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I think you are overestimating my perspicacity. I've read almost nothing by either man. I do like Wilde better than Nietzsche, but that's only because...

Well, there was a bit of irony in my statement. Inconsistent isn't really the same thing as complicated.

This is fun, but we're unnecessarily cluttering up this thread. I'll let you have one last at bat if you'd like. That's baseball terminology. You can ...

As I wrote previously, I think JTB is silly, but I do believe my judgement of your post is true and that I'm justified in believing it.

I like being cranky and contrary and I'm good at it, but I don't like hurting people and I don't like it when others treat people unfairly or unnecess...

My meal prep for the no-work week was to ask my wife to buy a extra large box of Cheerios. Forgive me. I have to be a smart ass, but I do enjoy and ad...

Your post was your usual passive-aggressive snot, as is this one.

I certainly am not an qualified to have a definitive opinion, but it is my understanding that this is not consistent with current results from cogniti...

As is your wontmodus operandi, when I contradicted your statement and provided evidence, you changed the subject. Note change in text.

I didn't say it is amusing, I said it is silly. Not the same thing at all.

Although I disagree with some of what you've written, I agree with Banno that you have provided a good view of how thought works—clear and consistent.

It has always seemed to me that this "universal mind" is just another name for God.

Learning through interaction with others is certainly an important source of "how we think" although I wouldn't put it in those terms. There is also a...

JTB—Jocular True Belief.

There's a name for that.... what is it now... Oh, yes. Understatement. Them damn women and their disgusting natural functions corrupting our precious ...

Oscar Wilde or Chat GPT?

Trump claims that he will be arrested next week My prediction for the future - Trump goes to Russia and get's asylum from Putin. That would be a joke ...

My answer to that is "yes." For me, the value in metaphysics is that it provides a framework, a foundation, on which to build our factual structures. ...

I think even the Stoics would worry if they heard frogs and turtles talking.

Nice use of "...."

I think I've told you this before - you're the mommy and @"Baden" is the daddy. So, no, I can't be your father.

I have a couple of questions about the mindscape hypothesis. First, is there any way to test this empirically? Another way to say that is to ask if th...

It it is my younger son's birthday too. He is not a teetotaler. I bought him a six-pack of fancy-schmancy beer and a gift certificate to his favorite ...

Just wanted to make sure all you outsiders saw this: If you come to Massachusetts, don't say you haven't been warned. In related news... Massachusetts...

That's what @"Hanover" said. Yes, I know you really said it, but I wanted to try it out.

Wait, wait. I have a better one. My new catchphrase. That's what @"Hanover" said.

I hope you don't mind, but I'd like to preempt any response @"Hanover" might have to this. Hey, Hanover. I have dibs on this one.

I am a big fan of Gould's, but I understand he was something of a jerk sometimes. Being something of a jerk myself, I don't hold that against him. Tha...

Geez. I make a serious, erod... smart, comment and you guys ruin it with all this lame, ham-handed ridicule. No wonder @"god must be atheist" has been...

An artistic reference to show how erudous, erodant, smart I am. /uploads/files/m3/sgchog1xhykpal0u.png

This is not Edna Krabappel.

This is not an apple.

So, that's good news. When the rough beast gets to Bethlehem, he'll get all confused and frustrated and then just go back to his stony sleep for 20 mo...

I've only ever read 10 poems. I've got to work with what I have.

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Atlanta to be born? Yes, yes. I'm aware I just used this quote in the past week.

Sure. Different people experience their mental processes differently. I can only speak for myself.

On a regular basis, it's not so much that I change my beliefs as that I refine them and become more aware of them. But then there are a few issues whe...

Long story - short version. Many philosophers, including Kant and Lao Tzu, have recognized that the reality we live in is a function, not only of some...

Just wanted you to know—I'm saving all your Shoutbox posts for reuse when you complain about my skepticism of your former employment in a Chinese Rest...

Would that mean @"Hanover" is only half Jewish? There are rumors he is half Amish.

This is why you are indispensable here on the forum.

Since Jewish ancestry is passed through the mother, I guess your children would not be the first Amish Jews. If a Jewish woman and an Amish man had ch...

Boycotting. Ha, ha, ha. That was a play on the different meanings of "patronizing." But seriously, why would I possibly need to know an antonym for, w...

I wasn't questioning your qualifications on this subject. I consider introspection a valid source of psychological knowledge.

I looked on the web for a definition of "condescending." Here it is: Displaying a patronizingly superior attitude. Exhibiting an attitude of superiori...

Do you really think this is how people who play chess think and behave? I haven't played chess since I was a kid and I was never very good at it, but ...

I think this is really wrong in that it doesn't reflect how real people determine value in the real world. It seems like you are trying to stuff how p...

This made me think of one of my favorite quotes from Stephen Jay Gould, a great science writer—In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a d...

A good post. Like you, I take a pragmatic view of knowledge.