All I am saying is that love and compassion are the feelings advocated by the scriptures and that those who are genuinely religious; those who really ...
Fair enough. I think your view is very wrong, but I don't think anything further I could say would be anything but repeating what I've already said, s...
The object of faith is irrelevant of the feeling is right. The right feeling for the religious is love and compassion. And I think it's fair to say th...
Of course any feeling of faith can be more or less framed in propositional terms. What I am saying is not about that, but about what I consider to be ...
Do you think that we can say things like" the cat is on the mat" or "it is raining" and that it is the case that what we say in those simple kinds of ...
That doesn't seem to address my comments, You said: I implied that I don't think being enraptured by religious faith is ineffable any more than being ...
I don't think so. It seems clear to me that religious faith is an affected (not in the sense of being "put on") disposition, akin to being in love. It...
Right, so that would be the phenomenologist view; on the physicalist view they would be objectively apprehended by subjects, and would thus be underst...
If it is merely "sublimation" and the whole enterprise is deluded as to its provenance from the start, then what does that say about claims to be enli...
This is interesting in that it seems to posit that all qualities must be sense qualities. So energy, mass, movement, persistence, change, extension an...
Right, I think I see your objection now, but I would still maintain that although we can never be 100% sure we have knowledge, we can reasonably belie...
Maslow.'s criterion of happiness is "self-actualization" "being all you can be". It's akin to Aristotle's eudamonia and arete; not dependent on having...
I think Baker enjoys being a contrarian just for the sake of it. I can't think of any other explanation for the absurd and cynical generalizations she...
It takes a physicist to know a physicist, to be sure, because it is a determinate body of knowledge. It doesn't take a pianist to know a good pianist,...
I think Aristotle's notion of happiness as eudamonia, commonly translated as "flourishing" is tied to the idea of 'arete' or excellence. We flourish t...
This is a gross generalization. People are diverse, and it seems absurd to me to suggest that one's spiritual aspirations are necessarily dependent on...
I think you have a perverse notion of happiness. Anyone who equates socioeconomic status with happiness is a slave to conditions; and that cannot be w...
Right I misspoke, knowledge itself, if it is justified true belief is not understood to be defeasible. Our taking some proposition to be knowledge is ...
Right, so to say that saccades are driven by beliefs seems to stretch the meaning of the term too far. See below, as to why I think it would be more a...
Would the intentionality in saccades best be called 'belief' or 'expectation'? Regardless of that, would it not be the case that such expectations or ...
When I retired I moved from Sydney to near Nimbin on 15 acres. I would like to let others live on the property, to share what the land has to offer an...
Yes, I am totally opposed to eugenics. I feel some resistance towards giving up my own property, but if everyone was on board I'd go along with it, I ...
Some acts are considered immoral for entirely religious reasons. As modern secular people we are not so much inclined to accept religious reasoning ab...
Yes, I could be wrong about that of course. I acknowledge I am speaking from within my own limited imagination. While I would have no moral objection;...
If neuroscience shows that memories consist in neural structures, which are not static, but dynamic and changing, then, as @"Joshs" said, memory is a ...
I haven't said that. I'm only talking about what I can envision, but I'm not very smart, and I'm very open to other ideas and possibilities. But no on...
Sure, but my point was that our experience of the empirical world is completely consistent with the the LNC. Our logic might be different if our world...
I agree, but a solution to that problem doesn't seem to be in the offing. Again I agree, but achieving de-growth, which seems to be essential at this ...
Perhaps I didn't express it well. I meant that you seem confused about what I am saying about JTB, evidenced by your objections seeming to be irreleva...
That's a facile dismissal. I read the articles, and while I agree that "first world" people contribute many times more emissions per capita than so-ca...
I don't see a problem for those who believe consciousness is physical in the fact that the physical events are experienced. My own view is that 'physi...
Only because of continual destruction of wild habitat, unsustainable industrial farming and ravaging of the fisheries. Industrial farming relies on fo...
I don't see that consciousness being presupposed, as it might be said to be by all human discourse, would be a problem for Dennett, since he doesn't d...
Not as I understand it. I think memory, in one sense, just is the totality of "inscriptions", In another sense we could say it is the faculty of being...
OK, I don't know if you have read Descartes, but you seem to fairly thoroughly misunderstand his project. I don't know what else to say to you about i...
I don't think the 'container' analogy is really a good way of understanding memory. Thinking of memory as consisting in traces or patterns. like marks...
Right, I do too. It seems to me our difference from machines is one of kind, whereas our differences from the other animals are differences of degrees...
The universe does make sense to us. I'm not sure the question as to why it should make sense to us makes sense. If the universe didn't make sense to u...
That's right; he never believed he had no hands, but recognized that the belief that he had hands was not ineliminable across the whole range of imagi...
I meant that ideas find their meaning in contexts, in their relations and associations with other ideas. It's not all formal, rule based logic, but po...
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