Janus

Vacuous polemics. Why don't you try to come up with something less somniferous?

I think that if you're saying that transcendentals (meaning universals) are real and yet not of this world then there would seem to be no other option...

The idea of transcendentals 'interacting with the world" necessarily carries a commitment to "another realm" apart from the world, though. If you acce...

Well, I don't know what "standard" is, but given such a broad definition of introspection then I would have to agree. It's often said that we cannot b...

I guess it depends on how you define the term and what associations you think it has. I think the idea of introspection arrives the connotations of 'l...

'Petro' would accord with 'rock' I guess, but I can't see a connection between ''thrush' and 'chemicals'.

My understanding is that '?????????????' translates as 'common rock thrush'.

What's with the "petrochemicals"?

Now, that's hard to say!

I think we're on the same page pretty much; although I would like to add that in the case of scientific theories their purported truth is backed up by...

I agree that emotions can be unconscious, but I think if we are attentive we can feel their bodily effects. Particular jealousies or envies may be inf...

Oh my God, I hate being among the majority; but I guess I already ackmowledged that I am in relation to this particular point, right? In any case my m...

Sure thing: I had no idea you are so sensitive. Maybe I'm insensitive to the psychological states of others on these forums. I always assume they are ...

You know that when I wrote "you" in what you responded to with 'Combat', I was not referring specifically to you, right?

Understanding the point, which is not difficult, is one thing: agreeing with it is another. I think it's a rather insubstantial, ill-founded point, so...

Combat? That's terse! Combat what, who, how, why?

OK?, That's it??

Yeah, that's when you're trying too hard to introspect, or convince yourself of some reflexive explanatory narrative about yourself that fits your pre...

As I already said above I think you know you are angry directly, immediately; your body knows it, you feel it.

I don't think feelings are most productively thought of as "contents" at all. I don't "look inside my mind" to see how I feel. I know I feel angry, sa...

The thing is that logical arguments, when consistent and when the conclusions are "contained in" the premises, are said to be valid. The validity of a...

I can't see how any metaphysical "theory" can be judged to be true or false unless it is simply not consistent with its own premises.. A metaphysical ...

What does "correct" mean in relation to logics? Does it mean 'consistent' or 'true'? There is certainly more than one kind of logic. A logic is a meth...

Danke, I read the OP and then I read these and I tell you now I'm not suffering at all, I mean I'm fuckin' laughin'... :rofl:

I'm not interested in persuading anyone of anything, I don't have any fixed views myself. The only interesting possibility discussion holds is the fre...

Worthy! Most worthy is the Posturer. Or should that be: Unworthy! Most unworthy is the Posturer!

That's not true. You quoted what I had said, this exact text: and responded with "We agree". I have not altered that post at all before or since your ...

Why not, eh? :grin:

I don't think it is "he knows" that is implied by "the keys could be in the kitchen" but "he thinks". As far as he is concerned, if he doesn't know wh...

I think the realism comes into play when the question as to why certain acts are wrong is answered. Saying that we ought not do something simply becau...

Is anything determinate beyond its being determined? Perhaps you are thinking instead of something else:determinability. I'd say that what is potentia...

Actually I was involved in the discussion before you jumped in with comments directed at, and based upon misunderstandings and/or distortions of, what...

Well, then what's the point of presenting gibberish? Are you just a troll, after all?

I have never said that I don't know what "X" means; that is your own distorted version. Stop wasting my time.

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Well you haven't actually argued against anything I've said and the "confusion" is yours and not mine, or, I think, Pseudonym's, so I can't see any av...

By saying there is an inaccessible "real world" you are reifying the determinacy of the experienced world as an absolute actuality. I don't think this...

I agree; it is analogous to the placebo effect. A placebo will not work unless you believe it will work, but the important thing is that it works, not...

This is true; belief is absolutely the mainstay of all religions. Anyone who cannot genuinely (that is in more than a merely 'lip service' way) believ...

"Moral realist facts" are not isolable entities like empirical facts, but general facts about human nature. They are not strictly empirically verifiab...

Perhaps physics and chemistry, not so much geology, biology, ecology, and others of the softer natural sciences, not to mention the human sciences. Of...

OK, I think I see what you mean now. By "overarching" I meant transcendentally given from beyond nature; not dependent on the natural context at all.

If a statement is ambiguous, as I think most metaphysical statements are, in the sense that they equivocate between ordinary empirical concepts, and t...

This makes no sense to me. Perhaps you mean to say that the fact that some things can be measured may or may not be ethically meaningful. If you didn'...

I'm not clear how we are disagreeing over the meta-ethical status of morality. Wouldn't a naturalist say that status is given by nature?

I think this is nonsense. We can know that ambiguous statements are not verifiable or falsifiable, just on the basis that there is nothing determinabl...

That's a good point; it is an interesting question. As you know I reject the very idea of there being an overarching (objective) meaning to human exis...

The implication in the OP seems to be that there is no overarching meaning, and that we will find the most satisfaction in generating ever more novel,...

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So, the occult aim of all religion is to achieve a state of equanimity wherein death is no longer feared; we cannot really live until we have authenti...