Well, to give him his due he seems to have been a great mathematician. Perhaps the perceived need for absolute certainty worked to his benefit. Everyo...
We know by sticking our head in the sand and seeing what happens. Before we do that, though, we'd consider what it is we wish to achieve by doing so. ...
Yes. It would seem to me that proposing that certain views are affectations isn't itself an affectation, as it would be to validate what we do all the...
That may well be. And it may be that a desire for absolute certainty is behind the effort. But I still think the fact such skepticism is so contrary t...
Any philosophical discussion which doesn't require us to disregard or consider of no real value how we live in determining the nature of what we inter...
I'd never heard of this mechanism. Those psychologists are so clever, with names. How odd, and revealing, it is that Hume thought he didn't exist whil...
But there are mugwumps among us, and the number of them is said to be growing. Didn't you know? If we want to know what Stevens thought the real to be...
I'm only a servant of the devil, not the devil himself. The demon that Descartes pretended was tricking him into believing what he clearly believed in...
What I conceive is certainly my own conception, but I haven't said anything about what I consider practicing philosophy. I've addressed philosophical ...
I don't think Austin was addressing such circumstances. If someone told me the Earth is flat, or the Sun rotated around the Earth, I wouldn't say his ...
If we "have to" there's something about it, or us, which requires or provides for its use. How/why is it appropriate to insist it's use must be justif...
I think those like Austin show that in most cases, if not in all of them, the "naive view" starts to "become insurmountable" only due to confusion and...
I don't think what I refer to is hypocrisy. But I think there's more involved than a "trial run" by the curious. I do think it's peculiar, and aberran...
Which I think some (like me, maybe) would maintain constitutes a confession he himself disregards the claims he makes in philosophy all the time. One ...
Descartes isn't called the "Father of Modern Philosophy" for nothing. Descartes had, and in some respects still has, his followers. It seems to me tha...
You keep reminding me of Dewey. That's a good thing for me, but perhaps not for others. See his The Quest for Certainty. Analytic and OLP philosophers...
Not sure about James, but I think Dewey would say that context is all important, and the tendency to ignore it, which is to say to treat perception as...
He's establishing that as well, to my satisfaction at least. The "pie in the face" moment as I like to call it is when you understand you've been on a...
I figured you'd notice the joke and the irony. Perhaps others will now that you mentioned it. The pie has hit your face when you recognize this to be ...
It's an example of what Dewey called The Philosophical Fallacy, now that I think of it--simply put, the disregard of context. Whatever is thought in p...
It doesn't matter. Think of the loonies and colossi of affectation he savaged, so politely. Well, fairly politely. Reading Sense and Sensibility resul...
"Warranted assertibility" is the language he used, in place of "truth" and "knowledge." The idea being to avoid the baggage coming with both terms, an...
You're treating a thought as if it's an object, a thing. I say a thought isn't a thing. You merely beg the question when you compare a thought with a ...
If you're looking for an answer that would satisfy a neuroscientist, I can't give one. We walk. Walking isn't a thing, nor is it an image. We eat. Eat...
No. I knew instead what "a thought of a cup" would mean in the context of our discussion. When I think about a cup I'm doing something, but no "though...
"Thinking about a cup" seems to me a fairly good description of thinking about a cup. But thinking about something takes place; thinking is a process....
For what? It's interesting that scholars have concluded that the Gospel of Luke was written 10 years or so after the Roman siege of Jerusalem and thei...
Sorry, but I don't think there is such a thing as a "thought of a cup." We may think of a cup, certainly, but no "thought of a cup" results; we create...
Well, philosophy isn't necessarily devoted to questions or issues which make no difference. It's been called the love of wisdom, for example, and wisd...
"Fair and square"? Well, the U.S. certainly did it's best to hide its conquest, theft and fraud in the trappings of the law in some cases, though ther...
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