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There is no consistency in what you have been arguing, so it seems pointless to respond further.

So, you're not equating Comte with "real Positivism", as you appeared to be? You're a slippery prick!

So Logical positivism is not "real Positivism" now? :-} You're starting to look like a bad joke, man.

So, you are now saying that you. like me, allow for the possibility that not all natural things can be found? Really??? I don't have to show how somet...

I haven't assumed that "something natural has the ability to not be found by all the exhaustive means we have of finding things". I have not assumed a...

Can you explain how the assumption that everything that is "natural;" is capable of being found is supported? Really the assumption at work here is an...

This claim is founded on an unsupported assumption; that everything that is "natural" is capable of being "found".

OK, in the second sentence you deny that God predetermines what a man does, and then in the third when you say " And even if God predetermined them": ...

I'm not claiming anything about the Bible. I was just responding to your statement that appeared to be saying that people's actions could be predeterm...

Except that the idea of one's actions being predetermined contradicts the idea of having free will. The having (as opposed to the use) of faculties (s...

I would still say the tree is determinate only in the sense that we can share our experiences of it. I can say to you, for example: " look at the way ...

Your longer posts are usually where the assertions and insults become more strident. Why would you need to use bolding to differentiate your comments ...

Since you only don't use the bolding all the time and it only seems to appear as your assertions and insults become more strident, I don't find your c...

Sounds like you might find Rupert Sheldrake's ideas interesting.

As I said already, I think it makes sense to speak of postulated brain activities being correlated with what we call, and experience as, interpreting ...

OK, so by 'memory' you refer to both what is recalled and to what may be unconscious, but preserved as habit. The 'presence of the past' so to speak?

In the case of ancient writings the "one who composed it" no longer exists, so their intentions could never be known, and the meaning thus no longer e...

I do think that the tree is real, and that what we know about it is conditioned by what we are and what it is. When the question 'what is the tree, ul...

I have found his philosophical works very interesting, and his theosophical works baffling; baffling both as to their meaning and the reason that he c...

'Conscious' is one of those words that are used and interpreted many different ways. Quite often it is taken to mean 'not asleep', literally. I don't ...

The critique of Steiner by Osho that Agustino linked. I thought it was interesting, but facile; or rather, interesting because it was facile. I mean, ...

Interesting, thanks.

Rajneesh is more akin to Gurdjieff than to Steiner. He avows a deep admiration for the former, I'm nof aware of him ever referring to the latter. But ...

I don't agree that consciousness is primary; only a small part of experience is conscious experience. What is primary is our experience, both consciou...

I agree with this except perhaps that the idea that "memories define who we are and are the source of future actions/ choices". I think this is certai...

Unfortunately, being well read is nowhere near enough unless it includes reading well, and not merely reading much and being able to regurgitate some ...

Kant did have a shot at it, and I have studied Kant quite a bit. Kant was not the first to notice that we know objects via the senses, so I'm not sure...

I think this is highly questionable. I'm not convinced the notion of interpretation being in the brain even makes sense. There may be neuronal activit...

Yes, it was, I especially liked the predictable moment when the bolding appears, as usual accompanied by the very plausible claim that it does not rep...

Hilarious video: ah. the Americans...you gotta love 'em!

Yes, it was 'Thresholdsun'. I couldn't sign in with 'Janus' after an extended absence wherein I had forgotten my password. So I simply created another...

Yeah, it has become "unconcealed" because the populace is now so jaded and indifferent to truth that such a "truth" may be revealed without much ill-e...

Agustino, you dirty little man! You should know; you are Greek, aren't you? >:O Janus is the God of "passages" among other things. ;) Seriously, thoug...

It seems odd to think of the body as being discontinuous, separate, from the environment. You seem to be thinking of "direct access" in terms of some ...

Why do you say that? Think about this example: there are 8 ancient writing systems that are yet to be deciphered. MU claims that writings only have me...

Think about a poem you are yet to read; does it not have a potential meaning?

I dare say the question about the reality of the objects of the senses is an artificial latecomer. There is really no sense in which it can be definit...

Perhaps it was a typo and Agustino meant to write "achiever". ;) >:O

The meanings are obviously in potentia also. Do you deny that there are many possible sentences that have never yet been spoken? I could write a poem ...

LOL, I've never been an admirer of pragmatism except for Peirce's version, and I have reservations about that. If truth is what the community of enqui...

I don't see how there could be any rational belief at all in the absence of truth and knowledge. A rational belief is a belief that is measured (ratio...

This is exactly what I have been trying to, unsuccessfully it seems, explain to him.

Sentences as well as actually being said are in potentia as things that could be said. The existence of a language means (in the sense of 'entails' in...

This is nonsense; sentences don't get their meanings by being said; sentences can only be sayings at all insofar as they are already meaningful, other...

Right, I agree; and that's pretty much what I had said.

Yes, another example might be that I think it is true that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's works (I don't actually think that) and you might think i...

Again, you failed to get my distinction between the two senses of "means". So, when Donald Trump asserts that something is true his words mean that th...

Oh man, talk about outrageous projection! Count up how many different posters you have given this response to; it might just reveal a tendency. :s

Yes, although I do think there is a "true for you" and a "true for me", each one just consists in what you or I, respectively, believe to be true. Wha...

No, when someone says "this belief is true" it just means that this belief is true. Of course it indicates (if they are not lying) that they think the...