OK, so perhaps you should have said "fundamental to my definition of the actual moon" rather than "fundamental to the very definition of the actual mo...
I guess where we might disagree is that for me reason is not separable from affect. Although we can draw a distinction between reason and emotion; i t...
That was exactly my point; that there is nothing "external'; nothing publicly shareable, to go by other than the internal, subjective feeling; which c...
I don't agree with Wittgenstein's idea that value is not in the world. I think the later Wuttgenstein would disagree with that idea as well. His later...
We are not talking about some body of codified knowledge, but about transforming ourselves. The fact that there are a few traditions of transformative...
Why would religiosity not be possible without a religious community? Religious communities are founded on religiosity that exists prior to their found...
And what if you believed with all your heart that you had reached "stream entry", but were deluding yourself? The possibility of that cannot be ruled ...
So the "true good" is subjective, meaning it is a matter of opinion? I agree that science can only deal in contingent facts, but I can't see what that...
I have vanishingly little reason to believe that the statements I make about people I know (which compromise the bulk of statements I make about peopl...
The point is Descartes did not believe he had no hands etc. He found himself capable of doubting he had hands etc, on the strength of the possibility ...
I agree. It would be a category error to say that beliefs are properties of brains. beliefs are held by persons. Why would your perception of the moon...
It seems as though you have misinterpreted what I said. In regard to processes of reasoning the important things is that the premises must be sound; w...
You're going off on a tangent it seems. What I mean is whether there are criteria whereby it could be determined that it is in fact the case that a sp...
I read that book recently and one of the main reasons he is not a Buddhist seems to be because he dislikes modern Buddhist "exceptionalism"; the idea ...
You are misunderstanding. I'm not saying there won't be anything in the future, but that when there is something it will be the present. Those who don...
Right, so if I have understood you, you see reason as being fundamental. I see reason as relying on felt sense. How do I know that processes of induct...
You're conflating the idea of what statements are about tout court, with what they are intended to be about. If I think John exists and I make a state...
I wonder what it could even mean to understand the mind, though. If we understood the workings of the brain completely, would that amount to understan...
There seem to be plenty of hands grasping another part around here. Could be the beginnings of a private language. :wink: On the other hand, cunning l...
You forgot the other three: to wit: " Now this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is sufferin...
You might not be fucking them now, but you already fucked the Japanese once or twice, and you still need to save face for that crime. Perhaps the Chin...
Perhaps not; but you desperately need to save face. Problem is you're going about it in entirely the wrong way. EDIT: since I understnd that "save fac...
As you say, the notion that there should be 1:1 translation is absurd. I don't think one needs to speak more than one language to appreciate this. I'v...
Since any text is subject to interpretation; why would you think that? When it comes to the Pali Canon or Plato, for example, if you are not fully con...
The irony is that if you don't let go of that vision, and of the need to "accomplish much" you will likely "die miserable". If you "look forward" hone...
Yes, I believe that is what it is about. Assange poked the eye of the sleeping giant, and the sleeping giant is embarrassed and angry, and wants to pu...
I don't see the problem. If there is no actual John, but only an imagined John, then I believed the statement was a about an actual John, but subseque...
Yes, and things presenting themselves is exactly what we do know in the primary sense of knowing. The secondary sensing of 'knowing that' or propositi...
I don't see it that way. I think "John is a bachelor" means that John is a bachelor. Of course it could be wrong, or it could be right, that is true o...
Doesn't 'John is a bachelor' mean, by implication 'John is a man who has not participated in the kind of series of events that are generically referre...
You're still off the point; which was simply that there are actual events that distinguish a bachelor from a non-bachelor; meaning it's not merely tha...
:up: The idea that he has committed a crime of espionage is absurd. And as far as the claim that he endangered the lives of thousands of US agents; ev...
Not a good analogy; overeating and alcoholism are addictions, and driving too fast is due to overconfidence in one's abilities. Not getting vaccinated...
It's exactly what I claimed; a man who has not been wed is a man who has not participated in the series of events involved in being wed, just as I sai...
I see mathematics (in part) as consisting in precise quantification of distance. So, I see 'over there' and 'over here' as being expressions of physic...
It's the same. "Bachelor' means an unmarried man' is the same as "Bachelor' means a man who has not been wed' since 'unmarried man' means 'a man who h...
I agree that the Galilean view of science may suck all the life out of living, inasmuch as it sees everything of any importance as being quantifiable....
I don't have to give coordinates to know that something is on the ground at my feet, something else is over there, and something else is further away ...
They are external to our bodies, though. Of course the way a tree looks is mediated by the visual apparatus and the light conditions, the way a rock f...
No naive realism is the idea that the eyes are "windows" through which I "the perceiving soul" look out onto a world that exists out there exactly in ...
The point you're not seeing is that if you want to support your claims about what Dennett is proposing you need to quote Dennett, not somebody else's ...
The fact that nothing of the external world is in your brain is the basis on which it can be said that there is an external world. (In a sense of cour...
I don't believe that Dennett denies sensation. I'd have to see quotes that show him saying that to be convinced of it. I take Dennett to be saying tha...
I would say instead "Love is god", "Beauty is god", "Goodness is god", because these are things we know and, at our best, make to be our gods and prac...
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