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Well, that was my actual opinion, I am somewhat ashamed to say.

In talking with others, it appears I need to make a real clarification while it may be your opinion that my description of the theory of natural law i...

In talking with others, it appears I need to make a real clarification While it may be your opinion that the assumptions of the formal school of logic...

Well, to me the discussion on the encyclopedia is limited to considering only mind/body dualism versus monism as being either mind or body, and exclud...

Well I understand you saying that, as I am given to understand you believe truth is only justification. But other people believe differently, so I hav...

The answer is not what the truth is, but what the subject of the question believes the truth to be. As it is a question about belief, the only truth t...

Also I added the final conclusion: That is to say, reductionist theories can produce meaningful results, but they are only meaningful within reduction...

Here is the revised text, with new introduction and conclusion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Me...

Well, I am adding one sentence to my above summary: Most people are totally disinterested in understanding alternate views, but instead only wish to p...

Here is the revised text. Thank you for indicating the format definition of truth nihilism. ----------------------------------------------------------...

Oh heck. I need to add Ayer and Quine to my formal statement of truth. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE REFERNECE; Dammit )

so the conscious is aware but the conscious is unware of the awareness. I was just laughing because it sounded funny to me. Thanks for the explanation...

oh. So you are saying unconscious is aware, but the self is not self aware of the awareness? lol

I would be interested where you got that idea. The Freudian trichotomy is usually considered divisions of the 'self,' with the ego being the only part...

That's really impossible to know, but it seems to me that people in different cultures do different things to express their rebellion, and different c...

condolences on your loss, and wishing you joy in your marriage.

There are some things worse than death, such as torture, and Jefferson regarded life in the prisons of the time to be of the same order. Which it was....

No, I say that because this topic is about Hamilton vs. Jefferson, and assigned from one revisionist historian, it is generally accepted that Jefferso...

It makes perfect sense, but it has nothing to do with the USA's natural rights. The government has no authority to enforce good manners, except where ...

I think the reason it does not make sense to you is that the view you are approaching the issue from the wrong end of the stick. To quote from my abov...

Yes. From the perspective of natural rights, the amount of authority the govenenment has for such issues depends on how much it can guarantee longer l...

That's Russell's view, and the foundation of almost all modern thought. And as Russell says, it resolves how to handle statements like 'the king of Fr...

I realized the reason you have some differences of opinion is that I did not include Tarski. Some methemeticians stated he really should not be left o...

Ah, well according to Jung it is meaningful, but not to the individual. As well as the 'universal' there is the 'collective,' which can refer to group...

That brings to mind a time when my father asked the author Ved Mehta out for dinner. We went to a very large and noisy restaurant. Suddenly he burst o...

Thank you, I think that's a good correction.

I think that's very well said )

According to some, but not to others: http://www.pacifica.edu/degree-programs/ma-phd-jungian-archetypal-studies It was a much better course than I exp...

Well as you may have seen, I think about natural rights a lot, specifically with reference to the USA. So the answer in the US, according to Jefferson...

Well that's a good start. When you speak of 'issues' you are really more speaking of the medical definition, and medically speaking, people with psych...

At the undergraduate level, you are right, but there is also a reason for that. Jungians hold that people cannot really understand Jung properly until...

Oh, I should add, of course Freud also uses the word 'unconscious,' but Freud was not particularly concerned with the philosophy of mind, and whether ...

I think you mean to refer to 'subconscious states' really. Unconscious desires definitely exist in Jungian theory, which talks about the 'universal un...

Well, that is the first kind word out of you ) I have completed draft of the topic https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/1287/on-the-practical-app...

As I see it, if I spend 8 hours editing down what I write so that it is easier to read for everone, that is of far greater utility than spending 8 hou...

Well the problem you place to me is that your confusion is so fundamental, I would have to write another 2,000 words to answer it. So I already wrote ...

'Fairness' is not the objective of natural rights at all. You will find the explanation of that at the beginning of my summary on this thread at https...

What I have done so far, as the debate has gotten rather lengthy, is put together a shorter response which formulates the answer properly, and posted ...

And thank you for the conversation. I can't find anything further from what you say that requires any alteration of my summation, so it appears we wou...

And of course, for not being able to define truth in morality, there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E._Moore#Good_as_indefinable and for the form...

I think you are confused about my shorthand use of 'truth' for 'truth evaluation.' It is fairly common shorthand, and I did consider writing it out mo...

What I suggest is that you look at the description of logical equivalence on the Wikipedia, and what you will find is that I restated the last sentenc...

I'm sorry, you are right, I was trying to say something too quickly. But I am having a problem that this forum does not support logical symbols, and f...

Because two to the base ten, and ten to the base two are logically equivalent, but they are not identical.

Also I should explain about knowledge of truth in an indefinite manner, as per Davidson. Davidson's view on the statement 'I know the sun will rise to...

Those assertions are not an example of logical equivalence, as per my first and second basic definitions. That is an example of two empirical statemen...

the thinking is, if you state that a is logically equivalent to b, then the statement is considered true. However, the 'truth' which one considers is ...

I don't understand the relevance of that. Davidson does say that truth is undefined, but only because he is an anomalous absolute monist, and therefor...

Well that is the naturalistic view, which is that truth exists inherently as an intrinsic part of the proposition. if you believe that, then a proposi...

Now I am remembering, it was a very long time ago, and I did hear the question asked why a truth value should be related to a syntactic proposition at...