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Right action is the faultless performance of moral (good) action. Morality is a mental construct which has many subjective (personal) and intersubject...
September 20, 2019 at 08:34
Comparative Religion would be one. I can't help you with that.
September 18, 2019 at 13:15
Morality (the classification of human events as moral or immoral): 1) Is a human universal. (Brown, 1991) 2) Facilitates the survival of humanity by c...
September 18, 2019 at 10:22
Fair enough. Obviously, tacit knowledge is not beyond the capacity of AI (e.g., self-driving vehicles, robotic manufacturing, etc). So, I'm surprised ...
September 16, 2019 at 13:46
Tacit (implicit empirical) knowledge is difficult to communicate because it is only partially codifiable, or uncodifiable. It is processed in an autom...
September 16, 2019 at 11:39
English and German belong to the Germanic subgroup of the Indo-European language family. They are analytic languages, whereas; Greek is a synthetic la...
September 13, 2019 at 13:04
Thanks for your elaboration, however; I think this conceptualisation is too broad.
September 13, 2019 at 10:21
This agrees with my conception of introspection as the examination of mental events, a type of reflection (examination of experience). How would you d...
September 13, 2019 at 07:40
It wasn't.
September 12, 2019 at 10:59
It appears that introspection is frequently confused, or conflated, with metacognition. Knowledge may be based on metacognition and/or experience, whi...
September 12, 2019 at 10:37
A Cognitive Psychologist would call ineffable knowledge: tacit knowledge, a type of empirical knowledge. Using only Philosophy (logical investigation)...
September 11, 2019 at 16:33
Empirical knowledge, yes. Observation is another good way of gaining empirical knowledge. Both introspection (self-report) and observation have been u...
September 10, 2019 at 21:55
Of course it is.
September 10, 2019 at 15:43
Psychobabble.
September 10, 2019 at 14:17
Can one reason from observation independent of introspection?
September 10, 2019 at 13:49
I asked you one question in answer to one of yours, here (in case you forgot). As far as "learning anything", I guess it's true what they say about ol...
September 10, 2019 at 13:30
Does reflection necessarily lead to reasoning? If not, reflection and reasoning are different types of mental events. Could reflection lead to other t...
September 10, 2019 at 13:26
How is reason (the construction of an argument) related to these types of reflection (examinations of experience)? 1) An introspection: I had a certai...
September 10, 2019 at 11:41
No. Introspection is a type of reflection, which is a type of problem-solving, not a type of knowledge. Why not depend on both? Seems to me they are d...
September 10, 2019 at 09:00
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You presuppose much.
September 08, 2019 at 16:55
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You presuppose it is impossible the bill wouldn't receive Royal Assent without the Monarch refusing assent.
September 08, 2019 at 16:35
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Who said anything about the Monarch refusing royal assent?
September 08, 2019 at 16:18
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Correct. And what happens if there is no royal assent for the extension bill?
September 08, 2019 at 16:08
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Stay tuned.
September 08, 2019 at 11:24
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And how is Royal Assent obtained in the UK?
September 08, 2019 at 11:13
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That would be a bill, not a law.
September 08, 2019 at 11:10
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Which law?
September 08, 2019 at 11:01
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The answer to my question is found in your third link. What is Jeremy Corbyn's current condition for agreeing a general election?
September 08, 2019 at 10:34
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How is Royal Assent obtained in the UK? Hint: Is it Parliament, or the Queen's Government, which makes laws?
September 08, 2019 at 09:47
This is funny for two reasons: 1) Einstein and Szilard wrote FDR, recommending nuclear weapons research. 2) As a consequence, the atomic bomb was engi...
September 07, 2019 at 12:04
"The Dark Ages Were Actually Good. What Can That Teach Us?" The Atlantic, October 2019 Issue "...the Roman empire made modern development possible by ...
September 06, 2019 at 11:11
Whatever gets you thru the night.
September 02, 2019 at 07:58
I think the collection hangs separately, not together.
September 01, 2019 at 07:07
Ignorant view of jazz. Better view: cooperative improvisation.
September 01, 2019 at 06:56
In that case, check out The Physics Forum.
August 28, 2019 at 20:00
Time is an actuality.
August 28, 2019 at 16:30
Instead of limiting creativity to original combinations or transformations of actuality, it may be more interesting to explore possibilities.
August 28, 2019 at 14:48
Cheers. That takes the discussion in several more interesting directions.
August 21, 2019 at 13:37
Check out Concept Learning.
August 21, 2019 at 12:50
Semantic information is the process of decoding a meaningful message by a mind, and the resultant decoded meaningful message (knowledge). The process ...
August 21, 2019 at 10:30
I would be interested in knowing more about Ayer's rejection of memory as a means of distinguishing between past and future. Could you elaborate, or c...
August 20, 2019 at 17:13
If it "occurs as an illusion" (a conscious perception resulting in the misinterpretation of reality), the oasis is not a fact, it is a mirage. And in ...
August 19, 2019 at 14:44
I agree. Empirical (experiential) knowledge (factual semantic information). The concept of time (including: past, present, future, beginning, end, ins...
August 19, 2019 at 13:51
Awareness is both objective (fact-based) and subjective (value-based).
August 10, 2019 at 09:54
Delusion is believing something contrary to fact. Case in point: Believing that an "is" (fact) can be separated from an "ought" (value) when awareness...
August 10, 2019 at 08:56
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Sure it is. If I kill an animal (other than a human being), cook it, and feed it to my family (satisfying their fundamental need for sustenance), that...
August 07, 2019 at 11:17
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Inasmuch as a system is an integrated set of objects and/or events, I wouldn't refer to morality(1) as a system. Otherwise, I agree with these rephras...
August 07, 2019 at 10:55
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Morality(1) is primarily understood to be a classification of events as either moral or immoral (of, or pertaining to, the satisfaction of fundamental...
August 06, 2019 at 08:44
Actually, it's fact which makes that determination. Believing otherwise is delusion.
August 05, 2019 at 12:09
"A hallucination, in the broadest sense of the word, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as ...
August 05, 2019 at 09:00