Janus

I disagree; I would say there is no science of being; but there is an art of being. If metaphysics is a science, then why do all the metaphysicians di...

You are misunderstanding. I am suggesting that what is possible for metaphysics does not reflect the totality of what is possible. What the mystics sp...

OK, I wasn't aware I had done that, Could you identify the sentence or passage where you think I did that? In any case, in relation to what you say; i...

Yeah I should have qualified that I meant 'logically incoherent to us'. It's always logically possible that something might not seem logically coheren...

And a leash might be used even then... :-O

Yeah, but that would make them logically incoherent, not logically impossible.

Is that like walking the dog? Do they use a leash? >:)

I don't know; are all pedestrians pederasts? Does 'pedophile' refer to one who loves walking or to one who loves children? May be 'pedophile priests' ...

Are you actually disagreeing with anything i said?

Contradictory beliefs are only possible in scenarios where something can be shown to someone that they were previously unaware of that contradicts a b...

I think this is right, although only in a certain sense; there are more or less trivial inauthentic kinds of "generalized" religion and then there is ...

You can say that you do, but since those are merely opinions held in an intellectual context where their opposite is always possible; I simply don't b...

It's not a contradiction because God healing someone; and 'no God being there anywhere" exemplify two entirely different and hence incommensurate cont...

Thanks Noble Dust, coincidentally I have just recently started it. As with other books of his it resonates with my thoughts, and I often feel like it ...

I would agree in thinking about the self as swimming in a sea of language, at least in terms of its intersubjective dimension; but I do not think of t...

I don't understand your points here. God healing someone is not a logical contradiction, for example. And what does "falsification of incoherence" mea...

That's certainly one merely logical possibility in that it would not entail any self-contradiction. On the other hand, through experience some things ...

I have experienced exactly the same with people in relation to the "big issues". But people generally hate talking about logic-chopping academic philo...

No, it's like all judgements of aesthetics and ethics; they cannot be confirmed or disconfirmed by empirical inquiry. You need a different faculty for...

I think it's a bit unjustifiably rude to lump the supernatural and miracles in with contradictions.

It's not an empirically determinable matter. There are other truths, but arguments won't convince you; you need to have the eyes for them.

I have been very interested in Hegel, too. With his "The Rational is the Real", though, I think he objectifies spirit and intuition. I don't personall...

Or perhaps "final truth" has nothing to do with concepts, in any determinate sense, at all.

Kant, because he took out its false teeth. And so many since have desperately (and futilely) tried to put them back in.

Yes, I also think so. :)

Possibly.

Well the distinction, merely as such, between diagnosed and undiagnosed depression, is clearly irrefutable; so it should be obvious that I wasn't ques...

There is a general tendency in doctors to over-medicalize, and consequently to overprescribe medications. Being an unregulated supplement, how do we k...

That's reportedly true. But he was very attached to sexual desire, and it caused him a great deal of consternation. One who naturally has very little ...

Aren't you assuming that I am highly sexed? I might be just like you. :P In any case testosterone is not, as far as I am aware, fungible. :D

Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I mean literally any old act of art-making at all. By 'creative act' I'm referring to the outward act, not the expression...

Maybe you're a bit low on the testosterone? People vary a lot in this regard. Look at poor old Augustine, the sex maniac!

Rubbish!

I was using "creative act" in a broader sense than you, it seems, to include any act of 'art-making'; whether it be writing a poem, painting, drawing,...

I can't see where your disagreement lies. You say there is (by which I assume you mean 'can be') a purity in the creative act itself. The purity of th...

All experience is, by definition, subjective. But it is always experience of things which are other to me. They are other to me because I cannot exert...

I think art is spiritually powerful insofar as it is an authentic response to being. If it is inauthentically driven by ambition, money, the desire fo...

Fine, have it your own way as always, but I won't bother to respond to a giant load of evasive, non-committal bullshit. What a joke! :-}

I think it's fair to say that religion has been the binding force in nearly all, if not all. cultures. And religions have always been associated with ...

I agree with you that we have no really coherent notion of "physical' other than something like 'what can be sensed, measured and so on'. I don't know...

This is in response to my earlier question: You did claim that concepts and by extension truth are physical; it doesn't matter who mentioned the word ...

You quoted me thus and said this I actually said this ; "If not then how could there be a relation between a conceptual thing (the proposition), a rel...

This is obviously not true, since it was you that claimed that truth is "physical" as a way of wriggling out of the conceptual difficulties involved i...

I don't know why you refer to "post #2000", nor why you think that what is a really just common sense critical objection to Terrapin's hopelessly inco...

Firstly, by 'truth' you seem to understand only "truth value". Which would be very much like limiting facts to semantic kinds. There are certainly cas...

That's really a side issue. There are at least two senses of 'fact'. There are ostensive facts and there are semantic facts. The former are more like ...

Liking someone else's posts seems so interpersona. Perhaps you could just like your own posts instead?

If a mind-independent world can consist in "states of affairs", and in facts about those states of affairs, then why would there not be truths about t...

OK, no problem. So what then, according to you, is the difference in a mind-empty world between it being the case that X, and it being true that X?

Alright I can make sense of that. :)