Circumambulation: Walking around a sacred object. I sometimes use the term to describe the philosophical process (circumambulating ideas). Exegesis: I...
You know what, I have some spare time, so I might as well: Pro: Some sort of mental determinism is implied by the experiments of Benjamin Libet (you c...
Did you read the link about bracketing? No? Well then, I guess you should. Otherwise we are going to keep talking past each other. Yeah, that's a non ...
We are hardwired to do so. We have multiple memory systems, and they play a pivotal role in both behavior and cognition. "Each moment is fragile and f...
That's one of the issues I postpone judgment on since I'm not particularly interested in running around in a philosophical cul de sac. The psychologic...
... That's what you get for asking too many questions at once (j/k). :grin: Are you kidding? Try philosophizing with the Dunning Kruger crowd on Faceb...
Erwin Levy, a gestalt psychologist, provides a nice analysis of the way questions work from a gestalt perspective, in an essay titled "Some Aspects of...
You're asking me, a high school dropout? Probably not. I don't have any experience with college. As such, there also is a distinct lack of opinions on...
"It is obvious that in this respect psychology appears to be at a great disadvantage compared with the other general sciences. Although many of these ...
... And yet the Daozang (=daoist canon) consists of +/- 1400 texts... The same holds for the "Daodejing" itself; chapter 1 speaks of the ineffable nat...
Daoist scholar to the rescue! (sorry, it's saturday) Here you go, three translations side by side of ch. 1 of the "Daodejing": https://www.yellowbridg...
What I was getting at is that the psyche as such forms a singularly unified entity. The problem with describing said entity is that this singularly un...
I guess. "The formulae "perhaps" and "perhaps not," and "possibly" and "possibly not," and "maybe" and "maybe not," we adopt in place of "perhaps it i...
Do "facts" exist? Well, maybe. Maybe not. You'd think that as a sceptic, I'd rail against the concept. But that would be a misconception of scepticism...
In theory. See, that's a problem. Because one would be describing a hypothetical as opposed to a phenomenological (the way we actually experience ours...
The psyche is the psyche (according to gestalt psychology anyway). Its not really divisible into it's supposed subcomponents since it forms a unified ...
I'm agnostic if you want to call it that. I neither affirm nor deny the existence of a god or gods. Or anything else, for that matter. I prefer having...
"Et in Arcadia ego" by Poussin: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Nicolas_Poussin_-_Et_in_Arcadia_ego_%28deuxi%C3%A8me_version...
"Generally speaking, in the dwelling places of Buddhas and Ancestors, taking tea and eating rice is what constitutes Their everyday life. This custom ...
What? No. Obviously not. And no, speciation isn't the problem to me, here. It's the "believe" part. I don't see how hypotheses and/or theories require...
"Man becomes aware of the sacred because it itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane. To designate the act of manifestatio...
What's falsificationism? Scholarch during the middle period of the Academy. Ariston described him as "Plato the head of him, Pyrrho the tail, in the m...
Oh look, an ad hominem. I wasn't even talking to you, but you felt the kneejerk reaction to say some nonsense. Why is that again? Nevermind, don't ans...
Who's defining the measure of said "morality"? And how is that measure justified? And what justifies this justification? And so on. I'm not particular...
Well, it's good for getting triggered responses from certain folks... Anyway, the point? The point of the regress problem? To problematize the whole n...
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