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lol Including: Fantasies are real? Logic of language is irrefutable? Everything Kant wrote is true? Philosophy as taught at universities is true? Peop...

I am not here to educate people. I would only say that there is a distinct distinction between history of philosophy, which is the main focus of unive...

I suspect that if you knew a little bit more about philosophy you would realise how little you actually know.

Yes and that is the rub. Metaphysics is beyond epistemology and hence is beyond knowledge which means it is indistinguishable from fantasy. The T of J...

Your claim that it is wrong is false.

But without a process of actually determining whether the cat is actually on the mat or not it is effectively meaningless.

Perhaps you do not understand it, it does seem fairly simple.

People can still be mistaken, in fact people are often mistaken.

Happiness is a goal to which everyone inescapably aspires; how they get there is a matter of choice, everyone takes a different path

No I agree with the redundancy theory of truth, 'truth' is just a label of convenience (as is falsity). For someone to claim that a statement or propo...

It is meaningless to state that a statement 'is true' ( As opposed to having a 'label of true'), except that the statement is part of an explicit axio...

And what is meant by 'an idea that is considered true'? Sounds tautological to me. Propositions are labelled as 'true' when they are an accurate repre...

There is no correspondence.

Perhaps the point to realise is that your model of the world differs from everybody else's and that their is no perfect or 'real' model with which to ...

Ok. you can 'declare particular sentences to be 'true'. But what then? What logical process are you going to use to find those sentences that 'necessa...

What people want from philosophy ( or at least what I want from philosophy) is a simple, self-consistent, accurate and comprehensive system for descri...

One does not need to declare that a model of the world is 'real', all one needs to do is to realise that the model is all one knows about the world.

You seem to be making the assumption of 'naïve reality' whereby the world is pretty much or even exactly as we perceive it. For me this is a naïve ass...

I don't expect to get many 'takers'. And yes it is at odds with many people's ideas about truth. But that doesn't mean it is not part of a better syst...

Propositions (or statements) can be labelled as 'true' when they are considered to be an accurate representation of an idea that the brain/mind has la...

I think there is substantial agreement about what is 'true' in the world. And I think people actually label things as being true in much the same way....

Truth is a label, in the same way that colour is a label. We learn to recognise what is referred to as a 'blue' object. Then we can categorise all the...

But who wants equality anyway, economic or otherwise? Apart from equality of education, I , for one, do not. Who would want to live in a world dominat...

It is like encountering someone who is stuck down a well and you offer to assist them in climbing out but instead they insist that although they are m...

Clearly you are stuck inside your own negative premises. From which there is no escape without motivation.

Then you can look for and find some other ones, or failing that create your own.. Enjoy! Life is for enjoying!

And what if you are lying?

You seem to be suggesting that 'a=a' is somehow fundamental to philosophy and hence not an opinion and hence philosophy is not opinion. But what does ...

I thought we covered this in the other thread..... perhaps not. Perhaps you misunderstand what philosophy is or perhaps in this case what philosophy i...

What you are talking about here is internal self-consistency, which is certainly an important criteria for any philosophy or system. . But that is not...

You are referring to a specific formal system. And you can have many theorems and analyses within that formal system. You can even specify an interpre...

But is it the same game they are playing? Take the field of ethics for example; is the rather theoretical ethics that philosophers discuss the same do...

If philosophy is not relevant to non-philosophers, then philosophy becomes indistinguishable from an academic game. That said, I believe that philosop...

I didn't use the word 'philosopher'. By 'non-philosopher' I mean people who do not engage in any serious or formal way with philosophy. Nevertheless, ...

I have no idea what Descartes actually meant. All we have is his statement; do with it what you will. You have certainty of your own existence; what m...

Certainly for you it is. And I have no problem in believing it.

Well yes, just so long as you have sufficient capacity for thoughts about your thoughts; and without any evidence to the contrary, I can confidently (...

It depends upon what you mean by 'certain'. Certainty is a state of mind. If you only had one thought in your head, no matter what it was, I expect yo...

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Well, you do have a point. Philosophy is all about opinions and as such is personal. But this doers not mean that the ideas presented cannot be evalua...

Then metaphysics is best left to the physicists and not the incoherent ramblings of philosophers who have no understanding of physics.

Well I watched your video. It seems that the main aim of the T convention was to avoid the so called 'liar paradox'. But as mentioned/discussed in ano...

This from Wikipedia: "God of the gaps" is a theological perspective in which gaps in scientific knowledge are taken to be evidence or proof of God's e...

This is the classic 'god of the gaps' argument. Does ignorance = god?

Or perhaps the more sensible thing to do would be to abandon any attempt to define 'truth' or even to use it in any formal system.

Philosophy is not so much dead as it is stuck at the end of a blind canyon. There is no way forward except to retrace one's steps and re-examine the a...

11. The manifestation of an illusion.

Yes I agree, but do those systems have a direct connection to the real world? My answer is that no they don't.

No it isn't. Is your username Pfhorrest because you are an idiot?

There are no experts in philosophy, only specialists; just as there are no experts in phrenology, only specialists. This is because there are no objec...