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Yeah, dumb argument on my part. It was only provided as 'symptom of general malaise'. Which is what I try and arrive at, by philosophical means; that ...

Not a matter for apologising. I did take the time to start reading your piece, and will provide some feedback. It will blunt and brief, but this is a ...

without which you would have no computer to express your ideas.

A very well-written and deeply-felt post. I think you plainly have a spiritual calling. I perfectly agree in your observations about the sham Churchia...

That is not the cause of the confusion; the confusion is that we can't distinguish truth from falsehoods, reality from illusion. We cite what we think...

You're not missing anything, that was my reaction also.

Right! Whatever we say, or science says, about 'what exists', there is always a subjective pole in any such statement. It's very clear to me how this ...

Well, my view is that reality always includes an observer, and there is no 'mind-independent' reality in that sense. But that doesn't mean the past do...

That's because he's referring to the traditional, Aristotelean definition of 'substance'. This is not anything like the modern 'substance, stuff, or t...

I was being polemical. Generally I'm on board with a lot of what you write, but I had to take exception to equating materialism and idealism. X-)

What I have gotten from you StreetlightX, for almost 4 years, is continual insults, derogation, and outrght scorn. It does trouble me, but then I thin...

So you don't think there's an ontological distinction between beings and things? What I said was: 'The question of 'dogmatic realism' arises because o...

Why would one categorise a building as a being? What would the German term have been? And do you think that to demolish a building is to kill it? If i...

not always but in this case the etymology is significant.

So why waste time on a philosophy forum?

'Ontology' is derived from the Greek verb 'to be', specifically, from the first-person present participle of the verb 'to be' (i.e. 'I am'). So it's n...

Where did I say that it was that? I go to great lengths to make that point. Exactly - as per the 'poison arrow' parable of the Buddha. That is somethi...

But if you say that matter is a manifestation of spirit, then you're admitting the reality of spirit. In which case, I've forgotten what it is you're ...

No contradiction provided you admit the duality of matter and spirit.

The idealism of whatever school advocates that the basic principle or fundamental ground of reality is mind rather than matter. All Berkeley's argumen...

actually it's not an anonymous saying, it's from a Robert Frost poem: 'The best way out is always through'.

'The only way out of it is through it' ~ anonymous saying

Hi Oysteroid, welcome! Hints of Liebniz, there.

This question is about cognitive science. It has to do with stereoscopic sound resolution, i.e. your ears are several inches apart, your brain triangu...

I don't think that it has ever been suggested that a 'gaze travels' or that anything 'travels out' from the ear to the source of sound. So why would t...

But obviously, if the soul, and God, are not material, then that understanding can't co-exist with a philosophy which sees the world as 'material thro...

But no Christian believes the soul is material.

Right, another one of your many 'well, what I mean by it is ...' But then, as meaning as subjective, then every realist has different beliefs, right? ...

I can't understand what it means to say that 'objects are always in conceptual shape'. I take objective idealism to mean that there are real ideas, i....

Well, I suppose. There's that saying about there being a fine line between genius and madness. And when you read history of science, there are plenty ...

I think we learn to differentiate 'self and world' in very early childhood development; it's not something new-borns have. So part of the process of m...

I would have thought the fundamental issue of schizophrenia was the ability to recognise one's thoughts and internal states as being one's own. Hence ...

Of the Principles of Human Knowledge: Part 1 Pp 22-23 That wouldn't satisfy most realists, who most certainly do believe that things continue to exist...

There wasn't really much discussion of the nature of matter in Plato - that came along with Aristotle and hylomorphism. Platonic espistemology was mor...

I think you're defining 'idealist' differently to me. Plato is widely understood to be the seminal figure of Western idealism; 'eidos', is translated ...

If you can't spot basic errors of logic that is not likely to help you.

One ought not to argue from faulty premisses, as by so doing the conclusion is not properly established. X-)

It is synonymous, because your 'is' statement is based on a moral judgement. To say something is morally wrong is to say it ought not to be done. It m...

Plato was indubitably idealist, as were many Platonists. Of course idealism is - what is the word? - a polysemic term, it has many meanings and no eas...

There was an anecdote about Sartre, that they were all around at his place, and he started to hold forth on some aspect, and they all went out for cof...

Philosophical idealism is the tendency in Western philosophy most associated with spirituality. The way I understand idealism, it is not a matter of h...

I think many people hold materialist views without thinking through what they really mean. The point is that idealism appears to lead to absurdities B...

Whereas I think it is hugely influential. I have encountered numerous forum posters over the years who say something that. They're nearly always solip...

I do accept the facts on face value, i.e. as facts about the physical universe. However there are considerable gaps in the accounts - not only the obv...

But isn't that precisely what materialism says? Isn't that what the whole 'mind and matter' debate revolves around? There was a poster at Online Philo...

I think it would be useful to provide some context by providing some detail on Pyrrhonian scepticism. (Ref: Beckwith, Christopher I. (2015). Greek Bud...

I went back and looked at the context of the quote from Magee - it's a bit too long to reproduce the entire section, but it's about the counter-intuit...

The tenor of a great deal of modern philosophy is antagonistic not only to religion, but to any spirituality within philosophy. The Enlightenment soug...

(Sorry I hadn't noticed your response until just now.) I don't think apperception involves parsing a syllogism, as you have done in this example - as ...