Just a final question to consider. In cultures existing prior to, or unaffected by, our current conception of empiric and propositional logic-based re...
I'm not trying to diminish intuition. I think it is an imaginative faculty. Those "discredited" (by some) ways of understanding I believe are based on...
If I see a cloth and I think it is a cow, is that not based on induction? I've seen cows before and that looks like a cow so I conclude that it is a c...
Right, in Buddhist terms the modern scientific physicalist worldview is clinging to "nihilism" (the idea that all is meaningless substance) and the me...
Sure, that's another way to put it. Buddhists believe that we all have inherent wisdom (prana) which becomes obscured by the kleshas (defilements) bro...
Most knowledge claims it seems, apart from purely logical or mathematical results, are based on observation and inductive reasoning, so I am not sure ...
Not exactly, I am just saying that rational thought processes may be going on that we are not aware of. There doesn't seem to be any logical contradic...
The world itself, if we are speaking in the Kantian mode, is far more than merely the behavior of neurons. Our knowing of the world, our model of the ...
If you were justified in believing P1 and P2 obtains then the conclusion would be justified, but P1 might be false if unbeknownst to you there were, a...
I'll have a read. I am familiar with the concept of abduction from reading of and about Peirce. I think of it as the imaginative generation of hypothe...
Of course, as I already said, he mistook a piece of cloth for a cow. That's obvious, but so what? Of course he didn't think "that piece of cloth is a ...
I have always thought of 'rational' as related to 'ratio', which suggests comparison, measurement, determination and balance. A rational or reasonable...
Read what has already been written and ye shall be enlightened: It's true that further investigations can involve mistakes. But if we are being strict...
There are two issues that bother me about how seriously Gettier cases are treated. Firstly there is the very slippery notion of justification. I'll us...
"Day" in Genesis is only taken by fundamental creationists to be literally a twenty four hour day. Most Christians today accept an evolutionary accoun...
I agree with the rest of what you said there, Ben, but I think this view of economics as mass psychology is too limited. Psychology is a significant p...
I'd say all of those ideas of Sidney: as neural activity, as electronic or chemical activity, as meat, bone and muscle, as a relative, a citizen, or e...
I suppose you could call it "simply re-patterning", but I think that trivializes and fails to capture the quality of what is a significant struggle to...
I don't know for sure, but it seems most likely that by 'day' you mean a period between successive midnights (or it could be dawns or noons or any tim...
It's just one story among a multitude of other imaginable stories. At another level Uncle Sidney is just electrons, protons and neutrons, doing what t...
It depends. Some things are known logically; they just seem self-evident, and any attempted questioning of them presupposes them. Other things are kno...
Not at all. You are unjustified and arguably incorrect in assuming that 'day' refers to a time period equivalent to one rotation of our planet or the ...
I've already figured out why you can't answer the question; a fact which renders the discussion moot. You're a serial terminator of your own conceptua...
I don't know, Abortricks, what you've been saying seems incoherent to me. What makes it even worse is that you can't (or won't) answer a simple questi...
That's always an auspicious start for discussion. What is it about the phrasing that troubles you? How would you express it differently? I've done suc...
That's a dishonest way of avoiding having to admit you have no cogent retort, Abortricks. According to you the heavens and earth described in the bibl...
The tendency to become attached is fundamental, the actual attachments are culturally mediated. You can't become attached to something that doesn't ex...
Do you thinks it's possible that, in being enamored with one's discursive knowledge of the world, one might become blind to lived experience? As Jim M...
It's so boring and vacuous that, by becoming obsessed with it, it reinforces the adherents beloved notion that life is.tout court, boring and empty. B...
Do you think it is like this for animals? I haven't said all experience is not lived experience; so I wonder do you understand that you are disagreein...
I meant discursive knowledge; the point is that such knowledge is always in the form of subjects knowing objects, or knowers knowing what is known, or...
I'm being very specific in saying that you seem to be in love with generalizing, that is I am referring only to you. Are there generalizations I've ma...
To understand the idea of 'real' you need to understand context. I can imagine a Hobbit called Bonehead, but there is no such fictional hobbit, and he...
Right, but although I'd say 'linguistic' is commonly used to refer only to spoken and written symbolic language, 'language' itself, although it shares...
I pretty much agree with everything you wrote there except the quoted sentence; "linguistic" means "of the tongue", and I would reserve its use for th...
Even if all language is communication of information, it doesn't follow that all communication of information is language. It depends on what you mean...
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