T_Clark

I'm on the golf course. I look at my lie. I look at the flag. I turn to my caddy and say "What do you think?" He reaches in the bag, pulls out a club,...

I find myself agreeing with this, although differences in our language make that agreement tentative.

That @"Banno", he knows everything. What would we ever do without him?

I don't understand what EE has written well enough to figure out whether I agree or disagree.

My visions of him are either as Moses or head of the NRA. Neither very inspiring images for me. I always try to remember he was one of the earliest pu...

If you watch old movies, westerns and such, you'll see that effect often.

For those who haven't seen the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=todMiukaqxs

I don't know which is creepier, your attitude towards women or your attitude towards gay people.

A porcine reenactment of Ben Hur.

You seem to think that we can separate the part of us that feels from the part that thinks. Can't be done. At least by me.

Reason is a human mental process, a tool. Sometimes we use it to try to understand the world and how it works - gravity, planets, biology. You've turn...

At the risk of getting in trouble, maybe he, unlike you, likes the tent with the broads in it.

I don't think reason is the controlling force of the universe, if that's what you're asking. I don't really think there is a controlling force.

I think everyone's thinking is both intellectual and emotional. You clearly are emotional in your opinions. I don't see my opinions as non-fiction vs....

If you're interested, look up "People's Temple" and "Georgetown."

Maybe you don't know this. The correct saying is "I haven't drunk the Kool-aid." It refers to the People's Temple cult who all drank poisoned Kool-Aid...

I take a longer range view. "Once upon a time there was an objective reality..." I can't remember the rest, but I do remember the ending - "And they l...

You remember it differently than I do. I thought it was "avocado."

Not to look askance at a compliment, but are you implying my previous posts were not sane?

I agree with this, but it's a really good story.

Again, I don't get your point. I don't and never did support Donald Trump. I think he was a bad president. What does that have to do with this discuss...

I don't get your point. I value democracy. I value reason. I just don't see that they are necessarily strongly related.

You and I don't generally see these things the same way. It seems like you are using "qualitative idea" as your version of what I am calling "experien...

Sure. That's what happens. Experiences go in one end of our minds and come out concepts at the other end.

Yes, Mr. Snoot. Let's talk about the Trump/Biden election situation. Truth no longer matters. Biden is president. That's not going to change. The peop...

I've come around to the understanding that the question "What is true?" is not the right one. The one that matters is "What do I do now?" Truth is jus...

I didn't say I agree with Trump, should agree with Trump, or will agree with Trump. I said what I believe is true doesn't matter if we can't convince ...

Once you flush out all the bullshit Philosophicationismness®: fact, belief, knowledge, and truth are all pretty much the same thing. That's a new word...

If we can't work with people we disagree with strongly to work out a way forward, we can have a great feeling of satisfaction about being right while ...

I agree, but I know if we treat people we disagree with with contempt and derision, it just won't work.

I'll just say - for me as an engineer and usually a pragmatist, Lao Tzu's way of seeing things is the one vision I've found that provides a convincing...

I thought it was clear from the OP that this discussion was about question (1). I didn't see any ambiguity. That's what my responses started out as an...

I think Trump has shown that it's not facts or truth that matter, it's belief. If you can't convince people, get them to believe, that you're right, y...

As I noted before, I'm not sure fact/belief/knowledge/truth distinctions are worth the trouble. When we get to the end, the only question that matters...

Reality isn't clunky. Human thought is clunky.

Yes, well. We'll save this for another discussion.

We live on the surface of a planet surrounded by gaseous nitrogen with a temperature range between -10 C and 50C and able to perceive a limited range ...

Neither of us. The idea of "world" as we are using it is a metaphysical term. As such, it is not right or wrong, only useful or not in a particular si...

Perhaps.

Knowledge, truth, belief, fact. All tied up in knots of language and meaning.

Both science and democracy are important to me and I agree with you about both involving self-correction mechanisms. That's not the same as saying tha...

I often say "There's only one world," so, clearly I disagree. There are, on the other hand, lots of ways to think, talk about it. I think humans, men ...

We just do the best we can.

I don't buy this. A scientific consensus doesn't make something a fact, it makes it suitable for use. How do we use knowledge - adequately justified b...

If this is what you wanted, you should have said so in the OP. I don't see how the belief that reasoning is the way to resolve conflicts is somehow a ...

Our knowledge of what is true is always tentative, or as Gould writes, "provisional." any definition of truth that doesn't take that into account is m...

Actually, I've always thought that hanging would be a good way to commit suicide if I ever want to do so. When I picture it, I always just tie a slip ...

I don't see how we can discuss the subject of the OP without talking about how we use language. Describing something doesn't mean representing somethi...

I'm reluctant to get into a discussion about that here. You've been in threads with me and others where this was discussed. If I remember correctly, y...

Explain please. It says "confirm to a degree" and "provisional assent." I don't see any problem, just follow the scientific method, i.e. provide evide...