T_Clark

I think that's true, but I don't think a difference in the experience means there is a difference in the mechanisms or processes of thought among diff...

I had not heard of "abduction" used in the context of logic before, so I looked it up. What I found was interesting and relevant. From the Stanford En...

Not sure what you're asking. Did I mean what I wrote? Yes. Does it seem wrong to you?

Agreed. Reason and rationality don't have to be done formally, in writing, with little checklists. We can do it on the fly. Did I say this before? - M...

I guess you just have a different experience of thinking than I do.

As I've noted in my last couple of posts in this thread, my part in this discussion is itself a good example of what I'm trying to describe. It has be...

Yes. As you note, you don't use intuition and insight as a replacement for reason. They do different things. Reason can't do what intuition does. More...

Thank you. I'm glad it was clear to you. That was the first time I really tried to write out the point I was trying to make, after toying around with ...

You're not describing a new generalization. This is something you learned when you were three-years-old. Memory is not reason. Again, non-rational is ...

This is not my personal experience. Most of my useful thinking, things other than worrying or fantasizing, takes place subconsciously. It pops up and ...

Here's my thinking. Non-trivial premises come from one of two places 1) They are established using deductive logic from previous premises or 2) They a...

This makes sense to me. As I wrote previously: It would have made sense to add the worthiness of the goals to my list.

I agree with this but, as I noted, I think premises are by their nature non-rational, which is not to say irrational. Yes, I too have gained from thos...

As I noted in my response to @"Vera Mont", this discussion seems to be proving me wrong. Can you briefly summarize these. That may be an unreasonable,...

Sure, the premises may be wrong, but they also may just be non-rational. In a recent thread I made the claim that all premises, if you trace them back...

Remember, you started it. Donnie and the Insurrections Donnie and the Incarcerations Ivana Down the Stairs Donald Trump Jr. and the Schmucks The Melan...

I think that ambiguity is the reason I never took on the task of clarifying the distinction. There's just too much room for pointless disagreement des...

I think I know why you've chosen those elements, but you can't have thought without Intuition, emotion, imagination, visualization, memory.

By "top level descriptor" do you mean a category at the same level as reason or rationality? Or what? What I should have said is that thinking is not ...

Yours are more esoteric than mine. Mine are all for pop/rock or country groups. Some more: Dead Beetles ( I guess that's a George Harrison/John Lennon...

An important new resource. We have Google for most translations. Here's a translator for Pig Latin. https://lingojam.com/PigLatinTranslator Alternativ...

Also, I don't think thinking is strategic. I'm not even sure what that means. Certainly a lot of our thinking is not goal oriented.

I thought about starting a thread to discuss the difference between rationality and reason. They seem different to me, but they are considered synonym...

Added to my running list of fake band names. Rat Town Booms Gregory Go Boom The Toves The Booms Denise and de Nephews (That's actually the real name o...

Just noticed I've gone over 10,000 posts. You're very welcome.

It's ethical, but probably impossible or at least infeasible. Science will be science. Technology will be technology. The solution may be something li...

Sunset from the cloud's point of view.

Thank you.

You were whittling. If you were a country boy, you would have been whittlin'.

Her music never struck me as particularly country. More pop music like Frank Sinatra or Ella Fitzgerald. Now Hank Williams, he was as country as a whi...

I has been my understanding that different interpretations of quantum mechanics cannot be differentiated using empirical methods. If you have informat...

In the Hank Williams biographic movie, "Your Cheatin Heart," HW was played by George Hamilton. That has always struck me as funny. https://s.hdnux.com...

I certainly wasn't a country music fan when I was younger, but I remember hearing "Why don't you love me" in "The Last Picture Show." I really loved i...

I've had my say. Nothing to add.

Ok.

Many here on the forum and elsewhere would disagree.

My comment was intended to be amusing, not to say anything negative about Shawn.

There was irony in my comment, although I did not intend it to be unkind.

Deductive logic only operates on propositions. The propositions have to come from somewhere. If you follow a logical chain of propositions back to the...

Just for the record, I (T Clark) did not delete this post.

As a philosophy - humane and inspiring. In this context - a grotesque and self-serving justification for prejudice and censorship.

Everything I know, think, feel, and believe reflects "personal context" rather than logic. No one comes to believe things because of logic. Logic does...

@"Baden" I appreciate you starting a new thread with a more respectful name.

I just remembered something I hadn't thought about in a long time. In my Boy Scout troop, we played games after our weekly meeting. One of my favorite...

For me, all language is play and poetry is particularly playful. Metaphors are jokes. Pronunciation, rhyming, rhythm, and alliteration are music. I li...

Agreed.

Yes. I'm feeling nostalgic for @"Shawn"'s pigs.

I was motivated to start this discussion by recent threads that questioned whether quantum mechanics undermines the idea of reality.

I don't have a problem with any of things you identify as real, but different people have different ideas. Some philosophical approaches deny there is...

Your probably right about the reasons. I'm 70 and many of my family and friends are that old or older. I'm surprised by how many of them feel as I do....