Janus

I read it quite a few years ago. From my recall the idea is that we survive in the memories of others.

Of course there is a difference; when you are awake, you are awake, and when you are asleep you are asleep. This is basic.

This seems to be one of the most persistent misunderstandings, seemingly almost impossible to correct in those who hold it. Dennett does not see consc...

If the notion of causation has its relevance only in the context of thought about phenomena (it being a form of judgement) then how could it make sens...

I'm not sure Dennett would agree with you about what you think he thinks. In any case if you haven't swallowed the idea that the physical is lifeless ...

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It's not true that the wave/particle duality "defies logic" it merely defies our understanding of physicality. What could it mean to "see things as th...

I think it is unquestionable that ideas were reified by (some of) the ancients, such as Plato. Those thinkers believed ideas had an existence independ...

As I read it the OP is merely asking whether only the logical connections between thoughts reveal "reality" or whether other connections such as the i...

I agree that it seems to the modern mind that the ancients (in their ignorance or innocence) reified ideas like goodness, beauty, virtue, justice and ...

You haven't said what you think that "implicitly different understanding" consists in. If you can't say what it consists in, then you have no evidence...

I think this is BS. If a modern can understand the assumptions underpinning the idea of nous that were made by the Ancient Greeks then one can underst...

Yes, he was either diagnosed with Covid in December or not. And being diagnosed with Covid in the past 6 months is either sufficient grounds for an ex...

I don't see identity as a metaphysical concept, but as a logical one. I'd say it is the similarities between the perceptible characteristics that kind...

I agree that you need to have the general concept; house, apple or whatever in order to recognize something as a house, apple or whatever. Animals rec...

I take @"RussellA" to be talking about perceptible actualities like we don't see apples turning into oranges, we see differences between them on which...

Can you explain how thought works other than in terms of association, whether logical, metaphorical, magical, poetical, or whatever?

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:up: Great passage: I must read Locke one day! Exactly! The world is intelligible to us, to be sure, if it weren't we could not survive, we would be h...

Rationality is nothing more than valid deduction and plausible (as we are wont to believe) induction. You might think that rationality can also create...

Can you think of any thought which is not associative, or in other words, "connective"?

And yet the two definitions you gave are different. Aren't we aware of things, other entities, events and environments rather than "the universe/ real...

Is there any experience without acquaintance with nature, or any acquaintance with nature without experience? I think experience is just a word to den...

So are qualia "individual instances of subjective, conscious experience" or ."individual instances of what it is like to have sensations, perceptions,...

That is simply typing according to function, nothing to do with one particular kind of form, Dogs can recognize different kinds of bones, balls and fo...

What reason is there to think that one of the basic criteria for counting various things as being of the same kind is not that they are of similar sha...

Nice twist!

I thought you might be shitting me, but I knew it didn't shit me. It's all the same shit to me, whether I read it on paper or screen. At least if text...

Are you shitting me?

Yep. you nailed it! The lurking bigotry behind the feigned reasonableness of Lewis' article, and Banno's OP. Anachronism of the one-eyed dick.

Problem is that you can never know. Is there any point entertaining a question, the answer to which could never be determined (beyond entertaining it ...

"My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about"—Ashleigh Brilliant

I'm not seeing the relevance. Plato's critique was against all poetry, all art, and should itself not be taken as literally as you seem to want to. Ve...

They don't have their critics?

Canonical texts: Homer, Dante. Shakespeare. Goethe, Walt Whitman, other religious texts, texts with a long historical tradition of interpretation.

Great, no argument, so substitute insult.

So lay it out for us, Baker: how is the correct opinion ( the one that you seem to be claiming would reflect the fact of the matter) be identified? Th...

So what? Outlining a theory that actions are driven by beliefs says nothing about restraining or punishing, or even judging, people by their beliefs. ...

I guess it depends on what it means to be enlightened. If it is, as I argue, just a disposition of non-attachment, and if having self-cultivated to re...

You can't lock someone up on the suspicion that they might do something "problematic". Would you want to live in a society where that was common pract...

They cannot. There may be some consensus, but there will also be dissension, among critics. As Kant tells us, when we make aesthetic judgements we all...

Thinking is generalizing, abstractive, associative, contextualizing, reflective,,logical, analogical, dialogical, dialectical, imaginative, conjectura...

As I see it there are two distinctions to be made. First there are undoubtedly a certain number of people who believe that God will torture sinners fo...

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The other side of the argument that the causal forces and conditions that determine our behavior are too complex for our simian brains to comprehend a...

Are you asking whether, assuming there is no free will, no real choice, it makes sense to hold people accountable from a pragmatic or a moral standpoi...

Depends on waht you interpret damnation to consist in. I have read that at least some of the early Christians believed that eternal damnation consists...

I agree; although I hold that people are significantly diverse; the idea that what they have most in common is that what they believe is not up to the...

Right, I didn't see that. I think feelings in general are impossible to simply create, in the sense of instantly just "conjure up". I also agree that ...

If that were true then adult conversion would be impossible, which it obviously isn't.