Harry Hindu

I doubt that we've been talking past each other this whole time, but if that is how you want to finally admit that you're agreeing with everything tha...

How/why is a name useful? Useful for what? What are scribbles and sounds from your mouth useful for? To use something means that you have a goal. What...

It was you who interpretted his words in that way: And Pfhorrest agreed with your interpretation: The fact that I have to do you homework for you and ...

How would that even happen if the person didn't make an association between the scribble or sound and what it points to prior to seeing and hearing th...

Then Constructivism is just another assertion of supposed facts that is actually just a social construction, ways of thinking about morality put forth...

And that is what pfhorrest is arguing and what you are defending - that Pfhorrest assumes what is right before engaging with anyone. Every time you po...

Like I've been saying all along, but your not payng attention, you can only claim what us right or wrong for yourself. Are you saying it is right for ...

Then, again, you've forgotten that you were the one trying to make the case for what is right for all, not just one (objective vs. subjective morality...

Not much different than what said. What makes a subset of scribbles and sounds words and not just scribbles and sounds? You use scribbles and sounds. ...

Sure you have, and you haven't gotten anywhere. So maybe it's time to think about it differently? You make an assertion. I show you how your assertion...

It's not that simple. There can be different import tax rates for different countries, and the right rate depends on the country. So there isn't only ...

Sure, they do. Beliefs exist only in minds for a period of time before you think of something else. Thinking takes time.

Not helpful. :roll:

Thats is where you are wrong. If that were the case, then why all the political disagreements, wars, ethical dilemmas, etc.? It's like asserting that ...

I don't understand the turn in your emotional state regarding this topic. There really is nothing to get emotional about. You've actually moved the ba...

This is a red herring. The right way home for you is not the right way home for others, nor will it be the right way home all the time as traffic, acc...

We are all human beings, and most humans share the same goals. It's just the means by which we attain them can vary. Most agree that being happy and h...

How else do you justify that you engage in conceptual thought if not by using scribbles and sounds? Michael was on the right track by equating it to l...

, You seem to be just as thick-headed as Pfhorrest. Assuming that you are right is one thing. Proving it to others is another. Once you try to prove i...

That's the point. If you need a Big Brother, that's your problem, not mine.

My point was that one of the ways of how you treat people whose position you disagree with (now) is by acknolwedging that there is the possibility tha...

That is questionable. Assuming that people think a certain way because of how they look often gets you into trouble.

It would always remain the case, even if humans became extinct and language disappeared from the universe, that husbands were once defined as married ...

Not only that, but it requires the existence of marriage and men - both of which are visual concepts. The statement is about men and marriage, without...

Its not possible for us both to be objectively correct, but it is possible for both of to be objectively wrong. Pfhorrest seems incapable of acknowled...

The problem is that you don't see fence-sitting as a legitimate position, like the left or right. The only possible positions for you is left or right...

You totally missed my point. If a priori truths don't need justification, then what were you trying to show with visual scribbles on the screen?

Then what does it mean to be about your cat if it includes your cat? You either have beliefs about cats in your mind (realism), or cats in your mind (...

You first.

Wtf is a "correct opinion"? Politics has obviously driven some our members insane. Putting people.that you don't know into groups. Sounds like a bigot...

So your beliefs are composed of actual mice, trees, cups, cupboards and tables, rather than visuals and feelings OF mice, trees, cups, cupboards and t...

Exactly. Reasoning is the act of providing reasons, or justifications, for your conclusion. How do you arrive at conclusions (knowledge) without reaso...

I think it was Ben Carson that proposed the idea of the Logic Party. The problem is that he was also a theist. The opposition would be theocrats and p...

Then politics sits opposite of science.

What else would there be? If all words are visuals and sounds then you think in visuals and sounds. :roll:

Visuals, sounds, smells, feelings, etc. Words are a particular type of visual or sound. Thinking in words is no different than thinking in visuals and...

No. You use scribbles and sounds, not words. Using scribbles and sounds to point to things makes those scribbles and sounds words, and not just merely...

If they are just a casual observer then they are not from one side or the other. To see your position as the righteous one for everyone and anyone tha...

They are extreme, but that isn't why they see each other as extreme, or else they would see not only the other as extreme, but their own party as extr...

Why do a priori truths not need justification (observation), but a posterior truths do? It seems to me that there is still an observation taking place...

My point was that you were using justifications, or reasons, to show that justifications and reasons are not valid qualifiers for knowledge. If so, th...

No. I read it correctly. Comparing no experience with some experience is a comparison of experience. Besides, what qualifies as experience and no expe...

Here we go again. If the triemma shows something, it justifies something. Therefore the trilemma is a justification for believing that there are no ju...

So you voted for McCain over Obama? Because that was a race where one had far more experience than the other. I'm guessing you didn't because the will...

Exactly. That isn't any different than what I've been saying. All animals are rational with the information they have access to. The information that ...

Then you're going to have to define "rational". Because they are not characterized as having emotions. So an absence of emotions does not make one mor...

Only if you actually aren't seeing things in a more objective light. But if you dont think its possible to ever see things in a more objective light, ...

Not exactly. This kind of thinking stems from the antiquated idea that humans are special, or separate from nature. Other animals are just as rational...

I'm all for spending your own money how you like, but when it comes to politics it creates an inequity in the power of people's votes. Everyone's vote...

:grin: Mushrooms will make you hallucinate. The authoritarian socialists on this forum are already hallucinating that they know better than everyone a...