the distinction between objective and subjective is clear in plain languge. 1. Object: a material thing that can be seen and touched. "he was dragging...
I don’t accept Hackers elision of the duality of subject and object. I did a bit of reading arounf on Hacker on Wittgenstein. As is well known W was a...
It seems today that Biden wlll get home. What I wrote yestrdaty was mostly a refelction of the shock I felt that it wasn't the convincing repudiation ...
What I’m objecting to is plain vanilla ‘materialist philosophy of mind', of which Daniel Dennett is a leading exponent. Obviously you need a brain to ...
Agree. It’s incredibly dissappointing after all the mendacity, the incompetence, the malevolence, so many people will still vote for him. Something is...
As Javra has pointed out, I certainly don’t conceive of any kind of mental substance or thing. I’m not a Greek scholar, nor do I know much about Arist...
No, i'm not arguing that it's a 'magical entity'. That's how you must see it, but it's not what I've said. The main arguments I have advocated are: fi...
'At death the soul is separated from the body and exists in a conscious or unconscious disembodied state. But on the future Day of Judgment souls will...
What does it mean for an idea to 'match' or 'correspond' with reality? How can you stand outside of your conceptions and see if they correspond? Ewing...
Right. But that isn’t that a problem for physicalism, which says that conscious acts are reducible to objective referents? Isn’t that the nub of the i...
See this. I believe the distinction between reality and existence was lost in Medieval Europe, as a consequence of the debate between (Scholastic) rea...
What hasn’t been mentioned is the role that physics has assumed as paradigmatic for science generally. The ‘Laws of Physics’, said Whitehead, assumed ...
It’s a very depressing read. From my perspective, it illustrates the depth of delusion that surrounds the ‘Trump cult’ (as that is what it is.) I thin...
Hmmm hadn’t heard that name. I met Sheldrake once, a charming and erudite gentleman. Oh, astronauts. No, not buying. Sheldrake’s theories originated f...
Hey don't sweat it, but I don't think it's true. I read Memories Dreams and Reflections and a number of Freud's essays and some bios about him, and I ...
However, Christian doctrine must allow for the immortality of the soul, must it not? 'Irreducible Mind'. There were many hostile reviews of it at the ...
Never heard that story, I'd be interested if you have a citation for that. The account given by Jung in his Autobiography is that 'Freud made a reques...
Freud was entirely dismissive of Christianity. His essays such as Totem and Taboo and The Future of an Illusion attempt to depict Christianity as a re...
Reason is a faculty. If you don’t have the faculty of reason, then no experience will provide it. Creatures lacking in reason, such as goats or dogs, ...
Modern science, and modern thinking generally, rejects teleology, which is the idea that ‘things happen for a reason’ or that beings have a reason for...
You might be thinking of the well-known Heisenberg quote: 'We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our m...
I’m not 'changing the subject'. We each have an idea of what is real - a worldview - that can be called into question without saying ‘nobody knows any...
As I asked before To which you replied: Yet, somehow, I'm accused of 'ducking questions'. You then repeat the positivist assertion: ' All human ideas ...
That's how you will see it, but that in itself is also a statement of belief. https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn48/sn48.044.than.html As I...
A paragraph from the Wikipedia entry on Parmenides: Relevant passage bolded. I think that's your answer. For some more context, there was a not-very-w...
Actually, the human mind is capable of far outstripping the requirements for 'successfully interpreting the world'. Any animal must do that if it is t...
I referred to a book, Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, Ed. Kelly & Kelly. There are hundreds of pages of studies in that bo...
All fair points. There is not much recognition of the distinction of 'being' and 'existence' in current English, and they're generally regarded as syn...
‘Exists’ is the wrong word here. Consider the etymology of the word - ‘ex-‘ outside of, apart from (exile, exterrnal) and ‘ist’ to stand. When you say...
Dharmas don't make up objects; they're constituents of experience. The first is a theory of physics arising from mathematical analysis of observed phe...
This thread is about Ch'an or Zen Buddhism. It has generated a vast literature but it is not concerned with 'propositional knowledge' as such. There i...
First, define yourself as a primate species. Then, proceed solely on the basis of what you can touch, see, hear, feel and smell, and mathematics groun...
Especially if you gloss over the principle! I'm very open to hylomorphism, but the Aristotelian 'hyle' is nothing like the modern conception of matter...
Cosmology, both traditional and modern, is an enormous subject area, which has developed over tens of thousands of years; considering that early human...
What if it is 'empirical reality' itself that is the delusion? Then there would be no 'certain knowledge' obtainable of it. And that actually maps aga...
The more general a term is, the harder it is of definition. It is used in different contexts in different ways which also contributes to the difficult...
There is plainly a distinction between the first- and third-person perspectives, as is implied by grammar itself! And furthermore, it is also undeniab...
Joshu's Zen Joshu began the study of Zen when he was sixty years old and continued until he was eighty, when he realized Zen. He taught from the age o...
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