T_Clark

Two points - 1) Even if I'm not familiar with the particular landscape, I am familiar with landscapes in general. I'm also likely to move more careful...

Yes. Many animals have very complex behaviors that are transmitted genetically. Humans seem to have just a few instincts - sucking and maybe an attrac...

My take on knowledge and how we know things is very pragmatic. That's one of the reasons I ended up becoming an engineer.

Does that mean that riding a bike is synthetic a priori knowledge? I certainly would not have said so. I don't see how learning a language can be only...

That is how I see it. This is what I think of when I hear "a priori." It is how it is often used. I think I see what you're saying, but that seems lik...

I thought that all mathematics is considered analytic a priori knowledge. That might make a certain amount of sense. There are studies showing that ba...

Sorry. That sentence was a non-sequitur. I was talking about synthetic a priori knowledge and then switched to analytic. I didn't know the distinction...

Let me see if I have this straight - synthetic a priori means "makes sense, but I'd better check." That's fine, but it's not usually how people use th...

Can intuition be wrong? Of course it can. Does that mean it isn't valuable. Of course it doesn't. One thing intuition is very good for is setting off ...

Babies have to build their own worlds. They have to take in all the sensory information they gather and process it through neurological and mental mec...

As I said, this makes sense to me.

I agree, but many people don't.

I'm not a follower of any religion, so I may not be the right person to have an opinion on this. It has always seemed to be that religious faith is ba...

This makes sense to me, although I don't know if there are studies about experiences babies pick up in the womb. It seems like you are making a distin...

This idea shows up when discussing any issue about abandoning traditional values or the possibility of behaving in accordance with an inner voice. Loo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0s5Kn9QXtU

Happy birthday Javi. Unfortunately, my birthday is on December 71st this year.

Welcome to the forum. As for people your own age - most of us here are old people. We consider 50 year olds youngsters. Have you looked through the di...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6XwSWjwbvM

Here's the link: https://uniteyouthdublin.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/richard_delgado_jean_stefancic_critical_race_thbookfi-org-1.pdf

Hey... I resemble that remark.

@"unenlightened" Let's try this instead: I can't say you treated the song unfair. You could have done better, but I don't care.

It's the greatest breakup song of all time and Dylan plays the best version. The bitterness is wonderful. "You just sort of wasted my precious time." ...

You didn't say "white person," you said "white people," of which I am one. I'm done with this conversation.

This is not a thread about the mathematical nature of the universe. It's about cause. I haven't seen anything you've posted here that relates to that.

It's not that it hurts our feelings, it's that it won't work.

CRT is bad strategy because it won't work. I try not to get involved in discussions of racial issues. I've been attacked for my opinions before. I onl...

I don't agree. I am very, very far from being someone who can make a definitive statement in this area, but dark matter and dark energy seem like reas...

Sure, I can see how white racial antipathy hurts black people, Hispanics, and other minorities. I don't know how to change that. I don't think CRT is ...

In the US there are minorities other than blacks that are treated with disrespect and discrimination, but I think white/black racial discrimination is...

For better or worse, Diangelo and her ilk are the public face of CRT here in the US. I agree with you and Mills. I'll read at least the introduction o...

As I noted, I just wanted to keep things simple. I think there are issues with non-physical causes that would muddy the waters of a discussion.

I think it is a pseudo-academic theory that is really a polemic political statement. It's like Marxism. I don't mean that as a disparagement. It doesn...

I read several articles about Robin Diangelo, both critical and more approving plus one or two about CRT and freedom of speech, which were critical. C...

It's science until the attempt to verify the changes to the theory are investigated and not confirmed. If, at that point, people don't acknowledge tha...

As a prefatory remark, I want to state my position that whatever differences there are between how you see things and how I do are metaphysical. They ...

I'm not trying to be a smarty pants here, but does that answer my question. It doesn't seem like it does to me.

I don't buy it. From what I've seen, there's more to CRT than that. It preaches contempt for white people and blames each of us personally for how bla...

I called it the wrong thing, but I think my position stays the same. I don't see any connection between physical cause and logical necessity. Seems li...

Before it can change, it has to be a thing. That thing then can change into something else. Change is something that happens to things. Change is a th...

The universe just universes. Reality just realitys. Not-even-stuff not-even-flowing not-even-around. A not-even-miasma of not-even-chaotic not-even-ex...

I would say that non-sentient beings do not have perspective. There are no events in an a world with no sentient beings.

I agree.

Here's something you won't hear me say very often - I am sympathetic to the feminist position. They've worked hard to improve conditions for women, to...

Another thought - I spoke up because, in the ongoing conversation on the forum, one particular side of this story is told more often then the other.

You call it trickery, I call it science. It's perfectly valid until it isn't. Discomfort about the trickery provides the pressure to keep looking or t...

We're agreed to call that "physical causation." I'm not sure what logical causation is then, if it's not the syllogism I used previously.

Agreed. That's why I wrote "I can see saying that my finger caused the P to show up." That's intended as a non-committal statement. We've gone back an...

Agreed.