I wonder why Cardinal Robert Sarah spent the time to write the letter to the world bishops on this topic if it is a "non-story" http://www.bbc.com/new...
b try John Searle's Social Ontology Lacan is best read through secondary sources unless you are taking a course. I like Bruce Fink's interpretation, F...
Just a train: A $5.00 bill is a real representation, I can hand it over to you in repayment for a debt. It has presence and functionality, and its val...
Inner voice, is more like the trains that enter and leave the station...thought-trains. I saw the Fisher King a long time ago. The scene at the statio...
I think she did just say it, and she said it more than once, she knew what she was doing...she did a Trump. They are both despicable from my viewpoint...
I think sensation is a two stage process. What we are aware of is filtered, we pick out what deem important but this occurs at a different level than ...
We do have a lot of repetitive functions that seem to involve very little thought. Such as coming to a stop at a red light while driving. There must b...
Have you thought about doing something creative? Poetry, painting, something aesthetic....or perhaps becoming a vegetarian, and by doing so adopt a st...
Both hypnosis and the placebo effect are based on the trust we place in those who treat our afflictions. They both are forms of communication between ...
The gods offered Achilles a choice between a long, comfortable, mild life that he would live for many years or he could choose a life of fame, a short...
I just read an article about hypnosis, here. Psychologists at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) are trying to come up with a theory for hyp...
If honesty is Good then how can a consequentialist be Good ... if the Good lies in the intent behind our actions then what can be said of the effects ...
Well if it is a tactic it is scare tactics. But, if it it' s a tactic then it is a means to an end. And that end is forced social change or accommodat...
Progress is a teleological filter that can be used to understand how we got to where we are currently. The Enlightenment concept of Progress supplante...
I think animals display limited computational ability, but no animal I am aware of, display recursive abilities and perhaps it is this lack of recursi...
Suppose 'brute fact' had to do with how we value experience, about our ability to discriminate one thing from another. This discriminatory ability poi...
I think there are two caves. One with people chained to the wall watching shadows, and the other with people chained to the wall who know their watchi...
Thinking about it this way, The context in which the work is made. The cultural narratives that are available to the artist become merged in the conte...
I think the concept is to provide a fair wage to hourly workers, a wage that can keep hourly workers above the poverty level. The federal minimum wage...
I agree to the extent that universals are required by us to know anything, but that does not make them any more than heuristic devices which enable ex...
Me John: They were rhetorical, but I think you answered the question about alienation as follows: John: I don't accept any "infinite knower". So based...
Hi, thanks for your comment, I am sure John will get around to saying what he means. Meanwhile, I think that the universe is finite, and that everythi...
So then you can care about your family, your friends, people you are emotionally invested in but not in the nameless, faceless suffering masses that a...
What is this "sense of the infinite" ... a desire for immanence, intimacy with what is in-it- itself, intimacy that thought necessarily lacks, leading...
Italians are into vegetable slurs, must be part of their agrarian heritage. I wonder if they have enough to make a Sampler...eggplants, cucumbers, fen...
That does not get you past the circularity, because it is only in thought that your distinction between thought and sense is be possible and there is ...
We detect and we measure, what ever is known is only known though thought. Does the structure of thought equal... is it the same as the structure of t...
I think that is pedantic and absurd. A person ought to be able to express themselves as they see fit, not according to any strictures or lack thereof....
Maybe you need to come to terms with what is meant when we say that something is Evil. I think you point at it a couple of times in what you wrote. I ...
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