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The point I’m trying to articulate is a very general one. As I said, I think ‘intelligibility’ had a specific meaning, and a different meaning, in pre...

I had the feeling it was connected. When you ask 'specifically, what are cognitive distortions', then I think the answer is something along the lines ...

And I’ve responded in various other threads. I think it takes a real effort to get out of your own head-space. In my case, one key element became phys...

by persuading you to identify with them.

I think philosophy always had an element of therapy to it. In fact (I might have mentioned this before) the very word 'therapy' is derived from a Jewi...

It's worth noticing that 'intelligibility' has a very different meaning in what we might call classical philosophy than it has in the modern world. Th...

Leaving Aside your Questions, You Don't need to Randomly Capitalise Words. Do you believe in God, or is that a software glitch? An article about the p...

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TLP It's also significant that this is the sequence of aphorisms that ends with the one that is often said to be reminiscent of Zen: cf: The Buddha //...

I will try and enlarge on that. What I have in mind, is the role of the brain (or mind, mind/brain, whatever) in synthesising perception and data in t...

none of which contradicts what I meant to say, but I will have to enlarge on it when not typing on an iphone. (Incidentally, as it happens, I’m workin...

There was an insightful essay years ago on BBC’s online magazine (can’t find it since) about the powerful appeal of Inception, Matrix, and other such ...

It’s a metaphor with obvious appeal in our technological age. Nothing more. But it would suit the technocracy if a lot of people were to believe it.

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I think your post is based on a fundamental mistake about what philosophers, prior to modernity, thought that science was. Aristotle’s physics was not...

But with no light at the end of the tunnel.

Goodnight. And FWIW I think the depth of your posts has improved considerably over the years. ;-)

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What motivated my initial interest in philosophy was the possibility of spiritual illumination or enlightenment. Actually when I first went to Uni it ...

Splendid post. I had pasted a quote from earlier on in the thread in my scrapbook and compared it to a snippet from Aristotle. Although it could be st...

Quite. Shouldn’t be forgotten that the rejection of metaphysics was a characteristic of both Protestantism - Luther called Aristotle a ‘son of the dev...

We determine what symbols mean. They have no intrinsic meaning. That is why they can't be physical - because a physical mark is not capable of meaning...

That is really illuminating and useful post, thank you. I had read one or two papers from Meillassoux in years past, mainly due to promptings from thi...

OK, I’ll re-phrase - ‘a stance which a great many people advocate’.

The context is a thread about idealism, and then about idealism as opposed to scientific realism. It wasn’t really about reductionism as such, so how ...

Done that. ‘Philosophy of Matter, Keith Campbell, University of Sydney. HD for essay on Lucretius.

Sign on the door says 'philosophy forum'. :smile: Except that science still does frequently don the (lab) coat of moral authority.

Right - this is the point that I have realised also. When we imagine the world from the viewpoint of scientific realism, then we just picture an empty...

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That is solipsism, not idealism. It is one of the consequences of Cartesianism, that I can only be certain of *my* own existence. Here's a passage in ...

It would be hell. I think the spiritual meaning of ‘eternity’ is not that one lives forever in physical form, but that the real nature of the human be...

The thing which most realists don’t see, is how the human perspective is smuggled into their worldview and then forgotten. Realism speaks of ‘the vast...

Agree that the world is in some basic sense mind-created. But the way I now put it, is that there is an irreducibly subjective pole, or to put it anot...

Apparently Mattis hates that nickname, and actually he's been a beacon of sanity in the schemozle of the Trump White House.

You all seen the guy who’s replacing Sessions? 6’4”, shaven head, looks like a cage fighter. Trump wants to sick him on Mueller. It’s about the only l...

I think you’re a mistake in regarding the noumenal and the phenomenal as radically distinct or utterly other. My view of Kant’s claim about things in ...

It’s a tremendously important point. The whole notion of objectivity and exactness is basic to the success of science. But it’s the attempt to extend ...

That is at least partially due to the definition of modern science, in particular. It’s here that the emphasis on precisely quantifiable data becomes....

Right. Then you get a 'sufficiently advanced method of brain scanning' - but some experts cast doubt on their veracity. In the end, the experts are de...

You could feed me anchovies, and I could say ‘yum’, hundreds of times, whilst actually hating them. Whereas there’s no way I could lie about being 6” ...

Knowing that you don’t know something is vastly preferable to thinking you know something you don’t.

I believe in liberalism but not scientific materialism.

Domains of discourse are just as the name implies - a cultural milieu within which terms and concepts have an agreed meaning such that participants in...

Not if they’re explored in the context of a ‘domain of discourse’. The reason they’re ‘inchoate’ is because of the chaotic state of culture.

Wasn’t being entirely serious, I must admit, but will always love the story about the lemon juice. :wink:

Sam’s problematic revolves around objective validation of something which can only ever be known first-person, that being the reality or otherwise of ...

I was criticized on this forum several years back because I suggested that the jailing of the Christian Governor of Jakarta, Ahok, on blasphemy charge...

Actually that passage I quoted from Davies was in response to the point in the OP about ‘what is objective is mind-independent’. I know it seems far o...

Looks great! Are you relation to Arthur, by any chance? :smile:

Fair enough, but it's the tip of an iceberg. In any case, a google search on the etymology of 'objective' yields the following: One point I notice abo...