiencer of emotion- feelingness- emotion felt Is the emotion seperate from the perception of it? What is an emotion like when it's not b...
Of course as a materialist you believe that. You say I can't distinguish between non-existence and immaterial. In their ontological status, of course ...
You are equating existence and materiality. I only said dream objects are immaterial. I didn't say dream objects don't exist. To exist is to be percei...
For an idealist this is a tautology, or self-evident. It can't be disproven from second order logic. (to be is to be perceived) But didn't you agree t...
Are you suggesting we clarify that here, or are you saying that we should establish which of those we are using as a goal and framework? I don't know ...
We have such little point of agreement that I think you even disagree that we have little point of agreement. I feel as much hope trying to convince y...
Well they need to question the parts that don't make sense to them until they can form a steel man. Even if the position is incoherent, it should at l...
What is the benefit or justification for assuming a proposition is false, before it has been proven true or false? Making assumptions goes directly ag...
Open minded means I'm open to the possibility that something is true. Sceptical means I am open to the possibility something is false. Neither leads t...
It's very hard to convince someone to change views without first building rapport and trust. This is why first Steel Manning the other's view, then of...
Some atheists and some theists are content with themselves. Others feel a push to convince other's to believe as they do. I would guess out of a subco...
But won't the majority turn to more materialism and consumerism to fill the void of existential angst and meaninglessness without some belief in somet...
I think if you interviewed the best detectives, scientists, whatever, that they would be people that while trusting their intuitions, are also humble ...
I want to say all beliefs. I think there's only so many options for any proposition. I prefer to think levels of suspicion. Certainty I consider an ab...
My current reasoning suggests to me that there are four options: I know I don't know I don't know and I suspect or have a guess I don't know and suspe...
If I say it's self evidently hot, because I directly experience the heat...I'm explaining my experience, which is self evident. I can also point to sw...
Non-existence doesn't exist by definition therefore existence must always exist? Ok, I can make the same argument for anything... Eg. Non-thinking can...
I owe the insight to sight. I just see it. You say we need to think well, I say we need to look well. Which came first, thought or language? I would a...
It's self-evident to me. It's like asking how I came to the conclusion of an axiom. I can't prove axioms by way of logic. Axioms are pre-logical, base...
I think it was Orwell who said to see what's in front of ones nose requires a constant struggle. Our conditioning is the problem. It makes us filter w...
Imagine you could somehow see everything. Would you have any need for thought? What would there be to think about if nothing was hidden from sight? Wh...
Humans mistake thought for reality. That's why there are all these ideologies. That's why people go to wars. That's why people do so much harm to make...
Seriously? How does everything supervene on thinking? Most failure of understanding is due to an inability to see the obvious, rather from an inabilit...
Seeing indeed involves a range of other skills. Think about how complex the brain is. You can't see without consciousness. To have consciousness the b...
I think most skills involve other skills. Eg. To read you need the ability to see, memorize, think etc. Are there any skills that don't involve a rang...
The law of noncontradiction applies to logic, not to reality. There is no restrictions in reality, but restrictions in logic. Logic is all about restr...
My questions to moral absolutists or moral objectivists... Do you believe some values are subjective and some objective? Eg. Which flavor of ice cream...
I think this is a good caveat. It reminds me of the book The subtle art of not giving a F. I think it says something about finding something worth giv...
As a semi self-identifying Jew, I would just like to voice my, perhaps short sited suggestion, to consider not banning anti-semitic conspiracy theory ...
Do I decide what it is that I will? No Am I restrained from doing what it is I have been determined to will? No Do I have free will? Not in the sense ...
Honestly I lack motivation to read the links. But I'd discuss it if you feel to. I'm a little confused about how matter is a type of information. When...
I want precise criteria for how to discern a subjective experience from an objective one. I want to know exactly where subjectivity ends and objectivi...
Maybe nobody else responded because there is already some ontology threads up... I wanted to try and explore the implications of each view point, and ...
Mind is just a basic word for whatever goes on inside of a person, as opposed to what we can observe about them from looking at their physical charact...
My view is basically that being, nature, reality, whatever we want to call the one thing that is everywhere, is "god" Here are some intuitions about t...
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