The notion is that there is a continual and enduring individual "mindstream" across different incarnations, which pretty much amounts to the same thin...
What is it for anything to be meaningful? I would say that the meaningfulness of anything consists in its being able to be experienced and considered ...
It seems that Butler is, in the quoted passage, speaking of what one is responsible to, which is not the same as what one is responsible for. We are r...
Predicates can be applied to situations as well as to subjects. So, the way I would parse "it is raining" is that there is a situation of raining, and...
You're being pedantic. Minor differences due to air pressure and the supposed variation in accuracy of thermometers can be taken into account and are ...
That makes sense, but if you posit mind as something independent of "the four forces of nature" or whatever then you are moving towards dualism. Or if...
Yes, but to posit those as "mental constructs" seems to imply that mind is somehow fundamental, since it, on this view, constructs the world. The othe...
My understanding is that transcendental idealism does function as the invisible partner of empirical realism; which I interpret as saying that we are ...
It's usually defined as the idea that objects exist independently of us. We know, or at least have every reason to believe, that there is something in...
Yeah, mine too. but she spends her share of time texting and sometimes even facebooking :yikes:, the first of which I avoid except when absolutely nec...
I am no Plato scholar, although I am moderately familiar with his central ideas. So, I think for Plato beauty is a species of the Good. Nothing but th...
Who said it does? (Another thing we have in common, I've just noticed, is that we have both made 7.9 K posts. I checked and you have made 7,864 and I ...
I half agree with you. We do not have to define science to know that someone is espousing scientism if she says something like: "Science will answer a...
Yes, that's an objectivist definition of perception, and, of course according to it dreams would not count as perception. A contrary phenomenological ...
So, dreaming does not count as perception, but imagination? This question has long been thematic in the East: “Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butt...
Not much I guess, unless you believe it is necessary to define what science is before you can say what scientism is. Is scientism itself a testable "t...
For me, any reasonable definition of spirituality would have to include, not mere happiness, but cultivation of the good life, however you might conce...
I've experienced a couple things like that, when I was tripping on LSD. My memories of those experiences are extraordinarily vivid, such that I am inc...
The point I'm making about musicianship is that, although people may indeed agree about which of two musicians of equal technical proficiency is the b...
I do agree with what you say there, but you are picking at the wrong nits; the point about definitive cross-cultural corroboration was highlighting th...
Sure, all scientific knowledge is fallible and not all scientific inquiry is conducted in the laboratory, obviously. As I said we have very good reaso...
That sounds reasonable. Evolution is a tricky one, because there seems to be no definitive way to test it. Having said that I think we have every reas...
We can only "map" domains as they are recognizable to us. How else could we do it? "Western culture", per se, doesn't define anything, individuals do,...
Except that the word 'science' suggests inter-subjective corroborability which is not possible in Buddhism, since we are talking about "inner states" ...
Two kinds of consistency then? The consistency involved in coherence and the consistency of non-contradiction between bodies of knowledge that do not ...
So, you are saying that we can have a set of consistent and coherent empirical beliefs that are justified by sense data, and then another set of consi...
Yes, I understand that so-called Prajñ? is an altered state of consciousness. So, it is an example of knowing how and knowing with, but not knowing th...
The problem is that the so-called knowledge of gnosis can never be cross-culturally and non-prejudiciously corroborated in the way that empirical know...
So, you are saying that religion can be consistent with science insofar as it does not contradict any established theory? I'm still not sure what you ...
Sorry, which point? I wrote quite a bit and was adding to it while you responded, so it's not clear what you are referring to. S ignores most points t...
Gnosis is not "knowing that" it is "knowing how". It's like being able to play a musical instrument with feeling and nuance. In gnosis there is nothin...
An example of knowing that would be knowing that Sydney is the capital city of New South Wales. Being able to do anything with anything is knowing how...
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