T_Clark

I didn't really think this thread would go far when it started, but it has turned out to be really helpful for me. Having to explain, or at least try ...

We're missing each other. The words we are using seem to mean different things to each of us. I'm not sure how to take it any further. I'll just start...

There is only one thing that is ineffable. You know, it's that thing. That one thing that can't be spoken. Come on, you know.... That one, indivisible...

You say reification is dangerous. I say it's the way we make give things meaning. We do it all the time. It's our normal way of operating.

When I say it's possible to experience how I know what I know, I mean that I can do it. I have done it. I'm doing it right now. I guess you can deny m...

I thought I already did end it on a high note. My intent was to be friendly and conciliatory while saying I don't think it will be fruitful to continu...

Yes. This is just the same old anti-natalist argument as we've seen in five other threads recently. Those have all been combined by the moderators int...

You won't convince me. I won't convince you. You have learned something today - there are people, at least one person, who doesn't think objective rea...

This is what I wrote in a previous post to try to describe what it feels like to experience an internal state in a way that isn't rational.

Can you give an example of something the knowledge of which is impossible? I can't think of any. Or do you just mean something that doesn't exist - li...

I don't agree. We've probably taken this as far as we can right now.

"Reason" is no more a reification of an abstract thing than "digestion" is a reification of the process my digestive system uses to break down food fo...

It is possible to know, or at least experience, how you know what you know. You share your subjectivity with people all the time. You are doing it rig...

Sorry, you've lost me. I'll say it again - objective reality neither exists no doesn't exist. It is a metaphysical concept. We can choose to use, cons...

I don't understand your point. Does this make sense? "The very rejection of the existence of Superman denotes the existence of Superman as a prerequis...

I don't see it that way. I don't think reason, consciousness, plays any part in my perception of my internal states. I don't know if you agree with my...

Yes. Sort of. Sometimes. To a certain extent. Yes dammit!!! Sure, but I have had experiences that are the same or similar to those you have described....

Awareness has become more and more important to me as I've gotten older. There are so many things to be aware of - body, emotions, thought processes, ...

I agree and I do think that the distinctions are artificial. I think of babies. At a certain age, maybe 5 months, they start touching parts of their b...

I still don't understand. I don't see how the weather we experience in the world is any more like the weather model than the George Washington Bridge ...

I am neither a follower of any religion nor an atheist. From my experience here and in other places, the parties most responsible for the poor quality...

Yes, I understand that. Although we are talking about psychological phenomena, we are talking about them from a philosophical, as you say, epistemolog...

I think I may disagree with this. Let's see. This thread is a very good example of me trying to communicate my mental life to others. Others are doing...

Introspection is one mode of observation. Another is paying attention to what is happening in the world using your sense of sight. Introspection exist...

I don't know why you would object. I've tried to make it clear that I am describing my own experiences, although I do know that those experiences aren...

I don't think knowledge is necessarily a social phenomenon. Also, what I know from introspection can be social. This thread is good evidence for that....

It is very common for me to become aware of something about myself that was always there but which I was not previously aware of. Example - I practice...

I think that rationality is more likely to lead to circular, even chaotic, discussions than introspection is.

I disagree. Don't psychoanalyze me. Respond to my statements. Let's make that "Respond to my fucking statements."

Introspection is a mode of observation, not rationality. Or do you think observation is a rational process? I don't. First you observe, then you think...

You do that. I do that, but I don't think most people do that, or at least I'm not sure they do. You can just think without thinking about thinking. Y...

In my experience, all the ways of gaining knowledge are generally working together all the time. In my experience a good therapist or a friend who kno...

I don't think most people observe their thinking while they are thinking. I think they just think. That requires that they be aware of the issues bein...

I'm going to have a bowl of fish chowder for lunch today. Thanks for the inspiration.

In a previous post, @"TheMadFool" pointed out that, as you say, introspection is not a type of knowledge. I agreed that it made more sense to say it i...

Yes. I agree.

I really don't understand this. The modeler has created the weather model to allow her to predict the real weather. They are no more the same than the...

Imagine one of your favorite foods - for me it's, let's say, a nice creamy fish chowder. I picture the bowl. Imagine the smell and the feel of it on m...

Good point. I don't really think I'd say introspection is a way of thinking, but maybe I should have said that it is a good way of gaining knowledge.

You and I seem to agree. I would add to your list of mental experiences that can be known with introspection our experience of knowing, feeling, being...

I can deny that rationality is mandatory. Not that I don't ever use it, but most of what I do and know is not rational. It's not irrational either. It...

Sounds like you and I agree. How aware are you of how your mind is working while you think? Is it something you pay attention to?

Yes, I think I agree with what you are saying. When I made the distinction, I was ...maybe projecting is the right word - anticipating what others mig...

Not sure if I understand. The simulations I've worked with - groundwater and surface water models - are systems of simplified equations that are solve...

Let me restate or expand my statement - I don't believe that what we call objective reality is useful in many situations. I have no trouble thinking o...

My vote still goes in for: But, of course, I don't get a vote.

Hey, you guys have taken a deeply meaningful and, frankly, moving thread about new names for the forum and turned it into a dumb-ass discussion about ...

Yes, my head is spinning. Here's a map. /uploads/resized/files/p7/fwxqavgwth62rt4w.jpg Good old Mississippi and Alabama.

It would be helpful to me if you would define what you mean when you say "metaphysical." It gets used a lot of different ways, often in the same post ...

I've had my say. You've had yours. I'm comfortable leaving it at that. I'll leave it up to other posters to say more if they think it's needed.